Biography

ANGEL ORENSANZ

Born in Larués, Aragón, Spain. Has resided in New York since 1986.

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2017

Hiroshima exposition at the Peace Museum,Hiroshima Japan

2014

Building an art paradise Territory Orensanz, environmental art installations of Angel Orensanz, Aldeaduero, Spain
The Collective Unconscious – Burning Bronzes , West Palm Beach Art Festival

2013

The Titanic that never arrived to New York, Conceptual art work (10 meters by 10 meters) , NY,Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York

2012

Sphere at the Olympics, London, England
Installation, The University of Barcelona, Spain
Burning Bronzes, Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, US

2011

NY Armory Arts Week, exhibition of Buñuel and Orensanz’s video works.
Exhibition Angel Orensanz, 20 Years in Russia, Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts
in St. Petersburg, Russia
Paradigma, Museo del Traje, Madrid, Spain

2010

Time Split Sculpture, Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
Award of The Union of Russian Artist for Cultural Collaboration between Spain and Russia
Waves of Warms, installation, New York
Red Waves, installation, performance and movie presentation, Sundance, US
The Savage Thinking: New Works, in The Endless Geometryexhibition, Paris, France
Sculpture installation for the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Spanish College of Paris, France
Reconstruction of Haiti, sculpture installation and art action, Cannes, France
The Floating Sistine Chapel of Angel Orensanz, large scale installation, New York, US
The Abyss of the Gulf, textiles constructs, photographs, video, New York, US
Radioactive Fires of Russia, 30 drawings, installation & video, New York, US
The Floods of Afghanistan and Pakistan, large scale installation, New York, US
The Floating Sistine Chapel in Tokyo, Marunouchi building, Japan
25 Years of Angel Orensanz in Russia, in The Annual Russian Art Festival, video installation, NY, US
Angel Orensanz in Italy, presentation, Italian Cultural Institute, New York, US

2009

Weightlessness, solo exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Matter/Light, large scale exhibition at The Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts in collaboration with The Armory Show, New York, March 3 – 6, 2009
A Small Retrospective, selections from the permanent collection of the Angel Orensanz Museum NY, Orensanz Summer Museum, Governors Island, New York, US
Snow sculptures, ABC playground, Houston Street, New York, US

2008

Red String, Civic Art Gallery, Givatayim, Tel Aviv, Israel, curated by Doron Pollak
Sand Drawings//Ground Marks, the Yeshuv Hayashan’ Museum, Jerusalem, Israel, curated by Doron Pollak
The Far Reaches of the Space, shuttle exhibit with stops at museums of and art fairs, New York, US
Sphere, large scale sculpture for the World Trade Center, Zaragoza, Spain
Grand Award, Open International Sculpture and Installation, Lido (Venice), Italy
Sculpture in steel for new airport of Zaragoza, Spain
Groups show to celebrate the WWII liberation of Eastern Europe, Prague, Czech Republic
Exhibition at the Orestiadi Foundation, (Sicily), the work becomes part of the collection.
Intervention commemorate the Spanish Medieval philosopher Maimonides, Cordova, Spain,
Salute to Russia, a collaboration with Yale University a Capella Choir, Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Open Tent, group show, celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights of 1968 in Paris, Place de la Ville de Paris, France
Messina, large relief in wax to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the 1908 Messina earthquake
Grand Cinema Award for short The Final Score, Monte Carlo Film Festival, Monaco

2004

Blade on the Eye/Homage to Luis Buñuel, Cite Universitaire, Paris, France
Angel Orensanz: Digital Awareness, a collection of four video pieces and sculpture group at Tompkins Square Park, Howl! Festival, New York, US
Burning Universe. Digital Poetry of a Galaxy in Ruins, APA! Art Center, Budapest, Hungary
Do Sakuras Blossom in Winter?New Video Works, 60 min. Anthology Film Archives, New York

2007

The Joyous Instability of Art, drawings, sculpture and fabric installation, Castello della Cuba, Palermo (Sicily) curated Achille Bonito Oliva
Mobiles. A Balancing Act, Mocando Art Gallery, London, UK
Dinosaurios del Espacio, sculptures, bronze, steel and fiberglass, Galeria Dolores de Sierra, Madrid, Spain
Exhibition in Tel Aviv, Israel; May 22-July 22
Landscape Bones, retrospective exhibit, MoMa Wales, Machynlleth, UK
The Garden Before the Serpent, large sculpture group in steel, 9 month temporary installation at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, US
The Barge Project: Angel Orensanz in Coimbra, Water Museum, Coimbra (Portugal)
The Orensanz of Orensanz, major retrospective show, Cajalon Gallery, Zaragoza, Spain

2006

Don Quijote Returns to Castile, a landscape piece of a square kilometer ploughed over a tract of land in Dosbarrios, 50 kms. away from Madrid
Murano Sculptures (awards) for Fitsa Foundation, Madrid; acquired by Saatchi and Saatchi
Reflectant Universe, a major retrospective, Water Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
Sails of Departure-Sails of Arrival, sculpture show, Ludwig Museum/State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

2005

Burning Universe, curated by Paolo de Grandis, Palazzo Malipiero, Venice, Italy
Prix Pierre Oulmont, Sculpture Prize, Fondation de France
Galaxie Imaginaire, Vert Gallant Gallery, Paris, France
Spring in Central Park, temporary installation in Central Park (South/East entrance of the lake), New York
Spirit of the River, Omono River, Akita, sculpture installation and intervention, Japan
Earth: Death-Birth, Alexander Pushkin Museum, Moscow (Russia)
Earth: Death-Birth, Rumyantsev Palace, in collaboration with the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Earth: Death-Birth Panel discussion, Six major American art critics on Orensanz’s aesthetics. New York.
Windtides, sculpture intervention, River Neva, Moscow
Circles over Venice, fabric sculpture installations at Campo Santa Margharita, Campo San Samuale and at the Giardini della Bienale
Drawing, Galleria Ca’Rezzonico, Venice, Italy
The Orensanz Portfolio, a compilation of 12 video works in collaboration with Donna Cameron, enters the collection of the Circulating Film and Video Library of MoMa, New York

2003

Blade on the Eye/Homage to Luis Buñuel, Open 2003: International Exhibition of Sculpture and Installation
Sculpture installation and art action at the Controradio Festival of Radical culture in Florence
In Nasa’s Lab and The Steppes of Mars in NYC and European Diaries in Brussels (videos)
Group show, Remy Toledo Gallery, New York, US
Angel Orensanz: Recent Video Works, 70 min, Pioneer Theater, New York, US
Wandering Library, group show, Jewish Museum, Venice; Books Museum, Lodz, Poland and New York

2002

Disegni/Drawings, curated by Davide Scarabelli, Accademia delle Belli Arti, Reggio Calabria and
Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea. Palazzo Ducale de Pavullo, Modena, Italy. Ninety works on paper. Touring exhibition through Italy.
Angel Orensanz: Italian Installations and Interventions, curated by Thomas McEvilley, New York, US
The City of New York declares April 10 “Angel Orensanz Day”
Sculpture-City-Textures in Venice, Italy and Kultur Im Spannwerk, Berlin, Germany
Power Post, exhibit of drawings, Kassel, Germany.
Intervention at Ground Zero in commemoration of 9/11, New York.

2001

Sculpture commemorative of filmmaker Luis Buñuel for Calanda (Teruel) exhibited in Madrid, Spain
Scavare il Futuro, installation in Caserta, Naples, Italy
Wendezeiten II, Bendorf, Austria, group show with Eduardo Chillida, Bernard Venet, Urs Jaeggi and more
Prints by Orensanz are purchased by the Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, for the collection of Masters of Drawing and Prints.
Sculpture intervention, Berlin, Brandenburg Gate, Germany
Orensanz carries a sculpture intervention in New York’s Fifth Avenue as a reflection on the attacks on the WTC

2000

Una Foresta, large group of bronze sculptures and The Angel of Vengeance, Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza, Rome, an exhibit organized by the Ministry for Cultural Affairs of Italy
Residency at the Jewish Museum in Rendsburg, Kiel, Germany
60 steel and wood sculpture installation in Montreal, Canada
Sculpture commemorative of Luis Buñuel, Calanda, Spain
Wendezeiten I, group show, Bendorf, Austria
Banner & Sphere, with Markers Project of the Artists Museum, Tel Aviv, Biennale of Venice

1999

The Shattered Tent, a traveling installation in Strasbourg, Geneva, Brussels and at the UN building, New York in protest of the Balkan wars
The Peace Bus, Florence
Citta di Firenze Award at the II Biennale di Arte Contemporanea, Florence

1998

Exhibitions in Ca d’Oro Gallery, Rome, Italy and Blau Art Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany

1995

Solo show at the Sculptor’s Society of Canada, Toronto
Shoe Installation Sculpture at the Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto, curated by Pat Fleischer
Exhibit at the Wroclaw Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw, Poland
Retrospective exhibition at Charles Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles
Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1994

Temporary installations at the Colosseum and Fontana di Trevi, Rome,
Homage to Alexander Saeltzer in front of the Cathedral Cologne, Germany,
Fire Field in front of the Reichstag, Berlin, Germany.

1992

Solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo
Installation, Miasaky Airport, Japan
Wall Sculpture, Barcelona International Airport
Banderillas del Guadalquivir, a series of open air installations in Sapporo, Japan; New York and Seville, Spain

1991

Retrospective exhibit at Tallin Arts Center, Tallin, Estonia, organized by the Ministry of Culture of Estonia
Exhibition in Panevezys, Lithuania, and temporary installation the Red Square, Moscow

1990

Sunrise, sculpture in steel with performance at Bunka Gakuin University, Tokyo
Musicalia, a one-year environmental exhibition in Ropongi Park, Tokyo

1988

Inauguration of the Angel Orensanz Foundation, Center for the Arts, Norfolk Street, New York
Exhibitions in Amsterdam, Utrecht, Saint Nazaire-Paris, St. Germain en Laye-Toulouse, Lisbon and Casablanca, Morocco

1987

Solo Exhibitions at Neue Berliner Galerie in Altem Museum, Berlin, Musée de Luxembourg, Paris; Lyon and Marseille

1986

Spirit of the Village, temporary installation at Sixth Avenue and Bleecker Street, New York

1985

Sun Screen, a permanent installation of one thousand fiber pieces and steel cables, Sea Island, Georgia
South Music, six large steel sculptures commission by architect John Portman for Marriott Marquis Hotel in downtown Atlanta, Georgia
Tangible Sounds, large scale sculptures with sound interaction, Studio 54, New York, US

1984

Landscape Sculptures, installations in Sallent de Gallego, Spain

1983

Furrow Sculpture, landscape art over a six acres tract in the Pyrenees Mountains, Spain
Metal Environments, 12’ weather resistant metal sculptures, Front de Seines and La Defense, Paris, France

1982

Warspell, sculpture installation and performance at Central Park, New York
Steel Forest, Madrid International Airport
Totems, steel sculptures, solo exhibitions in Boston and Los Angeles
Metal Sculptures, solo exhibition at the Vejle Museum, Vejle, Denmark

1981

Environment, Martin Gelber collection, Bel Air, Los Angeles.
American Landscapes, three mural relief in ceramic 4 by 1.5 meters for IBM Center in Boca Raton, Florida (Marcel Breuer Building)
Film lectures at Pacific Design Centre, Los Angeles and at the Central School of Design, London.

1980

Lecture series in Film, Rice University, Houston; California State University, UCLA, Santa Barbara; and Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City.

1979

Opening of Museo Angel Orensanz y Artes de Serrablo, Sabinanigo, Spain
Speed Bird and Lineal, two large steel sculptures, entrance of Barcelona International Airport.

1978

Iron Screen, Sculpture, Zaragoza, Spain
Film lecture at Alternative Center for International Arts, New York.

1977

XIV Bienal de São Paolo, Brazil. Official Spanish participation
Film documentary on his work at Venice Biennale.

1976

Sculpture installed at the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona

1975

Two monumental steel sculptures installed at Barcelona International Airport
Iron environment piece, Edificio Beatriz, Madrid.

1974

Landscape Sculptures, steel free-standing installations, France-Barcelona international freeway
Landscape Sculptures, steel free-standing installations, Martorell, Barcelona, Spain

1973

Environmental Sculpture, installation of 215 steel, wood and fiber pieces in Holland Park, London, organized by the Greater London Council
Sculptural environment in Sarriá, Barcelona
British film documentary on Angel Orensanz’s works shown at MoMa, New York

1972

Sculpture installed in Plaza Joanich, Barcelona, Spain
Exhibition Metro Saint Augustin, Paris, France

1970

III Exposición Internacional del Pequeno Bronce. Madrid, Spain

1969

Menhir, stone sculpture, 8’ x 5’, milestone in park environment, Barcelona, Spain

1968

International Exhibition of Sculpture, Barcelona.
Wooden Relief, 7’ x 4.5’, wooden relief to reflect the light, natural and electronic, Munich, Germany

1967

Façade, cast concrete, 81’ x 10’ covering staircase shaft on exterior of office building, Madrid, Spain
Everituve Award of Sculpture

1966

Salon de Mai Gold Medal, Paris. Biennale de Paris

1965

Studies at the École Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris

1961

Sculptures based on the opera Atlántida, at the Gran Teatro del Liceo, Barcelona

1959

Studies at the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Jorge in Barcelona. MA in Art History