Jesus Rafael Soto

Jesus-Rafael Soto was a Venezuelan Postwar & Contemporary sculptor who was born in 1923. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Galerie Denise René, Espace Marais in Paris. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago have featured Jesus-Rafael Soto’s work in the past.Jesus-Rafael Soto’s work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $87 USD to $1,082,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is $1,082,500 USD for La Scie a Metaux (The Hacksaw), sold at Sotheby’s New York in 2012. Jesus-Rafael Soto has been featured in articles for The Art Newspaper, Miami Herald and ArtDaily. The most recent article is Special Feature: FIAC 2021 (Part 1) written for Art Viewer in October 2021. The artist died in 2005.

Artist’s alternative names: Jesús Rafael de Soto, Jesús Rafael Soto, Jesus Raphael Soto

Past exhibitions

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2020
  • Jésus Rafael Soto, Galerie Denise René, Espace Marais, 3e, Paris, France
  • Jesús-Rafael Soto: Perception: Works from 1964 – 1992, Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino, Houston, Texas, USA
2019
  • Soto. The Fourth Dimension, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
  • Soto: Vibrations, 1960 – 1961, Hauser & Wirth, New York, 69th Street, Upper East Side, New York, USA
2018
  • Jesus Rafael Soto: Penetrable BBL Bleu, Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
  • Soto múltiple, Galería Cayón, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2017
  • Jesús Rafael Soto: Sound Mural, Cecilia Brunson Projects London, London, UK
2016
  • Jesus Soto: Virtual Soto, Galería Cayón, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2015
  • Jesus-Rafael Soto: Chronochrome, Galerie Perrotin, New York, Lower East Side, New York, USA
  • Jesus-Rafael Soto: Chronochrome, Galerie Perrotin, Paris (Turenne), 3e, Paris, France
2014
  • Jesús Rafael Soto: Pénétrable de Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Loop, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Soto: The Houston Penetrable, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, River Oaks, Houston, Texas, USA
2011
  • Jesus Rafael Soto: 1955 to 2004, Haunch of Venison, New York, Midtown, New York, USA
  • From Ars to Ateneum, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2009
  • Jesús Rafael Soto, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (Goethestrasse), Mitte, Berlin, Germany
2008
  • Jesús Rafael Soto, Robert Sandelson, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
  • Retour à la ligne, Galerie Denise René, Espace Marais, 3e, Paris, France
  • Subject Matters: Selections From The Permanent Collection, Artis-Naples, The Baker Museum, Naples, Florida, USA
  • Small is beautiful!, Galerie Denise René, Espace Marais, 3e, Paris, France
  • Structure du Silence, Galerie Denise René, Espace Marais, 3e, Paris, France
  • Doctrine Of Colors, Galeria Raquel Arnaud, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • L’atelier Arcay: Passage…, EAC, Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, Mouans-sartoux, France
2020
  • Unfinished Business, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • The Grid in Modern Latin American Art, Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino, Houston, Texas, USA
  • Subject Matters: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Artis-Naples, The Baker Museum, Naples, Florida, USA
  • Les Mauvaises Herbes, Immanence, Espace d’Art Contemporain, 15e, Paris, France
  • Crescendo, New Image Art Gallery, West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Dialogues, Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino, Houston, Texas, USA
  • Abstraction and Figuration in Space, Ascaso Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
  • Slices of Color: Kinetic Art, Galeria Raquel Arnaud, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Hyundai 50 Part II, Gallery Hyundai, Jongro-gu, Seoul, South Korea
  • ONLINE: The Radical Line, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, Palm Desert, California, USA
  • ONLINE: Sélection Art Paris, Gimpel & Müller, 6e, Paris, France
  • A Graphic Revolution: Prints and Drawings in Latin America, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
  • LX by Archeus / Post-Modern, LX Arts NYC, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • Zero Is Infinity: Zero And Yayoi Kusama, Yayoi Kusama Museum, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
  • Multiplied: Edition MAT and the Transformable Work of Art, 1959–1965, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
  • Highlights of the Collection, Galeria Raquel Arnaud, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2019
  • Arte Multiplicada, Galeria Raquel Arnaud, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Cutting Edges: Nordic Concrete Art from the Erling Neby Collection, Scandinavia House, Midtown, New York, USA
  • Image d’une collection, Galerie Denise René, Rive Gauche, 7e, Paris, France
  • Kinetic Masters & Their Legacy, Cecilia De Torres, Soho, New York, USA
  • Magdalena Fernández: Ecos, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
  • The Rose Collection, 1957-2018: Into Form, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
  • Vibrations, Danysz Gallery, Paris, 11e, Paris, France
  • Os Cinéticos na Contemporaneidade Collective, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Kinetic Serendipity, Galerie Eva Meyer, 3e, Paris, France
  • The Collection of the Fondation: A Vision for Painting, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France
2018
  • Abstract & Figurative Art from Venezuelan Artists of the 20th Century, Ascaso Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
  • Latin Americans in Paris, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
  • Signals: If you like I shall grow (part II), Kurimanzutto, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • Destination: Latin America, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana, USA
  • Contesting Modernity: Informalism in Venezuela, 1955–1975, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, River Oaks, Houston, Texas, USA
  • Seeing in Color and Black-and-White, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA
  • Suspension: A History of Abstract Hanging Sculpture 1918 – 2018, Olivier Malingue Gallery, London, UK
  • Action – Reaction. 100 years of kinetic art, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • Op Art in Focus, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
  • Signals: if you like i shall grow, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
  • Light and Movement in European Post-War Art, Cortesi Gallery, London, London, UK
  • Movement.A Joint Exhibtion with Galerie Denise René, Puerta Roja, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • Larry Bell & Jesús Rafael Soto: Vapor and Vibration, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, USA
  • The Other Trans-Atlantic. Kinetic and Op Art in Eastern Europe and Latin, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2017
  • Modern Masters from Latin America: The Pérez Simón Collection, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, USA
  • Iconoplastic: 100 Years of De Stijl, Sotheby’s New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • Kinesthesia: Latin American Kinetic Art, 1954–1969, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, USA
  • Masterpieces II, Ascaso Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
  • Seurat to Riley: The Art of Perception, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
  • An Open Mind, Maddox Gallery, London (Maddox Street), Mayfair, London, UK
  • MASTERpieces, Ascaso Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
2016
  • Checkmate. Games of International Art from the Sixties to Now, Cortesi Gallery, London, London, UK
  • Movimientos, Galerie Mitterrand, 3e, Paris, France
  • Destination: Latin America, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, New York, USA
  • Collection 13: Toward A New Museum Of Contemporary Art, CA2M, Madrid, Spain
  • The Illusive Eye: An International Survey on Kinetic and Op art, El Museo del Barrio, Harlem, New York, USA
  • Sculpture / Vision, Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino, Houston, Texas, USA
2015
  • A Modern Adventure, the Renault Art Collection Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Chaoyang, Beijing, China
  • From Hockney to Holbein, Gropius-Bau, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
  • zero: let us explore the stars, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Overlaps: Latin American Art In Mexican Collections, Museo Tamayo, Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico
  • ZERO: The international art movement of the 50s and 60s, Gropius-Bau, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
2014
  • Impulse, Reason, Sense, Conflict., Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Downtown Miami, Miami, Florida, USA
  • ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s–60s, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • Zero Era: Mack and His Artist Friends, Beck & Eggeling Dusseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • The Art of Zero: Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, Günther Uecker & Friends, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, New York, USA
  • Radical Geometry: Modern Art of South America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, Mayfair, London, UK
  • Fifty Years of Latin American Art: Selections from the Neuberger Museum of Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, New York, USA
2013
  • The Sixties: Art and Culture of the 60ies in Germany, Daimler Contemporary, Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
  • EM MOVIMENTO, Galeria Raquel Arnaud, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Novecento Mai Visto, Daimler Contemporary, Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
2012
  • Ghosts in the Machine, New Museum, New York, Lower East Side, New York, USA
  • Synthesis 3D: Artist Multiples, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
  • I.M.M.A-ginary Space, Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, Ireland
  • Group Exhibition, Marlborough, New York (Uptown), 57th Street, New York, USA
  • Jesús Rafael Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950–1970, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, Greenwich Village, New York, USA
2011
  • OpArt, Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
  • Blast from the Past: 60s and 70s Geometric Abstractions, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, USA
  • Motor Cocktail: Sound and Movement in Art of the 1960s, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • The Erling Nerby Collection, Henie Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden, Norway
2010
  • Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Embracing Modernity: Venezuelan Geometric Abstraction, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA

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