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 Hugo Xavier Bastidas
Mr. Bastidas received his undergraduate degree from Rutgers University and
his Masters of Fine Art from Hunter College in New York City. He has a
number of awards including a Robert Smithson Scholarship, a Fulbright
Fellowship, Pollack-Krasner Grant and a NJEA Grant. The Nohra Haime Gallery
in New York City has represented him for the past fourteen years where he
has had 12 solo shows. The internationally respected critic and art
historian Robert Morgan wrote the catalogue text for Bastidas in his 2002
show Omens in Grisaille at the Nohra Haime Gallery. This show was reviewed
in Art in America, February 2003,and Artnexus, winter 2003. He represented
the United States in the Cuenca Biennial, Cuenca, Ecuador, 1999 and the
Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates, 2001. He has produced over 166
paintings and some 270 oil sketches in the past 15 years in the present
black and white genre. His works are in private and public collections
worldwide. He participates in numerous group and solo shows annually. The
artwork has had over 70 critical reviews. The group show, Images of Time
and Place: Contemporary Views of Landscape, Lehman College Art Gallery
received wide national acclaim. He is also a digital photographer. His
digital work has been shown in the US and Europe.
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