Blas Isasi
Born Lima, Peru 1981
Blas Isasi Gutiérrez
Education
2020 MFA in Studio Art-Sculpture, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA
2006 BFA with Distinction, Painting, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Lima, Peru
Awards/Grants/Fellowships/Residencies
2019 Honored Mention in the International Sculpture Center´s (ISC) 2019
Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award Program. USA
2019 Summer Merit Fellowship. Tulane University, New Orleans.
2017 (escuela incierta) at Lugar a dudas in Cali, Colombia.
2015 Brauschweig PROJECTS Scholarship, granted by the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig (Braunschweig University of the Arts) and the State of Lower Saxony. Artist in residency / Visiting scholar. November 2015 – October 2016. Brunswick, Germany.
2014 Jan Van Eyck Academie. Maastricht, Netherlands. March 2014 – May 2015
2013 PeerGroup: Grant to develop his Landscape Politics – Missing Data project in the frame of the P.A.I.R (Portable Artist in Residence) program. June – August Donderen (Drenthe) Netherlands.
2013 CAMAC (Centre D´Art - Marnay Art Centre): Artist in residency. Grant by the
Fondation Tanot. Marnay-sur-Seine (Départament de Aube,
Champagne-Ardenne), France.
2012. Núcleo Group: Selected to take part in the Art Laboratory lead by Colombian
curator María Iovino. Lima, May - November 2012
2010 I Concurso Nacional de Pintura Sérvulo Gutiérrez (Sérvulo Gutiérrez I Nacional Painting Contest): 3rd place.
2005 Critic´s Award in the last academic year at the PUCP, Lima, Peru
2004 Winternitz Award in the 4th and 5th academic year at the PUCP, Lima, Peru
Solo Exhibitions
2020 It´s like talking to a wall. Carroll Gallery at the Woldenberg Art Center. New Orleans, USA
2016 Entre la ficción y el gesto, curated by Jorge Villacorta Chávez Galería ICPNA de Miraflores. Lima, Peru
2015 Ensayos Cartográficos, 80m2 – Livia Benavides Gallery. Lima, Peru
2012 Pentimento, Wu Gallery. Lima, Peru
Group Exhibitions
2019 Summer Solstice, Good Children Gallery. New Orleans, USA
2018 I Concurso Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo ICPNA, Sala Pablo Heren. Lima, Peru
2017 Legado y divergencia: 78 años de Artes de la PUCP, Sala Germán Kruger Espantoso. Curated by Max Hernández Calvo. Lima, Peru
2017 PArC (Perú Arte Contemporáneo) Art Fair. Lima, Peru
2017 Sinopsis. Galería Lucía de la Puente. Lima, Peru
2017 XI Subasta de verano del MALI (X Art Museum of Lima´s summer auction) Lima, Peru
2016 Presence sensed. Braunschweig University of the Arts (Hochschule für Bildende
Künste). Brunswick, Germany
2016 Entre la cámara lúcida y el fax. Resignificaciones del dibujo. Curated by Carlo
Trivelli. ICPNA (Peruvian - North American Cultural Institute) Miraflores Gallery. Lima, Peru
2016 Komma. Curated by Corinna Schnitt. Kunstverein & Stifung / Sprinhornhof, Germany
2016. X Subasta de verano del MALI (X Art Museum of Lima´s summer auction), Lima, Peru
2015 El dibujo en el Perú: arqueología de la realidad. Curated by Carlo Trivelli.Art fair ESTAMPA Madrid, Spain
2015 Una mirada a la colección Vistacorta. Presentation of the Art Critic and Independent Curator Jorge Villacorta´s private collection, curated by Carlo Trivelli, Centro Cultural Ricardo Palma, Lima, Peru
2015 Nazca. Duo exhibition with Kim Habers. Kers Gallery. Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015 Open Studios. Jan Van Eyck Academie. Maastricht, 2015
2015 IX Subasta de verano del MALI (IX Art Museum of Lima´s summer auction) Lima, Peru
2014 Dominio. Duo exhibition with Eduardo Hirose and curarted by Jorge Villacorta as part of the II Bienal de la Fotografía de Lima (II Photography Biennale of Lima), Sala Luis Miró Quesada Garland, Lima, Peru
2013 Expedición Amazonas. Curated by Augusto Del Valle. Pancho Fierro Municipal Gallery, Lima, Peru
2012 Intersecciones, Wu Gallery. Lima, Peru
Bibliography
SETENTA Y SIETE ARTISTAS PERUANOS CONTEMPORÁNEOS (SEVENTY SEVEN CONTEMPORARY PERUVIAN ARTISTS). MATE – Asociación Mario Testino, Lima, Peru, 2017
Publications as author
Sinceridad y plegado: un alegato a favor de una muestra sin lugar, Ansible nr. 4, Lima, Peru 2017
El universo amazónico de Christian Bendayán (The Amazonian universe of Christian Bendayán). Bisagra magazine nr. 001. Lima, Peru, 2016.
Guillermo Montesinos Pastor: Un solitario ante la naturaleza (Guillermo Montesinos Pastor: A loner vis a vis nature) together with Jorge Villacorta and Andrés Garay. Fotográfica Bogotá 2013´s catalogue. Bogotá, 2013