C.J. Chueca




Bio/CV: C.J. Chueca was born in Lima, Perú and moved to New York in 2003. In 2021, C.J. Chueca had the solo show ¨Micaela, La Sangre de Todas¨ in Vigil Gonzales Galería and participated in "A Very Anxious Feeling: Voices of Unrest in the American Experience; 20 Years of the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection" curated by Amethyst Rey Beaver and Eva Thornton at the Taubman Museum of Art; “XX (6 female Latinx artists working in abstraction)” at LatchKey Gallery in New York; ¨Landmark¨ at KM0.2 in San Juan de Puerto Rico; and Art Souterrain in Montreal with a public commissioned installation curated by Dulce Pinzón at Palais des Congres. She was the July art resident at Silo6776 with Kates-Ferri Projects in New Hope, Pennsylvania were she presented the solo show ¨Time Traveler¨. She was part of "Hay algo incomestible en la garganta. Poéticas antipatriarcales y nueva escena en los años noventa" curated by Miguel López at ICPNA-Lima. She presented in 2020: “The Force of Water” with Latchkey Gallery at the Core Club NYC. In 2019 she had the solo show “Somos La Noche y El Día” at Vigil Gonzales Galería; and was part of “Crónicas Migrantes, Historias communes entre Perú y Venezuela” curated by Fabiola Arroyo at MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima. In 2018 she had the solo shows: "I am the river behind the wall" at Mulherin Gallery in Toronto; and "Dos Cielos Azules/Two Blue Skies" at ICPNA (Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano) for which she recently released a monograph in collaboration with Meier Ramirez and VM& Studio. This year and in 2023, C.J. Chueca will work in a public commission in the Bronx managed by Percent for Art, from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Artist Statement: XOXOXOOX
Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2021 Micaela: La sangre de todas Galería; Galería Vigil Gonzales, Sacred Valley - Cusco, Time Traveler, curated by Kates-Ferri Projects; Silo6776, New Hope - Pennsylvania 2020 The Force of Water / La Fuerza del Agua; Latchkey Gallery in collaboration with the Core Club, New York 2019 Somos La Noche Y El Día; Galería Vigil González, Lima 2018 I Am The River Behind The Wall; Mulherin Gallery, Toronto, Dos Cielos Azules (el cielo claro del río migra al cielo inmenso del mar); ICPNA Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano, Lima 2016 Illuminations of Angie: Someone There Is That Doesn't Love a Wall; Y Gallery, New York, El Zorro Fugitivo y El Zorro Imaginado, solo projects curated by Roc Laseca; Parc, Lima,Walls and heads; invited section Latin America at Art Toronto, Toronto
Selected Group Exhibitions: 2021 A Very Anxious Feeling: Voices of Unrest in the American Experience; 20 Years of the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, curated by Amethyst Rey Beaver and Eva Thornton; Taubman Museum of Art, Virginia, Landmark; KM0.2, San Juan de Puerto Rico, Chronometrie, curated by Dulce Pinzón; Art Souterrain Festival, Montreal, Sabor & Control, curated by Ivan Sikic, Vantage Art Projects, Hay algo incomestible en la garganta. Poéticas antipatriarcales y nueva escena de los años noventa, curated by Miguel A. Lopez; ICPNA - Lima, XX (6 female Latinx artists working in abstraction); Latchkey Gallery, New York 2020 Art Mutters, curated by Annesofie Sandal; Triangle, New York, La Fantástica Construcción Femenina; Museo y Taller Erasto Cortés, Puebla, Carpa Interdimentional, curated by Andrés Hare and Martín Rodriguez Miglio; El Garajr – Lima, Lo que dejamos fuera; Galería Vigil Gonzales, Good Dirt, ADA Gallery, Richmond 2019 Crónicas Migrantes: palabra, cuerpo, casa, territorio; curated by Fabiola Arroyo, MAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima, Creatures; Olsen Gruin Gallery, New York, La Fantástica Construcción Femenina, Plataforma ArtBase, Puebla-México, Soy La Casa Que Ladra; MaMaMa Espacio, Lima, Soy La Casa Que Ladra; Ramón Luján 78, Madrid 2018 The Border #1, The Border Space; Brooklyn-NY, Luces Desde La Isla, General Consulate of Colombia in New York City, NY 2017 Identity Document, curated by Chris Bors; Bergen Community College Gallery, New Jersey, El Jardin de las Delicias; Y Gallery, Lima 2016 This one is smaller than this one, curated by Paulina Bebecka; Galerist, Istanbul,This one is smaller than this one, curated by Paulina Bebecka; Postmasters, New York, Practice Makes Practice; Mulherin Gallery, New York, Strength in Creative Diversity curated by Elisa Pritzker; The Project Space, New York, America, curated by Manuela Viera-Gallo y Maximiliano Siñani; 67 Art Space, New York 2015 Polivalencias, curated by Jorge Villacorta; Galería Lucia de la Puente, Lima, There Is Only One Catch And That Is Catch 22, curated by Blanca de la Torre; Y Gallery, New York
Residencies: 2021 Silo6776, New Hope, PA.
Public Art Projects: 2021 We Are Night And Day / Nous Sommes La Nuit Et Le Jour, curated by Dulce Pinzón. Installation at Palais des Congrès as part of Art Souterrain Festival in Montreal-Canada 2022-2023 Public commission in the Bronx, managed by Percent for Art, from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (upcoming)
Press: Hyperalergic, Artishock, La Republica, Terremoto, Artnet, Flaunt, Lapresse, Artifoid, AMNY
Selected Collections: Beth Rudin-De Woody, ICPNA Instituto Peruano Norteamericano, Alberto Rebaza and Ginette Lumbroso, Ali Khadra, Luis Oganes, A.G. Rojas, Christina Steinbrecher-Pfandt, Susie Kololian, Morris Adjmi, Luis Felipe Cordero, George Gruenberg, Nicolas Kecskemethy, Julie Ragolia, Christine D´lzarny, Raul Otero, Eric Shiner, Arlene Davila, Kates-Ferri Collection, DeMuro Das, Susana de la Puente, Lorena Chavez-Molina, Ivan Vildoso/Gaby Yamamoto
Social: @c.j.chueca
Available Art: Artsy