Curriculum Vitae

Inés E. Aponte
Cond. Los Robles, Apto. 913A
405 Ave. Américo Miranda,
San Juan, Puerto Rico 00927
e-mail: ineseaponte@gmail.com

Education

M.F.A. Painting, Pratt Institute, New York, EUA, 1989

B.A. Drawing, Cum Laude, Pratt Institute, New York, EUA, 1986

B.A. Psychology, Cum Laude, University de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, 1979

Other Academic Resources

Video Editing (Final Cut Pro), Atlantic College, Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, 2006.

Video Editing, (Final Cut Pro ), School of Fine Arts, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2000-2001

Computer Art, (Photoshop), Sagrado Corazón University, Santurce, Puerto Rico, 1999

Drawing and Printmaking, School of Fine Arts, Boston, EUA. 1979 – 1980

Academic Experience

Professor, School of Fine Arts, San Juan 2004 to the present

Professor, Fine Arts Department, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras,
2001-2005 

Professor, Fine Arts Department, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, 1996-1998.

Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Interamerican University, San Germán, 1994-1989.

Drawing and Painting Class, Washington’s Heights Coalition, New York, USA, 1987

Art Assistant, Aeyung Park – Sculptor, New York, EUA, summer1986

Individual Exhibitions

2011 Cut with the Same Scissors, Art Museum, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2002 In Loiza’s Barge, (Loiza’s Ancón) PR’02, Loíza, Puerto Rico

2001 Marked (Marcados), The Americas Museum, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1997 Moriviví, Luiggi Marrozzini Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1991 Spectacle and Sacrifice, Zeitgeist Gallery, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico.

1990 Paintings, MSA Gallery, Viejo San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1988 Paintings, Pratt Institute Gallery, New York, EUA

1986 Drawings and Paintings, Pratt Institute Gallery, New York, EUA.

Collective Exhibitions

2015 – Puerto Rican Art Collection, Ponce Art Museum, Ponce, Puerto Rico

2013 – Vial, Ponce Art Museum, Puerto Rico, Ponce, Puerto Rico

2012- Puerto Rican Art Collection, Museum of Puerto Rican Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2010 – National Exhibition, Weapons Storehouse at la Puntilla, Exhibition Space for the Puerto Rican Institute of Culture, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2010- In the Drawer, La 15 Gallery, Santurce, Puerto Rico

2010- MAPR – Human Geography, Photography and Video of the XXI Century, PR: Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States, Washington D.C., February 5 to April 10.

2009 – 2010 Human Geography, Photography and Video of the XXI Century, PR: Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States, Washington D.C., February 5 to April 10.

2009 – Circa, Videos Exhibition, Gallery 354, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

November 2005 – March 2006- Rewind-Rewind- Videos, Puerto Rico Institute of Culture, Weapons Storehouse at la Puntilla, Exhibition Space for the Puerto Rican Institute of Culture, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

October 2004- January 2005- Island Nations (Islas Naciones), Art Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island

December 2004, 356 Gallery, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

2004 National Exhibition, Weapons Storehouse at la Puntilla, Exhibition Space for the Puerto Rican Institute of Culture, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2003- 100 Years of Art and Teaching, University of Puerto Rico, University Museum, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

2002 Facing Each Other: Prints Concerning Identity from Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, New Jersey, USA

2001 Contemporary Puerto Rican Art Museum, San Juan, Puerto Rico,

2001 National Exhibition, Weapons Storehouse at la Puntilla, Exhibition Space for the Puerto Rican Institute of Culture, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2001 Quenepón Magazine, Virtual Magazine, Internet

2000 Puerto Rican Artists, Santa Fé Institute, Granada, Spain

2000 Utopistas,Sacred Heart University Gallery, Puerto Rico.

1999, Coffee and other tales in Doña Fela’s House, Felisa Rincón de Gautier’s Museum, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1999 Games -Tension, Contemporary Art Museum, Sacred Heart University, Puerto Rico.

1998 Small Format, Ballajá Headquarters, Exhibition space for the Puerto Rico Institute of Culture, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1998 100 Contemporary Puerto Rican Artists, Casablanca, Exhibition space for the Puerto Rico Institute of Culture, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1998 Caribe: Fragmentation, Exclusion and Paradise, Ibero- American Museum of Contemporary Art (collaboration with Charles Juhasz piece “Tranvestoy in the work Like the flies”, Spain

1997 Dhara Rivera and Ines Aponte, Chardón Gallery, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

1997 “ From there to here” Contrafuertes Exhibition Room, (Fort and Institute of Culture Exhibition space) Puerto Rican Institute of Culture, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1996, Contemporary Puerto Rican Artists, Kenkeleba Gallery, Lower East Side, New York, USA

1996 Transition Signs, Luiggi Marrozzini Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1994 Small Format, Luiggi Marrozzini Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1993 Art and Object – Citibank & Luiggi Marrozzini Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1993 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1993 National Exhibition for the National Commemoration of the Fifth Centenary of the Americas and Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican Institute of Culture, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1992 Small Format, Luiggi Marrozzini Gallery, Viejo San Juan, Puerto Rico

1992 Conceptual Abstraction, Hermes Bookstore, San Juan

1991 Pratt Institute Ex-alumni, Multiple Insurance Cooperative, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

1989 Young Art, Chase Manhattan Bank, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico

1988 First Painting Competition, Exhibition for the National Commemoration of the Fifth Centenary of the Americas and Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican Institute of Culture, Competition AVCO, Casablanca, San Juan, Puerto Rico

1988 Tracks, Lower East Side, New York, USA

Distinctions as an artist representing Puerto Rico in international events:

2000 Puerto Rico, que Puerto que Rico, Granada, Spain.

1999 Visiting Artist, Printmaking Center, Art School, Mason Gros, Rutgers University, New Jersey

1994 Caribbean Art Today, Project Group- Stoffwechsel, Germany

1994 IX Ibero American Biennial of Art “ Drawing and Vignettes of Everyday, Palace for the Fine Arts, Mexico City.

1994 IV Painting Biennial, Cuenca, Ecuador.

Work in Other Mediums

2001- 2011 Artistic Videos

Hands up-Hands Down
Our Daily Bread
Clothing, House, Shoes and Bread
To see you, not to see you
Without a head – without feet
Black Sheep
The Turtle and the Rabbit – Competition
In the Confessional – Refugee
What a Pain – Death
Sticky Stories on the Tight Rope
Mores in the Coast
What’s your Story?

2001-2006 Educational Videos

2006 Cuba, a Collection of Videos, Alternative Enterprises, Video produced by the Center for Social Research, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras.

2006 Capetillo Street No.12, Produced by the Graduate Department of Psychology University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

2005 Echo of Voices. Produced by the Graduate Department of Psychology University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

2004- Agricultural Markets, 2 Videos produced by ASDA, Puerto Rico.

2001- When Giants Fall: Economical Alternatives for Cuba and Puerto Rico. Video produced by the Center for Social Research, University of Puerto Rico

Book Covers

1996 “ Covering the Sky with your Hands” for the Book: Crime in Puerto Rico by Dora Nevares

1996 “ Te Veo, No te Veo “, Book Cover for Charlie Gorra Strikes Back by Daniel Nina

1995 “ Tongue twister” Magazine Cover for the Caribbean Magazine, University of Puerto Rico, Vol.28, No.1 January to June 1995.