Patricio Moreno Toro

Patricio Moreno Toro
Born
Patricio Salvador Moreno–Toro

(1942-12-21) December 21, 1942 (age 81)
Santiago, Chile
NationalityChilean, American
Other namesPatricio Toro
Occupation(s)Visual artist, painter
SpouseMary Lovelace O'Neal
Websitehttp://patriciomorenotoro.com

Patricio Salvador Moreno Toro (born December 21, 1942) is a Chilean-born American visual artist and painter. His work is associated with abstract expressionism and incorporates Chilean forms and details.[1]

Biography

Toro was born on December 21, 1942, in Santiago, Chile. He attended the University of Chile.[1]

He immigrated to the United States in 1978, and he moved to Oakland, California, in 1981.[1][2] In 1983, he met Mary Lovelace O'Neal and they married shortly afterward.[3]

Exhibitions

Toro has exhibited his works at Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts in Santiago; Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in San José; Örebro läns Museum in Örebro; University of Oxford in Oxford; Smithsonian Institution Offices in Washington, D.C.; California Science Center in Los Angeles; Kenkeleba Gallery in New York City; the San Francisco Public Library in San Francisco; Berkeley Art Center (1995);[4] Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1981, solo exhibition);[5] University of Hawai'i at Hilo (1990);[2] Casa de las Américas (2017) in Havana;[6] among others.[7]

Toro was part of the exhibition Mano A Mano (1988), which featured 16 Chicano and Latino artists from the San Francisco Bay Area, shown at both the Art Museum of Santa Cruz County and at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[8]

Toro was part of the Carlos Villa–curated project, Rehistoricizing The Time Around Abstract Expressionism (2010), which highlighted more artist diversity within abstract expressionist art history.[9][10] The Rehistoricizing project included a symposium, a website, and related art exhibition at the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco.[10][11]

Collections

References

  1. ^ a b c Carrillo, Eduardo (1988). Mano a Mano: Abstraction/Figuration (in English and Spanish). Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. Art Museum of Santa Cruz County. pp. 12, 57. ISBN 978-0-939982-09-7.
  2. ^ a b "International Exhibition Opens: UHH gallery features work of 20 artists". Newspapers.com. Hawaii Tribune-Herald. December 10, 1990. p. 3. Retrieved 2022-02-17.
  3. ^ Ownby, Ted; Wilson, Charles Reagan; Abadie, Ann J.; Lindsey, Odie; Thomas Jr., James G. (2017-05-25). The Mississippi Encyclopedia. University Press of Mississippi. p. 960. ISBN 978-1-4968-1159-2.
  4. ^ "Art: Berkeley Art Center". Newspapers.com. The San Francisco Examiner. October 15, 1995. p. 279. Retrieved 2022-02-17.
  5. ^ "Pick of the Week: Patricio Moreno-Toro". Newspapers.com. LA Weekly. November 5, 1981. p. 78. Retrieved 2022-02-17.
  6. ^ "Artes Plastics". La Habana (in Spanish). May 2017. p. 59.
  7. ^ ""Vorágines" New Works by International Artist Patricio Moreno Toro at V Vorres Gallery October 17-November 16, 2013". Retrieved August 17, 2021.
  8. ^ "Latino American Influence". Newspapers.com. Santa Cruz Sentinel. April 22, 1988. p. 87. Retrieved 2022-02-17.
  9. ^ "Patricio Moreno Toro". Rehistoricizing The Time Around Abstract Expressionism. Retrieved 2022-02-17.
  10. ^ a b Johnson, Mark Dean; Goldberg, Trisha Lagaso; Rio, Sherwin (2022-01-25). Carlos Villa: Worlds in Collision. Univ of California Press. p. 173. ISBN 978-0-520-34889-9.
  11. ^ Baker, Kenneth (2013-04-16). "Carlos Villa, artist and teacher, dies". SFGATE. Retrieved 2022-02-17.
  12. ^ "Rooflessness - Patricio Toro". FAMSF Search the Collections. 8 May 2015.
  13. ^ "Patricio Toro". City of Berkeley, California.
  14. ^ "Teknos". Surdoc.cl (in Spanish).