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VARGAS-SUAREZ UNIVERSAL
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Born in Mexico City,
raised near NASA in Houston,
lives in New York, and works anywhere
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EDUCATION
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1991-1996
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The University of Texas at Austin, Astronomy and Art History
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1999-2000
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Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
Mini-Med School program
New York University, New York
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AWARDS & HONORS
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2008
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Abbey Mural Painting Memorial Fellowship, National Academy, New York
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2000
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Artists' Studio Benefit Tour, Art in General, New York
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1999
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A.I.M. Program, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Bronx
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1997
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Young Artist Award, Bank of America/Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin
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SELECTED INDIVIDUAL & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
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2010
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Cosmodrome Vectors Think.21 Gallery, Brussels
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2008
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Virus Americanus Maximus, GE Galeria, Monterrey
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2007
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Next Green Sphere, g-module, Paris
Oliver Lutz, Vargas-Suarez Universal, Space Other, Boston
Space Station: San Sebastian, Galeria Carlos Irizarry, San Juan de Puerto Rico
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2006
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A New Kind of Science, Karpio+Facchini Gallery, Miami
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2005
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Space Station: Tenochtitlan, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico D.F. (cat.)
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2004
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Wall Drawing Commission & Study Drawings, LibertyHealth Foundation, Jersey City
Event Horizon, g-module, Paris
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2003
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American Virus, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City
Outer (negative) Space, Galeria Ramis Barquet, Monterrey
Art Unknown, Proyectos Individuales, Thomas Erben Gallery, ARCO '03, Feria
Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo, Parque Ferial Juan Carlos I, Madrid
(catalogue)
Proper Motion (Pictures), The Hudson River Museum of
Westchester, Yonkers, NY
Audio-Drawings & New Works on Paper, Galeria Carlos Irizarry, San
Juan
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2002
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Stardust, new wall drawings Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
Space Stations and Blueprints, g-module, Paris
Vargas-Suarez Universal: Space Stations, Lobby Gallery,
Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, Organized by d.u.m.b.o. arts center,
Brooklyn
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2000
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The Fourth Annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival
Installations, Vargas-Suarez Universal,
Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York City Transit, York St. Subway Station, Brooklyn
Domestic Model of a Worm Hole, P.S. 122 Gallery, New York
(outdoor project), organized by Archibald Arts, New York
American Virus 288 Elizabeth St., New York
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1998
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Trahare Naturalis & Virus 76 Varick , New York
A Brief Documentation of Black Holes & Blue Holes
Holland Tunnel Art Projects, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Unknown (Sex Drive) Studio Obsolete, Queens
Texas Landscape Atelier von David Medalla,
Berliner Kunstlerprograam des Deutschen Akademischen
Austauschdienst (DAAD), Berlin
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1995
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Vargas-Suarez Universal Apple Computer Corp., Austin
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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2010
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Atmospheres: A Walk in Silence, Galerie Pangee, Montreal
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2009
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Brooklyn Utopias?, Brooklyn Historical Society
Theatre of More, White Box, New York
A Legacy of Change: 25th Anniversary Exhibition of the Permanent Collection, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin
Big Show/Love, Jacob Karpio Galeria, San Jose de Costa Rica
Baroque Reason, Keith Talent Gallery, London
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2008
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Workspace Program 2007-08, Dieu Donne Papermill, Inc., New York
Wild, Jacob Karpio Galeria, San Jose de Costa Rica
Abbey Mural Workshop Fellows Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York
Claiming Space: Mexican-Americans in U.S. Cities, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) (cat.)
Walls and Gateways, Existentie vzw, Ghent, Belgium (cat.)
S.O.S. 4.8 Sustainable Art Actions, Centro de Congresos Victor Villegas, Murcia, Spain (cat.)
ggg.g-salon, g-module, Paris
Put Your Flag Where Your Mouth Is, St. Paul's Hall, St. Paul's Steiner School, London
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2007
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The Expanded Painting Show, M*A*S*H*, Cottelston Advisors, Miami
Brave New World, Solar, East Hampton, NY (cat.)
Suncom Art Nites, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan
Per Square Foot, Dieu Donne Papermill Inc., New York (cat.)
della Pittura Digitalis: On Painting and the Digital Moment, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin
Double-edged Abstraction, g-module, Paris
2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art: Special Projects: We Are Your Future, Winzavod Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow (cat.)
Artists Books: Transgression/Excess, Space Other, Boston
III Certamen Internacional De Pintura De Castellón, Fundacion Astroc, Madrid (cat.)
Mixed Signals, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York
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2006
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III Certamen Internacional De Pintura De Castellon, El Museo de Bellas Artes de Castellon, Spain (cat.)
Good Morning City Noise!!! Sound Art Project,Galeri Soemardja, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
Radicales Libres, GE Galeria, Monterrey, Mexico (cat.)
What War?, White Box, New York
Show Off, g-module, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris (cat.)
Year _06, g-module, Mary Ward House, London
Dieu Donne, Papermill Inc., New York (cat.)
Pure Form, Solar, East Hampton, NY
The Sun in Uranus, Offspace Projects, London
States of Anxiety, Punto Gris CIRCA 06, San Juan de Puerto Rico
Group Exhibition, d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn
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2005
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My Mother the Nazi the:artists:network, New York
Future Quake g-module, FIAC, Paris (cat.)
Barrocos & Neobarrocos (El Infierno de la Belleza) DA2 (Domus Artium 2002), Fundacion Salamanca
Ciudad de Cultura, Palacio de Abrantes, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain (cat.)
The Line Between Life and Death, Karpio+Facchini Gallery, Miami
Out of Bounds Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY (cat.)
Happy Bithday To Me, g-module, Paris
Jacob Karpio Galeria, ARCO ’05, Madrid (cat.)
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2004
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Art Basel Miami Beach: The International Art Show Jacob Karpio Galeria, Miami Beach (cat.)
31 Edition Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain g-module, Paris expo-Porte de Versailles, Paris (cat.)
Eigth Annual d.u.m.b.o. Art Under the Bridge Festival, Music: Experimental and Avant Garde Sound,
The Soundbox, organized by d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn
a small look at GIGANTICISM Gigantic Art Space, New York (cat.)
Topologies Solar, East Hampton, NY
Small Drawings by Big People Galeria Carlos Irizarry, San Juan de Puerto Rico
Mexico Arte Contemporaneo Jacob Karpio Galeria, Expo Reforma, Mexico D.F. (cat.)
Momenta Art Benefit White Columns, New York
Cartografia Americana Solar, East Hampton, NY
The Armory Show: The International Fair of New Art Jacob Karpio Galeria, New York
Voces y Visiones:Highlights from El Museo del Barrio’s Permanent Collection,
Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY
Art Rotterdam, g-module, Wilhelminakade, Rotterdam
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2003
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NADA Art Fair g-module, The Lincoln, Miami Beach
Voces y Visiones: Highlights from El Museo del Barrio’s Permanent Collection,
El Museo del Barrio, New York (cat.)
White Box Benefit James Cohan Gallery, New York
Mexico Iluminated, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading,
Pennsylvania (cat.)
Il Palazzo delle Liberta, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte
Contemporanea,
Siena (cat.)
Ready for War University Galleries, Illinois State University,
Normal
ARCO '03, Galeria Ramis Barquet, Madrid
7 Walls 8 Views, Arena, New York
Art Rotterdam 2003, g-module, Wilhelminakade, Rotterdam
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2002
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Secret, Gulbenkian Galleries, Royal College of Art,
London
Scratch, Arena, New York
Save Our Senate The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee benefit,
Exit Art, New York
Candela Art + Music Festival, Galeria Carlos Irizarry, San Juan
Ballpoint Inklings, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington
Deja Vu, g-module, Paris
Recent Multiples Projects x 5-Inbox Vol. V 10038, Organization of
Independent Artists, New York
Speaking Truths- Inbox Vol. V 10038, Intermedia Arts,
Minneapolis
A Special Place, Arena, Brooklyn
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2001
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FFWD >> Miami Contemporary Art: Fair, Arena, Hotel Nash, Miami Beach
Drawings (selected) g-module, Paris
Emerging, Archibald Arts, New York
Crossing the Line Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, New York
(catalogue, CD)
Sthlm Art Fair ARENA@FEED, Sollentunamassan AB, Stockholm
Think...1.2.3.Think: Rupert Goldsworthy, Jocelyn Taylor, Vargas-Suarez Universal
im niL, Greenpoint, Brooklyn (essay by Erik Bakke)
Refraction Arts Installation Project, The Blue Theater, Austin
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2000
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London Biennale 2000, London (catalogue)
Dona Nelson, Andreij Monastyrskij, Vargas-Suarez Universal, Tom Wood
Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
Meat Market Art Fair ARENA@FEED, New York
Good Business is the Best Art:
Twenty Years of the Artist in the Marketplace Program
Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Bronx
S-Files:The Selected Files
El Museo del Barrio, New York (catalogue)
Lineage d.u.m.b.o. arts center (dac), Brooklyn
organized with CrossPathCulture
Erratic Errand Archibald Arts, New York
Line Arena@Feed, Brooklyn
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1999
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Artist in the Marketplace: Nineteenth Annual Exhibition
Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Bronx, (catalogue)
Linea Nigra-Drawing the Line Star 67, Brooklyn
Autokinetik LL Gallery, The Limelight, New York
A room with a view Sixth @ Prince Fine Arts, New York
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1998
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Fresh Blood:13 Young Artists Archibald Arts, New York
Ruido (Noise): A Multi-Media Exhibition of Sound Based Art
Taller Boricua Gallery, Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, New York
The Calculus of Transfiguration: Meaning, Form, and Process in Late 20th Century Art
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn
Apocalypse Now: Neo-Decadent Works HereArt, New York
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1997
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Young Latino Artists II Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin
Aberrations ACA Gallery, Austin
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1996
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Young Latino Artists Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin
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Selected Collections
Ainsworth Collection, Sydney, Australia
Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
BaNorte Banco Comercial, Caracas, Venezuela
Boelsche Collection, Austin
Brooklyn Museum of Art Library, New York
Comunidad Autonoma de la Region de Murcia (CARM), Spain
DA2 (Domus Artium 2002), Fundacion Salamanca Ciudad de Cultura, Salamanca, Spain
Dieu Donne Papermill, Inc. Archives, New York
El Museo del Barrio, New York (commission)
LibertyHealth Foundation, Jersey City (commission)
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City
Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
Queens Museum of Art, New York
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence
UBS Art Collection
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Winzavod Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow, Russian Federation
Lectures, Panels & Symposiums
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2009
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UBS Art Collection, Washington DC
NACCA (National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies) Conference, New Brunswick, NJ
Louisiana ArtWorks, New Orleans
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2008
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School of Visual Arts, New York
Department of Art, University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)
Louisiana ArtWorks, New Orleans
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2007
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Louisiana ArtWorks, New Orleans
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2003
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CalArts Visiting Artist program, California Institute for the Arts, Valencia
Visiting Lecturer, Escuela de Artes Plasticas, San Juan
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2002
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Department of Art History, Rhode Island School of Design
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2000
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2000 Lehman College, CUNY, Department of Art History, Bronx
Association of Hispanic Artists, Guggenheim Museum, New York
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Discography (collaborative)
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2003
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V-SU and DJ Chucky (CD): Any Number of Notes
Tenet Records, San Juan
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2001
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V-SU, Wilcox & Haynes (CD, edition of 100): Space Station: Dystopia.
Wish Wash Communications, Austin
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2000
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V-SU, Wilcox & Haynes (CD, edition of 30): Mental Blueprints.
Wish Wash Communications, Austin
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1999
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Lefty (CD, LP): Everybody Loves a Hero.
Wish Wash Communications, Austin
V-SU, Wilcox & Haynes (unique CD): Black Holes & Blue Holes.
Wish Wash Communications, Austin
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1998
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V-SU, Wilcox & Haynes (unique cassette): Texas Landscape.
Wish Wash Communications, Austin
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Ongoing
wishwash/vsu
g-module.com
The Flatfiles, Pierogi, Brooklyn
Selected Bibliography
Angeline, John. Ruido, Taller Boricua, New York. Art Nexus. No.32 (May-July 1999). 117, Ill.
-------------------- "The ‘S’/Selected Files, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY” Art Nexus, No. 38. (Nov. 2000-
Jan. 2001):109, 110
Aranda-Alvarado, Rocio. “Vargas-Suarez Universal” Bomb Magazine, No. 90. (Winter 2004/05) No. 90.
p.32-39, Ill.
--------------------“Vargas-Suarez Universal” (exhibition brochure), Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ,
2003
--------------------”Integrating the Museum:Contemporary Latino Art in Context” paper presented at “The
Interpretation and Representation of Latino Cultures: Research and Museums”, Smithsonian Center for
Latino Initiatives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, Nov. 20-23. 2002.
Barragan, Paco, Miguel Angel Muret, Martin Herbert, Javier Panera and the artists. “II Certamen Internacional de
Pintura Expandida Castellon” (exhibition catalogue), Diputacio Provincial de Castello, Castellon, 2007 ISBN:
978-84-96372-32-0. pp. 60-61, Ill.
Bischoff, Dan. “Inner Space: Jersey City Museum Muralist Draws Inspiration from the Heavens Above”
The Star-Ledger, Friday Sept. 19, 2003.
Chambers, Christopher. “A Twentieth Street Odyssey” New York Arts Magazine, Oct.-Nov. , 2002 (web)
Cotter, Holland. “Line”, The New York Times, May 12, 2000. p. E36
--------------------. “Picking Out Distinctive Voices in a Pluralistic Chorus” The New York Times, August
18, 2000. p. E31
--------------------. “Think...123,” Art Guide, The New York Times, Friday, February 2, 2001. p. E38
Cullen, Deborah and Yasmin Ramirez. “Cartographies: Notes from the War Years” and “Curatorial
Statement” in The S-Files (exhibition catalogue), El Museo del barrio, New York, 2000, pp.3,4,6,7,33,36, Ill.
Droitcur, Brian, Jonathan Goodman, Fernando Castro Florez, the artists. “We Are Yor Future_ _ _ Special Project
for the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art” (exhibition catalogue), John Isaacs Books, Art Star Books,
Beijing, People’s Republic of China, 2007 ISBN: 0-9772971-2-8. pp. 83,118-119, 138, 149, Ill.
Fusi, Lorenzo. “Il Palazzo delle Liberta” (exhibition catalogue), Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte
Contemporanea per l’edizione: Gli Ori Prato-Siena, 2003 ISBN: 88-7336-077-7. pp.30, 34,41,54,55,158-161,
258,259292,293, Ill.
Genocchio, Benjamin. “Treasures in the Attic” The New York Times, Sunday Sept. 7, 2003
---------------------------- “A View from Outer Space? No, It’s Just of Jersey City”, The New York Times,
Sunday December 28, 2003.p. NJ9
----------------------------”Bringing the Outdoors Inside and Hanging It on the Walls”, The New York Times, Art
Review, March 20, 2005. p. 17
Goddard, Donald. “Vargas-Suarez Universal” New York Art World Oct. 2002 (web)
Herrera, Adriana. “ Vargas-Suarez Universal: Una Nueva Clase de Arte” Nuevo Herald (Miami, FL), May 14,
2006, P. 8D
Helguera, Pablo. “Vargas-Suarez Universal, Thomas Erben Gallery” ArtNexus, No. 48. (Volume 2 Year
2003): 133, 134, Ill.
Johnson Ken. “Andreij Monastyrskij, Dona Nelson, Vargas-Suarez Universal, Tom Wood” The New York
Times, July 14, 2000. p. E30
Landes, Jennifer. “Scary New World” Eat Hampton Star, Nov. 8, 2007.
La Rocco, Ben. “Out of Bounds”, The Brooklyn Rail, Art, May, 2005.
Levin, Kim. Vargas-Suarez Universal Village Voice. No. 43 Vol. XLVII Oct. 23-29, 2002. p. 99
Lien, Fu Chia-Wen. Poetics of Landscape : Out of Bounds and in Bounds” NY Arts Magazine (n° 7/8 July,
2005)
Molok, Nicolai. 2 moscow biennale of contemporary art special projects” (exhibition catalogue), Moscow
Biennale Art Foundation, Art Chronika, Moscow, Russian Federation, 2007 ISBN 5-902996-04-X. pp. 142-145.
Ill.
Mooney, Christopher. Vargas-Suarez Universal: Next Green Sphere, g-module, Paris” Art Review Issue 18,
(January 2008). p.127, Ill.
Palapa-Quijas, Fabiola. Fusiona artista astronomia e historia del arte para conquistar los muros del Carrillo Gil”
La Jornada, July 12, 2005. Ill.
Panera Cuevas, F. Javier, Paco Barragan and Omar Pascual-Castillo. “Barrocos y Neobarrocos: El Infierno de lo
bello” and “Rizar el Rizo” (exhibition catalogue), Fundacion Salamanca Ciudad de Cultura, Salamanca, 2005
ISBN: 84934558-6-5. pp. 29, 72, 256, Ill.
Pascual-Castillo, Omar. “Fast Four-Footed Animal (Or... some notes and ideas on contemporary art
originating in or circulating about-and for- Mexico)” art.es inernational contemporary art, No. 6-7
(February 2005): p. 35-44, Ill.
Rodriguez, Jorge. “En SunCom Art Nites libros artesanales de Rafael Vargas-Suarez Universal”, El Vocero de
Puerto Rico, Escenarios, October 18, 2007. Ill.
Sirmans, Franklin. The S-Files Time Out New York No. 255 (Aug. 10-17, 2000): 61.
Universal, Vargas-Suarez, Scott Wilcox and Eliot Haynes, Blueprints: Sound Recordings of Experimental
Drawings Leonardo, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA Vol.34 No. 4 (2001) p. 349-352, Ill.
Van de Vel, Matthias. “Vargas-Suarez Universal” (exhibition catalogue), Existentie vzw, Labo 6, Ghent, 2008, pp.
2, 19, 20, Ill.
Velasquez De Leon, Mauricio. #6 Artistas Emergentes En El Bronx El Diario, July 22, 1999. p. 24, Ill.
Weinstein, Joel. “CIRCA 2007 San Juan” ArtNexus, No. 65 (Volume 6 Year 2007): 119
Wilson, Michael. First Take, New Art, New Artists: A Special Report, Michael Wilson on Vargas-Suarez
Universal Artforum International (Jan. 2003) p. 127, ill.
Zeits, Lisa. Vogelhauschen mit Leder und Reissverschluss Frankfurter Allgemeiner Zeitung October 13,
2002 p.41, ill.
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