Born 1957 in Caracas, Venezuela
Living and working in Venezuela and EEUU
Education
1983/87 Armando Reverón Art School, Barcelona, Venezuela
1985/87 Carving works, Pedro Barreto’s sculpture workshop, Lecherías, Anzoátegui, Venezuela
1992/93 Cultural Management in Arts at Fundación Polar, Caracas, Venezuela
1993 Stage work at Teatro Teresa Carreno Caracas, Venezuela
2000 Cité Des Arts, Artist’s Studio, Paris, France
Individual Exhibitions
2017 Sydia Reyes Obras recientes Galeria Ascaso Caracas
2013 “Fuga II” Artnouveau Gallery Miami FL. EEUU
2007 “Hostia Urbana” (Urban Host) Communion Wafer) Hardcore Art Contemporary, Miami FL EEUU
2007 “Recent Works” Moka Gallery, Chicago IL EEUU
2006 “Recent Works” Moka Gallery, Chicago IL EEUU
2003 “Recent Works” Durban Segnini Gallery, Miami, Florida
2000 “Dos Mensajes” (Two Messages) International Site for the Arts, Paris, France
1999 “Fugas” (Fugues) Fundación Provincial, Caracas, Venezuela
1999 “Dos Mensajes” (Two Messages) Melina Merkouri Cultural Center, Athens, Greece
1999 “Man & Man” Aldo Castillo’s Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, EEUU
1999 “Consecuencias” (Consequences) Sala Contraloría General de la Republica, Caracas, Venezuela
1998 “Series Urbanas” (Urban Series) FIAC, Caracas, Venezuela
1997 “Segmentos” (Segments) Jardines Universidad Simón Bolívar, Valle Sartenejas, Venezuela
1997 “Descarriados”DERAILED (Led Astray) Galeria Icono, Caracas, Venezuela
1996 “Refugios” (Refuges) Centro Cultural Lía Bermúdez, Maracaibo, Venezuela
1995 ”Refugios” (Refuges) Museo de Arte Moderno Juan Astorga Anta, Mérida, Venezuela
1995 “Refugios” (Refuges) Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Sofia Imber de Caracas, Venezuela
1995 “Reflexión Urbana” (Urban reflection) Sala de Arte de Sidor, Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela
1991 “Realidad Aparte” (Apart Reality) Galería Astrid Paredes. Caracas, Venezuela
Collective Exhibitions
2019 “For Now” Colectiva Coral Gables Museum FL.
2019 Colectiva Galeria Ascaso Caracas Venezuela.
2019 “Herbario de las Miradas” Centro Cultural Universidad Catolica Andres Bello
2018 Colectiva, CG Art Ascanio y Adriana Meneses, Coral Gables
2018 “Pixeles” Imago Mundi Space Coral Gables FL.
2017 Colecctiva Beatriz Gil Gallery
2017 Colectiva Galeria Ascanio Caracas, Venezuela
2017 “City ReMix” Concrete Apace Gallery Doral FL.
2017 "El Pasado y el presente en el futuro" Centro Cultural BOD Caracas Venezuela
2016 “Maestros Contemporaneos” Galeria Freite Caracas, Venezuela
2014 Geometría en el Espacio (Geometry in Space), Centro de Artes Integradas.
2013 Southern Panama Biennial, Arte Público (Public Art), Panama
2012 “Narrativas Tridimensionales” (Tridimensional Narratives) Galería CAF, Caracas
2012 “Esculturas Escultores” (Sculptures Sculptors) Galeria Ascaso, Caracas
2012 VII Salón Arte y Ciencia (7th Art and Science Salon) Universidad Metropolitana Caracas
2011 Arte America Miami FL; Galeria Kavachnina Miami FL
2010 Sculpt Miami Florida, Miami FL. Galeria Kavashnina
2010 Miami Beach Biennial of Sculpture. Downtown Miami FL
2009 Salón Arte y Ciencia, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Sartenejas, Venezuela
2009 I Salón Bienal de Arte “Miguel Otero Silva” Galería Arte Ascaso, Caracas
2009 FIA de Caracas (International Art Fair) 2009, Caracas, Venezuela
2009 Escultores (Sculptors), Galería Durban Segnini, Caracas, Venezuela
2009 ArteAhora, River East Art Center, Chicago IL USA
2008 Special guest, Cairo 11th International Biennial, 2008/09, Cairo, Egypt
2008 MoLAA Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach CA, USA
2008 “Arte-AHORA” River East Art Center Chicago IL USA
2008 Arteamerica, Miami FL USA
2008 The National Museum of Catholic Art and History, New York, NY
2007 Pinta Art Fair New York, New York USA
2007 SOFA Chicago IL USA
2007 “Nature of Art” Lubeznik Center Of Arts, Michigan City USA
2007 “FIAC” Caracas Venezuela
2007 “MoLAA Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach CA USA
2007 ”Portraits of a Culture” Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City USA
2007 “Arteamerica” Convention Center, Miami FL, USA
2006 “Y fueron felices para siempre…” (And they lived happily ever after…) Hardcore Art Contemporary Space, Miami
2006 “SOFA Chicago 2006, Navy Pier, Chicago IL USA
2006 “MoLAA Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach CA USA
2006 “EPHEMERAL/TRENDS LATIN AMERICAN CONTEMPORARY ART” “Arteamerica”, Miami
2006 “Eclectic” Moka Gallery Chicago IL USA
2005 “Samples & Dishes” Hardcore Art Contemporary Miami, FL. USA
2005 “Trends” Miami Dade, Florida USA
2005 “Looking Back…” Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL USA
2005 “Occurrences Artists Crossroads” 50 Artists in Artists Month, Chicago
2005 “five x five...+ one” Function + Art, Chicago IL USA
2005 Collective, Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago IL USA
2005 SEA Collective Show, Sarasota, Florida USA
2004 “Art Connect” Friends of the Chicago River, Down Town Chicago IL USA
2004 “Implicit Plasticity” Betty Rymer Gallery, The Art Institute of Chicago IL USA
2004 “War” Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago IL USA
2004 Video-Art Digital “Diaspora” Chicago Latino Film Festival, Chicago IL USA
2004 Artist’s Month Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL USA
2003 Special guest “9th Cairo International Biennial” Cairo, Egypt.
2003 Artists Month, Chicago Culture Center, Open Studios, Chicago IL USA
2003 “Volumina” Venezuelan Art Center, New York, USA
2003 Arteamerica Coconut Grove Convention Center, Miami, Florida USA
2003 The Chicago Solution Show Gallery on Lake, Chicago IL USA
2002 The Gardens at the Metropolitan University, sculptures, Caracas Venezuela.
2001 “Convergences” The Mexican Cultural and Educational Institute of Chicago, IL
2001 “Pier Walk” Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
2001 ”11 looks toward the new millennium” Columbia University, New York NY USA
2000 Collective of Sculpture, Hannover, Germany
1999 ”Tres decadas de la Escultura en Venezuela” (Three decades of sculpture in Venezuela) Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Caracas
1999 International Art Fair of Caracas (FIAC), Caracas, Venezuela TC “1999 International Art Fair (IAF), Caracas, Venezuela”
1999 Culture Global Center, Museum of Modern Art, Toluca, México
1999 Meeting of International Artists, Quebec, Canada 1998
1999 “Aguacero” (Downpour) Grupo Ly Art Center, Caracas, Venezuela
1998 7th International Biennial of Cairo, Egypt
1998 Salón Aragua,Aragua´s Room Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela
1998 International Meeting of Wood Sculpture, Lyon, France
1998 “Bienal Barro de América” (America’s Mud Biennial) Centro de Arte Lía Bermúdez, Maracaibo, Venezuela
1998 Snow Sculpture Exhibition, Quebec, Canada
1997 Special guest, Primera Bienal de Artes de Mercosur, (First Mercosur Art Biennial) Porto Alegre, Brazil
1997 IV Bienal Nacional de Arte de Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela.
1997 “Daily Petroleum” International Arts Fair (IAF), Caracas, Venezuela
1997 XX Salon de Aragua, Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela
1997 ”Caballo de Troya” (Trojan Horse), Museo Jacobo Borges, Caracas, Venezuela
1996 Salón Aragua, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Maracay Mario Abreu, Aragua, Venezuela
1995 “Bienal de Barro de America”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofía Imber, Caracas,Venezuela
1994 III Bienal de Arte Colombo Venezolano (3rd Colombian-Venezuelan Art Biennial), Mérida, Venezuela
1992 Trienal de Escultura Internacional (International Art Triennial), Osaka, Japan
1991 Salón Arte y Ciudad, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
1989 I Bienal Nacional de Arte, Museo Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Awards
2018 AICA Capitulo Venezuela.
2015 Prize China Fuzhou International Sculpture Exhibition (Public Art), Fuzhou, China.
2013 Acknowledgment Sociedad Civil “Hijos del Parnaso” Sculpture prize, Caracas, Venezuela
2013 Major Roxana Mendez of Panama’s Acknowledgment, Panamá City
2008 Chicago City Acknowledgment by Chicago’s Major, Richard Daley, EEUU
1998 UNESCO and AICA Award, 7th International Art Biennial, Cairo, Egypt
1998 First Prize, Wood Sculpture Symposium, Saint Pierre D´Chartruese, France
1997 First Prize National Sculpture Biennial, Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela
1996 First Prize for Sculpture, Salón Aragua, Venezuela
1994 Grand Prix III Bienal de Arte Colombo-Venezolano, Mérida Venezuela
1993 First Prize, National Art Biennial, Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela
1992 Special Prize International Sculpture Triennial, Osaka, Japan
1991 First Prize, Salón “Arte y Ciudad”, MAO, Ministerio de Cultura, Caracas, Venezuela
1991 Universidad de Carabobo Prize, Salón Arturo Michelena, Valencia, Venezuela
Institutional Collections
Cinta Costera III, Maracaná Stadium, Panama City
Centro Médico de Caracas
Banco Central de Venezuela
Fundación Polar, Venezuela
SIDOR, Venezuela
Rio de Janeiro Avenue, Las Mercedes, Caracas
Liga Venezolana de Beisbol Profesional
Patrimony Cinta Costera I, Panama
Historical Patrimony, Sabana Grande Boulevard, Caracas
Centro de Arte La Estancia PDVSA
Consejo Nacional de la Cultura (CONAC)
Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
Liberty Mutual Seguros Caracas, Valencia
Fundación SIVENSA Caracas, Venezuela
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofía Imber, Venezuela
Sidetur, Barquisimeto, Lara, Venezuela
Osaka Museum of Modern Art, Japan
Sivensa, Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela
Universidad Simón Bolívar, Sartenejas, Venezuela
Banco Mercantil, Venezuela
Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF), Venezuela
Fundación Cultural Chacao, Venezuela
Banco Unión
Fundarte, Barrio Marín, Caracas, Venezuela
Green Bay, Sketch for The Forest III, Wisconsin USA
Ministerio de Cultura, Caracas, Venezuela
Ateneo de Valencia, Venezuela
Museo Juan Astorga Anta, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mérida, Venezuela
Galería de Arte Nacional (GAN), Caracas, Venezuela
Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela
Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela
Culture House, St. Pierre Chartreuse, France
Universidad Metropolitana, Caracas, Venezuela
HIDROCAPITAL, Caracas, Venezuela
River East Art Center, Chicago IL USA
Fundación Provincial, Caracas, Venezuela
Village of Lincolnwood, Skokie, Illinois, USA
Urban-Scale Works
2014 Cinta Costera III, Panama: “Multiversos III”
2014 Caracas-La Guaira Highway: “Testigos” (Witnesses) 2014
2014 Rio de Janiero Avenue, Las Mercedes, Caracas: “Multiversos” 2013
2013 Cinta Costera, Panama: “Boceto para un bosque” (Sketch for a Forest) 2013
2011 Sabana Grande Boulevard, Caracas, Venezuela
2009 Centro Cultural la Estancia PDVSA, Caracas
2009 Los Palos Grandes, Caracas: “En doblez” (Folding), Caracas
2005 “Looking Back…” Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL USA
2005 “Sketch for a Forest III,” Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
2004 “Art Connect” Friends of the Chicago River, Downtown Chicago, IL USA
2001 Sculptures in the gardens, Universidad Metropolitana, Caracas Venezuela.
2001 “Sketch for a Forest I,” Lincolnwood City, Skokie, IL USA
2001 “Pier Walk,” Navy Pier Chicago IL USA
1999 XXVII Snow Sculpture Exhibition, Quebec, Canada
1998 Sculpture, Los Caobos Park, Alcaldía de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela
1998 Sculpture, HIDROCAPITAL, Caracas, Venezuela
1998 International Wood Sculpture Symposium, Lyon, France
1998 XXVI Snow Sculpture Exhibition, Quebec, Canada
1997 V Guiana National Art Biennial, Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela
1997 I International Biennial, Objectual Imagery of the City, Mercosur, Porto Alegre, Brazil
1997/98 Sculptures, Project, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela
1995 Sculpture, Paseo Rio Manzanares, Cumaná, Venezuela
1995 International Wood Sculpture Symposium, Rosario, Argentina
1995 SIDOR, Estética del Hierro (Iron Aesthetics), Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela
1994 Sculpture/Sanctuary/Cross, Barrio Marín Community, Caracas, Venezuela
1994 SIVENSA, Barquisimeto, Lara, Venezuela
1994 SIVENSA, Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela
Videos
2006 “Happily Ever After…” Hardcore Art Contemporary, Miami FL USA
2004 “Diaspora” Chicago Latino Film Festival, Chicago, IL USA
2001 “Prosthesis” Chicago Latino Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois USA
1998 Film and Video Festival, Trieste, Italia
1998 Video-sculpture, 7th International Biennial, Cairo, Egypt
1997 Special guest, Film and Video, Havana, Cuba
1997 Video, Urban Intervention, Porto Alegre, Brazil
1997 Video-sculpture, Salón Arte Aragua, Maracay, Venezuela
1995 Video-Installation, Sofia Imber Museum of Contemporary Art, Venezuela
1993 Video-Installation, Salón Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela
1991 Video-Installation, Astrid Paredes Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
1991 Video-sculpture Baghdad, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas,Venezuela
Instructional Experience
1990 Sculpture classes, Armando Reveron School of Plastic Arts, Barcelona
1990 Sculpture workshops (CONAC), Caracas, Venezuela
1991/92 Sculpture workshops (CONAC) Centro Cultural Sanare, Lara, Venezuela
1993 Recreative Art Workshop for Children, Banco Orinoco, Puerto Ordaz Venezuela
1994 Creativity Workshops for workers of Sivensa, Barquisimeto, Lara Venezuela
1994 Community Art Workshops and realization of Sanctuary Sculpture, Barrio Marin, Caracas, Venezuela
1994 Large-scale Sculpture Workshop, SIDETUR, Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela
1995 Art Workshop for Street Children, City Hall’s Cultural House, Caracas, Venezuela
1995 Art and Creativity Workshops for Children, Porto Alegre, Brazil
1994/96 Art Workshops, Juan Astorga Anta Museum of Modern Art, Mérida, Venezuela
1996 Readings and workshops, Universidad Simon Bolivar, School of Architecture, Caracas, Venezuela
2005/06 Art Workshops for Children, Bollingbrook, IL
2010 - present
2010 - present