1911 | born in Santiago de Chile |
1933-35 | Studied architecture in the studio of Le Corbusier in Paris |
1938 | First exhibition at the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme in Paris |
1939-45 | Stay in the USA |
1941 | Stay in Mexico |
1950-54 | alternating stays in Rome and Paris |
1981 | Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Manhattan |
2002 | died in Civitavecchia, Italy |
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| Exhibitions (selection) |
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1938 | Participation in the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme in France, Paris |
1940 | Exhibition in New York, Galerie Julien Levy |
1959 | Participation in documenta II, Germany, Kassel |
1964 | Participation in documenta III, Germany, Kassel |
1977 | Participation in documenta 6, Germany, Kassel |
2002 | Roberto Matta - Le Grand Burundun, Switzerland, Geneva, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain |
2002 | Matta in America |
2002 | Municipal Gallery in the Park Viersen |
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| posthumously |
2003 | Exposicion de Roberto Matta - Coleccin Santa Cruz - Yaconi, Chile, Santiago, Museo de Artes Visuales |
2003 | Matta 1938-1971. La grande avventura dell'uomo che amava l proibito, Italy, Bologna, Galleria de' Foscherari |
2004 | Matta |
2004 | Matta - Début d'un nouveau monde, France, Paris, Maligue |
2004 | Roberto Matta, USA, Washington D.C., Art Museum of the Americas |
2007 | Gravures - Roberto Matta, Switzerland, Zurich, Galerie Renée Ziegler |
2012/13 | Matta. Fictions, Germany, Hamburg, Bucerius Kunst Forum, subsequently at the Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden |