Curriculum Vitae

Lope Max Díaz P.O. Box 10012, Raleigh, North Carolina 27605; Tel. 919.859.2663 Born San Juan, Puerto Rico 1943 Education MA, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY; 1971 BA, Fine Arts, University of Puerto Rico, PR; 1966 Teaching Associate Professor, Art + Design, College of Design, NC State University, NC Tel. 919.515.6837 Fax 919.515.7330 Email: [email protected] College of Design, North Carolina State University, NC 1988 - present School of Architecture, University of Puerto Rico, PR 1984 - 1988 Department of Fine Arts, University of Puerto Rico, PR 1976 - 1984 Gallery Representation Galeria Botello, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina

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Solo Exhibitions The North Carolina State Bar, Raleigh, North Carolina Galeria Botello, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, North Carolina Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina University of North Carolina, Pembroke, North Carolina Galeria Botello, Plaza Las Americas, San Juan, Puerto Rico Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina Peden Gallery II, Raleigh, North Carolina Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, North Carolina Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, North Carolina Galeria Botello, Plaza Las Americas, San Juan, Puerto Rico Museo de Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico Galeria de Arte, Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR Museo de Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico Centro de Estudiantes, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

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Group Exhibitions The Glen & Florence Hardymon Collection, Center for the Arts’ Dalton Gallery, Rock Hill, South Carolina Muestra Nacional de Arte Puertorriqueño-Año 2001, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico 2001 New Art for the New Century: Painting and Sculpture, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC Artists of Raleigh, Fayetteville Museum of Art, Fayetteville, NC El Arte en Puerto Rico a traves del tiempo, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce, Puerto Rico North Carolina’s 20th Century Masters: A retrospective of North Carolina Art in the 1900’s, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC Galeria Botello’s 20th Anniversary Show, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico Fifty years in the making, NC State University School of Design, Raleigh, NC 100 años despues…100 artistas contemporaneos, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña,San Juan,Puerto Rico Gallery Artists Inaugural Show, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC; “Wet Paint” Group Show, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC Latin American Art in North Carolina, Wilson Arts Council, Wilson, NC; Peden Gallery II, Raleigh, NC Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlotte, NC Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, NC Design Faculty Exhibition, Brooks Hall, School of Design, NCSU Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art Christmas Show, Greensboro, NC. Peden Gallery II, Raleigh, NC 13th Annual Wake County Artists’ Exhibition, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC “Cornrows, Tamales, Tomahawks, Fortune Cookies and White Bread: A celebration of Diversity”, The World Gallery, Asheville, NC “The Continuous Process: The artist as teacher, the teacher as artist”, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC “Puerto Rican Art in the Eighties”, Library of the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, PR Lope Max & Wayne Taylor, Marita Gilliam Art Gallery, Raleigh, NC Museo de Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico Galeria Botello, Plaza Las Americas, Hato Rey, PR “Puerto Rican Painting: Between Past and Present”, Museum of Modern Art of Latin America Organization of American States, Washington DC; The Squibb Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey: El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY Galeria Luiggi Marrozzini, San Juan, PR Salon de Arte Yaucono, Arsenal de la Puntilla, San Juan, PR Primer Congreso de Artitas Abstractos, Arsenal de la Puntilla, San Juan, PR “Arte Actual: Puerto Rico 1983”, Chase Manhattan Bank, Hato Rey, PR FORMA Gallery, Coral Gables, Miami, FL

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Galeria DOS, Cerromar Beach Hotel, Dorado, PR; Pintura Contemporanea Puertorriqueña, Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR. Grafica Latinoamericana, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR FRENTE, Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR Museo de Bellas Artes, San Juan, PR Cuarto Salon de Pintura UNESCO en Puerto Rico, Museo de Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR FRENTE, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, PR Pintura Puertorriqueña de los años Setenta, Museo de Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR Tercer Salon de Pintura UNESCO en Puerto Rico, Museo de Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR Segundo Salon de Pintura UNESCO en Puerto Rico, Museo de Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR Galeria Las Americas, San Juan, PR; II Wiener Graphikbiennale, Viena, Austria. Primer Salon de Pintura UNESCO en Puerto Rico, Museo de Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR III Bienal del Grabado Latinoamericano, San Juan, PR Museo de Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR Exhibicion de arte IBEC, Caguas, PR Galeria Santiago, San Juan, PR Festival de las Artes, Dorado Hilton Hotel, Dorado, PR Festival de Navidad, Ateneo Puertorriqueño, San Juan, PR Prizes Honor Mention, Painting, IV Salon Pintura UNESCO, San Juan, Puerto Rico First Honor Mention, Painting, I Salon Pintura UNESCO, San Juan, Puerto Rico Honor Mention, Print, III Bienal Grabado Latinoamericano, San Juan, Puerto Rico Second Prize, Painting, Certamen IBEC, San Juan, Puerto Rico Second Prize, Painting, Ateneo Puertorriqueño, San Juan, Puerto Rico First Prize, Painting, Certamen IBEC, San Juan, Puerto Rico First Prize , Drawing, Ateneo Puertorriqueño, San Juan, Puerto Rico Second Prize, Aquarelle, Circulo Humanidades, UPR, San Juan, Puerto Rico First Prize, Painting, Circulo Humanidades, UPR, San Juan, Puerto Rico Honor Mention, Aquarelle, Certamen IBEC, San Juan, Puerto Rico Primer Premio, Aquarelle, Ateneo Puertorriqueño, San Juan, Puerto Rico Collections Ateneo Puertorriqueño, San Juan, Puerto Rico Banco de Ponce, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico Bank of America, Charlotte, North Carolina Café Yaucono, San Juan, Puerto Rico Carton de Venezuela, S. A., Caracas, Venezuela College of Design, NC State Universty, Raleigh, North Carolina Compania de Turismo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

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Duke University Fuqua School of Business, Durham, North Carolina El Nuevo Dia, San Juan, Puerto Rico Ernst & Whinney, Hato Rey, Puerto Rico Frist Charter Center, Charlote, North Carolina Glaxo Wellcome, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico Lopito, Ileana & Howie, Inc., San Juan, Puerto Rico Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico Museo de Arte, Ponce, Puerto Rico Museo de Arte, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico Puerto Rican Cement Co. Inc., San Juan, Puerto Rico Thomasville Fibers, High Point, North Carolina Universidad Interamericana, Recinto Metropolitano, San Juan, Puerto Rico Ventura Rodriguez Inc., San Juan, Puerto Rico Bibliography Selected Reviews: Alvarez Lezama, Manuel: Two Unorthodox Artists, THE SAN JUAN STAR, October 29, 1995 Benitez, Marimar: Arte Abstracto y Arte Figurativo; Entrevista a Lope Max Diaz, EL REPORTERO, 17 de septiembre de 1983 Bigner, Melissa: The Creative Force is with them, SOUTHERN LIVING, Vol. 29 #12, December 1994 Bonilla Norat, Felix: The New Generation of Puerto Rican Artists, THE SAN JUAN STAR , September 22, 1974 Cherson, Samuel B.: Lope Max Reta el Sosiego del Cuadrado, EL NUEVO DIA, 12 de abril de 1988

Cockcroft, Eva Sperling: Courbets’s Caribbean Legacy, ART IN AMERICA, September 1988, p. 67-71 Garcia Gutierrez, Enrique: El Cuadrado al Cuadrado de Lope Max Diaz, EL MUNDO, 24 de marzo de 1988 Garcia Gutierrez, Enrique: Lope Max Diaz para Pensar y Disfrutar, EL NUEVO DIA, 5 de noviembre de 1995 Halperen, Max: Just when he thought it was safe to hate abstraction, LEADER MAGAZINE, July 27, 1989

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Halperen, Max: Across the spectrum, THE NEWS & OBSERVER, May 5, 2000 Patterson, Tom: New works show Diaz thinking and painting outside the box, THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, January 26, 1997 Patterson, Tom: Painter Diaz turns conventional framing inside out, THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, July 31, 1994 Patterson, Tom: Pushing the boundaries aside, WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL, August 20, 2000 Perez-Chanis, Efrain: Lope Max y la Magia de su Universo, EL NUEVO DIA, 6 de marzo de 1983 Perez-Ruiz, Jose A.: Exposicion de Lope Max Diaz EL REPORTERO, 22 de febrero de 1983 Rodriguez, Myrna: Up “Frente”, THE SAN JUAN STAR, March 11, 1979 Rodriguez, Myrna: Lope Max: One of the Best, THE SAN JUAN STAR, February 13, 1983 Rodriguez, Myrna: Exploding Colors mark Art Exhibit by Lope Max Diaz, THE SAN JUAN STAR, April 6, 1988 Twardy, Chuck: Beyond the Second Dimension, THE NEWS & OBSERVER, January 29, 1993 Books & Selected Catalogues: Ateneo Puertorriqueño - Coleccion de Arte, Libreria Editorial Ateneo, 1996: p. 56, 93, 102, 220, 221 Cruz Ansata, Ensayos: Dos Pintores Abstractos de PR / Roberto Laureano y Lope Max, Universidad Central de Bayamon, Puerto Rico, 1982: Vol. 5, p. 7-19 Del Rosario, Melon de Diaz, Martinez Masdeu: Breve Enciclopedia de la Cultura Puertorriqueña, Editorial Cordillera, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1976: p. 357 Delgado, Osiris: Artes Plasticas: Historia de la Pintura en Puerto Rico, Ediciones Madrid, 1976: p. 208, 326-327 Hermandad de Artistas Graficos de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico / Arte e Identidad, Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1998: p. 197, 199

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JOURNAL, The North Carolina State Bar, Featured Artist: Lope Max Diaz, Winter 2002, p.48 Leach, Mark Richard: Lope Max Diaz - Art Currents 16, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, 1994 Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Los Tesoros de la Pintura Puertorriqueña, Editorial MAPR, 2000: p. 93, 369 Perez-Lizano, Manuel: Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico 1950-1983, Universidad Central de Bayamon, Puerto Rico, 1985: p. 131-135, 161-165 Pintores Contemporaneos Puertorriqueños, Ediciones Artisticas de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR, 1969: p. 195 Poupeye, Veerle: Caribbean Art, World of Art, Thames and Hudson, New York, NY, 1998: p. 123 Ramirez, Mari Carmen: Puerto Rican Painting Between Past and Present, The Squibb Gallery, Princeton, New Jersey, 1987: p. 39, 43, 44, 47, 110, 111 Sullivan, Edward J.: Latin American Art, Phaidon Press Limited, London, UK, 1996: p. 127 Torres Martino, J.A.: Mirar y Ver, Editorial del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, 2001: p. 259, 267

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