Augusto Arbizo is a visual artist, gallerist, and art curator. Arbizo lives and works in New York City

New York City

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. Arbizo studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and graduated from The Cooper Union

Cooper Union

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly referred to simply as Cooper Union, is a privately funded college in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States, located at Cooper Square and Astor Place...

 School of Art, NY, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in painting; he earned a Masters of Fine Arts degree from The University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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. His paintings move between abstraction and representation, presenting simple organic shapes in graphic and often chromatically vivid compositions. His solo exhibitions include White Columns, NY; Envoy, NY; Sandra Gering Gallery, NY; Michael Steinberg Fine Art, NY; and Roebling Hall Gallery, NY. Group exhibitions include PS1/MoMA, NY; Artists Space, NY; and The Queens Museum of Art, NY. As a curator, he has organized exhibitions for Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, NY, White Columns, NY, and John Connelly Presents, NY among others. He is the director of Eleven Rivington, NY (2007–present).

External links

• Roebling Hall Exhibition http://www.roeblinghall.com/shows.php?show=2006-09-07-rorschachs
• Augusto Arbizo Website Official Website
• John Connelly Presents http://www.johnconnellypresents.com/exhibition/view/952
• New York Sun Review: Late Liberties http://www.wendywhite.net/2007_NYSun.htm
• Eleven Rivington Gallery http://www.elevenrivington.com/
• NY Times Review: Women's Work http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE1DD1130F934A35757C0A9609C8B63
• NY Times Review: Bellwether http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E3D6103FF937A25751C1A9679C8B63
• New Art Dealers Alliance
  New Art Dealers Alliance
  The New Art Dealers Alliance is a not-for-profit arts organization founded in 2002 that supports collaboration and the exchange of information between its members. Membership extends to invited galleries, curators and gallery directors...
  
  http://www.newartdealers.org/