EDUCATION
1950
Graduated from Medellin University
1952
Studied, San Fernando Academy and the Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain
1953–1955
Studied fresco techniques and art history, Florence, Italy
EXHIBITIONS
2012–2013
Museo Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
2012
Una celebración, Palacio Bellas Artes de México, Mexico
2012
Hommage zum 80. Geburtstag, Botero – Gemälde, Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany
2010
Art is deformation, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY (solo)
Inaurgural Exhibition: Fernando Botero, David Benrimon Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Latinas!, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
2009
Gary Nader Fine Art, Coral Gables, FL
Fernando Botero: The Circus. James Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
El Dolor de Colombia, Pinacoteca Diego Rivero, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
2008
The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE
2007–2008
Botero: Oeuvres récentes, Marlborough Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco (solo)
2007
Fernando Botero: Abu Ghraib, University of California, Berkeley, CA (solo)
The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Canada (solo)
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE (solo)
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA (solo)
Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Latin Masters, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, NY
Fernando Botero, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany (solo)
2007
Malerei und Skulptur, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany
2006
Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Group Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Fernando Botero, Athens Concert Hall, Greece (solo)
Fernando Botero: Abu Ghraib, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2005
Landscape, Cityscape, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Palazzo Venezia, Rome, Italy
2004
The Art Museum, Singapore
2003
The Doge’s Palace and other locations, Venice, Italy
The Gemeente Museum, Aja
The Maillol Museum, Paris, France
2002
Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2001
Moderna Musset, Stockholm, Sweden
2000
The Museum of Antioquìa, Medellìn, Colombia
1998–1999
San Paolo Museum of Art, San Paolo, Brazil
The National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Monterey Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterey, CA
The Art Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
1997
The Modern Art Museum of Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland
The National Musuum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile
1996
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
The Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC
Niigata Prefectoral Modern Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, South Korea
The Sofia Imber Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas, Venezuela
1994–1995
Museo of Art, Takamatsu City, Japan
Shinjuku Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki, Japan
1994
Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
The National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Paseo de Recolet, Madrid, Spain
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Paseo de Recoletes, Madrid, Spain
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
1992–1993
Montecarlo Kunsthaus, Vienna, Austria
Champs-Elysées, Paris, France
The Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
1991
Exhibition Palace, Rome, Italy
1989
The Coro Museum of the Arts, Coro, Venezuela
The Contemporary Museum of Art, Caracas, Venezuela
The Rufino Tamayo Museum, Oaxaca, Mexico
1987
The Queen Sofia Center for the Arts, Madrid, Spain
1986
The Contemporary Art Museum, Caracas, Venezuela
Municipal Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Museum of Art, Albany, NY
1985
The National Museum, Bogota, Colombia
The Ponce Museum, Puerto Rico
1984
The Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
The Everhard Museum, Scranton, PA
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1983
The Veranneman Foundation, Belgium
1981
The Civic Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1979
The d’Ixelles Museum, Brussels, Belgium
The Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
The South Texas Museum of Art, Corpus Christi, TX
1978
Sculpture Museum of the city of Marl, Marl, Germany
1977
The Medellìn Museum of Art, Medellìn, Colombia
1976
The Museum of Comtemporary Art, Caracas, Venezuela
1975
The Boymans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1972
Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Buchholz, Munich, Germany
Claude Bernard, Paris, France
1970
Fernando Botero: Bilder 1962-1969, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany; Traveled to: Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany; Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany; Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany; and Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, Germany
Botero, Galerie Buchholz, Munich, Germany
Fernando Botero, Hanover Gallery, London, UK
1969
Fernando Botero, Center for Inter-American Relations, New York, NY
Botero: Peintures, pastels, fusains, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France
1969
Inflated Images, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1968
Botero, Galería Juana Mordó, Madrid, Spain
Botero, Galerie Buchholz, Munich, Germany
1966
Fernando Botero, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany; Traveled to: Galerie Buchholz, Munich, Germany, Galerie Brusberg, Hanover, Germany
Fernando Botero: Recent Works, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI
1965
Botero: Recent Works, Zora Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1964
Cordoba Bienale, Argentina
Fernando Botero: Bosquejos realidades, Galería Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
Fernando Botero: Obras recientes, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
1962
7 Contemporary Painters, Museum of Modern Art, Bogota
Botero, Gres Gallery, Chicago, IL
Botero, The Contemporaries, New York, NY
1961
Botero, Galería de Arte El Callejón, Bogotá, Colombia
1960
Botero, Gres Gallery, Washington, DC
1959
Botero: Obras recientes, Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia, Sala Gregorio Vásquez, Bogotá, Colombia
1958
Fernando Botero: Oleos, Galería Antonio Souza, Mexico D.F., Mexico
Fernando Botero: Recent Oils, Watercolors, Drawings, Gres Gallery, Washington, DC
1957
Pan American Union, Washington, DC
1955
Biblioteca Nacional, Bogota, Colombia
1951
Leo Matiz Gallery, Bogota, Colombia
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, Korea
Staatgalerie Moderne Kunst, Munich, Germany
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Japan
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany
Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Museo Nacional, Bogota, Colombia
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Museum of Art, The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Museum Moderne Kunst, Vienna, Austria
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Niigata Prefectoral Modern Art Museum, Niigata, Japan
Ponce Museum of Art, Ponce, Puerto Rico
Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
M.H.K. Foundation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Miyagi Museum of Art, Japan
Museo d’Arte Moderna del Vaticano, Rome, Italy
Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas, Venezuela
Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Colombia
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Gelerie-Verein, Munich, Germany
The Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University Art Collection, New York
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Ho-am Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Germany
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Texas
Astrup Museum, Oslo, Norway
Ateneumin Taidemuseo, Helsinki, Finland
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Collezione d’Arte Religiosa Moderna, Monumenti, Musei e Gallerie Pontificie, Vatican City, Italy
Coleccion Fernando Botero, Fundacion Santander Central Hispano, Medellin, Colombia
Donacion Fernando Botero, Coleccion Banco de la Republica, Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas
Fondation Veranneman, Kruishoutem, Belgium