Orlando Vallejo
Born on November 20, 1955 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, but since 1960 resides in the city of Caguas, being declared adopted son of the city through a proclamation signed by Mayor Hon. William Miranda Marin in the year 2007. His training It includes art studies at the School of Plastic Arts of Puerto Rico, University of Turabo, University of Puerto Rico, Bayamon campuses and Rio Piedras.
He has participated in the Biennial of Santo Domingo, RD (1996) and the Biennale in Florence, Italy (2005). He participated as an artist in residence at the Foundation Altos de Chavon in La Romana, RD (1997). He was invited to give a lecture illustrated his work at the College Autonoma de Diego Quispe Tito Fine Arts in Cusco, Peru (2002). In 2009 he commissioned a portrait of Don Eugenio Maria de Hostos for collection Hall Libertadores and Social Heroes Latin America and Caribbean at Casa Antonio Jose de Sucre in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. During the years 2013 to 2015 he served as Artist in Residence at the University of Turabo. His work is in major public and private collections in and outside Puerto Rico.
SOME OF His Art
flores para carmen
Medium: Oil Canvas
Size: 72 x 36
Year: 2015
suena el reclamo
Medium: Oil Canvas
Size: 24 x 20
Year: 2015
segundas flores
Medium: Oil Canvas
Size: 72 x 36
Year: 2015
causa ignorada de un efecto desconocido
Medium: Oil Canvas
Size: 72 x 48
Year: 2015
Art
Selected solo exhibitions:
- 2015 From the center south, Trinity Gallery, Ponce, P.R
- 2015 In the nature of painting, Museum and Center for Humanistic Studies DJCDLN, Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, P.R
- 2013 Time convergences, A.Cueto Gallery, Caparra Heights, P.R
- 2010 At the least, A.Cueto Gallery, Caparra Heights, P.R. Free Consciences
- 2009 Museum of Contemporary Art in Caguas, P.R
- 2009 Confrontation, A.Cueto Gallery, Caparra Heights, P.R. Urban Nature
- 2007 Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, Rockefeller Center, New York
- 2007 veredes Verdes, A.Cueto Gallery, Caparra Heights, P.R
- 2005 urban Wraith, House Rector, Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, P.R
- 2005 Recent Paintings, Works Gallery, Old San Juan, P.R
- 2004 urban Wraith, Museum of the Americas, Old San Juan, P.R
- 2003 Recent Paintings, Prinardi Galleries, Hato Rey, P.R
- 2002 Galleries Prinardi, Hato Rey, P.R. Caribbean Emotions
- 2002 Autonomous School of Fine Arts Diego Quispe Tito, Cusco Peru
- 2001 Environments, Prinardi Galleries, Hato Rey, P.R
- 2000 Perceptions, Prinardi Galleries, Hato Rey, P.R
- 1999 Museum of Contemporary Art in Caguas, P.R
- 1998 Exhibition Hall, Old Dominican Convent, Old San Juan, P.R
- 1997 Gallery Foundation Altos de Chavon, La Romana, RD
- 1996 Casa de Bastidas, Santo Domingo, RD
Selected collective exhibitions:
- 2014 Pentatonic Expressions Museum of Art and History Franceschini Filardi Cecilia Catala, Yauco, P.R.
- 2013 Passions Regional Museum and DJCDN Humanistic Studies Center, University of Turabo, Gurabo, P.R.
- 2013 Pentatonic Expressions Museum Proceres, Cabo Rojo, P.R. 2012 OLYMPIC brushstrokes, Museo de Arte de Ponce.
- 2005 V Biennial of Contemporary Art in Florence, Italy
- 2002 Latin American ties, Chamber of Commerce, Old San Juan, P.R. 2002 Time Art, Cusco, Peru.
- 2002 Fraternite Caraibéene au Festival Couleurs, Du Musée National D'Haiti 2001 Pantheon Landscape from within, galleries Prinardi, Hato Rey, P.R.
- 1999 Passage round trip, Room Julia de Burgos, Taller Boricua, Manhattan, N.Y.
- 1996 Third Painting Biennial of the Caribbean and Central America, Santo Domingo, RD
public and private collections:
- Art News
- Arte Al Día Internacional
- Art Nexus
- Art New York
- Artes Santo Domingo
- Arte Latinoamericano
- El Nuevo Día
- El Vocero
- The San Juan Star
- Hoy
- El Sol del Cusco
- The Economist
publications:
- Museum of Art of Puerto Rico, San Juan, P.R.
- Museum of Art of Ponce, P.R.
- Museum of Contemporary Art in Caguas, P.R.
- Turabo University, Gurabo, P.R.
- Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, San Juan, P.R.
- Cooperativa de Seguros Multiples of Puerto Rico
- General Accident Insurance, London, England
- Santurce Medical Mall, Santurce, P.R.
- Popular Bank of Puerto Rico, Manhattan, N.Y.
- Ritz Carlton Hotel, Carolina, P.R.
- Superior School of Fine Arts Diego Quispe Tito, Cusco, Peru
- Foundation Altos de Chavon, La Romana, RD
- Casa de Bastidas, Santo Domingo, RD
- Candido Bido Museum Foundation, Bonao, R. D.