Joan Miro
Biography
Born in 1893, Joan Miro was a famous, Spanish Catalan artist. The son of a watchmaker and a goldsmith, he was exposed to the arts at a young age. Some of his artwork stems back to 1901, when he was only 8 years old.
Following a serious battle with Typhoid in 1911, he focused his life on art, abandoning his work as a clerk and education at business school. He was influenced by the Fauves and Cubists early on, fully developing own unique approach to artmaking in in 1924.
Miro experimented often in various art forms – he is known for his ability to showcase his distinct style regardless of the medium he’s working in. He was a major contributor to the surrealism movement.
The artist died at age 90 on December 25, 1983 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Today, his works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, a museum dedicated to the artist and his legacy.
Born: 1893
Died: 1983
Education: School of Industrial and Fine Arts (the Llotja) in Barcelona.
Exhibitions
Select Exhibitions
2022
Joan Miró and Japan, BUNKAMURA MUSEUM SHIBUYA-KU | TOKYO | JAPAN
2021
Joan Miró: Signos e Figurações, SERRALVES MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART PORTO | PORTUGAL
2015
Joan Miró: Instinct & Imagination, DENVER ART MUSEUM SUN VALLEY | DENVER | COLORADO | USA
2014
Joan Miró: Women, Birds, Stars, SAKIP SABANCI MUSEUM EMIRGAN | ISTANBUL | TURKEY
2013
Midnight Party – Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Modern Print Masters Stock – The Watermill, Aberfeldy, Perthshire (Scotland)
Artistic Relationships: Partners, Mentors, Lovers – Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, NC
Société Anonyme: Modernism for America – Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2012
Joan Miro – Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC
Galerie Boisserée Joan Miró – Graphische Werke, Mischtechniken und bibliophile Bücher aus fünf Jahrzehnten – Galerie Boisserée, Cologne Send message
2011
Joan Mirò – Galleria Bellinzona, Milan
Miró – Tate Modern, London (England)
Joan Miró – EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo
2010
Miró: The Dutch Interiors – The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
Joan Miró – Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster, Münster
2009
Joan Miro – Il Colore Dei Sogni – Galleria Guastalla Centro Arte, Livorno
2008
The Hands of Art, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
2007
Le Corps et son double, Galerie Jeanne-Bucher, Paris, France
2006
Tapestries, Bass Muesum of Art, Miami, FL
2005
Picasso to Plensa: A Century of Art in Spain, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
2004
VIDEO ROSSO, Galleria Edieuropa, Rome, Italy
2003
Collagen, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
2002
Passioni D’Art, Museo d’Arte Moderna, Lugano, Switzerland
2001
Kunst aus Spanien, Galerie Ruf, Munich, Germany
2000
Master – Prints, Fischer Kunsthandel & Edition, Berlin, Germany
1983
Joan Miró: A Ninetieth-Birthday Tribute, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1983
Joan Miró: anys 20. Mutació de la realitat, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
1978
Retrospective exhibition at the Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Spain
1976
Official opening of the Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
1969
Miró otro, College of Architects, Barcelona, Spain
1967
Ceramic mural installation, produced in collaboration with Josep Llorens Artigas, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1966
Retrospective exhibition at the National Museum of Art, Tokyo and in Kyoto, Japan
1964–1965
Retrospective at the Tate Gallery in London, UK and at Kunsthaus de Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
1962
Retrospective exhibition at the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
1957
Retrospective of the graphic works at the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum of Krefeld. Exhibition presented in Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Hanovre and Hamburg, Germany
1956
Retrospective, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1948
First solo exhibition at the Galerie Maeght, Paris, France
1941
First large retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1932
First one-man show at the Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, NY
1930
First one-man show in the United States, at the Valentine Gallery, New York, NY
1925
First solo exhibition at the Galerie Pierre, Paris, France
1921
First solo exhibition at the Galerie La Licorne, Paris, France