Selected permanent collections:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York; Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Denver Art Museum, Colorado; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France; Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia; National Museum of Modern Art , Kyoto, Japan; Musée Bellerive, Zurich; Museo del Instituto de Arte Contemporaneo, Lima, Peru; De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California; Museo Cantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland: Renwick Gallery, National Gallery of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Selected one-person exhibitions:
National Museum, Lima, Peru (Tiempos y Tierra); Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana; Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico (Olga de Amaral. Woven Gold); Museo de Arte Moderno Bogotá, Colombia; Fresno Art Museum, California (9 Stelae and other Landscapes); Textilmuseum Max Berk. Heidelberg, Germany; Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C. ; Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio (Retrospective); Musèe de la Tapisserie Contemporaine, Angers, France; Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC (Olga de Amaral: Seven Stelae).
Selected group exhibitions:
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela (Barro de América); Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois (Focus on Fiber: Selections from the Growing 20th Century Collection); Lausanne, Switzerland (International Biennials of Tapestry); Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (Wall Hangings, curated by Mildred Constantine and Jack Lenor Larsen); University of California Art Gallery, Los Angeles (Deliberate Entanglements, traveling exhibition); Textile Museum, Washington, DC (Interlacing: The Elemental Fabric, curated by Mildred Constantine and Jack Lenor Larsen, traveling exhibition); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York (Modern Design: 1890-1990); Milan, Italy (Triennial Exhibition of Decorative Arts and Modern Architecture).
Education:
Studied architecture and design at the Collegio Mayor de Cundinamarca in Bogotá, Colombia and textiles and design at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Awards: Fellowship: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; Visionaries! Award, Museum of Arts and Design.
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