Graciela Hasper

, Graciela Hasper, Untitled, 2020. Paint on wall. 30 X 37 feet. XXI Bienal Internacional De Arte De Santa Cruz De La Sierra, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

Graciela Hasper, Untitled, mural in a private collection in Scottsdale, Arizona.

, Graciela Hasper, Intemperie, 2019. Fundación Banco Santander, Buenos Aires, Argentina. On view until August 2020.

, Graciela Hasper, Intemperie, 2019. Installation view in Collins Park, The Bass Museum, City of Miami Beach.

Graciela Hasper, Untitled, mural at Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino in progress, 2019.

Installation view of Graciela Hasper: Unexpected exhibition, Sicardi Ayers Bacino, 2019.

Graciela Hasper, Untitled, 2019 from Unexpected exhibition at Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino. Acrylic paint, Variable dimensions.

Graciela Hasper, Untitled, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 36 9/16 x 53 1/8 in. (93 x 135 cm.)

Installation view of Graciela Hasper, Untitled, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 39 5/16 x 55 1/16 in. (100 x 140 cm.)

Graciela Hasper, Sin Titulo, [Untitled, study for acrylic painting], 2019. Watercolor on paper, 5 15/16 x 8 15/16 in. (15.2 x 22.8 cm.)

Graciela Hasper, Sin Titulo, [Untitled], 2018. Watercolor on paper, 3 15/16 x 6 1/16 in. (10.1 x 15.5 cm.)

Graciela Hasper, Sin Titulo, [Untitled], 2019. Watercolor on paper, 4 1/4 x 12 3/16 in. (10.8 x 31 cm.)

Graciela Hasper, Untitled, 2013. Watercolor on paper, Watercolor on paper, 10” x 14” / 25.5 x 35.5 cm

Graciela Hasper, Sin Titulo, [Untitled], 2015. Watercolor on paper, 4 1/8 x 5 11/16 in. (10.5 x 14.5 cm.)

Graciela Hasper, Sin Titulo, [Untitled], 2016. Watercolor on paper, 7 13/16 x 9 13/16 in. (20 x 25 cm.)

Graciela Hasper, Sin Titulo, [Untitled], 2018. Watercolor on paper, 7 1/2 x 9 7/16 in. (19.1 x 24.1 cm.)

Graciela Hasper, Sin Titulo, [Untitled], 2019. Watercolor on paper, 9 1/16 x 12 1/8 in. (23 x 30.9 cm.)

Graciela Hasper, Sin Titulo, [Untitled], 2011. Watercolor on paper, 3 15/16 x 6 in. (10 x 15.3 cm.)

Graciela Hasper, Sin Titulo, [Untitled], 2019. Watercolor on paper, 6 x 9 in. (15.3 x 22.9 cm.)

Graciela Hasper, Sin Titulo, [Untitled], 2018. Watercolor on paper, 4 1/16 x 5 15/16 in. (10.3 x 15.1 cm.)

Graciela Hasper, Untitled, 2010. Watercolor on paper, 6 7/8” x 9 3/4” / 17.5 x 24.8 cm

Graciela Hasper, Untitled, 2003. Acrylic on canvas, 47.2 in. x 74.8 in.

Graciela Hasper, Sin Titulo, 2003. Acrylic on canvas, 55.1 in. x 98.4 in.

Marta Chilindron &amp; Graciela Hasper, Dialogues, 2014. Sicardi Gallery installation view.

Graciela Hasper, Sin Titulo, 2014. Acrylic on canvas, 54.92 in x 78.54 in.

Installation view of Marta Chilindron &amp; Graciela Hasper, Dialogues, 2014 at Sicardi Gallery.

Graciela Hasper, Sin Titulo, 2013. Acrylic on canvas, 47 in. x 71 in.

Graciela Hasper, Sin Titulo, 2013. Acrylic on canvas, 53 in. x 77 in.

Installation view of Graciela Hasper, Sicardi Gallery, 2011.

Graciela Hasper, Sin Titulo (Untitled) B, 2011. Acrylic on canvas, 74 25/32 x 114 5/32 in. (190 x 290 cm.)

Installation view of Graciela Hasper: Gramática del Color, Museo del Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 2013-2014.

Biography

GRACIELA HASPER (b. 1966, Argentina)

“Abstraction is like connecting inwards. For me, painting happens with your eyes shut. It is not a representation of the world, it is a representation of ideas.”

During a trip to Europe in 1987, Graciela Hasper realized for the first time that she wanted to make art. She returned to Argentina and began her studies with other artists: between 1987 and 1991, she studied with Diana Aisenberg, while also pursuing independent studies of philosophy and art history. In part because of Argentina's dictatorship, Hasper never attended art school.

In 1993, Hasper participated in an exhibition curated by Jorge Gumier Maier, Nicolás Guagnini, and Pablo Siquier, held at the Centro Cultural Rojas de Buenos Aires. Titled Crimen y Ornamento, the exhibition subsequently was shown in New York, curated by Carlos Basualdo. This was one of the first exhibitions to explicitly link the generation of 1990s artists in Buenos Aires with mid-century abstraction, and the artists included became known as the Rojas group. “In Argentina, abstraction was repressed because it did not ‘explain’ national values. It had no value. So I adopted something that had no value and tried to make it valuable, an act of resistance. My work reflects the way a younger artist can respond to Madí, to the abstraction of the 1940s and 1950s,” Hasper says in a later interview with Lilly Wei.

Since the 1990s, Hasper’s painting aesthetic has been clean and direct, marked by sharp orthogonal lines and bright color. In 2000, she completed her first residency in the United States, at Apex Art in New York with a Fulbright / FNA Grant. In 2002, she participated in the Chinati Foundation residency. Her most recent work has expanded to a larger scale, even encompassing architectural interventions. “I’m trying to expand the boundaries of painting in order to include the body,” she notes. For her 2013 project for the city of Buenos Aires at Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (MAMBA), Nudo de Autopista, Hasper designed a painted mural for 100 columns of several intersecting highways in Buenos Aires. The resulting color scheme marked the different flows of traffic on the streets: “you experience the materiality of the work, and you’re surrounded by it.”

Hasper designed a large-scale mural, her most ambitious work to date, for Miami’s Faena Forum, designed by Rem Koolhaas of OMA. This site-specific wallpaper, Untitled, covers a four-story wall in bright color and geometric pattern. The same year, Hasper created Notas de Luz, a three-dimensional light installation in Buenos Aires, comprised of a screen in the ceiling of a 328-foot high public square. The piece changes with the passing of pedestrians, playing pre-recorded sequences and the music played in the Usina del Arte.

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

2019	Intemperie, Fundación Banco Santander, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2018	Graciela Hasper: Proximities, Dot Fiftyone Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
2014	Trabajo Reciente, Oscar Cruz Gallery, São Paulo, Brasil
2013	Graciela Hasper: Gramática del Color, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (MAMBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
2012	Galería Zavaletalab, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2011	Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
	Galería Sur, Punta del Este, Uruguay
2010	Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2007	Galería Art-Cade, Marseille, France
2006	Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2004	Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2003	Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2002	Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
	Locker Plant, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX, USA

2001	Geografía, Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericano, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2000	Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1999	Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
	Mi Hermano y Yo, Alianza Francesa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1997	Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1995	Es roja, Centro Cultural RicardoRojas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
	Galería Mun, Buenos Aires, Argentina
	Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1992	Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1991	Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1990	Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina