Celebration #3

ARTIST STATEMENT

Hugo Frones was born in Uruguay in 1950 and immigrated to Canada in 1975. He is a self-taught artist living in Toronto. His work has been shown in Canada and abroad, in Spain, Uruguay, Argentina and San Francisco.

Hugo has been working from the late 1980’s under the influence of abstract expressionism, and despite the complex formal relationships in his work, the overall tone and scale of his paintings are intuitive rather than cerebral and organized. Hugo works with acrylic paint on canvas and is very fond of warm colours, Mediterranean atmosphere, and spontaneous and intuitive brushstrokes of bold paint that gives the work its final touch.


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010	Gallery Can-Marc, Begur, Spain
2009	Almirall Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2008	Museum of Contemporary Art, Montevideo, Uruguay
2006	Jacob Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2005	Almirall Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2002	Museum of Contemporary Art, Montevideo, Uruguay
2001	Westdale Art Gallery, Hamilton, ON
2000	Galeria Can-Marc, Girona, Spain
1999	Teodora Art Gallery, Toronto
1998	Teodora Art Gallery, Toronto, ON
1997	University of Toronto, ON
1994	Gallery Can-Marc, Barcelona, Spain
1991	Art Dialogue Gallery, Toronto, ON
1990	Museum of Contemporary Art, Montevideo, Uruguay
1988	Midway Forum Art Gallery, Toronto, ON


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011	Stephen Lowe Art Gallery, Calgary, AB
2010	Museum of Contemporary Art, Montevideo, Uruguay
2008	Gallery Carme Espinet, Barcelona, Spain Barcelona Art Expo
2007	Zilberschuck Art Gallery, Toronto
2004	Scope Los Angeles (with Toomey Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, CA) Gallery Praxis, Toronto
2000	Gallery A.C.S., Nagoya, Japan
1999	Barcelona Art Expo (Gallery Matisse, Spain) Teodora Gallery, Toronto
1998	Consulate of Portugal, Toronto Latin American Horizons Exhibition at Scarborough City Hall, Toronto
1996	Gallery 133, Toronto
1995	Latin American Artist Network Exhibition, Gallery 306, Toronto Gallery 7, Toronto
1994	Gallery Del Cardal, Montevideo, Uruguay Gallery 133, Toronto
1993	Art Dialogue Gallery, Toronto Gallery Matisse, Barcelona, Spain
1990	Henry Tannas Art Gallery, Mississauga, ON
1988	Canadian-Latin American Cultural House, Toronto
1985	Columbus Centre Art Gallery, Toronto


PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

The Daniel’s Corporation, Acquisition Prize, Toronto
Museum of Contemporary Art, Montevideo, Uruguay
Uruguayan Consulate in Toronto
Donald Trump Building, New York


Hugo Frones lives and works in Toronto, Canada

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