Emilio Rodríguez Larraín

Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary is pleased to present Emilio Rodríguez-Larraín: Ancestral Landscapes, a highly anticipated exhibition that marks the artist's posthumous return to New York City after nearly 60 years. The exhibit showcases a selection of rare works from the 1960s with accompanying archival documents and texts by esteemed scholar, Michele Greet at our online Study Room.

Emilio Rodríguez-Larraín (1928-2015) is widely regarded as one of the most important Peruvian artists of his generation. A Peruvian-born visual artist trained as an architect, Rodríguez-Larraín spent nearly half of his life abroad between France, Spain, Italy, and the USA. Over the course of an illustrious career spanning seven decades, he exhibited hundreds of times and received numerous prestigious awards, including the William and Noma Copley Grant (1965), the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1976), and the DAAD Artist-in-Residence Program Grant (1985). Today, his work can be found in major art institutions worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Musée de la Ville de Paris, Paris, and the Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo; and in important private and corporate art collections, such as JPMorgan Chase, Northern Trust Bank, and NBC. As a testament to his significance, in 1991, he was selected to participate in the group show Man Ray and his Friends, exhibiting alongside Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and Salvador Dali, among other prominent 20th-century artists. Due to his prolific and multifaceted practice encompassing painting, sculpture, installation art, and land art, he was chosen to represent Peru in three editions of the Venice Biennale (1960, 1964, 1972), was honored with the Premio Tecnoquímica, Peru's highest honor for a visual artist (2006), and received national recognition with three retrospectives (2002, 2007, 2016).

Building on the renewed interest sparked by the exhibition Antes de America at La Fundacion March in Madrid (October 6th, 2023-March 10th, 2024), Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary aims to highlight the work of this historically significant Peruvian artist whose global importance merits renewed consideration.