Roberto Juarez (b. 1952, Chicago, Illinois, US) lives and works in New York City, US. After his studies at the San Francisco Art Institute and UCLA, he moved to New York, where he was one of the protagonists of the East Village art scene in the 80s.
His works have been exhibited in private and public American institutions such as Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (2018); National Academy Museum, New York (2015); Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City (2004); Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (2003); American Academy of Art and Letters, New York (2002), Austin Museum of Art (2002), Albuquerque Museum (2002); Center for Fine Arts, Miami (1995), Peggy Guggenheim, Venice (1993); El Museo del Barrio (1988); Whitney Museum of Art, New York (1987); Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York (1986); The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1984) and San Francisco Art Institute (1977). Roberto Juarez has been elected member of the National Academy of Arts NY and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Amongst the other awards, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship in New York (2001) and the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome (1997).
His site-specific public commissions are visible at Miami Airport, Grand Terminal Central Station in New York City and Brooklyn. Juarez’s works are held in numerous prominent public collections: Brooklyn Museum of Art, Denver Art Museum, El Museo del Barrio, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, MET Museum NYC, Miami Art Museum, and many others.
