Birth of a superhero Painting

Arturo Correa was born on June 18, 1967, in Valencia, Venezuela, where he graduated from high school. He moved to the United States in 1989 and began his career as a visual artist. In 1996 Correa graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Central Florida at Orlando. He subsequently relocated to New York City and earned a Master of Arts degree with a major in Painting at New York University. Correa's first exhibition was held in 1995 in Valencia. He produced his artwork in both the US and Venezuela. Since then, Correa has held over 40 individual and collective exhibitions. His works have been featured in solo exhibitions held at museums, galleries and other institutions such as the 80 Washington Square Gallery and the Rosenberg Gallery in New York City, the Art Space Virginia Miller Galleries in Miami, the Maracaibo Center of Fine Arts, the Barquisimeto Museum and Juan Carmona Foundation in the State of Lara, Venezuela, the Elvira Neri Art Gallery in Caracas and, in Valencia, at the Braulio Salazar University Gallery, the Eladio Alemán Sucre Culture Center and the Museum of Drawing and Illustration. In 2009 Arturo Correa organized a highly successful exhibition entitled "Paisajes de la Nostalgia" (Landscapes of Nostalgia), supervised by curator Bélgica Rodríguez, at the Ascaso Art Gallery in Caracas.