Dale Kaplan

Dale Kaplan (b. 1956) grew up in a rural town near Boston MA, attending public schools, and later studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn NY and Cornell University in Ithaca NY (BFA ‘81). He was awarded the MCC (Massachusetts Cultural Council) Artist’s Grant in 2000, in recognition of artistic excellence in Painting. In the late 1980s he established a studio in Guadalajara and has divided his life and work between Mexico and the U.S. ever since. Exhibiting professionally in both countries, as well as in Canada, his works are in numerous private collections. Also active as an art critic, essayist and translator, since 1999 Kaplan has published original writing in several Spanish-language newspapers, magazines and online sites, and has various book credits as a translator. His texts, photographic essays, and reproductions of his paintings and graphic works, have appeared in numerous publications, as well as on book and CD covers, and his work has been included in historical exhibitions and published anthologies focused on the art produced in the Mexican state of Jalisco. In both imagery and texts, Kaplan’s work takes to heart Noam Chomsky’s definition of the responsibility of the intellectual: “to tell the truth and expose lies.”
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-Pratt Institute, School of Art & Design, Brooklyn, NY
-Cornell University, College of Architecture, Fine Arts
and Planning, Ithaca, NY (BFA 1981)
-courses also taken at: The Art Students League, New York, NY; The New School, New York, NY; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Boston University, Boston, MA and the Cabañas Cultural Institute (Instituto Cultural Cabañas), Guadalajara, Jalisco Mexico


AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

2007 — Invited to participate in exhibition of "2 Public Collections in Jalisco" (the work was considered of sufficient merit to be included in the collections), Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
2002 — Selected for the XXII La Grange National Biennial, La Grange, GA (juror: Benny Andrews)
— Selected for the “Alfredo Zalce” painting biennial in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
2000 — Recipient of MCC Painting Fellowship, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Artist Grants Program
(jurors: Gregory Amenoff, Cheryl Brutvan, Jeff Donaldson, John Moore, Joan Semmel)
— Selected for historical retrospective "Pintura en Jalisco, 1950-2000," organized by the Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Jalisco Mexico
1997 — Awarded cash prize, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA...

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2010 — Espectáculo e insignificancia (Spectacle and Insignificance), ex-Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Jal. MX
2008-09 — Orozco desde el siglo XXI (Orozco [seen] from the 21st Century), Homage to José Clemente Orozco on the occasion of his 125th birth anniversary, Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Jal. MX (catalogue)
2007 — 2 Colecciones públicas en Jalisco. Producción artística siglo XX (2 Public Collections in Jalisco: 20th Century Art Production), Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Jal. MX
2005-6 —“Pieza del mes” (“Piece of the Month”), ex-Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Jal. MX
2004 — (e)VENT: Drawing Project in Response to the Patriot Act, Gallery 535, Boston, MA
2003 — Patio de Santos Difuntos, ex-Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Jal. MX (exhibition travelled through various other cities in Jalisco, through 2004)
— La víbora de la paz, “Artistas contra la guerra” (Artists Against War), ex-Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Jal. MX (exhibition travelled to various other cities in the state of Jalisco)
— Por la humanidad y contra la guerra (For Humanity and Against War), Galería Stoa, Guadalajara, Jal. MX
2002 — Thought Thrown Through Works, café-galería “And...