STRONG-CUEVAS
BIOGRAPHY
Strong-Cuevas's work explores inner consciousness, outer space and communication through space and time. In the words of distinguished art critic Donald Kuspit, "Strong-Cuevas's sculpture is rooted in primitive art, with its bold structures, expressive directness, communal symbolism, and conviction of cosmic absolutes. It is also rooted in Cubism, with its awareness of the dialectical ambiguity of appearances, perhaps most evident in Picasso's use of frontal and profile views of the face in a single image, at once integrating them yet allowing them their difference. Primordial expression and sophisticated perception are the alpha and omega of modern art."
Born in Paris, Strong-Cuevas lived and worked in New York from the 1960s until her death in 2023. She studied under John Hovannes at the Art Students League of New York and worked on projects with Toto Meylan. Her work has been exhibited in dozens of solo and group exhibitions and is represented in the collections of the Bruce Museum (Greenwich, Connecticut), Heckscher Museum (Huntington, New York), Guild Hall Museum (East Hampton, New York), Grounds for Sculpture (Hamilton, New Jersey) and the Smithsonian-affiliated Long Island Museum (Stony Brook, New York). Her ten-foot bronze, Arch III, was chosen in 2014 by the New York City Parks Department to be exhibited in Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza across from the United Nations.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018-2020 Leonard Tourné Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Elga Wimmer, New York, NY
2016 Leonard Tourné Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Leonard Tourné Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Modernism with Island Weiss Gallery, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
2008 Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Island Weiss Gallery, Spirals and Profiles, New York, NY
2006 Island Weiss Gallery, Thought Travels, New York, NY
2006 Vassar College, Palmer Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
2005-2006 Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
2004-2005 Island Weiss Gallery, New York
1999 Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
1988 Kerr Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
1985 Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, NY
1985 Iolas-Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Iolas-Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
1980 Tower Gallery, Southampton, NY
1978 Lee Ault & Company, New York, NY
1977 Lee Ault & Company, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018-2022 Leonard Tourné Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Studio D, Milan, Italy
2018 Leonard Tourné Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Leonard Tourné Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Leonard Tourné Gallery, New York, NY
2012 Art Wynwood, Black & White Gallery, The Art Miami Pavilion, Wynwood, Miami, FL
2009 Works on Paper with Island Weiss Gallery, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
2008 Art 20 with Island Weiss Gallery, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
2007-2008 Island Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, West Palm Beach, FL
2005-2006 Alain Ducasse at the Essex House, Printemps; Variations; Multiples, New York, NY
2005 UBS Bank Gallery, Guild Hall Selection, New York, NY
2003 Kouros Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Clark Fine Art, Southampton, NY
2003 The Ross School, East Hampton, NY
2002 Grounds for Sculpture, 10th Anniversary Exhibition Hamilton, NJ
2001 Clark Fine Art, Strong-Cuevas: Faces East/West and Larry Rivers: Now & Then Southampton, NY
2001 Russian American Cultural Center, Dumbo Double Deuce Brooklyn, NY
2000 Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
2000 Bulgari, Madison Avenue Where Fashion Meets Art, New York, NY
1999 Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1998 Earl McGrath Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Guild Hall Museum, Seen and Scene East Hampton, NY
1997 Barnard-Biderman Fine Art, Southampton, NY
1997-1998 The Tolman Collection, Singapore
1995-1998 Shidoni, Tessuque, NM
1994-1996 onwards Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
1994 Parrish Museum, Mirrors Southampton, NY
1994 Marisa del Re, Biennale IV, Monte Carlo (Courtesy E.B. Fine Art)
1993 Marisa del Re, Biennale III, Monte Carlo (Courtesy E.B. Fine Art)
1991 Kšln Art Fair, Portico, Köln, Germany
1990 Feingarten Galleries, The Art Show New York
1990 Benton Gallery, Three Generations Southampton, NY
1989 Kšln Art Fair, Portico, Köln, Germany
1989 Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1988 Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1987 Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1987 Benton Gallery, Southampton, NY
1986 Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1986 Susan Blanchard Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
1985 Kouros Gallery, Ridgefield, CT
1985 Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
1984 Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
1984 Tower Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Guild Hall Museum, Selections from the Permanent Collection, East Hampton, NY
1982 Art Students' League, Women in the Making of Art History, New York, NY
1980 Guild Hall Museum, Portraits Real and Imagined, East Hampton, NY
1979 The Country Gallery, New York, NY
SELECT MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
SELECT PRESS
Strong-Cuevas and Christophe von Hohenberg: Channeling the Unseen World, L’Oeil de la Photographie, July 2020
"Rockefeller sales total $835.1 million - highest auction total in history," Christie's, December 12, 2018
"Both Ends of a Sculpture Spectrum," The New York Times, January 19, 2014
"Sculptural Dialectic," Review by Donald Kuspit, 2003
"Contemporary Sculpture in a Jungle Setting," Review by Linda Yablonsky, 2002
"Doubleness in the Sculpture of Strong-Cuevas," Review by Donald Kuspit,1999
The New York Times, Review by Vivien Raynor, July 2, 1995
"The Dichotomy of the Profile," Review by Christopher French, 1991
The New York Times, Review by Phyllis Braff, September 10, 1989
The New York Times, Review by David L. Shirey, April 19, 1985
"Ancient Visions Through Modern Eyes," Review by Dorothy Kosinski, 1984
The New York Times, Review by Grace Glueck, April 15, 1979
The New York Times, Review by John Russell, June 3, 1977