INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2024

Into the light, Proxyco Gallery, New York, USA

2023

Los Nocturnos, Diablo Rosso, Panamá

Murciélagos, Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, New York, USA

2020

Figures of clay and lime cover all evil, Fundación Guillermo Trujillo, Panamá

2019

An invasion in 4 times, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Panamá

Exploraciones, Mateo Sariel, Panamá

2017

Plein Air, Fundación Guillermo Trujillo, Panamá

2016

Irga Tara, Mateo Sariel, Panamá

2014

Recent work, Mateo Sariel, Panamá

2013

Metates, Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, New York, USA

2011-12

Primordial: Paintings and Sculpture by Isabel De Obaldia, Museum of Art/ Fort Lauderdale, USA

2010

Communion with Beasts, Galería Mateo Sariel, Panama

2009

Rakow Commission, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning New York, USA

2008

Unearthed, Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, New York, USA

2007

Prehistórica, Galería Mateo Sariel, Panama

2004

New work, Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, New York

2003

Transfiguraciones, Museo de Arte en Vidrio de Alcorcón, Madrid, Spain

Fragmentos de Guerreros, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Panamá

2001

Torsos, Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, New York, U.S.A.

1999

Captive Spirits, Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, New York, USA

1998

Elite Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA

1997

Beasts and Men, Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art, New York,USA

Obras Recientes, oleos y dibujos, Galería Arteconsult, Panamá

1996

Elite Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA

1995

Centro Wilfredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba

1994

Los Conjuros del Silencio, Galería Museum, Panamá

1993

Vidrios, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Panamá

1990

Los Veedores, Galería Arteconsult, Panamá

Iconografia de una larga pesadilla, Galería Habitante, Panamá

1989

ManiObras, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Panamá

1986

Marina y los amigos de Selba, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Panamá

1985

Galeria Arteconsult, Panamá

1981

Drawings, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Panamá

1980

Galeria Arteconsult, Panamá

1978

Galería El Sotano de Panarte, Panamá

1977

Galería Etcetera, Panamá

SELECTED INTERNATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Traces: On the Body and on the Land, Panama Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia

MUSA, Museo de Arte de Medellín, Colombia

Snowbirds, kdr305, Miami, FL USA

2022

Is it morning for you yet? 58th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh,PA, USA

1997-2021

The ADAA Art Show, New York, USA (Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art)

2002-2019

Art Basel /Miami, USA (Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art)

2018

Sympathetic magic, Westbeth Gallery, NYC, USA

2015

International Glass Symposium, Novy Bor, Czech Republic

2013

Wheaton Glass: The Art of the Fellowship, Museum of American Glass, Millville,NJ, USA
Perceptive Strokes: Women Artists of Panama, IDB Cultural Center, Washington,DC, USA

2012

Body Double: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, Frederik Meijer Park, Grand rapids, MI, USA

2008

Reconsidering Color: Postmodern Classical II, New York, U.S.A.

2006

Fellows, Creative Glass Center of America,Wheaton Arts, NJ, USA

2004

A Woman’s Touch, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA, USA

2003

VIII International Glass Symposium, Crystalex, Novy Bor, Czech Republic

Contemporary Art from Panama, Maison de l’Amerique Latine de Monaco

In-Tangible, Museo de arte y Diseño, San Jose, Costa Rica

2002

Galeria Lucia de la Puente, Lima, Peru

Contemporary Art from Central American Isthmus, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, China

XII Muestra de Pintura y Escultura Latinoamericana, Galeria Espacios, San Salvador

Huldufolk, Pilchuck , WA, USA

From Stone to Foam, Nohra Haime Gallery, NYC, USA Art Istmo, San Jose, Costa Rica

Art Istmo, Museo de Arte y Diseño, San José, CostaRica

1997-2002

Art Miami, (Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art)

2001

A Glass Odyssey, Art on the Cutting Edge, Salem Art Association, Salem, Oregon

Panamá Contemporáneo: 15 Artistas Panameños, Casa America, Madrid, España

2000

Panamá Contemporáneo: 15 Artistas Panameños, Instituto Italo- Latinoamericano, Roma, Italia

Muestra de Pintura y Escultura Latinoamericana, Galeria Espacio, El Salvador

1999

Holding Light: Contemporary Glass Sculpture, Austin Museum of Art, Texas, U.S.A.

FIAC, Paris, France (Mary-Anne Martin/Fine Art)

Engraved Glass- International Contemporary Artists, Glass Art Gallery, London, England

Glass Arte Society International Expo 2, Tampa, FL, USA

Mujeres en las Artes, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

1998

Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cumaná, Venezuela

Primera Bienal de Pintura del Istmo Centroamericano

Cross Currents, Contemporary Painting from Panama, 1968-1998, Americas Society, New York / Bass Museum, Miami, Florida, USA

1997

I Bienal Iberoamericana de Lima, Perú

V Salón de dibujo de Santo Domingo, República Dominicana

Arte Panameño Hoy II, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile

1996

1st International Symposium of Engraved Glass, Kamenicky Senov, Czech Republic

Venezia Aperto Vetro, Venice, Italy

III Bienal del Caribe y Centroamérica, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Contemporary Art of Panama, Casa de América, Madrid, Spain

Woman's View: Equality, Development and Peace, World Bank, Washington D.C.

1994

World Glass Now '94, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan

1993

Bardibukk Glass Symposium, Kaposvar, Hungary

Paintings of the Caribbean and Central America, Museum of the Arts of the Americas, Washington D.C.

7 Artistas Panameños, Museum of Modern Art, Dominican Republic

1992

Imagen y Ritual, 4 Pintores Panameños, Galería Metropolitana, Quito, Ecuador

I Feria Iberoamericana de Arte, Caracas, Venezuela

I Bienal del Caribe y Centroamérica, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

1991

IV International Glass Symposium, Crystalex, Novy Bor, Czech Republic

X Bienal de Valparaíso, Chile

Davidson Gallery, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

Opus Gallery , Miami, Florida, U.S.A.

Nueva Pintura Bolivariana, Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia

La Generación Emergente, Nagoya, Japan

1989

The Drawing Center, New York City, N.Y., U.S.A.

Galería Juan de Juanes, Alicante, España

1987

I Bienal Internacional de Pintura Contémporanea, Cuenca, Ecuador

1986

II Bienal de la Habana, Cuba

1985

Nohra Haime Gallery, New York City, U.S.A.

1983

VI Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano, Puerto Rico

1978

I Bienal Italo Latinoamericana, Roma. Italia

RISD 1976

EDUCATION

1975          

Faculty of Architecture, University of Panama

1976          

Drawing Atelier, École des Beaux Arts, Paris, France

1976-1979         

Rhode Island School of Design, BFA Graphic Design and Film, Providence, RI, USA

1987-2005

Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA, USA

summer workshops throughout most of those years

2006

Fellowship at Creative Glass Center of America, Millville, NJ, USA

TORSO MARINO 2010

entered the collection at the Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA in 2024

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA

Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, Czech Republic

Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA

Museum of American Glass, Millville, NJ, USA

Museo de Arte en Vidrio de Alcorcon, Spain

Museo de Arte Latino Americano, Long Beach, CA, USA

Museum of Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA

Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama, Panama

Museum of Glass, Kamenicky Šenov, Czech Republic

Rippl-Ronai, Kaposvar, Hungary

Lemberk Castle, Novy Bor, Czech Republic