Joel Casique

Joel Gerardo Casique (born 1958 in San Cristóbal, Venezuela; died 17 December 2010 in Caracas) was an artist who formed the Escuela Cristóbal Rojas de Caracas. He obtained an art degree at the Art Students League of New York. He has exhibited his work in galleries and museums in Venezuela, the United States, and Aruba; he has also participated in national and international fairs, including the sixteenth and seventeenth Ferias Iberoamericanas de Arte (FIA) in Caracas; the 2007 Latin American Art Fair in Miami; and the 2006 Feria Internacional de Arte de Bogotá (ARTBO) in Bogotá, Colombia.

On December 17, 2010, he was killed in his apartment in Caracas.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions 2008:Galería Ideobox, Miami 2003: Galería 39, Caracas, 2006; 2003: Access Art Gallery, Oranjestad, Aruba 2000: Graphic Gallery, Caracas 1997: New York Film Academy, Nueva York 1995: Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, Estados Unidos

Collective exhibitions 2007: Utopías, Galería 39, Caracas 2005: Intervención Urbana “Velada Santa Lucía”, Maracaibo, Venezuela 2005: V Bienal de Escultura, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Francisco Narváez, Porlamar, Nueva Esparta, Venezuela 2004: “Mutaciones en el Espacio”, Museo Miranda, Los Teques, Miranda, Venezuela 2004: “Una Mirada al Lago”, Museo Lía Bermúdez, Maracaibo, Venezuela 2003: Arte venezolano del siglo XX. La megaexposición, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas 2001: IV Bienal del Barro de América, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas 1999: LVII Salón de Artes Visuales Arturo Michelena, Ateneo de Valencia, Venezuela 1998: XXIII Salón Nacional de Aragua (Invitado), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Maracay, Venezuela, 1998: II Bienal del Paisaje, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Maracay, Venezuela 1997: V Bienal de Arte de Guayana donde obtiene el Primer Premio, Museo Jesús Soto, Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela 1996: Sculpture Center, Nueva York 1995: Premio Amster Prescott, en The National Arts Club, Nueva York 1993: National Art Club, Nueva York

National and international fairs

XVI y XVII Feria Iberoamericana de Arte. FIA, Caracas, 2007–2008; ArteAmericas - Latin American Art Fair, Miami, 2007; Feria Internacional de Arte de Bogotá ARTBO, Bogotá, 2006.