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Rita Coll was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She lives and works in Miami, Florida.

 

Education

University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR. B.A. in Education and Fine Arts.
Instituto Valencia d’Arte, Valencia, Spain.
Jewelry Art Institute, New York, N.Y. Degree in Design and Technique  

 

One-Person Shows and Group Shows

2011

ARTE AMERICAS, Miami Beach, Fl.
MIA ART FAIR, Miami Beach, Fl.
ART PALM BEACH, West Palm Beach, Fl.
CREMATA GALLERY, Miami, Fl.

2010 ART BEIJING, Beijing, China
OBRA GALLERY, San Juan, Puerto Rico
CIRCA ART FAIR, San Juan, Puerto Rico
GUTIERREZ FINE ARTS. “Figuration vs. Abstraction” November 2009- December 2010
2009 KEY BISCAYNE PUBLIC LIBRARY, Key Biscayne, Fl.
ZEN VILLAGE, Coconut Grove, Fl.
2006 LOWE ART MUSEUM, Annual Beaux Art Festival. Coral Gables, Fl.
2005 PUERTO RICO FILM FESTIVAL. Tower Theater, Miami. Fl.
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL MASTERS ART SHOW, Miami, Fl.
2004 GALLERY VINCENT. “Nautically Yours”. Coconut Grove, Fl.
1992-2004 Designed and exhibited Hand-Made Art To Wear.

 

 

Bibliography

  1. “For the Love of Latin Art Comes Arte Americas”
    Miami Herald, March 23, 2011. Page H-3 Visual Arts Section. Miami, Fl
    Rita Coll’s “Splendid Coral Fans” illustrated in cover page
  2. “Rita Coll’s Splendid Coral Fans”
    ArtDistricts Florida, February to March 2011 Edition. Page 55
  3. “CIRCA, Puerto Rico Art Fair”
    El Nuevo Dia, January 28, 2010. San Juan, P.R.
  4. “Figuration vs. Abstraction”
    The Islander News, November 25, 2009. Page 14. Key Biscayne, Fl.
  5. “Art and Nature Workshop Coming up at Key Biscayne Library”, Interactive exhibit
    The Islander News, October 29, 2009. Key Biscayne, Fl.
  6. “Rita Coll’s Art Embraces Colorful Images of her Homeland”
    Islander News, September 1, 2005. Key Biscayne, Fl.
  7. “Metal y Piedras-Joyeria de Rita Coll”
    El Nuevo Herald –Galeria , Noviembre 29, 1989. San Juan P.R.
  8. “Ïntroducing Rita Coll’s Jewelry- Art to Wear represented by Fragments”
    Women’s Wear Daily, Fall Issue, 1988. New York, N.Y.
  9. “Presentando a Rita Coll Art-to-Wear en Reinhold Jewelers”
    El Nuevo Dia-Por Dentro-Galeria, Marzo 12, 1988, San Juan, P.R.
  10. “Obras con Vida y con Pasado”
    El Nuevo Dia-Galeria-Joyeria, Marzo 8, 1988. San Juan, P.R.
    Rita Coll’s jewelry pieces illustrated.
  11. “Ediciones Limitadas de Joyeria por Rita Coll”
    Revista Imagen-Puerto Rico Hoy, Febrero 15, 1987. San Juan, P.R.
    Rita Coll’s jewelry pieces illustrated.
  12. Rita Coll’s paintings are represented in several private collections in Puerto Rico, Florida,
    New York, California and Beijing, China

 

Rita Coll works in series that concentrate in the different geographical sites where she has had personal living experiences. Thus her work is also in a way an invigorating autobiographical account. Her most recent interest though has extended to celestial bodies and phenomena. She has also immersed herself into the study of crystals and semiprecious rocks and its holistic properties resulting in a serie of interactive installations titled Krystallos.


Working in a borderline between expressionist abstraction and realism, Rita Coll reinterprets her memories of existing or imaginary places. Her mysterious renderings of landscapes and waterscapes entice the beholder to discover myriad of details that are revealed when exploring her paintings. Through infinite layers of pigments autumn landscapes, evocative Caribbean oceans, wild rivers, rain forests and now planets and wormholes are exposed in bold brushworks. Her profound love for all natural things takes her to even use natural pigments and solvents as tools for her trade. She sees her work as archival, the visual documentation of Nature before its eventual destruction by human intervention.


Viewing Rita Coll’s paintings and installations means entering into a never-ending exciting adventure of discovery.

 

Marta Gutierrez
Curator