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Education
2012
MFA, Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2007
BA, Painting, Universidad de Puerto Rico
2003
BS, Industrial Chemistry, Universidad de Puerto Rico
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Moving Target, Furnace: Art on Paper Archive, Falls Village, CT
2014
Walter Otero Contemporary Art, San Juan, PR
2012
Guided by Invoices Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2022
As Above, So Below, Hannah Beerman and Rafael Vega, curated by Barry Schwabsky, Arts Center at Duck Creek, East Hampton, NY
2021
[…] Entreformas, curated by Abdiel Segarra, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
Nunca es Suficiente, curated by Radamés Figueroa, km 0.2 Gallery, San Juan, PR
DOCUMENTO, curated by Manuela Paz and Christopher Paz-Rivera, EMBAJADA Gallery, San Juan, PR
2020
36 Paintings, curated by Harper Levine, Harper’s Books Gallery, New York, NY
2018
MECA Art Fair, EMBAJADA Gallery, San Juan, PR
The Divine Joke, curated by Barry Schwabsky, Anita Rogers Gallery, New York, NY
NADA Art Fair, EMBAJADA Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Dennis Hollingsworth, Gary Stephan, Rafael Vega, curated by Peter Hionas, HIONAS Gallery, New York, NY
2015
CUT N’ MIX, curated by Rocío Aranda-Alvarado, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
Re/Post, curated by Ian Cofré, Storefront Ten Eyck, Brooklyn, NY
Linear Abstraction, co-curated by Alexandra Sachs and Aaron Levy Garvey, Gutstein
Gallery-SCAD, Savannah, Georgia
2014
ART LIMA- Feria Internacional de Arte, Walter Otero Contemporary Art, Lima, Perú
2013
PINTA-NY, Walter Otero Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Chaco13: Contemporary Art Fair, Walter Otero Contemporary Art, Chile
Signature Works, Guided by Invoices, NY
2012
De/Re/Un-, No Nation Gallery, Chicago, IL
MFA Thesis Show, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
Clothe Line, LAWN Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011
Experience is Never Unattached, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL.
2010
CIRCA 10 International Art Fair, Centro de Convenciones de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR.
2009
Muestra Nacional de Arte, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, PR.
Bibliography and Publications
2020
Schwabsky, Barry: The Nation What Are Art Galleries For? July 2020
2018
Hamer, Katy: The Brooklyn Rail MECA Art Fair, Old San Juan December, 2018
2016
Hearn, Matthew. Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting. Phaidon Press Limited,London
2015
Jiménez Martinez, Ingrid María: ArtNexus Reviews: Rafael Vega No.96
2013
Wells, Georgina: Modern Painters Reviews in Brief February 2013
2012
Schwabsky, Barry: Arte al Dia Rafael Vega: Beyond Literalism No. 141
http://www.artealdia.com/International/Contents/Artists/Rafael_Vega_Beyond_Literalism
Smith, Roberta: The New York Times Chelsea Art Galleries Struggle to Restore and Reopen November 4, 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/arts/design/chelsea-art-galleries-struggle-to-restoreand-reopen.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
New American Paintings, No. 99, MFA Annual
2011
Ostoff, Nicholas: F Newsmagazine Artists 1, Curators 0 September 2011
Public Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), Detroit, Michigan
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan, Puerto Rico