b. Havana, Cuba, 1960
duCret School of the Arts 1978-81
Rutgers University, Newark 1981-86
Performance / Theatre Works*
Fandango!* w / Jim Fletcher, MoCA, Miami 2008
Rafael Sánchez + Rafael Sánchez w / Rafael Sánchez, Gershwin Hotel NYC 2007
TABLE project w / Kathleen White, Gene Frankel Theatre NYC 2006
The Three Voices* Performa, Participant Inc NYC 2005
REVOLVER* Participant Inc, NYC 2004
Subdivisions for Miss Gowanus* Red Dive, Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn 2003
Les Fleurs des Vents* Fruit Farm Film Festival, McMinnville OR 2002 Market Theater, Cambridge 2001 Gershwin Hotel NYC 2001
Dark Pearl* Armada Festival, Nijmegen, NL 2000
The Libation Bearers* Thread Waxing Space NYC 1999
Dream On, Jackie 60 NYC 1997
Water Boy, Chasing The Apron, Jackie 60 NYC 1997
Feed the Birds, Extrapol, Nijmegen NL 1996
Interlude, a garden in Brooklyn 1996
Rising for the Moon, Jackie 60, NYC 1996
A Goat’s Song* X-Teresa, Mexico City 1995
Boog-a-loo* Rushmore Festival, Orange County NY 1994
Bedtimestory, Rushmore Festival, Orange County NY 1993
Acting
BOAT, Magnus, Miller & Truman ; Theater at St. Mark’s, NYC 2010
People Without History, NYC Players; Chapter, Cardiff / Project Arts Center, Dublin 2010, NYC Players; The Performing Garage, NYC, 2009
Crime or Emergency, Sybil Kempson / Mike Iveson; PS 122, NYC 2009
Filmography
Lonesome Dove, 2.5 min. video w / Kathleen White 2008
Rough Boy, 5min. video with R. D. Realmuto, 2008
REVOLVER, 30min. performance video edit: Laura Parnes 2005
Rooftop Balloon Inflation – Filming Experiment Event w / Glen Fogel, duration variable, film & video 2003
Lazy, 7min. video, music: 2003
Wuthering Heights, 15min. super 8mm to video edit: Yael Bitton 1999
Stormtrooper in Stilettos, 10min. video, music 1998
Little Prayers, 15min. super 8mm to video edit: Claire Barnier, 1995
EXHIBITIONS
Balloons Umbrellas Turntables, Participant Inc NYC 2004
Puff, Z Deli NYC 1997
Unfinished Masterpiece, Barneys Windows, NY 1997
Sugar Paintings, Hoboken Dental Specialties, Hoboken 1995
Teatro de la Cabeza, Foundation Elba, Nijmegen, NL 1993
Rafael Sánchez, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City 1991
Unfinished Masterpiece, D’ Clic Arts Club, Paris 1989
Black White Paintings, etc., Finck Residence NYC 1987
Rafael Sánchez, Hallwalls, Buffalo 1987
Look Don’t Touch, Aljira Arts Inc., Newark 1985
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Aljira @ 30, State Museum of New Jersey, Trenton NJ 2014
Not Over, Visual AIDS / LaMaMa Galleria NYC 2013
Millennium Magazines, Museum of Modern Art NYC 2012
Strange Birds, Center for Book Arts NYC 2012
The (S) Files, El Museo del Barrio NYC 2011
Double-Bill, Art in General NYC 2010
Mold, Rotterdam, 2009 / Istanbul, 2007 / Ghent 2008
Unsteady, Studio 1.1, London 2006
This Hard, Gem-like Flame, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas 2005
The Record Show, Exit Art NYC 2001
The Pineal Body w / Gail Thacker at Jenny Moore NYC 2001
Fashioned, White Box Gallery NYC; 1998 / Philadelphia 1998
Alternatives, Hallwalls, Buffalo 1995
Mob @ Speedway, Speedway Gallery, Boston 1993
The Naming of the Colors, White Columns NYC 1993
Dress Codes, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston 1993
Mob @ 620 Pavonia, Ave. C6, Jersey City 1992
Selections by Carl Hazlewood, Artists’ Space NYC 1990
Mob @ 3 Boys from Italy, Pizzeria, Jersey City 1989
On Paper / Of Paper, Aljira Arts Inc., Newark 1984
Awards, Residencies
Braziers Artists Workshop, UK 2004
Creative Capital Foundation 2002
Braziers Artists Workshop, UK 1999
New Jersey State Council on the Arts 1992
Usine Ephemere, Paris 1989
Projects / Collaborations with Kathleen White
alLuPiNiT (the new york city environ mental magazine) co-editor w/ Rafael Sánchez, vol.1: Luther Price, Winter 2008; vol. 2: Rats !!!, Fall 2008; vol. 3: TABBOO!, Winter, 2009 -10; vol. 5: Hunter Reynolds / Survival AIDS, Spring 2011
Dolmen Award for Outstanding Achievement in Art & Citizenry 2011, Ms. Bette Midler; 2012, 2013 Dr. Steve Cannon
TABLE 2004, ongoing >
Somewhat Portable Dolmen 2007, ongoing >
REVOLVER, Participant Inc, 2004
The Three Voices, Participant Inc / Performa 2005
(A) Rake’s Progress, Momenta Art, 2014
Sounds Texts, Momenta Art, 2014
Bibliography
B O D Y, Fletcher, Jim, (interview) Rafael Sánchez, “Balloons Talk” bodyliterature.com (2004) pub. July 1, 2014
McKenzie, Philip, FutureMark / “Transcendent Ideas of the Near Future” interview, Influencer Conference, New York, NY, 2013
ferran el otro, Pipa, “If The Medium is The Message, What Happens When the Medium(s) Disapear(s)?” is. # 1, Barcelona, 2012
Sur Rodney Sur, (interview) Rafael Sánchez Visual Aids Web Gallery, “The Architecture of Loss / Mark Morrisroe 1959-1989”. April, 2011
Goldberg, Roselee, PERFORMA, New Visual Art Performance, Rafael Sánchez / The Three Voices, pg. 65, Performa NY / Art Publishers, 2007
Smith, Roberta, The New York Times, “Rafael Sánchez: Balloons Umbrellas Turntables” October 1, 2004
Smith Regina, Review: Latin American Literature and Arts, “Squaring the Circle: The Invocations of Rafael Sánhez” is. no. 62, Spring 2001
Jackson, Susan, Time Out New York, “Sheer Art Attack” is. no. 172, January 7-14, 1999
Adams, Brooks, The Print Collector’s News Letter, “ New Humanist Photography” Vol. XXVII #2, 1996
Kenny, Kay, The Jersey Journal, “Art Makes the Medicine Go Down Easier”, April 7, 1995
Sánchez, Rafael, “Panorama with Hood Ornament” Boston School, exhibition catalogue, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Lia Gangitano editor, 1995
Arning, Bill, The Naming of the Colors, exhibition catalogue, White Columns, Kirby Gookin co-editor, 1993
Zimmer, William, The New York Times, “Painting with Peanut Butter and Jelly”, December 29, 1991
Talks
On Untitled, 1985 by Mark Morrisroe, 99 Objects / Whitney Museum of American Art, 2015
Mark Morrisroe’s Letters and Drawings, Fales Library NYU, 2011