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GUILLERMO
CUELLAR WAS BORN IN MARACAIBO, VENEZUELA, ON THE 24TH OF DECEMBER,
1951. HE STUDIED CERAMICS AT CORNELL COLLEGE, MT. VERNON, IA., GRADUATING
IN 1976. IN 1986 HE SET UP HIS CURRENT STUDIO IN THE VILLAGE OF
TURGUA, IN THE HILLS AN HOUR SE OF CARACAS.
IN 1981 HE MET WARREN MACKENZIE, WHO
WAS TEACHING IN CARACAS, AND WITH WHOM HE HAS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY
OF SHARING WORKSHOP EXPERIENCE AND AN ENDURING FRIENDSHIP. HE HAS
ALSO BEEN INVOLVED AS ASSISTANT IN WORKSHOPS SPONSORED BY THE VENEZUELAN
ASSOCIATION OF THE ARTS OF FIRE TAUGHT BY WARREN, RANDY JOHNSTON,
CLARY ILLIAN, LINDA CHRISTIANSON AND DAVID LEACH.
HIS WORK HAS BEEN ON DISPLAY IN THE
VENEZUELAN NATIONAL ART GALLERY, THE MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO
DE CARACAS SOFIA IMBER, THE MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORANEO DE PUERTO
RICO, THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, THE NORTHERN CLAY CENTER IN MINNESOTA,
AND PRIVATE GALLERIES IN THE UNITED STATES, ENGLAND, VENEZUELA AND
CHILE.
IN 1992 HE WAS A FOUNDER OF THE TURGUA
GROUP, A NON PROFIT ASSOCIATION OF CRAFTSPEOPLE DEDICATED TO THE
SUPPORT AND APPRECIATION OF GOOD HAND MADE OBJECTS. SINCE 1992 HE
HAS HOSTED OVER TWENTYTWO GROUP SALES OFFERING POTTERY, JEWELRY,
PHOTOGRAPHY, WOODWORK, DRAWING, WEAVING, VENEZUELAN NATIVE HAND
WORK AND OTHER CREATIVE HAND WORK.
WHEN HE IS NOT MAKING POTS GUILLERMO
LEADS SOUTH AMERICAN WILDERNESS TRIPS, AND GROWS ORGANIC COFFEE
IN TURGUA.
GUILLERMO LIVES IN CARACAS WITH HIS
WIFE LAURIE AND CHILDREN CARLOS AND ALANA.
Personal History
Born in Maracaibo,
Venezuela, Dec. 24, 1951
Educational experience
1970-1972 BA,
Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Iowa, majors in Art (honors),
1974-1976 Geology, French
Professional experience
1992 –
2003 Organized over twenty-two periodic shows/sales at my studio
in Turgua, Venezuela, involving groups of 12-20 craftspeople. Emphasis
on utilitarian pottery, also weaving textiles, jewelry, woodcarving,
photography, prints, drawing and native Venezuelan hand work.
1997-1998 President
and founding member of the Grupo Turgua association and the Casa
7 Craft Center, a non-profit organization formed by a group of craftspeople
dedicated to the promotion of pottery and other quality hand work.
Since its inception, Casa 7 has hosted six exhibitions of clay,
weaving, jewelry and Venezuelan native hand work as well as slide
talks, demonstrations, workshops and other educational activities
1991-2002 Annual workshop
experience at Warren MacKenzie's studio in Stillwater, Minnesota
for four to five week periods
Assistant in the workshops
given in Venezuela by Warren MacKenzie (1981), Clary Illian (1983),
Linda Christianson (1987), David Leach (1991), Scott Goldberg (1994),
Mark Pharis (1999) and Randy Johnston (2001)
1986 Established home
and studio in Turgua, Miranda, Venezuela
1984 Group workshop
experience at Warren MacKenzie's Studio with Clary Illian, Christy
Wert and Laurie MacGregor
Exhibitions
2003 Guillermo Cuellar;
Los Objetos que escojemos, Sala Mendoza, Caracas
Guillermo Cuellar:
Influences and Recent Work, Peter Paul Luce Gallery, Cornell College,
Mt. Vernon, Iowa
2002 GRUPO TURGUA
10 anos, Sala de Arte CADAFE, Extension Este del Museo Contemporaneo
de Caracas Sofia Imber, Caracas
CERAMICA.CON.VE, Fundacion CorpGroup Centro Cultural, Caracas
2001 Recent Ceramics,
Raymond Avenue Gallery, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Intercambio 3
mas 2, Cerámica en Pequeño Formato (Interchange 3
plus 2-Small Format Ceramics), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
de Puerto Rico, San Juan
1999 De Mano
en Mano, 7 Ceramistas Venezolanos, (From Hand to Hand, 7 Venezuelan
Potters), Sala Mendoza, Caracas
Grupo Turgua,
Trabajos Recientes (Turgua Group, Recent Work), Galería Lis,
San Cristobal, Venezuela
1998 Trabajos
Recientes (Recent Work) , Casa 7 Craft Center, Caracas, Venezuela
1997 Vivan los
Artesanos! Fine Crafts from Guatemala, Panama and Venezuela, The
1997 Smithsonian Craft Show, The National Building Museum, Washington
D.C.
1996 La Energia
del Barro (The Energy of Clay), Sala de Arte Sidor, Ciudad Guayana,
Venezuela
Una Decada de
Arcilla (A Decade of Clay), Sala Angelmó, Santiago de Chile,
Chile
XXIII Salón Nacional de las Artes del Fuego (XXIII National
Arts of Fire Salon) Galeria Universitaria Braulio Salazar, Universidad
de Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela
De Mar a Tierra
(From Ocean to Land), Sala Cultural Corpoven, Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela
1995 Diez Presencias
- Las Artes del Fuego en Venezuela, (Ten Presences-The Arts of Fire
in Venezuela), Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela
Intercambio 3-Cerámica
en Pequeño Formato, (Interchange 3-Small Format Ceramics),
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto
Rico
II Bienal Barro
de America (Mud in America) Centro de Arte de Maracaibo Lía
Bermúdez, Maracaibo, Venezuela
1993 Interpretaciones
en Barro: Tendencias Contemporáneas en la Cerámica
(Interpretations in Clay: Contemporary Tendencies in Ceramics),
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Mario Abreu, Maracay, Venezuela
Venezuelan Ceramics,
The Clay Place, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1992 Guillermo
Cuellar, Galeria de las Artes del Fuego, Caracas, Venezuela
Barros Comunicantes
(Communicating Clay), Sala Compania Nacional Teléfonos de
Venezuela, CANTV, Caracas, Venezuela
XLVIII Asamblea
Anual de Fedecamaras (XLVIII Anual Assembly, Federation of Chambers
of Commerce), Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela
1991 Cerámica
en Pequeño Formato, (Small Format Ceramics), Museo de Arte
Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofia Imber, Caracas, Venezuela
KFETTERAS (Coffeepots
and Teapots),Centro de Arte Euroamericano, Caracas, Venezuela
Ceramica para
Convivir (Ceramics to Live With), Galeria Barro y Fuego, Caracas,
Venezuela
1990 Cuellar,
Galeria Via, Caracas, Venezuela
Cornell College
Alumni Ceramics Exhibition, Armstrong Gallery,
Mt. Vernon, Iowa
1985 Guillermo
Cuellar, Asociación Venezolana de las Artes del Fuego, Caracas,
Venezuela
Venezuelan Studio
Ceramics, British Crafts Centre, London, England
Ceramica Utilitaria (Utilitarian Ceramics), Sala Compania Nacional
Teléfonos de Venezuela, CANTV, Caracas, Venezuela
Los Hombres Frente al Barro (Men and Clay), Galeria Barro y Fuego,
Caracas, Venezuela
Primer Salón Anual de Las Artes del Fuego (First Annual Arts
of Fire Salon), Caracas Rotary Club, Caracas, Venezuela
II Colectiva
de las Artes del Fuego (II Arts of Fire Collective), Asociación
Venezolana de las Artes del Fuego, Caracas, Venezuela
Primera Colectiva
de las Artes del Fuego (I Arts of Fire Collective), AVEPANE Gallery,
Caracas, Venezuela
Tercera Colectiva
de Cerámica y Esmalte (III Ceramics and Enamels Collective),
Colegio Santiago de Leon de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela
RAKU-AVAF Asociación
Venezolana de las Artes del Fuego, Caracas, Venezuela
1984 Salón
Artes del Fuego (Arts of Fire Salon), Mendoza Gallery, Caracas,
venezuela
1983 Arte y Fuego
en Movimiento (Art and Fire in Motion), Universidad Simón
Bolivar (Simón Bolivar University), Caracas, Venezuela
1982 Utilitarian
Ceramics, Venezuelan American Association of University Women Gallery,
Caracas, Venezuela
One person show,
Guillermo Cuellar, Galería Terracota, Caracas, Venezuela
Primera Exposición
Nacional de la Asociación Venezolana de las Artes del Fuego
(First National Show of the Venezuelan Association of the Arts of
Fire) Sala Compania Nacional Teléfonos de Venezuela, CANTV,
Caracas, Venezuela
Joint exhibition with
two traditional potters from the Paraguaná Peninsula of Venezuela
Galeria YAKERA, Caracas, Venezuela
1981 One person
show, Form and Function, Venezuelan American Association of University
Women Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
IX Salón Nacional
de las Artes del Fuego, (9th National Arts of Fire Salon) Sala Universitaria
Braulio Salazar, Universidad de Carabobo, Valencia, Venezuela.
Workshops
1998 Cerámica
Utilitaria y el Torno (Wheel Thrown Utilitarian Pottery)
Taller Huara Huara, Santiago, Chile
1997 Cerámica
Utilitaria y el Torno Asociación Venezolana de las Artes
del Fuego, Caracas, Venezuela
1995 Cerámica Utilitaria y el Torno Asociación Venezolana
de las Artes del Fuego, Caracas, Venezuela
1993 Cerámica Utilitaria y el Torno Asociación Venezolana
de las Artes del Fuego, Caracas, Venezuela
1990 Cerámica
Utilitaria y el Torno Asociación Venezolana de las Artes
del Fuego, Caracas, Venezuela
1982 Cerámica
y Origen Fundación Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela
Awards
1997 Vicente
Emilio Sojo Award for the promotion of culture, State of Miranda
Legislative Assembly
1981 University
of Carabobo Prize for Utilitarian Ceramics
Collections
Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa
Banco Mercantil,
Caracas, Venezuela
Galeria Nacional
de Arte, Caracas, Venezuela
Universidad Simón
Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela
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