About the artist:

Born San Juan, Puerto Rico Lives and works in New York City and El Yunque rainforest in Puerto Rico. Papo Colo is a poet who uses concepts to produce art and an artist that chooses any medium, depending on its purpose. Papo Colo is a multi-dimensional artist: performance, theater and installation artist, painter, writer, and graphic designer. In 1982 he co-founded Exit Art, an internationally known cultural center in New York. He has been curator and cultural producer of Exit Art and has organized over 100 shows in which he was also the exhibition and graphic designer. In 1992 he founded the Trickster Theater to expand his experiments as an inter-disciplinary artist. 1982 – present Co-Founder/Co-Director, Exit Art 1991 – 1993 Founder/Director, The Cultural Space 1998 – present Founder/Director, Trickster Theater 2002 – website www.papocolostop.com Grants and Awards 2001 New York State Council on the Arts - Artist Sponsored Project in Theater 2000 International Art Critics Award for the exhibition The End 1995 Bessie Award for the exhibition Let The Artist Live! 1994 International Art Critics Award for the exhibition Endurance 1991 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellowship - Painting New York Foundation for the Arts - Painting 1987 Art Matters, Inc. Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art 1983 National Endowment for the Arts - Visual Arts 1982 New York State Council on the Arts - Artist Sponsored Project 1981 CAPS Grant in Painting National Endowment for the Arts-Visual Arts 1977 CAPS Grant in Sculpture Curatorial & Design Work Catalogs, Invitations and Posters (Unless noted otherwise, published by Exit Art, New York) 1982 Illegal America (poster and catalog) 1983 Photogenics (poster and artist book) Tehching Hsieh: One-Year Performance 1981-82, (invitation, poster and catalog) 1984 Melissa Meyer, (poster and catalog) 1985 Forbidden Films (poster and catalog) Surplus (poster and catalog) Pedro Lujan (poster and catalog) 1986 The Disciplined Spirit (invitation and catalog) The Gallery Show (invitation) Papo Colo: Will Power, & Desire (catalog) 1987 Immigrants & Refugees/Heroes or Villains (poster) Michael Chernishov - Aggressive Symbols (catalog) Films with a Purpose - A Puerto Rican Experiment in Social Films (Poster and catalog) Muntadas: Exhibition (poster) Raul Ruiz - Works For & About French TV (poster and catalog) 1988 The Social Club (invitation) Nachume Miller (invitation and catalog) Ursula von Rydingsvard (invitation and catalog) Videospain (invitation and catalog) International Forum of Super 8 (poster and catalog) The Debt (invitation) Anton van Dalen - The memory Cabinet (invitation and catalog) Martin Wong (invitation and catalog) 1989 Ida Applebroog (catalog) published by Ronald Feldman Gallery Sonia Balassanian (invitation and catalog) Jane Hammond (invitation and catalog) Juan Sanchez - Rican/Structed Convictions (invitation and catalog) Krzysztof Wodiczko - New York City Tableaux: Tompkins Square (invitation & catalog) Jimmie Durham - The Bishop's Moose and the Pinkerton Men (invitation & catalog) 1990 The Green Show (invitation and catalog) Samuel Beckett: The Media Work (poster only) Illegal America (poster) Internal Exile (poster and catalog) Tantrum (poster) Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds - Claim Your Color (invitation and catalog) Evidences. From the Postcolonial to the Hybrid State, The Cultural Space, New York (poster) Holy Wars (poster/announcement) 1991 World Disorder, The Cultural Space, New York (invitation) Zero Identity, The Cultural Space, New York (poster) Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music (poster and program cover in collaboration with David Hammons) Life After Postmodernism, The Cultural Space, New York (invitation) The Deadly Art of Illusion: Deep Cover (catalog for Jerry Kearns' exhibition), Tyler Galleries, Temple University, Philadelphia 1992 Adrian Piper: Why Guess? (invitation) Film Modernism and its Discontents: A Perspective from Paris (invitation) David Wojnarowicz: Tongues of Flame Works (invitation) Ming Fay: Nature Reborn from Archaeology to Science Fiction (invitation) Archie Rand The Letter Paintings 1968-1971 (invitation) Jaime Davidovich Forces / Farces (invitation) Nancy Grossman (invitation) Parallel History: The Hybrid State (exhibition) Parallel History: The Hybrid State Films Speaking Tongues (invitation) John Fekner (invitation) Willie Birch: A Personal View of Urban America (catalog and invitation) Shu Lea Cheang: Those Fluttering Objects of Desire (invitation) 1993 Cesar Paternosto (invitation) Michael James O’Brien (invitation) Shelagh Keeley (invitation) The Design Show: Exhibition Invitations in the U.S.A. 1940-1992 (invitation) 1920: The Subtlety of Subversion/ The Continuity of Intervention (invitation) Fever (poster) 1994 The Mouth Inside the Eye (poster) Obscure (poster) The Garden of Sculptural Delights (invitation) Existential/Political: Rudolf Baranik and May Stevens (invitation) Poverty Pop (invitation) Comic Power (invitation) 1995 Way Cool (invitation) Endurance (invitation) …It’s How You Play The Game (invitation) Let The Artist Live (poster) 1996 Sweat (invitation) Counterculture: Alternative Information from the Underground Press to the Internet (invitation only) Imaginary Beings (invitation) Transfers (invitation) 1997 Collective Actions (invitation) In the Eye of the Tiger: A Survey of Contemporary Korean Artists (invitation only) La Tradicion: Performing Painting (invitation) Terra Bomba (invitation) The Shape of Sound (invitation) 1998 Transmissions: channeling cultural information through the medium of video (invitation) Wild (invitation) Public Notice: Art & Activist Posters1951- 1997 (poster only) 1999 New York Stories (invitation) The Choice (invitation only) The Stroke (invitation) Monumental Drawings (invitation) 2000 The End (poster) NEO (invitation) Collector’s Choice (invitation only) 2001 Body and the East (invitation only) Danger (invitation) The LP Show (poster only) Spunky (invitation) Collector’s Choice (invitation only) 2002 Reactions (poster)