Patricio Salvador Moreno Toro (born December 21, 1942) is a

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an-born

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and

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. His work is associated with

abstract expressionism Abstract expressionism in the United States emerged as a distinct art movement in the aftermath of World War II and gained mainstream acceptance in the 1950s, a shift from the American social realism of the 1930s influenced by the Great Depressi ...

and incorporates Chilean forms and details.

Biography

Toro was born on December 21, 1942, in

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. He attended the

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. He immigrated to the United States in 1978, and he moved to

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, in 1981. In 1983, he met Mary Lovelace O'Neal and they married shortly afterward.

Exhibitions

Toro has exhibited his works at

Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts The Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts ( or ), located in Santiago, Chile, is one of the major centers for Chilean art and for broader South American art. Established in 1880 (making it the oldest in South America), the organization is manage ...

; Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in San José; Örebro läns Museum in

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;

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; Smithsonian Institution Offices in Washington, D.C.;

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; Kenkeleba Gallery in New York City; the

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;

Berkeley Art Center Berkeley Art Center (BAC) is a nonprofit arts organization, community art space, and gallery founded in 1967 and located at 1275 Walnut Street in Live Oak Park, Berkeley, California. History The Berkeley Art Center building was built by the B ...

(1995);

Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum). LACMA was founded in 1961 ...

(1981, solo exhibition); University of Hawai'i at Hilo (1990);

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(2017) in

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. Toro was part of the

Carlos Villa Carlos Villa (December 11, 1936 – March 23, 2013) was a Filipino-Filipino American, American visual artist, curator and faculty member in the Painting Department at the San Francisco Art Institute. His work often explored the meaning of cu ...

–curated project, ''Rehistoricizing The Time Around Abstract Expressionism'' (2010), which highlighted more artist diversity within abstract expressionist art history. The ''Rehistoricizing'' project included a symposium, a website, and related art exhibition at the Luggage Store Gallery in San Francisco.

Collections

de Young Museum The de Young Museum, formally the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, is a fine arts museum located in San Francisco, California, named for early San Francisco newspaperman M. H. de Young. Located on the West Side (San Francisco), West Side of the ci ...

, San Francisco *The Paul Robeson Collection,

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References

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