CURRICULUM VITAE
Multidisciplinary Professional Career
Abdías MéndezRobles
Artist, critic, manager, teacher, consultant, lecturer, businessman, employee
I am an artist with a multidisciplinary professional career, more than 40 years of practice and experience in visual arts, the banking industry, self-employment, education, consulting and administration.
Visual arts:
As an artist I have participated in more than 90 individual and group exhibitions, collections, art fairs and auctions since the late 1970s, presenting my art in Puerto Rico, the United States, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia.
As an art critic and manager I have carried out more than 30 essays and investigations. I have organized and collaborated in different functions in local and international exhibitions, art congresses, calls, competitions and auctions.
Economy and Finance:
Businessman
Education (professor and lecturer/speaker):
Professor
Lecturer / speaker
Positions:
I have held different positions, among them
Awards and recognitions (selection):
Publications and Research (selection):
I have published reviews, essays, and research on different topics.
Artist, critic, manager, teacher, consultant, lecturer, businessman, employee
I am an artist with a multidisciplinary professional career, more than 40 years of practice and experience in visual arts, the banking industry, self-employment, education, consulting and administration.
Visual arts:
As an artist I have participated in more than 90 individual and group exhibitions, collections, art fairs and auctions since the late 1970s, presenting my art in Puerto Rico, the United States, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia.
As an art critic and manager I have carried out more than 30 essays and investigations. I have organized and collaborated in different functions in local and international exhibitions, art congresses, calls, competitions and auctions.
Economy and Finance:
- More than 35 years in the banking, economics and finance industry. Financial analyst, research, studies and reports related to profitability, cost analysis, economics, finance and budget for different institutions:
- Popular Bank of Puerto Rico.
- Santander Bank.
- Credit Unions.
- Nonprofit organizations.
Businessman
- Freelance visual artist.
- Health market, food supplements.
- Consultant, workshop designer and lecturer.
Education (professor and lecturer/speaker):
Professor
- Art History: University of Puerto Rico, Carolina Campus.
- Art Appreciation: University of Puerto Rico, Carolina Campus.
- Painting (private classes and organizations).
- Workshop designer and acilitator, about:
- Art, profitability, economics, finance, planning and marketing. For museums, universities and banks.
Lecturer / speaker
- Invited to give lectures on different topics, including art, criticism, United States and Puerto Rico money history, foundations bank, budget fundamentals and profitability. At universities, museums, banks, and other non-profit organizations:
- Museum of Art of Puerto Rico, PROA program.
- Popular Bank of Puerto Rico.
- Santander Bank.
- Municipality of San Juan, training program for adults.
Positions:
I have held different positions, among them
- President of the Governing Board of the University School of Plastic Arts and Design of Puerto Rico (EAPD).
- President of the Board of the Latin American and Caribbean Region of the International Association of Plastic Arts (RELAC, AIAP in alliance with UNESCO).
- President of the International Association of Arts Critics of Puerto Rico (AICA-PR, AICA / UNESCO).
- President Puerto Rican Association of Plastic Artists (APAP-AIAP / UNESCO.
- Vice President and Acting President of the Puerto Rico Numismatic Society (SNPR).
- Treasurer Board of Directors Puerto Rico Museum Association (Puerto Rico Museum Alliance).
Awards and recognitions (selection):
- Recognition of contribution to education, Department of Education and Dr. Hernan Padilla, mayor of San Juan. 1980
- President's Club Award, Altus Bird. Shaklee Corporation. 1986
- Award and Medal of Excellence. Popular Bank of Puerto Rico. 1994 and 2000
- Resolution of the Senate of Puerto Rico number 1383, recognition as an exponent of the visual arts. 1998
- Recognition as a painter. UNESCO Cultural Center, Puerto Rico. 2005
- Honorable mention. International Association of Art Critics (AICA- Puerto Rico). 2006
- Annual Award The Abud Family Foundation for the Arts, New Jersey, USA. 2008
- Marmö Award. Svenska Konstgalleriet, Marmö, Sweden. 2009
Publications and Research (selection):
I have published reviews, essays, and research on different topics.
- The Impact on Personnel between the Merger of Banco Popular and Banco de Ponce, University of Phoenix. (in Spanish)
- ARCO, critical reflection on the fair, Universitat de Barcelona. (in Spanish)
- How to Invest in Art, Appoint Property Magazine.
- Reflection on the painting The Island of the Dead by Arnold Böcklin, School of Plastic Arts and Design of Puerto Rico. (in Spanish)
- Surrealism and timelessness in Cossette Zeno. Newspaper 80 Degrees. (in Spanish)
- Myths and Gods, rebuilding the legend, Eric Tabales. Double Vision Journal. (in Spanish)
- The thing as an object, the object as art, Raymond Cruz Corchado. Double Vision Journal. (in Spanish)
- The book, when he screams to save him. A new light on old truths, William Norris. Double Vision Magazine. (in Spanish)
- Antonio Cortes Rolon – Éxodo. ArtPulse Magazine. (in English)