Joan Miró i Ferrà (20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981.
Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride. In numerous interviews dating from the 1930s onwards, Miró expressed contempt for conventional painting methods as a way of supporting bourgeois society, and famously declared an “assassination of painting” in favour of upsetting the visual elements of established painting.
Im Studio: Joan Miró - Bronzeplastiken und Arbeiten auf Papier - Galerie Boisserée, Cologne
Miró y el objeto - CaixaForum Madrid, Madrid
Miró - Mayoral, London
Miró: Pintor, Poeta - Centro Cultural Eduardo León Jimenes, Santiago de los Caballeros
Miró and the Object - Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona
Joan Miró A Villa Manin - Soli Di Notte - Villa Manin. Centro d'arte contemporanea, Codroipo, UD
Joan Miró - Galerie Gmurzynska - Zürich, Zurich
Joan Miró - Wand, Fries, Mural - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
Joan Mirò - Galerie Thalberg, Zurich
Miró: The Experience of Seeing - The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Joan Miró - A Força da Matéria - Museu de Arte de Santa Catarina (MASC), Florianópolis, SC
Miró – Malerei als Poesie - K20 Grabbeplatz, Dusseldorf
Joan Miro - a forca da materia - Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo
Joan Miró - Obras Sobre Papel 1960-1978 - Centre Pompidou Malaga, Málaga
Joan Miró - Oiseaux Dans L - Nahmad Contemporary, New York City, NY
Joan Miró: Instinct & Imagination - Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Joan Miro - Fantastic Universe - Pauly Friedman and MacDonald Art Galleries, Dallas, PA
Joan Miro El Gran Creador - Dolors Junyent, Galeria d'Art, Barcelona
Miró: Skulpturen, Zeichnungen und Druckgrafik - Hilger modern, Vienna
Joan Miro - La Simplicite Poetique - Galerie Jean-Francois Cazeau, Paris
Joan Miró – Masterpeices From The Maeght Foundation - Umjetnicki paviljon / Art Pavilion Zagreb, Zagreb
Joan Miró. Women, Birds, Stars - Sabanci Üniversitesi, Istanbul
Miró: The Experience Of Seeing - Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
Joan Miró - From Earth to Sky - Albertina, Vienna
Joan Miró - Affectueusement, Miró - Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal, QC
Joan Miró - Espriu-Miró - Galería Joan Gaspar, Barcelona
Joan Miró: Women, Birds, Stars - Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung City
Joan Miró: Intimistes - Connaught Brown, London
Joan Miró. Obra gráfica - Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona
Miró - Poésie Et Lumière - Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne
Joan Miró - L'Arlequin artificier - Fonds Hélène et Édouard Leclerc, Landerneau
Joan Miró - Adam Gallery, Bath, Somerset
Joan Miró. Imagery. - Moscow museum of modern art - MMOMA, Moscow
Joan Miro - Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC
Galerie Boisserée Joan Miró - Graphische Werke, Mischtechniken und bibliophile Bücher aus fünf Jahrzehnten - Galerie Boisserée, Cologne
Joan Mirò - Galleria Bellinzona, Milan
Miró - Tate Modern, London (England)
Joan Miró - EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo
Miró: The Dutch Interiors - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
Joan Miró - Graphikmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster, Münster
Joan Miro - Il Colore Dei Sogni - Galleria Guastalla Centro Arte, Livorno
The Hands of Art, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Le Corps et son double, Galerie Jeanne-Bucher, Paris, France
Tapestries, Bass Muesum of Art, Miami, Florida
Picasso to Plensa: A Century of Art in Spain, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
VIDEO ROSSO, Galleria Edieuropa, Rome, Italy
Collagen, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
Passioni D'Art, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Lugano, Switzerland
Kunst aus Spanien, Galerie Ruf, Munich, Germany
Master - Prints, Fischer Kunsthandel & Edition, Berlin, Germany
Joan Miró: A Ninetieth-Birthday Tribute, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Joan Miró: anys 20. Mutació de la realitat, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Retrospective exhibition at the Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Spain
Official opening of the Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Miró otro, College of Architects, Barcelona, Spain
Ceramic mural installation, produced in collaboration with Josep Llorens Artigas, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Retrospective exhibition at the National Museum of Art, Tokyo and in Kyoto, Japan
Retrospective at the Tate Gallery in London, UK and at Kunsthaus de Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Retrospective exhibition at the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
Retrospective of the graphic works at the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum of Krefeld. Exhibition presented in Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Hanovre and Hamburg, Germany
Retrospective, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
First solo exhibition at the Galerie Maeght, Paris, France
First large retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
First one-man show at the Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, NY
First one-man show in the United States, at the Valentine Gallery, New York, NY
First solo exhibition at the Galerie Pierre, Paris, France
First solo exhibition at the Galerie La Licorne, Paris, France