Luis Enrique Tábara is a master Ecuadorian painter and teacher representing a whole Hispanic pictorial and artistic culture.

Tábara took interest in painting

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

 at the age of three and was drawing regularly by the age of six. In these early years, Tabara was strongly encouraged by both his sister and his mother. Enrique Tábara nevertheless is a creator who investigates and demystifies the image in which he takes refuge. Tábara's energetic and innovating spirit is a constant that reveals the anxious and versatile spirit of the teacher. A master of experimentation, he is fully aware of his roots and the process that he has followed over the years, with an abundant mass of brilliant works to show for it.

Tábara was greatly influenced by the Constructivist Movement

Constructivism (art)

Constructivism was an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1919, which was a rejection of the idea of autonomous art. The movement was in favour of art as a practice for social purposes. Constructivism had a great effect on modern art movements of the 20th...

, founded around 1913 by Russian artist Vladimir Tatlin

Vladimir Tatlin

Vladimir Yevgrafovich Tatlin was a Russian and Soviet painter and architect. With Kazimir Malevich he was one of the two most important figures in the Russian avant-garde art movement of the 1920s, and he later became the most important artist in the Constructivist movement...

, which made its way into Europe and Latin America by way of Uruguayan painter Joaquín Torres García

Joaquín Torres García

Joaquín Torres García , was a Uruguayan plastic artist and art theorist, also known as the founder of Constructive Universalism...

 and Parisian/Ecuadorian painter Manuel Rendón. Torres Garcia and Rendón both made an enormous impact on Latin America's master artists such as Enrique Tábara, Aníbal Villacís

Aníbal Villacís

Aníbal Villacís is a master painter from Ecuador who used raw earthen materials such as clay and natural pigments to paint on walls and doors throughout his city when he could not afford expensive artist materials. As a teenager, Villacís taught himself drawing and composition by studying and...

, Félix Arauz

Félix Arauz

Félix Arauz is a very important Latin American painter from Ecuador. Arauz is among the art circles of Enrique Tábara, Aníbal Villacís, Jose Carreño and Juan Villafuerte. In 1957, Arauz began studying under Caesar Andrade Faini at the School of Fine Arts. During his second year his father died...

, Theo Constanté

Theo Constanté

Theo Constanté is a master Latin American painter who is a part of the Abstract Informalist Movement in Ecuador. In 2005, Constanté won the country's most prestigious award for art, literature and culture, the Premio Eugenio Espejo National Award, presented by the President of Ecuador...

, Oswaldo Viteri

Oswaldo Viteri

Oswaldo Viteri is a neo-figurative artist. Viteri gained recognition for his assemblage work but has worked in a wide variety of media including painting, drawing, printmaking and mosaics. He began his education as a student of architecture at the Central University of Quito in 1951...

, Estuardo Maldonado

Estuardo Maldonado

Estuardo Maldonado is a Latin American sculptor and painter inspired by the Constructivist movement. Maldonado is a member of VAN , the group of Informalist painters founded by Enrique Tábara. Other members of VAN included, Aníbal Villacís, Luis Molinari, Hugo Cifuentes and Gilberto Almeida...

 and Carlos Catasse

Carlos Catasse

Carlos Catasse , born Carlos Tapia Sepúlveda in Santiago, Chile, formed his new last name by combining the first two letters of his first, middle and last names. Catasse is a Chilean painter of international recognition...

, to name a few.

The Barcelona Years

In 1946, Tábara attended the School of Fine Arts in Guayaquil and was mentored by German artist Hans Michaelson and Guayaquileno artist, Luis Martinez Serrano. In 1951, Tábara finished mastering the fundamentals and left art school. Tábara's early works typically depicted grotesque characters, marginalized peoples of Guayaquil, prostitutes, and some portraits. By 1953, Tábara began to paint more abstract images.

Tábara held his first US exhibit in 1954 at the Organization of American States

Organization of American States

The Organization of American States is a regional international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States...

 (OAS) in Washington, D.C. In 1955, the Ecuadorian government offered Tábara a scholarship to study at the Escuela Official de Bellas Artes de Barcelona (The "Llotja", Catalan for "Exchange", the school had originally been named "Academy of the Exchange"). Tábara's work was welcomed with great success in Spain and Tábara befriended surrealist André Breton

André Breton

André Breton was a French writer and poet. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as "pure psychic automatism"....

 and Modernist painter Joan Miró

Joan Miró

Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.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...

. By 1959, Tábara's work had gained a great deal of international attention. André Breton asked Tábara to represent Spain in the Homage to Surrealism

Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members....

 Exhibition, among the works of Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí

Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis de Púbol , commonly known as Salvador Dalí , was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres,Spain....

, Joan Miró

Joan Miró

Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.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...

, and Eugenio Granell

Eugenio Granell

Eugenio Granell was an artist often described as the last Spanish Surrealist painter.Born in A Coruña in the autonomous community of Galicia, Eugenio Fernández Granell started out as a political radical and a musician...

. Miró enthusiastically praised Tábara's work and presented Tábara with an original piece of his artwork which Tábara has long treasured as pure gold.

While living in Barcelona, Tábara began working with Antoni Tàpies

Antoni Tàpies

Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tàpies is a Catalan painter. He is one of the most famous European artists of his generation. After studying law for 3 years, he devoted himself from 1943 onwards only to his painting...

, Antonio Saura

Antonio Saura

Antonio Saura was a Spanish artist and writer, one of the major post-war painters to emerge in Spain in the fifties whose work has marked several generations of artists and whose critical voice is often remembered.-Biography:He began painting and writing in 1947 in Madrid while suffering from...

, Manolo Millares

Manolo Millares

Manolo Millares was a Spanish painter. Self-taught as an artist, Millares was introduced to Surrealism in 1948. In 1953, he moved to Madrid and became an abstract painter. In 1957, Millares along with Antonio Saura and Pablo Serrano founded the avant-garde group El Paso in Madrid...

, Modest Cuixart and many other Spanish Infomalist artists. Tàpies and Cuixart were members of the first Post-War Movement in Spain known as Dau-al-Set, founded by Catalan

Catalan people

The Catalans or Catalonians are the people from, or with origins in, Catalonia that form a historical nationality in Spain. The inhabitants of the adjacent portion of southern France are sometimes included in this definition...

 poet Joan Brossa

Joan Brossa

Joan Brossa i Cuervo Joan Brossa i Cuervo Joan Brossa i Cuervo (Barcelona, Catalonia,(1919–1998) was a Catalan poet in the Catalan language, playwright, graphic designer and plastic artist. He was one of the founders of both the group and the publication known as Dau-al-Set (1948) and one of the...

. Tábara wrote several articles for their publication of the same name, Dau-al-Set. Dau-al-Set was connected with Surrealism and Dadaism and its members sought a connection to both the conscious and unconscious in their work. Dau-al-Set opposed both the Formalist Movement and the formal art centers. The group was inspired by the early works of Max Ernst

Max Ernst

Max Ernst was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was one of the primary pioneers of the Dada movement and Surrealism.-Early life:...

, Paul Klee

Paul Klee

Paul Klee was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered both a German and a Swiss painter. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was, as well, a student of orientalism...

, and Joan Miró.

In 1963, Tábara represented Ecuador together with Humberto Moré and Theo Constanté

Theo Constanté

Theo Constanté is a master Latin American painter who is a part of the Abstract Informalist Movement in Ecuador. In 2005, Constanté won the country's most prestigious award for art, literature and culture, the Premio Eugenio Espejo National Award, presented by the President of Ecuador...

 at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris for the Third Biennial of Paris. By 1964, Tábara's work was being shown throughout Latin America, as well as Lausanne

Lausanne

Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west...

, Milan

Milan

Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

, Grenchen

Grenchen

Grenchen is a municipality in the district of Lebern in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.It is located at the foot of the Jura mountains between Solothurn and Biel. With over 16,000 inhabitants, it is one of the larger towns of the canton of Solothurn...

, Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

, Lisbon

Lisbon

Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban...

, Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

, Barcelona

Barcelona

Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

, Madrid

Madrid

Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

, Washington

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

, New York

New York City

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 and Paris.

Return to Ecuador

After living and painting in Europe for over nine years Tábara felt that there was not enough being done in the name of Latin American Modern art so in 1964 he returned to Ecuador in search of a new aesthetic. Tábara reconnected to his roots through the Latin American current of "Ancestralism", which finds inspiration in pre-Hispanic cultures that inhabited the continent (third stage). Tábara is the first artist to use the Pre-Columbian motif as a search for a new aesthetic.

Shortly after returning to Ecuador, Tábara founded the Informalist art group, VAN (Vanguardia Artística Nacional), that was in opposition to the Indiginist Art Movement. VAN had a double meaning, from the avant-garde term, Vanguard, as well as, the Spanish phrase "se van" meaning, "they are going". In other words, the artists were moving on, away from Guayasaminism and Indigenism that had been dominating the art scene of Ecuador for decades. VAN consisted of Tábara, Villacís

Aníbal Villacís

Aníbal Villacís is a master painter from Ecuador who used raw earthen materials such as clay and natural pigments to paint on walls and doors throughout his city when he could not afford expensive artist materials. As a teenager, Villacís taught himself drawing and composition by studying and...

, Maldonado

Estuardo Maldonado

Estuardo Maldonado is a Latin American sculptor and painter inspired by the Constructivist movement. Maldonado is a member of VAN , the group of Informalist painters founded by Enrique Tábara. Other members of VAN included, Aníbal Villacís, Luis Molinari, Hugo Cifuentes and Gilberto Almeida...

, Cifuentes

Hugo Cifuentes

Hugo Gilberto Cifuentes Navarro was a pioneering Latin American photographer.Cifuentes began studying drawing and painting in the 1940s, before turning to photography. Cifuentes received his first prize for photographic composition in 1949...

, Molinari, Almeida, and Muriel. VAN strongly opposed the Communist political views of Oswaldo Guayasamin

Oswaldo Guayasamín

Oswaldo Guayasamín was a Quechua native and Ecuadorian master painter and sculptor.-Early life:...

 and was in a constant search of new artistic pathways while never losing a connection to their Pre-Columbian roots.

Patas-Patas

Finally, Tábara started to paint simple shapes inspired in nature, and also other simple structures, such as his famed "Patas-Patas", or Feet-Feet, as well as insects and shrubs. Tábara is most known for his Patas-Patas works which contain legs with feet incorporated into the piece. When asked about this subject matter, Tábara says that one day he was drawing a figure but he didn't like it, so he ripped it up and the feet of the figure landed at his feet, thus his fate. It has been suggested by some critics that Tábara's use of feet was possibly a subtle statement in opposition to Guayasamin's use of hands. In some of Tábara's Patas-Patas works, the legs are bold focal points that stand out clearly. In other works, the legs are more obscure or seem to be hidden within shrubs, bones or abstract forms.

Tábara is an artist who is in a constant, infinite search. He likes to experiment and live "pictorical adventures". He believes that in art one has to pose difficult problems for oneself and solve them on the canvas. Today, Tábara is considered one of the most important artists of the last century and has been lauded as a national treasure in Ecuador.

In 1988, Tábara was awarded the Premio Eugenio Espejo

Premio Eugenio Espejo

The Premio Nacional Eugenio Espejo is the national prize of the nation of Ecuador.Decrees 677 and 699 established the prize, which is conferred by the President of Ecuador.The Award is bestowed every other year...

, the country's most prestigious National Award for Art, Literature and Culture presented by the president of Ecuador. Tábara continues to paint with a vigorous spirit in his home town of Guayaquil, Ecuador. Barcelona is considered Tábara's home away from home.

Museums and Collections

• Museo de Arte de Lausanne, Laussanne, Switzerland.
• Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
• Museo de Arte Moderno de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
• Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Armada, Armanda, Portugal.
• Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia.
• Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico.
• Museo de la Universidad de Rio Piedras, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.
• Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá, Panamá.
• Museo de Bellas Artes de Bochum, Bochem, Germany.
• Museo Juan Abello Mollet, Barcelona, Spain.
• Museo Omar Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombia.
• Museo Rufino Tamayo
  Rufino Tamayo
  Rufino Tamayo was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences....
  
  , Mexico City, Mexico.
• Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France.
• Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), Long Beach, California, USA.
• Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York, USA.
• Jack S. Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA.
• Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.
• Museo de Arte Moderno de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador.
• Museo del Banco Central, Quito, Ecuador.
• The Museum of American Art of Maldonado (MAAM), Maldonado, Uruguay.
• Museo del Niño
  Centro Costarricense de la Ciencia y la Cultura
  Centro Costarricense de la Ciencia y la Cultura is a science and culture museum complex in Costa Rica. Located in a fortress-like building that once served as the central penitentiary between 1910 and 1979, the center was inaugurated in 1994...
  
  , San José, Costa Rica.
• Museo de Arte del Banco Central, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• Museo de la Casa de la Cultura, Quito, Ecuador.
• Museo de la Casa de la Cultura, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• Museo Antropológico de Arte Contemporaneo (MAAC), Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• El Museo del Barrio, New York, USA
• Pumapungo Museum of the Central Bank of River Basin, River Basin, Ecuador.
• Misrashi Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
• Ortiz Leiva Gallery of Art, Glendale, California, USA.
• Galeria Elite Fine Art, Miami, Florida, USA.
• Eugenia Cucalón Gallery, New York, USA.
• Museo de América, Madrid, Spain.
• Collection of Carrie Adrian, New York, USA.
• Collection John & Barbara Duncan, New York, USA.
• Collection of Castle Cooke, San Francisco, California, USA.
• Collection of the Pan American Union, Washington, D. C., USA
• Colección Galeria Goya, Mexico City, Mexico.
• Coleccion Sr. Jorge Eljuri, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• Coleccion Sr. Georges Kasper, Laussane, Switzerland.
• Coleccion Sr, René Metrás, Barcelona, Spain.
• Coleccion Sr. Horst Moeller, Germany.

Individual and Group Exhibitions

• 1953 Exposición Casa de la Cultura (N. del Guayas), Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1954 Organization of American States
  Organization of American States
  The Organization of American States is a regional international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States...
  
   (OAS), Washington, D.C., USA.
• 1954 Segunda Exposición individual (primeras obras, no figurativas) Casa de la Cultura (N. del Guayas), Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1956 Museo Municipal de Mataró (first exhibition in Spain).
• 1956 Museo de Granollers (primeras pinturas de Materia) Spain.
• 1956 Ayuntamiento de Sarria, Barcelona, Spain.
• 1957 Galerias Layetanas (30 pinturas), Barcelona, Spain.
• 1958 Ateneo Barcelones (dibujos obra en papel), Barcelona, Spain.
• 1958 Sala Gaspar (Club 49), Barcelona, Spain.
• 1959 Sala Neblí, Madrid, Spain.
• 1959 Galería Kasper, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• 1961 VI Biennial of São Paulo, São Paulo
  São Paulo
  São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
  
  , Brazil.
• 1961 Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Barcelona, Spain.
• 1961 Galería Hilt, Basel
  Basel
  Basel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...
  
  , Switzerland.
• 1961 Restaurant Galería "La Perette", Milan, Italy.
• 1962 Galería Falazik, Bochum
  Bochum
  Bochum is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany. It is located in the Ruhr area and is surrounded by the cities of Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Herne, Castrop-Rauxel, Dortmund, Witten and Hattingen.-History:...
  
  , Germany.
• 1962 Nueva Galería Kunstlerhaus, Munich, Germany.
• 1962 Galería Rottoff, Karlsruhe
  Karlsruhe
  The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...
  
  , Germany.
• 1962 Galería Brechbuhi, Grenchen
  Grenchen
  Grenchen is a municipality in the district of Lebern in the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland.It is located at the foot of the Jura mountains between Solothurn and Biel. With over 16,000 inhabitants, it is one of the larger towns of the canton of Solothurn...
  
  , Switzerland.
• 1963 Galería Naviglio, Milan, Italy.
• 1963 Diario de Noticias, Lisbon, Portugal.
• 1963 Galería René Metrás, Barcelona, Spain.
• 1963 Ateneo de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
• 1963 Galería Emmy Widman, Bremen
  Bremen
  The City Municipality of Bremen is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany. A commercial and industrial city with a major port on the river Weser, Bremen is part of the Bremen-Oldenburg metropolitan area . Bremen is the second most populous city in North Germany and tenth in Germany.Bremen is...
  
  , Germany.
• 1963 Instituto de Cultura Hispánica (tintas y Aguadas), Barcelona, Spain.
• 1963 Galería Malelline, Vienna, Austria.
• 1964 Galería René Metrás ( objetos y Pinturas ), Barcelona, Spain.
• 1964 Pan American Union, Washington, D.C., USA.
• 1965 Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
• 1965 Centro Ecuatoriano Norteamericano, Quito, Ecuador.
• 1965 Galería Siglo XX, Quito, Ecuador.
• 1966 Museo de Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico
  San Juan, Puerto Rico
  San Juan , officially Municipio de la Ciudad Capital San Juan Bautista , is the capital and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 395,326 making it the 46th-largest city under the jurisdiction of...
  
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• 1967 Universidad de Mayagues, Puerto Rico
• 1967 Casa de la Cultura (obras de 1960–1967), Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1968 Galería Contémpora, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1968 Galería Marta Traba, Bogotá, Colombia.
• 1969 Galería Contempora, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1969 X Biennial de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
• 1970 Galería Altamira, Quito, Ecuador.
• 1971 Museo Municipal, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1972 Galería Altamira, Quito, Ecuador.
• 1972 Alianza Francesa, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1973 Alianza Francesa, Quito, Ecuador.
• 1973 XI Biennial de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
• 1973 Casa de la Cultura Nucleo del Azuay, Cuenca, Ecuador.
• 1973 Colegio de Bellas Artes (25 años de Pintura) 1948–1973, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1974 Galelía Altamira, Quito, Ecuador.
• 1975 Galería Siglo XX, Quito, Ecuador.
• 1976 Galería Buchholz, Bogotá, Colombia.
• 1976 Casa de la Cultura Nucleo del Guayas, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1976 Centro Ecuatoriano Norteamericano, Guayaquil, Ecuador .
• 1977 Museo del Banco Central "Persistencia de una Imagen", Quito, Ecuador.
• 1979 Museo Municipal, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1979 Pasaje Arosemena (obra en papel), Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1980 Galería Madeleine Hollaender, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1981 La Galería, Quito, Ecuador.
• 1982 Casa de las Américas
  Casa de las Américas
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  , La Habana, Cuba
  Cuba
  The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...
  
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• 1984 Galería Madeleine Hollaender, Guayaquil, Ecuador .
• 1985 Galería Sosa Larrea, Quito, Ecuador.
• 1985 Museo Omar Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombia.
• 1985 Galería Perspectiv, a Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1986 Municipalidad de Machala, Machala, Ecuador.
• 1986 Galerias Asociadas Sosa – Nesle, Quito, Ecuador .
• 1986 Galería Madeleine Hollaender, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1987 La Galería, Quito, Ecuador.
• 1987 Condominio Simón Bolivar
  Simón Bolívar
  Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Yeiter, commonly known as Simón Bolívar was a Venezuelan military and political leader...
  
  , Quevedo, Ecuador
  Quevedo, Ecuador
  Quevedo is a city in Ecuador located in the Los Rios Province. It is the seat of Quevedo Canton, a vibrant community founded in 1943. According to the latest census, Quevedo's population is 173,000. Located at 237 km SW of Quito , or, 183 km NE of Guayaquil...
  
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• 1988 Museo Rufino Tamayo
  Rufino Tamayo
  Rufino Tamayo was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences....
  
  , México D.F. México.
• 1989 Homenaje al Arte Abstracto I, Jacob Karpio Galeria, San José, Costa Rica
  San José, Costa Rica
  San José is the capital and largest city of Costa Rica. Located in the Central Valley, San José is the seat of national government, the focal point of political and economic activity, and the major transportation hub of this Central American nation.Founded in 1738 by order of Cabildo de León, San...
  
  
• 1989 Centro de Arte de la Sociedad Femenina de Cultura, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1989 Galería Manzana Verde, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1990 Galería Expresiones, Guayaquil, Ecuador .
• 1990 Fundación Hallo "Homenaje a Tábara"
• 1991 Municipalidad de Miraflores, Lima, Perú
• 1991 Seguros La Unión, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1992 Galeria Cucalón Feria Iberoamenricana, Caracas
  Caracas
  Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...
  
  , Venezuela
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• 1994 Elite Fine Arts Galery, Miami, Florida
  Miami, Florida
  Miami is a city located on the Atlantic coast in southeastern Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida and the eighth-most populous county in the United States with a population of 2,500,625...
  
  , United States.
• 1994 Galería Todo Arte, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1997 Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá, Panamá.
• 1997 Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno, Cuenca, Ecuador.
• 1997 Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
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• 1998 Centro Cultural Jorge Fernandez, Quito, Ecuador.
• 1998 La Galería, Quito, Ecuador.
• 1998 Museo del Banco Central, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1999 Museo del Niño, San José, Costa Rica.
• 1999 Casona Universitaria (Retrospectiva), Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1999 Museo de Arte Moderno, Cuenca, Ecuador
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• 1999 Galería Homonimus, Panama City
  Panama City
  Panama is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Panama. It has a population of 880,691, with a total metro population of 1,272,672, and it is located at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal, in the province of the same name. The city is the political and administrative center of the...
  
  , Panamá.
• 1999 Sala Miguel de Santiago, Casa de la Cultura B.C., Quito, Ecuador.
• 2000 Sala Marta Traba, São Paulo, Brazil.
• 2003 Bocetos de Tábara 1998-2003, La Galeria Mirador, Universidad Católica de Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 2003 Museo Pedro de Osma Embajada del Ecuador en Lima, Lima
  Lima
  Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...
  
  , Peru
  Peru
  Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
  
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• 2003 Embajada del Ecuador en Bolivia
  Bolivia
  Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...
  
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• 2004-2005 Sala Autoral-Enrique Tábara, Museo Antropologico y de Arte Contemporaneo
  Museo Antropologico y de Arte Contemporaneo
  Museo Antropologico y de Arte Contemporaneo is a state-of-the-art museum in Guayaquil, Ecuador celebrating Ecuadorian, Latin American and Pre-Columbian art and culture. MAAC is a welcome addition to Malecón 2000, the renovated riverwalk in Guayaquil...
  
   (MAAC), Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 2005 Ceremony for the Museum of Art and Academic Senate (MuSA) at The University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
  Mayagüez is the eighth-largest municipality of Puerto Rico. Originally founded as "Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria" it is also known as "La Sultana del Oeste" , "Ciudad de las Aguas Puras" , or "Ciudad del Mangó"...
  
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• 2005 The Ancestralismo, Tábara, Villacís
  Aníbal Villacís
  Aníbal Villacís is a master painter from Ecuador who used raw earthen materials such as clay and natural pigments to paint on walls and doors throughout his city when he could not afford expensive artist materials. As a teenager, Villacís taught himself drawing and composition by studying and...
  
  , Viteri
  Oswaldo Viteri
  Oswaldo Viteri is a neo-figurative artist. Viteri gained recognition for his assemblage work but has worked in a wide variety of media including painting, drawing, printmaking and mosaics. He began his education as a student of architecture at the Central University of Quito in 1951...
  
   and Maldonado
  Estuardo Maldonado
  Estuardo Maldonado is a Latin American sculptor and painter inspired by the Constructivist movement. Maldonado is a member of VAN , the group of Informalist painters founded by Enrique Tábara. Other members of VAN included, Aníbal Villacís, Luis Molinari, Hugo Cifuentes and Gilberto Almeida...
  
  , Museum of the Central Bank, River Basin, Ecuador.
• 2005 Teatro Centro de Arte, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 2006 Monograph: The Work of Enrique Tábara, National Museum of the Central Bank of Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.
• 2006 From Port to Port: Rendón, Tábara, & Gilbert
  Araceli Gilbert
  Araceli Gilbert was an Ecuadorian artist.Gilbert enrolled in the School of Fine Arts in Santiago de Chile in 1936, studying under Jorge Caballero and Hernán Gazmurri, well-known encouragers of the Chilean plastic rebellion that later transformed into the Montparnasse group...
  
  , In Celebration of Ecuadorian Culture at The World Cup (Futbol), Hamburg
  Hamburg
  -History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
  
  , Germany.
• 2006 Guía de El Grabado Latinoamericano: La Evolución de la Identidad desde lo Mítico hasta lo Personal, Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), Long Beach, California
  Long Beach, California
  Long Beach is a city situated in Los Angeles County in Southern California, on the Pacific coast of the United States. The city is the 36th-largest city in the nation and the seventh-largest in California. As of 2010, its population was 462,257...
  
  , United States.
• 2006 XII Fair de Libro Pacific, works by Tábara, Guayasamin, Kingman
  Eduardo Kingman
  Eduardo Kingman was one of Ecuador's greatest artists of the 20th century, among the art circles of other master artists such as Oswaldo Guayasamin and Camilo Egas.-Background:...
  
  , Arauz & Villafuerte
  Juan Villafuerte
  Juan Villafuerte was an artist known for his transmutated drawings and paintings...
  
  , University of the Valley, Cali
  Santiago de Cali
  Santiago de Cali , simply referred to as Cali, is a city in western Colombia and the capital of the Valle del Cauca Department. With a population of 2.5 million, Cali is the third largest city in the country. It has one of the fastest growing economies and infrastructure in the country because...
  
  , Colombia
  Colombia
  Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
  
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• 2007-2008 Tábara: La Mirada Atenta. Museo de América, Madrid, Spain.
• 2008 Ministry of Foreign Trade and Integration - Ecuadorian Embassy in Germany, Berlin, Germany.
• 2010 Elogio de la Forma, Moderno del Museo Municipal de Guayaquil, Guayaquil
  Guayaquil
  Guayaquil , officially Santiago de Guayaquil , is the largest and the most populous city in Ecuador,with about 2.3 million inhabitants in the city and nearly 3.1 million in the metropolitan area, as well as that nation's main port...
  
  , Ecuador
  Ecuador
  Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
  
  

Awards and Medals

• 1960 Swiss Abstract Painting Prize, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• 1964 Second Prize Hall - October, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1967 First Prize Hall - July, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1967 First Prize Hall Vanguard, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1968 Medal of Artistic Merit, Municipality of Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1970 Gold Medal, First Hall Drawing, Watercolor and Tempera, House of the Culture, Quito, Ecuador.
• 1972 Second Prize of Contemporary Gallery, "Virgin Santísima M. of God"
• 1973 Gold Medal, 25 years of Painting Exhibition, School of Beautiful Arts, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1989 National Prize of Culture - Premio Eugenio Espejo
  Premio Eugenio Espejo
  The Premio Nacional Eugenio Espejo is the national prize of the nation of Ecuador.Decrees 677 and 699 established the prize, which is conferred by the President of Ecuador.The Award is bestowed every other year...
  
   - presented by the President of Ecuador.
• 1989 Second Prize, River Basin Biennial of International Painting - River Basin, Ecuador
• 1994 Decoration to the Artistic Merit in the Degree of Commander by the Ecuadorian Government
• 1997 Gold Brush, Association of the Rocks, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1998 Medal to the Cultural Merit (House of the Culture) Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1998 Medal of Honor of the National Congress by the 50th Anniversary of the Professional Trajectory of the Artist.
• 1998 Decoration of the Museum Central Bank of Ecuador, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1998 Alfredo Palacio
  Alfredo Palacio
  Luis Alfredo Palacio González served as President of Ecuador from April 2005 to January 2007. From January 15, 2003 to April 20, 2005, he served as vice president, after which he was appointed to the presidency when the Ecuadorian Congress removed President Lucio Gutiérrez from power following a...
  
   Prize (University of Guayaquil), Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 1999 Gold Brush, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• 2007 Nominee for the Velázquez
  Diego Velázquez
  Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was a Spanish painter who was the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV. He was an individualistic artist of the contemporary Baroque period, important as a portrait artist...
  
  Prize of Plastic Arts 2007, presented by the crowned King of Spain.