1990
The book Oswaldo Vigas is written by the art critic Gaston Diehl and published by Gráficos Armitano. Vigas participates in Reencuentro, premios Arturo Michelena 1943-1989, and in 1851-1989 Premios Andrés Pérez Mujica, Galería de Arte Ascaso, both in Valencia, in addition to the international exhibitions Latin Art Ca 90, La Galerie d’Art Lavalin, in Montreal, Canada, Latin American Drawings Today, San Diego Museum of Art; and Masters of American Art, Andrea Marquit Fine Art, Boston. The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas Sofía Imber, organizes the retrospective Oswaldo Vigas, lo figurativo y lo telúrico, comprising 174 works, including paintings, sculptures, tapestries, and drawings. On the occasion of this exhibition, the Lagoven Company produces the 25-minute documentary Oswaldo Vigas, renovación en el origen.
1991
Vigas’ tapestries and ceramics are displayed at the Centro Cultural Consolidado de Caracas.
1992
Vigas is invited to participate in the XXVI International Contemporary Art Award in Monte Carlo, where he unanimously won the Great Prince Rainier III of Monaco Award.
1993
The museum La Monnaie de Paris organizes the retrospective Oswaldo Vigas de 1952 a 1993, comprising 132 works (paintings, sculptures, and ceramics). On this occasion, Vigas receives the Chevalier des Arts et l’Ordre des Lettres de France and the Médaille Vermeil de la Ville de Paris. At the same time, La Maison de l’Amerique Latine in Paris displays four of his tapestries.
“Vigas’ work seems a hieratic vast jungle, a disturbing population of vegetal totems.”
Jean Clarence Lambert, text for the La Monnaie de Paris exhibition catalog, France, 1993
1994
Vigas presents Obras recientes, exhibition at the Galerie Corinne Timsit, in Paris, that is then presented in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He participates in the group exhibition of the art acquisitions of the Musée du Val de Marne, Paris, and in Tapisseries d’aujourd hui sur murs d’autrefois, Château Adhèmar de Montelimard, France.
“Vigas’ predominant use of a narrow range, of a flat and homogeneous chromaticism, plus the simplification of the linear repertoire, facilitates the persistence of the image in the memory.”
Carlos Silva, text for the Oswaldo Vigas-Ficción de mediodía: 1997-2001 exhibition catalog, Galería de Arte Ascaso. Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela. November 2001
1995
The solo exhibition Mutants, pélélés et autres zigotos (“Mutants, Puppets, and Other Zygotes”) is presented at the La Tour des Cardinaux Gallery, L’Ile-sur-la-Sorgue, France. Vigas is the special guest in the XXVII International Contemporary Art Award of Monte Carlo. The solo exhibition Oswaldo Vigas, la obra reciente is presented by the Grupo Li-Centro de Arte of Caracas, with 98 works.
1996
The solo exhibition Comadres, equilibristas, peleles y otros engendros (“Wives, Acrobats, Puppets and Other Monsters”) is presented at the Galería de Arte Ascaso in Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela. Oswaldo Vigas, un hombre americano is presented at the Casa de las Américas and the Casa Simón Bolívar in Havana, Cuba.
1997
Vigas presents two solo exhibitions: Vigas: Obras Clave, an homage to Vigas by the Venezuelan Air Force, at the Air Force General Command of Aviation Gallery in Caracas; and Vigas en Maracaibo at the Galería 700 Arte of Maracaibo. He also participates in three group exhibitions: El constructivismo en el arte latinoamericano, Sotheby’s, New York; Artistas del Taller Libre de Arte, Museo Jacobo Borges, Caracas; and Tapisseries de l’Atelier 3, Lyon Auditorium, France.
1998
He presents Oswaldo Vigas, painter and sculptor at the Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago, where Arte Miami 98 is also displayed. Oswaldo Vigas, en el camino, siempre is presented at SIDOR, in Puerto Ordaz, Bolívar state.
1999
Four Latin American Masters is presented at the Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, including Agustín Fernández, Pérez Celis, and Antonio Seguí along with Vigas. He is the Honored Artist of the Feria Iberoamericana de Arte (FIA 1999), Caracas, where he is included with the Grupo Li Centro de Arte and the Aldo Castillo Gallery (to return in the 2000, 2001 and 2002 editions). Oswaldo Vigas, Paintings and Etchings is shown at Il Pinolo, Tokyo, Japan. Vigas takes part in the group exhibition Etats d’un temps, part of the FDAC, Centre Culturel de Paris Collection; and Peintures et sculptures d’Amerique Latine, Chefs d’Oeuvres du Siècle XXème, Festival d’Art La Cita, Biarritz, France. Vigas is awarded the honorary doctorate of the Universidad de los Andes and presents Vigas en Mérida, at Galería La Otra Banda, Mérida, Venezuela.