| 1970 | Born in Mexico City, Mexico |
| 1987-90 | Taller de los Viernes: Gabriel Orozco’s workshop with Abraham Cruzvillegas, Damián Ortega and Dr. Lakra (Jerónimo López Ramírez), Mexico |
| 1988-92 | BFA Visual Art, Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, UNAM Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 1993-95 | MFA Fine Arts, Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, England |
| Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium |
Solo Exhibitions
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Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2022 |
Sculpture Garden, Geneva Biennale 2022, Geneva, Switzerland INFORMATION (Today), Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway (touring) |
| 2021 |
KOLÉ SÉRÉ, BRAUNSFELDER, Cologne, Germany Excepciones Normales: Arte contemporaneo en Mexico, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 2020 |
Al filo de la navaja, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico Was machen Sie um zwei? Ich schlafe, GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany What's Up / Twenty Twenty, LVH Lawrence Van Hagen Art, London, England |
| 2019 |
Sick fireflies and lightings in jars, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Petah Tikva, Israel No habrá nunca una puerta. Estás adentro, Santander Fundación, Madrid, Spain The Sound of Silence, Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles CA, USA Portadores de sentido, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico 15th Sartirana Textile Show, Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin, Italy Emissaries for things abandoned by Gods, Estancia FEMSA / Casa Luis Barragán, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 2018 |
Archipelago – A Problem (On Exactitude in Science), Tiön Projects, The Hague, The Netherlands Converter, Kunstmuseum St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland Autorreconstrucción: Detritus, MUCA Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 2017 |
E2N–Espace 251 Nord, La Comète, Liège, Belgium ISelf Collection: The Upset Bucket, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England Field Guide, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada The Undercover Economist: Martin Boyce, Gabriel Kuri, Liz Magor, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany Latin American Artists in the Marciano Collection, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles CA, USA Birth as Criterion, 32nd Biennial of Graphic Arts, International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia Living Apart Together: Recent Acquisitions, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA Harold Ancart – Michel-François – Gabriel Kuri, Espace 251 Nord, Liège, Belgium Unlimited, Art Basel, Switzerland ISelf Collection: Self-Portrait as the Billy Goat, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England DESERT X, Coachella Valley, Palm Springs CA, USA |
| 2016 |
Portrait De L’artiste En Alter, FRAC – Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France L’Esprit du Bauhaus, L’Objet en Question, MAD Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France DYSTOTAL, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, Germany ICH, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany The Natural Order of Things, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico Can I step on it?, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy XYLAÑYNU. Taller de los Viernes, kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico Artificial Realities, East Wing Biennial, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, Englandfrom here to there, kurimanzutto at Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco CA, USA |
| 2015 |
Strange Currencies: Art & Action in Mexico City, 1990-2000, The Galleries at Moore, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia PA, USA (cat.) The Corner Show, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerpen, Belgium Balance Sheets, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, China Out of Office, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago IL, USA Estudio abierto 5: Zea Mays, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico, Consumed, University Art Museum, CSULB California State University Long Beach, Long Beach CA, USA Beyond Borders, Beaufort Triennale, Belgium Colección Jumex, In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni,Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico Flying over the Abyss, NEON and Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Crete, Greece Over you / you, 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia De Pictura – Volume III,Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut, Lebanon, in collaboration with Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy The Artist Facing the Object, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France 12th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba The Persistence of Objects, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Ireland |
| 2014 |
A History. Art, Architecture, Design from the 1980s Until Today, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France La Gioia, La Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium El derrumbe de la estatua, MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico (cat.) ARCO Foundation Collection, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain Melting Walls: Works from the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, The Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Michel Kikoine Foundation, Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel Kurimanzutto, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France In__We Trust: Art and Money, CMA Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus OH, USA Made in L.A. 2014, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA Between Critique and Absorption: Contemporary Art and Consumer Culture, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee WI, USA |
| 2013 |
Spanish Lessons, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York NY, USA Xerography, Firstsite Colchester, Colchester, England Soft Pictures, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy Mexico Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth TX, USA Conspicuous Unusable, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York NY, USA For the Time Being, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany |
| 2012 |
Amicale Succursale; Prolongation, around 'Wor((l)d)(k) in progress?, Galerie Nächt St. Stephan-Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria Expanded Fields, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland Inaugural Exhibition by Gallery Artists, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA, USA The Living Years: Art after 1989, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN, USA Seul Quelques Fragment de Nous…’, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France Art Foundation Mallorca Collection - Special Edition, CCA Andratx, Andratx, Spain B. Wurtz & Co., Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles CA, USA Sculptural Matter, ACCA Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia |
| 2011 |
Pour un art pauvre (inventaire du monde et de l’atelier), Carré d'Art - Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes, Nimes, France ILLUMInations, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Un'Espressione Geografica (A Geographical Expression), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, curated by Francesco BonamiInformellnatur, Galerie Sabine Knust, Maximilian Verlag, Munich, Germany Keeping it Real: An Exhibition in 4 Acts: Act 4: Material Intelligence, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England |
| 2010 |
Frieze Projects 2010,Frieze Art Fair, London, England Out of Joint, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany The Concrete Show, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy Is this all there is?, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London, England TRANSURBANIAC, University Art Gallery, University of California San Diego, San Diego CA, USA Languages and Experimentations, MART, Rovereto, Italy Idiolect,WIELS Centre for Contemporary Art, Bruges, Belgium It is it, Espacio 1414, Santurce, Puerto Rico |
| 2009 |
GAGARIN The Artists in their Own Words, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium Where do we go from here?, Colección Jumex, Bass Museum of Art, Miami FL, USA Revolution of the Ordinary. The Order of Things, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany Pop Up! On Realisms and Realities, Ludwif Forum, Aachen, Germany All That is Solid Melts into Air, M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium La Casa qu el Gato costruyo, Galerie Salvador Diaz, Madrid, Spain 2da Trienal Poli/Grafica de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico The Space of the Work and the Place of the Object, The Sculpture Centre, New York NY, USA |
| 2008 |
Inaugural Exhibition, kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico Open Plan Living, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel-Aviv, Israel La invención de lo cotidiano, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico Recursos incontrolables y otros desplazamientos naturals, MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro NC, USA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA, USA (touring) An Unruly History of the Readymade, Fundación / Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico Library, UOVO Open Office, Berlin, Germany Baghdad, Space Cog, Analyst, Frith Street Gallery, London, England EphemeraI, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Schüttelreime,Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium The Store, Tulip & Roses, Vilnius, Lithuania Master Humphrey’s Clock, Stanley Brouwn building, Utrecht, The Netherlands, a project byDe Appel‘s curatorial programme Brave New Worlds, Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico 5th Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany |
| 2007 |
Unmonumental, New Museum, New York NY, USA Fit to print,Gagosian Gallery, New York NY, USA Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN, USA Viva Mexico!, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL, USA Greed!, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley ID, USA Expats & Clandestins, WIELS Centre for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, MCASD Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego CA, USA; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester NY, USA (touring) Let Everything Be Temporary, or When is the Exhibition?, apexart, New York NY, USA |
| 2006 |
The Exotic Journey Ends, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, Poland Brighton Photo Biennial 2006, Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton, England Los Angeles / México. Complejidades Y Heterogeneidad, Colección Jumex, Museo José Luis Cuevas, Mexico City, Mexico Emergency Biennale in Chechnya, Centre A, Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, Canada An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life,Gallery at REDCAT Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater and MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2005 |
Open-Ended: Pierre Bismuth, Michel François, Gabriel Kuri, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England, curated by Daniel McClean En Route: Via Another Route: An Exhibition On Board the Trans-Siberian Train, Trans-Siberian train, curated by Adam Carr In This Colony, Kunstfort Bij Vijfhuizen, Vijfhuizen, The Netherlands Omaggio Al Quadrato,Gallleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy Post Notes, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis MN, USA, curated by Adam Carr; ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England, curated by Adam Carr Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco CA, USA Emergency Biennale in Chechnya: A Suitcase from Paris to Grosny, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France, curated by Evelyne Jouanno and Jota Castro, touring to: Grozny, Chechnya; Brussels, Belgium; Bolzano, Italy; Milan, Italy; Florence, Italy; Calcutta, India; New York NY, USA; Cali, Colombia; Santiago de Chile, Chile; Sydney, Australia; Melbourne, Australia; Palestine Material Time / Work Time / Life Time, Reykjavik Arts Festival 2005, Hafnarhus Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland, curated by Jessica Morgan Feeling Strangely Fine,Galería Estrany-de la Mota, Barcelona, Spain From A To B And Back Again, Galerie chez Valentin, Paris, France, curated by Simon Moretti Material Matters,Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca NY, USA |
| 2004 |
I’ll Be Your Mirror, City Inn Westminster Hotel guest rooms, London, England, organised by Fondazione Nicola Trussardi during the Frieze Art Fair Specific Objects: The Minimalist Influence, MCASD Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and La Jolla CA, USA Around the Corner, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal, curated by Carolina Grau Beating about the Bush, South London Gallery, London, England State of Play, Serpentine Gallery, London, England The Happy Worker, CCS Center for Curatorial Studies Bard, Hessel Museum of Art, Annabelle-on-Hudson NY, USA La Colmena, Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico, curated by Guillermo Santamarina |
| 2003 |
Elephant Juice (Sexo entre amigos), kurimanzutto at Los Manantiales, Mexico City, Mexico Interludes, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, curated by Francesco Bonami Utopia Station, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Living With Duchamp, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs NY, USA Supernova: Art of The 1990s from the Logan Collection, SFMOMASan Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, USA Bienal Americas De Ponta Cabeza, Fortaleza, Brazil Killing Time and Listening Between Lines, La Colección Jumex (now Museo Jumex), México City, Mexico, curated by Philippe Vergne and Douglas Fogle |
| 2002 |
Exhile on Main Street, NICC, Antwerp, Belgium Mexico City: An Exhibition about the Exchange Rates of Bodies and Values, PS1, Long Island City NY, USA; Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany Siete Dilemas: Diálogos en el Arte Mexicano,Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 2001 |
Sonsbeek 9, Locus Focus, Arnhem, The Netherlands, curated by Jan Hoet Demonstration Room Casa Ideal, NICC, Antwerp, Belgium; APEX ART, New York NY, USA; Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela Group Show, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France Dedallic Convention, MAK Museum Vienna, Vienna, Austria Tirana Biennial, Tirana, Albania, curated by Francesco Bonami Escultura Mexicana Siglo XX, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 2000 |
Permanencia Voluntaria, kurimanzutto, Cinemanía Plaza Loreto, Mexico City, Mexico New Sitings. Contemporary Projects 4, LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA, USA Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL, USA c/o La Ciudad, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, Canada Galería kurimanzutto @ Galerie Chantal Crousel, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France Summer Show, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 1999 |
Yo y mi circunstancia, MMFA Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada Dobles Vides, Barcelona, Spain, in collaboration with Taller General: Abraham Cruzvillegas, Gabriel Orozco and Damián Ortega OLDnewTOWN, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York NY, USA Cinco Continentes Y Una Ciudad, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City, Mexico Economía de Mercado, kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico La Sala del Artista, kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 1998 | Lines of Loss, Artists Space, New York NY, USA |
| 1997 |
Transatlantic, Incubator Gallery, London, England; Konstakuten, Stockholm, Sweden; CASE, Harlem, The Netherlands Tres Espacios, Art & Idea, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 1996 |
Offside! Contemporary Artists and Football, Manchester City Art Galleries, Colchester First Site, Colchester, England Moment Ginza, Le Magasin Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France Yerself Is Steam 85, Charlotte Street, London, England I Feel Explosion, Flat above Arndale Centre, Manchester, England |
| 1995 |
MA Degree Show, Goldsmiths College, London, England |
| 1994 |
Art Koln, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Cologne, Germany Private View, Chisenhale Gallery, London, England The Return of Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Centre, New York NY, USA |
| 1993 |
Otros Especímenes, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico Calma instalaciones, Temístocles 44, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 1991 |
D.F. Art from Mexico City, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio TX, USA Reconsideración del Paisaje, Club Hípico La Sierra, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 1990 | Aire fresco en el verano del amor, Galería División Arte México D.F, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 1989 |
De cabeza, Galería Polyforum Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexico Novos Valores Da Arte Contemporanea e Internacional, Museo de Arte de Brasilia, Brasilia, Brazil |
Commission
| 2017 | ACNE, London |
Curatorial projects
| 2018 | If You Like I Shall Grow, kurimanzutto at Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England |
| 2017 | Primordial Saber Tarear Proverbiales Silabas Tonificantes Para Sublevar Tecnocracias Pero Seguir Tenazmente Produciendo Sociedades Tántricas – Pedro Salazar Torres (Partido Salazar Torres), on the occasion of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA, USA, curated by Abraham Cruzvillegas and Gabriel Kuri |
| 2015 | Unidades y Continuidades, kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 2013 |
Push pins in elastic space, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France |
Public Collections
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CAC Malaga, Malaga, Spain Centre Pompidou, Paris, France FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA Museion - Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL, USA MCASD Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego CA, USA Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA, USA Tate, London, England Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN, USA |
Awards and distinctions
| 2007 | Artist in residence, OCA Office for Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway |
| 2002 | ACA Master, Artist in residence, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach FL, USA |
| 1999 | Premio Omnilife de Gráfica, Mexico |
| 1997-1998 | Beca de Apoyo a Jóvenes Creadores, FONCA, Mexico |