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| Mario García Torres ( Mexico, 1975) Currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA Education MFA California Institute of the Arts, 2005 BFA, Universidad de Monterrey, 1998 Awards Cartier Award – Frieze Art Fair, 2007 Fullbright Grantee, 2003-2005 PAEE – FONCA/CONACULTA Grantee, 2004 La Colección Jumex Grantee, 2003-2005 Solo shows 2007 What Doesn’t Kill You Make You Stronger , The Museum of Modern Art, Syros, Greece A Brief History of Jimmie Johnson’s Legacy , Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland Mario Garcia Torres, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France Mario García Torres , Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid, Spain 2006 Paradoxically It Doesn’t Seem That Far From Here. Meyer-Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany What Happens in Halifax Stays In Halifax (In 36 Slides). Meyer-Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany Te Invito a Mi Mundo, Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium The Galleries Show, Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium 2005 Some Hold, Some Push and Some Don’t Even Know How to Take a Picture . Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium 2004 Shoot of Grace with Alighiero Boetti Hairstyle and Other Works , Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium 2003 Contradictory Illicit Registry (Project Room) Muestra Art Fair, Mexico City, Mexico I also asked myself... Galería de Arte Mexicano, México City, Mexico Group shows (Detail) 2007 Uneasy Angel / Imagine Los Angeles , Sprueth Magers and Sprueth Magers Projekte, Munich, Germany Le Truc , Projects Arts Center, Dublin, Irland Someone Else With My Fingerprints , Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France The Droste Effect , Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany For Sale , Galería Cristina Guerra, Lisbon, Portugal (curated by Jens Hoffmann) Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind.52.Biennale di Venezia, Venice , Italy American Video Art at the Beginning of the 3 rd Millenium, Moscow Biennial , Moscow, Russia Disco Coppertone , Locus Athens, Athens, Greece Escultura Social, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA Learn to Read , Tate Modern, London, UK The Last Piece by John Fare, gb agency, Paris, France How Soon Is Now? Fundación Luis Seoane, A Coruña, Spain Whenever It Starts It Is The Right Time , Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany Night at the Museum or What Betty Boop Saw, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain Otra de Vaqueros, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico Saturday Live Actions & Interruptions , Tate Modern, London, UK Distorted Fabric , De Appel, Amsterdam, Holland No Negative , Objective Exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium Some, Time, Waiting, Kadist Foundation, Paris, France Commitment, Sbk Strombeek, Belgium Elephant Cementery , Artists Space, New York, USA May the Twelfth, Store, London, UK 2006 Aspen 11 (Part1), Neue Alte Brucke, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany Neo-Con. Contemporary Returns to Conceptual Art, Apex Art, New York, USA, and British School, Rome, Italy Bunker o No Bunker, Ramis Barquet, Monterrey, Mexico Le Spectre des Armatures , Glassbox, Paris, France Bring The War Home, QED Gallery, Los Angeles and Elizabeth Dee, New York, USA Una Vision du Monde, La Collection Vidéo de Jean-Conrad et Isabelle Lemaitre La Maison Rouge, Paris, France Some, Time, Waiting. Variable sites 2005 Angelo, Mai! Deconsagrated church of San Gimiliano, Rome, Italy Black Market Worlds / 9 th Baltic Triennale . CAC, Vilnius and ICA, London, UK Dis & Appearance Fri-Art, Fribourg, Switzerland Missunderstandings. Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City Shipping and Receiving: CalArts Graduate Show Armory Arts Center, Los Angeles, USA Life is Habit . Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway Fragile. Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland I still believe in Miracles / Drawing Space . Convent du Cordeliers / ARC Museé d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France No Convenient Subway Stops Art in General, New York, USA Data Space . Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain Today is Just a Copy of Yesterday , Jan Mot Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Surely We Will Be Confused . Viafarini / Careof, Milan, Italy 2004 What did you expect? Jan Mot Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Off the Record / Sound ARC Museé d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / Couvent des Cordelieres, Paris, France How to learn to love the bomb and stop worrying . Central de Arte, Guadalajara, Mexico City, Mexico Public Collections Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes, UNAM, Mexico 49 Nord 6 Est -FRAC, Lorraine in Metz, France Other projects Curatorial: Recovered document or A show that could have happened during the seventies. Oficina para Proyectos de Arte (OPA), Guadalajara, 2003 Editorial: Christopher D’Arcangelo. Rome , Italy 2005 Chapter Three. Documents on the Ninth International Forum for Contemporary Art (FITAC) 2007, Mexico. (Editor) What Happens in Halifax Stays in Halifax. Newspaper Jan Mot. Brussels, 2005 A never-seen-by-the-patron art work. Cabinet magazine. 2004 (In collaboration with Luis Miguel Suro) Chapter One. The Ninth International Forum for Contemporary Art (FITAC) 2003, Mexico (Editor) Academic: Who Killed Robert’s Secret? Visiting artist lecture at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax. 2006 The Artist and the City as Social Imaginary, Villa Aurora. 2005 Los Angeles Around Bas Jan Ader . Museo Rufino Tamayo, 2004 Mexico City (Mis)Understandng the Past: Reloading Histories in Contemporary Practice, Ninth International Forum for Contemporary Art (FITAC) 2003, Mexico. (Director) Bibliography (Selection) De Conceptual a Tropicoso. Cuauhtemoc Medina, Periodico Reforma, June 5, 2006 Mario Garcia Torres, Anne Dressen, Flash Art, May-June 2006 Some Stories I Overheard and Have Now Twisted, Luca Cerizza, NeueReview, 2006 Tout est plus grand. Berenice Bailly, Le Monde, Nov, 2005 El Rancho es Grande. Patrick Charpenel in Crónicas del Paraíso. Ephemera, 2005 De Género a Géneros. Alberto Sánchez, Exit Express, Madrid, Summer 2005 Eyes Wide Open. Anna Daneri in Jimmie Durham. Charta Italy 2004 What did you expect. Elena Filipovic, Frieze magazine 86, 2004 The Answer is Never the Same . Raimundas Malasauskas, Newspaper Jan Mot. 2004 Géneros de Espejismo , Cuauhtemoc Medina, Periodico Reforma, March, 2003 |
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