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JORGE PARDO
Born in Havana, Cuba, 1963.
Lives and works in Los Angeles
 

EDUCATION
BFA Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
University of Illinois at Chicago
 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
2007
Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, EEUU
Gran Vía, 67 , Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid, Spain
I love my wife, Neugerriemschneider , Berlin, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA
Friedrich Petzel Gallery , New York, USA
 
2006
Momentary Monuments
, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
Friedrich Petzel Gallery , New York, USA
 
2005
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Köln, Germany
Haunch of Venison, Zurich, Switzerland
Las Vegas , Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
Friedrich Petzel Gallery , New York, USA
1301PE, Los Angeles, USA
Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
 
2003
Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy
Haunch of Venison, London, UK
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
Galerie Gisela Capitan, Köln, Germany
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Prototype , Dia Art Foundation, New York, USA
 
2002 Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle
China Art Objects, Los Angeles, USA
1301PE, Los Angeles (with Philippe Parreno), USA
Neugerriemschneider , Berlin, Germany
Taka Iishi, Tokyo, Japan
PKM, Seoul, Korea
Public Art Fund Project, Madison Square Park, New York, USA
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Köln, Germany
Montblanc Kulturstiftung , Hamburg, Germany
Friedrich Petzel Gallery , New York, USA
 
2000
Dia Art Foundation, New York, USA
Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Galeria Marta Cevera, Madrid, Spain
1301PE, Los Angeles, USA
 
1999
The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, USA
Royal Festival Hall, London, UK
neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
Swish I’m a Fish , Museum Abteiberg. Mönchengladbach, Germany
1301PE, Los Angeles, USA
 
1998
Jorge Pardo. 4166 Sea View Lane
, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Ghislaine Hussenot/Phillipe Rizzo, Brussels, Belgium
Patrick Painter, Santa Monica, USA
Baby Blue , Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
Wool, Cotton, Latex, Wax & Steel, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Villa Franck, Ludwigsburg, Germany
 
1997
Lighthouse
, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Garnish and Landscape (w/ Tobias Rehberger), Gesellschaft fuer Gegenwartskunst, Augsburg, Germany
 
1996
It Hangs Out There
, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
 
1995
Nafta, Tom Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, USA
Borgmann Capitain Gallery, Cologne, Germany
 
1994
Zeichnungen
, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
One Component of the Work Is That the Show Will Have Many Titles, One of Them Being: MoCA.Three Prints Per Second, Friedrich Petzel / Nina Borgmann, New York, USA
 
1993
Person's Weekend Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Tom Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, USA
 
1992
Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, USA
 
1991
Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica, USa
 
1990
Tom Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, USA
Petersburg Gallery , New York, USA
 
1988
Bliss Gallery, Pasadena, USA
 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 
2007
Smithsonian American Art Museum , Washington, D.C., USA
 
2005
In Situ
, Häusler Contemporary, München, Germany
Fairy Tales Forever, AroS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Arhus
View Eight: A Few Domestic Objects Interrogate a Few Works of Art , curated by Bruce Ferguson, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA
Design ¹ Art , Museum of Design, Atlanta; Aspen Art Museum
.all Hawaii ENtrees / luNar reggae , Irish Museum of Modern Art, Irland
POPulence,
Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, USA
Hans Christian Anderson Group Show, Arhos, Denmark
Extreme Abstraction
, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Present Perfect
, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
Ways of Living
, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK
Think Blue
, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria
 
2004
26 th Bienal de São Paulo,
Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil
Trans/Migrations: Graphics at Contemporary Art, San Juan Poly/Graphic
Triennial, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
Nothing Compared to this , Contemporary Arts Center, Cinncinati, USA Abstract Reality, Sead Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Off the Wall, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, UK
North Fork/South Fork: East End Art Now, Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton
Design ¹ Art , Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, USA
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
100 Artists See God, curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, Independent Curators International, The Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, USA
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach Albright College Freedman Art Gallery, Reading, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, USA
Jessica Stockholder:Table Top Sculpture”, Gorney, Bravin + Lee, New York Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
I Moderni/The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy
On The Wall , The RISD Museum
It Happened Tomorrow , Lyon Biennale, France
Flower Power, Palais de Beaux-Arts, Lille, France
 
2002
Jorge Pardo & Philippe Parreno
, 1301PE, Los Angeles, USA
Refraction,Jorge Pardo and Gerhard Richter, Dia Center for the Arts, USA
No Return , Sammlung Haubrok, Städtiches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
Culture meets culture , Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea
touch, Relational Art from the 1990s to Now , San Francisco Art Institute, USA
 
2001
Active Ingredients, Copia, American Center for Food Wine & the Arts, CA., 2001-2002, USA
Reverb, Jorge Pardo and Gilberto Zorio , Dia Center for the Arts, New York, USA
Comfort , curated by Kristin Chambers, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, USA
Public Offerings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
KolnSkulpture3 , curated by Dr. Michael Stoffel, September 2001, Skulptutenpark, Koln, Germany
In Between: Art and Architecture , MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, USA
The Beauty of Intimacy , Lens and Paper, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag,
Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism : SITE Santa Fe Forth International Biennal, Santa Fe, USA
Collaborations with Parkett, 1984 to Now” , Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Made in California: Art, Image and Identity , Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
1989, curated by Ilene Kurtz, David Kiehl & Patrick Moore, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, USA
Talleres: Art from the Guadalajara Workshops , Mexican Cultural Institute, Mexico
Threads of Dissent
, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, USA
Against Design , curated by Steven Beyer, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary At, San Diego, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, USA
Double Space , curated by A.S. Bessa, Apex Art Curatorial Program, New York, USA
Objecthood 00 , Rethymnon Centre for Contemporary Art, Rethymnon
Strange Paradise , Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Quoitidiana , Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy
Rags to Riches, curated by Petra Bungert and Alexandra Dimentieva, Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels, Belgium
What If , Moderna Museet, curated by Maria Lind and Liam Gillick, Stockholm, Sweden
Quiet Life , Blickle Stiftung
Fast Forward , Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany
Strange Paradise , Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
 
1999
Threads of Dissent
, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA
Objecthood 00 , Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece
Comfort Zone: Furniture by Artists , curated by Amy Wolf, The Public Art Fund, PaineWebber
Jorge Pardo (with Bob Weber), China Art Objects, Los Angeles, USA
Drawn by…, Metro Pictures, New York, USA
Talleres: Art From Guadalajara Workshops , curated by Carlos Ashida, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
DConstructivism: life back in to art , Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Center
Wonder world – notes for a solid collection, Newsantandrea, Savona
Konstruktionszeichnungen , Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany
 
1998
Light X Eight: The Hanukkah Project,
Jewish Museum, New York, USA
Richard Hawkins/Jorge Pardo , Brent Petersen Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Chaos, Control, Chaos, Control. You Like? You Like, curated by Anne Lemieux, Elias Fine Art, Boston, USA
artranspennine , with Langlands and Bell, Atelier van Lieshout and Francois Quardon, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, curated by Penelope Curtis, UK
Dad´s Art , neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
___, 1994untitled,1994(meettim&burkhard)brançusi,1997 , Grazer Kunstverein, Germany
FAST FORWARD "archives", Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
Fast Forward / Body Check, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany
Works for the Ideal Home , Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada
Scratches on the surface of things , Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Marienhof - Konzepte der Kunst , Rathaus, München, Germany
Kunst für Bundestagsneubauten , Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin, Germany
Jason Meadows / Jorge Pardo , Brent Petersen Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Mai '98, Kunsthalle Köln, Germany
Minis, Midis & Maxis , Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Germany
 
1997
Angel Hair EX. LA.
, Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
Check in , Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
Hospital , Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Kunst..Arbeit, Aus der Sammlung SudWest LB, Stuttgart, Germany
KolnSkulptur 1 , Koln, Germany
Kevin Appel, Francis Cape, Jorge Pardo , Janice Guy, New York, curated by Margaret Murray, USA
Assuming Positions , Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
Home Sweet Home , Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Rooms With a View. Environments for Videos , Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York, curated by Nancy Spector (including Vito Acconci, Angela Bulloch, and Dan Graham), USA
Laying Low: Postminimalism/Scatter Art , Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Bastards of Modernity , Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Skulptur. Projekte in Munster 1997 , Germany
Cruising L.A., Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
 
1996
True.BLISS
., Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, USA
Just Past: Contemporary and Permanent Collection 1975-1996 , MoCA Los Angeles, USA
Richard Telles Gallery, Los Angeles (with Jim Iserman), USA
Friedrich Petzel Gallery , New York, USA
Ab Fab, feature inc, New York, USA
Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, USA
Defining the 90’s , Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA
Projekte/Projects:Art at the New Trade Fair of Leipzig , Leipzig, Germany
Multiple Pleasure , Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
Dark Memories Hovering , Marc Foxx Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Traffic , CAPC Musee d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
le labyrinthe moral
, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Dijon, France
nach Weimar , Kunstsammlung zu Weimar, Weimar, Germany
wunderbar , Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
Faustrecht der Freiheit : Sammlung Volkmann, Kunstsammlung Gera
Alle Neune , ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany
groupshow , Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
Ranch, Peter Strauss Ranch, Santa Monica, USA
Jim Iserman, Jorge Pardo , Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA
Affairs , Institut für Gegenwartskunst, Wien, Austria
Der Umbau Raum , Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Legende I , Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
Ab Fab , feature inc., New York, USA
 
1995
Affairs
, Institut fuer Gegenwartskunst, Wien, Austria
Hawaii, (with Pae White, Mitchell Kane, & Mythter), Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
Alles was modern ist , Galerie Baerbel Graesslin, Frankfurt, Germany
Dark Memories Hovering Below the Transparent Screen of the Present Will Project Images of Reality in Sharp Silhouette, to Create the Pleasurable Effect of a Double World , Marc Foxx, Santa Monica, CA, USA
Le Consortium, Dijon, France
 
1994
filmcuts
, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany (video)
Das Ende der Avantgarde - Kunst als Dienstleistung , Sammlung Schuermann, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany
Saturday Night Fever , curated by Michael Cohen and Catherine Liu, Tom Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, USA
Interdisciplinary, Woodbury University, Burbank
Temporary Translation(s) - Kunst der Gegenwart und Fotografie – Sammlung Schuermann, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
Neue Moebel fuer die Villa , Villa Merkel, Esslingen
Lost Paradise , Kunstraum Wien, Vienna, Austria
Pure Beauty: Some Recent Work From Los Angeles , curated by Ann Goldstein, traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles American Center, Paris, France
Backstage , Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
Untitled Groupshow , Metro Pictures, New York, USA
Love in the Ruins , Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, USA
Breakdown , MOCA , San Diego, USA
Museum auf Zeit , slide projections at Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
   
1993
Backstage
, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany
Pardo- Segar- Rirkit Tiravanija- Tobier, 1301 Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Displace Michael Cohen Gallery, New York, USA
Summer Group Exhibition, Anderson O'Day Gallery, London, UK
11- Artists organized by Tim Neuger, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
6- Artists organized by Tim Neuger, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
 
1992
Gallery Artists Group Show
, Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, USA
Tele Mundo , Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Very, Very, Very... Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
5 Artists Summer Show, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Mars Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Object/objet (with Stephen Berens, Elizabeth Bryant, Anne Walsh)
El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance
California : North and South , Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, USA
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, USA
 
1991
Phenon/Phenotype: A Group Therapy, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco
L.A. Times , curated by Jackie Christ, Boise Museum of Modern Art, Boise, USA
Facing the Finish , curated by John Caldwell and Robert Riley, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, USA
 
1990
Omnia ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
, curated by Peter Wright, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, USA
Improvements on the Ordinary , curated by Dan Peterman, Randolph Street, Chicago, USA
Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica, USA
New Sculpture (with Craig Watson), Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, USA
 
1989
H20 , curated by Thomas Solomon, Beverly Hills, USA
 
1987
Graduate Group Show, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, USA



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