Mario Garcia Torres (Mexico, 1975) Currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA Education MFA California Institute of the Arts, 2005 BFA, Universidad de Monterrey, 1998 Grants and Awards Premio 5 x 5 Castellón,2009 The Cartier Award 2007 Fullbright Grantee 2003-2005 PAEE FONCA/CONACULTA Grantee 2004 La Colección Jumex Grantee 2003-2005 Solo shows 2013 Until it Makes Sense, Project Arts Centre, Dublin La lezione di boetti (alla ricerca del one hotel, kabul), Museo D Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples Sometimes you make the Work, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico 2012 Telltale of A Sunday Practice, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo 2011 September Piece, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels
2010 What Doesn t Kill You Makes You Stronger, Le Pavé Dans La Mare, Besançon I Will Be With You Shortly, PEEP HOLE, Milan Alguna vez has visto la nieve caer?, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia, Madrid 2009 It's embarrassing, but for some time now I've only had title ideas in English, Espai 13, Fundacio Miro, Barcelona Unspoken Dailies, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo All That Color Is Making Me Blind, Jan Mot, Brussels Je ne sais si c en est la cause, MATRIX 227, UC Berkeley Museum of Art and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley Il aurait bien pu le promettre aussi. Jeu de Paume, Paris 2008 Early Color Video Tapes, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City Some Stories Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich Mario Garcia Torres, White Cube, London Pocket Scratching, Gallery Sora, Tokio 2007 What Doesnt Kill You Makes You Stronger, Museum of Modern Art Syros Materials for a Leisure Hour, Elba Benítez, Madrid A Solo Exhibition,Kadist Art Foundation, Paris A Brief History of Jimmie Johnson s Legacy, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 2006 Paradoxically It Doesn t Seem That Far From Here. Meyer-Riegger, Karlsruhe What Happens in Halifax Stays In Halifax (In 36 Slides). Meyer-Riegger, Karlsruhe Te Invito a Mi Mundo, Jan Mot, Brussels The Galleries Show, Extra City, Antwerp 2005 Some Hold, Some Push and Some Don t Even Know How to Take a Picture, Jan Mot, Brussels
2004 Shoot of Grace with Alighiero Boetti Hairstyle and Other Works, Jan Mot, Brussels 2003 Contradictory Illicit Registry (Project Room) Muestra Art Fair, Mexico City I also asked myself... Galería de Arte Mexicano, México City, April Group shows (Selection) 2014 Words As Doors, Kunstlerhaus, Halle fur Kunst & Medien, Graz (Upcoming 15th of March 22nd May 2014) Le Nouveau festival 5th Edition, Center Pompidou, Paris The Invisible Hand. Curating as Gesture, 2nd CAFAM Biennale, Beijing 2013 The 9th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit I am Another World, Kupferstichkabinett der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna With a Name Like Yours, You Might Be Any Shape, Tiroler Künstlerschaft - Kunstpavillion, Innsbruck Paint it blck, FRAC, Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris The Floating Admiral, Palais de Tokyo, Paris 2012 documenta (13), Fridericianum, Kassel 2010 Directions: Cyprien Gaillard and Mario Garcia Torres, Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington There is always a cup of sea to sail in, 29th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo TB10 Taipei Biennial, Taipei Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line, Malmo Kunsthall, Malmo R for Replicant, CCA Wattis Institute, for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
2009 Asking Not Telling, Video Art: Replay, ICA University Of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Sculpture of the Space Age, David Roberts Foundation, London, Pittoresk Neue Perspektiven auf das Landschaftsbild, Museum Marta, Herford Le sort probable de l homme qui avait avalé le fantôme, Conciergerie, Paris, The Poetics of Space, Marian Goodman, Paris Pierre Bismuth, Mario Garcia Torres, Annette Kelm, Daimantas Narkevicius, Jan Mot, Brussels Beyond the Picturesque. SMAK, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent The Show Formerly Known as Passengers, CCA/Wattis Institute, San Francisco Fia Backstrom, Mario Garcia Torres, Stephen Kaltenbach, Jack Hanley, New York Paper Exhibition, Artist Space, New York Audio, Video, Disco, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich 2008 Recursos Incontrolables y Otros Desplazamientos Naturales, MUAC, Mexico City Die Wahrnehmung von Ideen Kunstverein fur die Rhenlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf When a Clock is Seen from the Side, It No Longer Tells the Time, Johann Koenig, Berlin Salon of the Revolution, HDLU, Croatian Asociation of Artist, Zagreb One Of This Things Is Not Like The Other Things. 1/9 unosunove arte contemporanea, Rome Nature, Space and Time, Recent Acquisitions, Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo Arte y Contexto, Berezdivin Collection, Espacio 1414, San Juan Time Crevasses, Third Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama The Artist Is A Mysterious Entertainer, De Appel, Amsterdam The Museum as Medium, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo The Sweet Burnt Smell of History, 8 th Panama Biennial, Panama Other Than Yourself, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna A Stake in The Mud, A Hole in the Reel, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City Still, La Planta, Guadalajara Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican, London Autopsia de lo Invisible, MALBA-Coleccion Constantini, Buenos Aires 2007 Nuevos Leones, Centro de las Artes, Monterrey Someoneelse with My Fingerprints, Chantal Crousel, Paris Der Droste Effekt, Esther Sipper, Berlin Pawnshop, e-flux, New York
Nuevos Leones, Forum, Monterrey Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art From Mexico City, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Overtake, The Reinterpretation of Modern Art, Lewis Clorkman Gallery Cork, Ireland Accords Exentriques, BPS 22 Espace de Creation Contemporaine, Charleroi For Sale, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon Le Truc, Projects Art Center, Dublin Imagine Los Angeles, Monka Spruth Philomene Magers, Munich Think with the Senses Feel with the Mind.52.Biennale di Venezia, Venice American Video Art at the Beginning of the 3 rd Millenium, Moscow Biennial Disco Coppertone, Locus Athens, Athens Sublime Objects, Collections Sans Frontiers V, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bukarest Learn to Read, Tate Modern, London The Last Piece by John Fare, gb agency, Paris How Soon Is Now? Fundación Luis Sloane, Coruña e-flux Video Rental, Various Venus Whenever It Starts It Is The Right Time, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt Night at the Museum or What Betty Boop Saw, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid Otra de Vaqueros, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City Saturday Live Actions & Interruptions, Tate Modern, London Distorted Fabric, De Appel, Amsterdam No Negative, Objective Exhibitions, Antwerp Some, Time, Waiting, Kadist Foundation, Paris Commitment, Sbk Strombeek, Belgium Elephant Cementery, Artists Space, New York May the Twelfth, Store, London The Backroom, Various Venius 2006 Aspen 11 (Part1), Neue Alte Brucke, Frankfurt Am Main Neo-Con. Contemporary Returns to Conceptual Art, Apex Art, New York and British School, Rome Bunker o No Bunker, Ramis Barquet, Monterrey Le Spectre des Armatures, Glassbox, Paris Bring The War Home, QED Gallery, Los Angeles and Elizabeth Dee, New York
Una Vision du Monde, La Collection Vidéo de Jean-Conrad et Isabelle Lemaitre La Maison Rouge, Paris Some, Time, Waiting. Variable sites. 2005 Angelo, Mai! Deconsagrated church of San Gimiliano, Roma Black Market Worlds / 9 th Baltic Triennale. CAC, Vilnius and ICA, London Dis & Appearance Fri-Art, Fribourg Missunderstandings. Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City Shipping and Receiving: CalArts Graduate Show Armory Arts Center, Los Angeles Life is Habit. Stenersen Museum, Oslo Fragile. Analix Forever, Geneva. I still believe in Miracles / Drawing Space. Convent du Cordeliers / ARC Museé d art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris. No Convenient Subway Stops Art in General, New York. Data Space. Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid. España Today is Just a Copy of Yesterday, Jan Mot Gallery, Brussels. Surely We Will Be Confused. Viafarini / Careof, Milan. 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. Other projects Curatorial Objetos para un momento de inercia (Objects for an inertia moment). galeria elba benitez, Madrid, 2010 The Title of This Show Is A List Jan Mot, Brussels, 2008 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), Mexico (Editor), 2007 What Happens in Halifax Stays in Halifax. Newspaper Jan Mot. Brussels, 2005 A never-seen-by-the-patron art work. Cabinet magazine (In collaboration with Luis Miguel Suro), 2004 Chapter One. The Ninth International Forum for Contemporary Art (FITAC), Mexico (Editor), 2003 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, Los Angeles, 2005 Around Bas Jan Ader. Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, 2004 (Mis)Understandng the Past: Reloading Histories in Contemporary Practice, Ninth International Forum for Contemporary Art (FITAC), Mexico (Director), 2003 Bibliography (Selection) 2007 Mario Garcia Torres, Sven Lutken, Artforum, Nov 2007 Date Due, Kadist Art Foundation, 2007 Secrets and Lies, Craig Burnett, ArtReview, Sept 2007 Mario Garcia Torres, Catrin Lorch, Frieze, September 2007 Escultura Social A New Generatin of Art From Mexico City, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Yale University Press, 2007 A la recherché des Idees Perdúes, Nicolas Trembeley, Numero, Septembre 2007 Mario Garcia Torres, Roberto Tenconi, Mousse 9, 2007 Think with the Senses Feel with the Mind.52. Biennale di Venezia, Charta, 2007 Fragments of History, Magali Arriola, Spike 12, 2007 Who Killed Robert s Secret? Elodie Royer and Sandra Terdjman, 02, No 41, 2007 Wereldrecord Museumbezoek Frits de Conink, Museumtijdschrift, Juni-July 2007 Mario Garcia Torres, Arjan Reinders, Kunstbeeld NR9, 2007
The Beautiful and the Random, Perry Grayson, The Guardian, January 24, 2007 Venice Biennale: Eclectic art in the Present Tense. Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, June 29, 2007 Maybe It Was Created When Eisenhower Was President, Bit It s Still Contemporary Blake Gopnik, Washington Post, July 8, 2007 2006 De Conceptual a Tropicoso. Cuauhtemoc Medina, Periodico Reforma, Junio 5, 2006 Mario Garcia Torres, Anne Dressen, Flash Art, May-June 2006 Some Stories I Overheard and Have Now Twisted, Luca Cerizza, NeueReview, 2006 2005 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, Verano, 2005 2004 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 2003 Géneros de Espejismo, Cuauhtemoc Medina, Periodico Reforma, Marzo, 2003