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Mario Garcia Torres
CV
1975 Born in Monclova, Coahuila, Mexico
Lives and works in Los Angeles
Education
2005 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1998 BFA, Universidad de Monterrey, San Pedro Garza García, NL Mexico
Solo Exhibitions
2010
What Doesn’t Kill You, Makes You Stronger, Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon
¿Alguna Vez Has Visto La Nieve Caer?, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
2009
Il aurait bien pu le promettre aussi, Jeu de Paume, Paris
Je ne sais si c’en est la cause, What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger, and Some Reference Materials / MATRIX 227, Berkeley Museum of Art, Berkeley, CA
All That Colour Is Making Me Blind, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels
The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
Unspoken Dailies, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
It’s Embarassing, But For Some Time Now I’ve Only Had Title Ideas In English, Miro Foundation, Barcelona
2008
Mario Garcia Torres & Tris Vonna-Michell, Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland
Mario Garcia Torres, White Cube Hoxton Square, London
Mario Garcia Torres, Proyectos Monclova, México, D.F. México
Some Stories that went missing, others that I belong to, and a few studio works, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich
2007
A Brief History of Jimmie Johnson’s Legacy, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Mario Garcia Torres, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
2006
Paradoxically It Doesn’t Seem That Far From Her, 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
Group Exhibitions
2010
Throwing Three Balls In The Air To Get A Straight Line, Malmo Konsthalle, Malmo
Curious? Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Berlin
2009
Desiring Necessities, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton
5 x 5, Castelló 09, Premi Internacional d’Art Contemporani Diputació de Castelló, Castelló
Replay: Asking Not Telling, Institute of Contemporary Art, Pennsylvania
Sculpture Of The Space Age, David Roberts Foundation, London
Resituation, La Box, École Nationale Superieure d’Art de Bourges, Bourges
Le Sort Probable de l’Homme Qui Avalé Le Fantôme, Centre des Monuments Nationaux, Paris
Registro 02: Looking For A Second Time, MACRO, Mexico
Beyond The Picturesque, Museum Marta Herford, Germany
2008
This is not a Void, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo
O medio é o museo, MARCO, Vigo
Other than Yourself. An Investigation between Inner and Outer Space, Thyssen-Bornemisza
Art Contemporary, Vienna
I Desired What You Were, I Need What You Are, Maze Galleria, Turin
You & Me, Sometimes… , Lehmann Maupin, New York
The Artists is a Mysterious Entertainer, De Appel, Amsterdam
The Store, Tulips & Roses, Vilnius
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican, London
All the Best, Gallery One, London
Yokohama Triennial, Yokohama, Japan
The Medium is the Museum, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea Exhibition Gallery, Spain
Recent Acquistions, Nature, Space and Time, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Curator, Curator #2, HISK, Ghent
Image en Cuestión, 41 Salón Nacionál de Artistas, Cali
For the First and the Second Time, The Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (CAC), Lithuania
2007
Think with the Senses – Feel with the Min, 52nd Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Uncertain States of America, Moscow Biennial, Moscow
Disco Coppertone, Locus Athens, Athens
Escultura Social, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Learn to Read, Tate Modern, London
The Last Piece by John Fare, gb agency, Paris
How Soon is Now?, Fundación Luis Sloane, Coruña
Whenever it Start 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
2006
Aspen 11, 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!, Deconsecrated church of San Gimiliano, Roma
Black Market Worlds, 9th 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, Spain
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, Convent du Cordeliers; ARC Museé d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
How to learn to love the bomb and stop worrying, Central de Arte, Guadalajara, Mexico City
Other Projects
2007
Editorial: Chapter Three. Documents on the Ninth International Forum for Contemporary Art (FITAC), Mexico.
2006
Academic: Who Killed Robert’s Secret? Visiting artist lecture at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax
2005
Editorial: Christopher D’Arcangelo, Rome, Italy
Newspaper editorial: What Happens in Halifax Stays in Halifax, Jan Mot, Brussels
Academic: The Artist and the City as Social Imaginary, Villa Aurora, Los Angeles
2004
Academic: Around Bas Jan Ader, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
2003
Director of (Mis)Understandng the Past: Reloading Histories in Contemporary Practice, 9th International Forum for Contemporary Art (FITAC), Mexico
Public Collections
Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes, UNAM, Mexico
49 Nord 6 Est -FRAC, Lorraine in Metz, France
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