Mario Garcia Torres

CV

1975
Born, Monclova, Coahuila, Mexico

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

2005
Graduated (MFA) California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California

1998
Graduated (BFA) Universidad de Monterrey, San Pedro Garza García, N. L. Mexico

Solo Exhibitions

2008
Mario Garcia Torres & Tris Vonna-Michell, Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland
Mario Garcia Torres, White Cube Hoxton Square, London

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

2008
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

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

More on Mario Garcia Torres

Exhibitions
Mario Garcia Torres 29 Feb—29 Mar 2008

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