Helen Escobedo (Mexican, born 1936)

Timeline

1934: Born: Mexico City, Mexico
1949: Enrolled at Mexico City College, Mexico City, Mexico
1950–1952: Majored in the humanities and received her master's degree in sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London, U.K.
1960: Accepted a post as head of the Fine Arts Department at the National University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
1961–1978: Served as a Director of the Museums and Galleries of the National University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
1979: Appointed Mexican correspondent for the Musee Pompidou s selection committee for foreign grant holders.
1981: Appointed Mexican Correspondent for the Biennale del Jeunes de Paris, Paris, France
Accepted the position of technical director of the New National Museum of Art (MUNAL), Mexico City, Mexico
1982–1984: Worked as a director of the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, Mexico
1984: One of three finalists, together with the Poirots and Lynda Benglis at the competition for the International Water Sculpture Competition for the New Orleans World Fair
1991: Received a Guggenheim fellowship
: Lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany during the summer months and in Mexico City, Mexico during the winter

2010: Helen Escobedo, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)
2008: Don´t leave your marks behind you!, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Ateneo de Yucatan, Mérida, Yutacan, Mexico
Historia de mujeres, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey MARCO, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Summer Field, Yorkshire Sculpture Park / Longside Gallery, Wakefield, U.K.(solo)
2007: Blickachsen 6, Kurpark Bad Homburg, Bad Homburg, Germany
La era de la discrepancia, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
Universos femeninos, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Ateneo de Yucatan, Mérida, Mexico
2005: ecaste Ríos Perenes, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
2003: Aparentemente Sublime, Museo de Arte Moderno de Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
2002: Salón Bancomer, The Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Die Fluchtlinge:The Refugees, the Communal Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Bicycle Taxi, Berlin, Germany
2000: Estar y no estar, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico(solo)
1996: Kunsthalle Düsseldor: Bilder und Visionen, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
1995: Bilder Und Visionen, the Würth Museum, Kunzelsau, Germany
1990: Agua, Aguas Paraguas, the Galería Sloan Racotta, Mexico City, Mexico(solo)

: Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, U.K.
Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Museo de Arte y Diseno Contemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica
The Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany
Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
>The Wurth Museum, Kunzelsau, Germany

2004: Schmilchuk, Graciela. Helen Escobedo: Steps On The Sand.Turner: New York

English (US)