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Damián Ortega

(Mexican, born 1967)

Damián Ortega

Earth Monster, 2015

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Damián Ortega

Monster, 2019

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Damián Ortega

Epitácio Pessoa, 2011

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Biography

Timeline

1967: Born in Mexico City
2005: Colecção Teixeira de Freitas. Lisbon, Portugal
: Hugo Boss Prize Nominee
2006: DAAD Residency Program. Berlin, Germany
2007: Nominated artist to the Preis Der Nationalgalerie fur junge kunst. Hamburguer Banhof, Germany
: Currently lives and works in Mexico City and Berlin

Exhibitions

2013: La Persistencia de la geometría, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City
: 55th Venice Bienale, Palazzo Enciclopedico, Venice, Italy
: México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990, The Modern, Fort Worth, TX
: La ballena negra, X aniversario del MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Vigo (MARCO), Vigo, Spain
: Cosmogonia doméstica, Museo Jumex, Mexico (solo)
Damián Ortega, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Apestraction, The Freud Museum, London, UK (solo)
Damián Ortega: The Blast and Other Embers, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (solo)
Spanish Lessons, a Project Organized by Gabriel Orozco, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
América Latina 1960–2013, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
The Persistence of Geometry, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Parorama. Landscapes 2013–1969, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
: Belo Horizonte Project, Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (solo)
Traces of gravity, White Cube, London, UK (solo)
The Black Whale, 10th Anniversary of the Marco, Museo de Arte contemporaneo de Vigo, Spain
The 11th Havana Biennial, Cuba
Copenhagen Art Festival, Copenhagen
KADIST: Pathways into a Collection, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Práctica artísticas e imaginarios sociales, 11th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
: Deslocamentos, Institution Parque Lage in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
: Bienal de la Habana, Habana, Cuba
2012: Agency of Unrealized Projects, Berliner Künstlerprogramm/DAAD Berlin & project by e-flux and the Serpentine Gallery London
: Desplazamientos: arte contemporáneo en la Colección FEMSA, Museo Reyes Meza del Centro Cultural Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico
2011: Car Fetish. I drive, therefore I am, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
Mexico: Expected/Unexpected, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Life: A User’s Manual, Israel Museum
Damián Ortega, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City (solo)
Tool Bit, Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev (solo)
: En obras, Coleção Teixeira de Freitas, Tea, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Islas Canarias
: Distant Star/Estrella Distante, An exhibition around the writings of Roberto Bolaño, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA; kurimanzutto, Mexico City
: Antes de la resaca… Una fracción de los noventa de la Colección del MUAC, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City
: ALIAS at SITAC, Simposio Internacional de Teoría sobre Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
: Kupferstichkabinett,: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London, UK
Contemplating the Void, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Ordinary Madness, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Post-Monument, XIV Biennale Internazionale di Scultura di Carrara, Carrara, Italy
Autoconstruccion (self-construction), Kurimanzutto, Mexico
The Curve, Barbican Art Gallery, London (solo)
Damian Ortega, New Balance, Art Basel 41, June 2010 (solo)
: New commission for The Curve, Barbican Center, London, UK (solo)
: The concrete show, Franco Noero, Torino, Italy
2010: Pensar Latinoamérica desde la colección MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Leon, Spain
: Going International, Flag Art Foundation, New York, NY (solo)
2009: Damián Ortega: CAPITAL Less, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Damián Ortega: Do It Yourself, ICA, Boston, MA (solo)
: Where do we go from here?, La Colección Jumex, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
: In and Out of Context, New Museum, New York, NY
: Materialista, Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil (solo)
: Desenhos [Drawings]: A–Z, Museu da Cidade, Portugal
: Paréntesis, Museo de arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO), Mexico
2008: Recursos incontrolables y otros desplazamientos naturales, MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
: Exhibition inaugural new space, kurimanzutto, Mexico City
: Champ de Vision, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (solo)
: Damián Ortega, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (solo)
Mexico: Expected / Unexpected, Colección Isabel & Agustin Coppel, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
An Unruly history of the Ready Made, Colección Jumex. Ecatapec. Mexico
That Was Then... This Is Now, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, NY
Las implicaciones de la imagen, Colección Isabel & Agustin Coppel, MUCA, Mexico City, Mexico
Unitednationsplaza México D.F., Casa Refugio, Mexico City, Mexico
A Skate in the Mud, a Hole in the Reel: Land Art’s Expanded Field 1968–2008, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
: Inversión de poderes, Project for the University of Valencia, Spain (solo)
: Sculptures In The Park, Project for Villa Manin, Passariano, Italy (solo)
: Obelisco transportable, Public Art Fund, Central Park, New York, USA (solo)
: Nine Types of Terrain, White Cube, London, UK (solo)
: Being, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (solo)
: Man is the Controller of the Universe, DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2007: Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst 2007, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Escultura social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Nine Types of Terrain, White Cube Hoxton Square, London, UK (solo)
Shimabuko’s Sakepirinha, DAAD Gallery, Berlin (solo)
2006: Los Angeles / Mexico, Complejidades y heterogeneidad, Colección, Museo José Luis Cuevas, Mexico City, Mexico
10 Years of Art & Idea, Art & Idea, Vienna, Austria
Dirty Yoga, Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
27th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Open House / Casa Abierta, Centro de Arte Contemporánea, Minas Gerais
El Equilibrio y Sus Derivados, Casa del Lago, Mexico City, Mexico
Metro Pictures, The Moore Space, Miami, FL
4th Berlin Biennial, Berlin, Germany
Zones of Contact, 2006 Biennale of Sydney, SydneySpace is the Place, ICI, New York, NY
Al Confinei Della Realta: Arte Ciencia e Techologia, Benevento, Italy
Dark Matter, White Cube, London, UK
2005: The Beetle Trilogy and Other Works, Gallery at REDCAT (The Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theatre) and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Untitled Project Series, Tate Modern, London (solo)
: The Uncertainty Principle, UNTITLED Project Series, Tate Modern (solo)
2004: Damián Ortega, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
Spirit and Matter, White Cube, London, UK (solo)
Damián Ortega, Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Bazil (solo)
Moby Dick, Kurimanzutto at Mega Comercial Mexicana, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)
Solo Los Personajes Cambian, MARCO, Monterrey
Video Mundi, Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago / Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
Espacios de Paisaje y Memoria, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
2003: Damián Ortega, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil (solo)
Elephant Juice (sexo entre amigos), Kurimanzutto at Los Manantiales, Xochimilco
Made in Mexico, ICA Boston, MA / Hammer museum, Los Angeles, CA
A Nova Geometria, Galeria Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Il Quotidiano Alterato, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Our Mutual Friend, Bloomberg Space, London, UK
: Materia a Energia, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil (solo)
2002: Cosmic Thing, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA (solo)
: Damián Ortega, ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
Damián Ortega, D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Do It!, artist project for Frieze magazine, London (solo)
Sublime Artificial, La Capella, Barcelona, Spain
The Air Is Blue, Casa Barragán, Mexico City, Mexico
Arte All Arte, Arte Continua, Italy
Gwanju Biennale, Gwanju, South Korea
Siete Dilemas: Dialogos En El Arte Mexicano, Museo de Arte Moderno, México
2001: Alguem Me Soletra, artist in residence, Museu Serralves, Porto (solo)
Animation, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
Squatters, Museu Serralves, Porto
Squatters, Museum Witte de With, Rotterdam
Ars 2001, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Do It!, Museo de Arte Carrilo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Tirana Biennale, Albania
Escultura Mexicana, De La Academía a La Instalación, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Mutations. La Video Mexicaine Actuelle, Palais Des Arts, Toulouse / Iconoscope, Montpellier
Como Es Que Los Autos No Vuelan Aún, Entro de Las Artes, Monterrey
Metropolis Mexica, Musée de Picardie, Amiens
2000: Galerie Kurimanzutto, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Guarene 2000, Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo Per L’Arte, Torino, Italy
Permanencia Voluntaria, Galería Kurimanzutto Cinemanía, Plaza Loreto, México
supermodernismo (Improvisado), Ex Teresa Arte Actual, México
Puerto Rico 00 (Paréntesis en la Ciudad), Puerto Rico
Videoarte De La Nueva Generacion, Generalli Foundation, Vienna, Austria
: B.I.F. Bienal Internacional de Fotografía, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City
: Yo y mi circunstancia, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada
: Economía de mercado, kurimanzutto, Mercado de Medellín, Mexico City
: Project Rooms, Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo ARCO, Madrid, Spain
1999: Textil d´Indumentaria, Barcelona, Spain
: Dobles Vidas, Taller General (Abraham Cruzvillegas, Gabriel Kuri y Gabriel Orozco), Museo Barbier-Mueller d´Art Precolombí; Museo
1998: Prepositions II, Musée departamental d´art contemporain, Palace du Rochechouart, France
: Yesterday Begins Tomorrow: Ideals, Dreams and Contemporary Awakenings, Center for Curatorial Studies and Contemporary Art & Culture, Bard College, New York, USA
: Creación en movimiento, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
1997: Mercurio, comunicacion y dinero, Galería Arte Contemporáneo, Guadalajara, Mexico
: Lines of Loss, Artists Space, New York, USA
: Instalaciones, MACO Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
: Reglas e instintos, Art & Idea, Mexico City (solo)
1995: Nuevas practicas colectivas, Galería Arte Contemporáneo, Guadalajara, Mexico
: (En Transito) Señales Presentes, Intercambio artístico, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
: Deux Ex Machina, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City
: Tento Onstelling, Galería C.D. Tielt, Belgium
: Cronologías, Temístocles 44, Mexico City
1994: Temístocles 44, Temístocles 44, Mexico City
: Beelden Buiten 1994, Tuin de Brabandere–Tielt, Tielt, Belgium
1991: Fuerza Viva, Galería Etnia, Mexico City (solo)

Literature

2014: Lee, Nathaniel, "Damián Ortega," Modern Painters, January 2014, p.86.
2013: Damián Ortega: To Do, Mexico: Museo Jumex, 2013.
Damián Ortega: The Blast and Other Embers, Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.
Brett, Guy, Helen Molesworth, and Juan Villoro, Parkett 92, Zurich: Parkett-Verlag AG, May 2013.
West, Kevin, "Museo Jumex: Art Nuevo," W magazine, December 17, 2013.
Knight, Christopher. "Review: Museo Jumex in Mexico City is an impressive filter," The Los Angeles Times, December 1, 2013.
2012: Sherwin, Skye, "Artist of the week 204: Damian Ortega," The Guardian, August 23, 2012.
"Conversation: Gabriel Orozco and Damián Ortega," Art in America, September.
Uddin, Zakia, "September, 2012, Damian Ortega at White Cube," whitehotmagazine.com, September 2012.
2011: Defining Contemporary Art—25 years in 200 pivotal artworks, London: Phaidon, 2011.
Paneque, Guillermo, ed., Entre Chien et loup, Works from the Menea Larrucea Collection, Madrid: Iberdrola, 2011.
Jauregui, Gabriela, "Damian Ortega," Frieze, June, July, August 2011.
"A free-for-all spirit breezes into a vast art fair," The New York Times, March 2011.
2010: Adler, Pheobe, Tom Howells, and Nikolaos Kotsopoulos, eds., Contemporary Art in Latin American, London: Black Dog, 2010.
Morgan, Jessica, ed., Do It Yourself: Damian Ortega, New York: Rizzoli, 2010, The Last Newspaper, New York: New Museum, 2010.

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Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel

Damián Ortega

(Mexican, born 1967)

Damián Ortega

Damián Ortega

Damián Ortega

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

Damián Ortega

(Mexican, born 1967)

Damián Ortega

Damián Ortega

Damián Ortega

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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