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Allora & Calzadilla

armed freedom lying on a sunbed by allora & calzadilla

Allora & Calzadilla

Armed Freedom Lying On A Sunbed, 2011

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raptor's rapture by allora & calzadilla

Allora & Calzadilla

Raptor's Rapture, 2012

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intermission (halloween afghanistan: portrait i) by allora & calzadilla

Allora & Calzadilla

Intermission (Halloween Afghanistan: Portrait I), 2012

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intermission (halloween afghanistan iv) by allora & calzadilla

Allora & Calzadilla

Intermission (Halloween Afghanistan IV), 2012

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solar catastrophe by allora & calzadilla

Allora & Calzadilla

Solar Catastrophe, 2012

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algorithm by allora & calzadilla

Allora & Calzadilla

Algorithm, 2011

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petrified petrol pump by allora & calzadilla

Allora & Calzadilla

Petrified Petrol Pump, 2012

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petrified petrol pump by allora & calzadilla

Allora & Calzadilla

Petrified Petrol Pump, 2012

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untitled from lakes, rivers, ponds and streams by allora & calzadilla

Allora & Calzadilla

Untitled from Lakes, Rivers, Ponds and Streams, 2013

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Biography

Timeline

1971
Guillermo Calzadilla born in Havana, Cuba
1974
Jennifer Allora born in Philadelphia, PA
1996
Jennifer Allora receives her BA, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
Guillermo Calzadilla receives BFA, Escuela de Artes Plásticas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1998 - 1999
Jennifer Allora participates in the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY
P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center National Studio Program, New York, NY
2000 - 2001
Cintas Fellowship
2000 - 2003
Guillermo Calzadilla receives MFA, Bard College, Anandale-on-Hudson, NY
2001 - 2003
Jennifer Allora receives MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
2002
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, New Orleans, LA

Exhibitions

2014
“Apotomē,” REDCAT, Los Angeles (solo exhibition)
2013
Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France (solo)
Fault Lines, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi at Palazzo Cusani, Milan, Italy (solo)
Aqua Vitalis-Acte 2, Palais Ducal, Caen, France (solo)
Hope Hippo, The Paris Autumn Festival, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle & Galerie Chantel Crousel, Paris, France
Vidéo et Apres, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (solo)
Performance Now, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, KS
Do It, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York
Living as Form (The Nomadic Version), Essex Market, New York, NY
Band of Outsiders, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Backstage, Frac Aquitaine, Bourdeaux
AQUA Vitalis, Positions of Contemporary Art, Artothéque de Caen, France
Flesh and Blood, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
NeMe 9th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
The Past is Present, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI
30th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Being an Island, daadgalerie, Berlin
Animate/Inanimate, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Australia
DLA Piper Series: Constellations, Tate Liverpool, UK
Histories Paralleles: pays mêlés, Museum d’Histoire Naturelle, Nîmes
Far from the Madding Crowd, Bonnefanten Hedge House, Wijlre, Netherlands
Arca lui Noe / Noah’s Ark / L’arche de Noé, Fabrica de Pensule / The Paintbrush Factory, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
If You Were to Live Here… The 5th Auckland Triennial, Auckland, New Zealand
13 Rooms, Kaldor Public Art Projects, Sydney
I’m dreaming about a reality, La Douane - Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes: A Restoration / A Remake / A Rejuvenation / A Rebellion, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisca, CA
More Love: Art, Politics, and Sharing since the 1990s, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
2012
Body in Flight (Delta) and Vieques Series, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (solo)
GLORIA, United States Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (solo)
A Man Screaming is not a Dancing Bear, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (solo)
KADIST: Pathways into a Collection, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany
DOGMA, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Fourth Plinth: Contemporary Monument, ICA, London, UK
Life in your head, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
Superbody, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
2011
Living as Form, Creative Time, New York, NY
Stop, Repair, Prepare, MoMA, New York, NY (solo)
GLORIA, United States Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (solo)
A Man Screaming is not a Dancing Bear, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (solo)
Viieques Videos 2003–2011, Lisson Gallery, London (solo)
11 Rooms, Manchester International Festival, Manchester, UK
El Grito, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Leon, Spain
2010
4th Plinth Commission, The 2010 shortlist exhibition, The Foyer, St Martin-in-the-Field,Trafalgar Square, London, UK
29th São Paulo Biennial, Brazil
Adaptation: Between Species, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Nobody's Property: Art, Land, Space, 2000–2010, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Restless Empathy, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Autoconstruccion (self-construction) an exhibition by Antonio Castro, Abraham,
Cruzvillegas and Antonio Fernández Ros, Kurimanzutto, Mexico
Art, Media and Material Witness: Contemporary Art from the Harn Museum of Art, Harn Museum of Art, University of FL
Stop, Repair, Prepare, MoMA, New York, NY (solo)
Compass, Kurimanzutto, Mexico, DF (solo)
Allora & Calzadilla, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France (solo)
Number Three: Here And Now, The Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf (solo)
2009
RETHINK Relations, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (solo)
Stop, Repair, Prepare, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Allora & Calzadilla, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany (solo)
Allora & Calzadilla, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo (solo)
Allora & Calzadilla: How to Appear Invisible, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin (solo)
Number Three: Here and Now, The Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf
Free as Air and Water, Cooper Union Gallery, New York, NY
Rotating Views #1, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Un Certain Etat du Monde?, Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
Private Univeres: Media Works, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Wake Up, Please, Le Quartier, centre d’art contemporain de Quimper, Quimper, France
Art TLV 09, Tel Aviv, Israel
2008
Las Implicaciones de la Imagen, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte (MUCA), Mexico City, 2008< br />Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on “Ode to Joy” for a Prepared Piano, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (solo)
Allora & Calzadilla, Galerie Franco Soffiantino, Turin, Italy (solo)
Allora & Calzadilla, Galerie Franco Soffiantino, Turin, Italy (solo)
Never Mind That Noise You Heard, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (solo)
Prospect.1 New Orleans, curated by Dan Cameron, New Orleans, LA
Quiet Politics, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY
Perplexed in Public, Lisson Gallery, London
Peripheral Vision and Collective Body, Museo d’arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy
After Nature, The New Museum, New York, NY
Viva la muerte, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Las Implicaciones de la Imagen (The implications of image), Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte – MUCA, Mexico City
Field Work—part 1, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
OPEN/ INVITED E V+ A 2008 ev+a, International Biennial of Visual Art, Limerick City, Ireland
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican, London, UK
Greenwashing, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Collection Videos & Films Jean-Conrad & Isabelle Lemaitre, Kunsthalle zu Kiel der Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany
2007
Unrealizable Goals, Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan (solo)
Wake Up, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (solo)
Clamor, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Allora & Calzadilla, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Allora & Calzadilla, Lisson Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Whitechapel Laboratory: Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Sediments, Sentiments (Figures of Speech), San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Artificial Light: New Light-Based Sculpture and Installation Art, John B. Ravenal, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007
Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century, Susan Sollins and Marybeth Sollins, Abrams Books, 2007
Curiger, Bice, ed. Parkett 80: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Mark Grotjahn, and Allora & Calzadilla, Parkett, New York
Ice Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture, Phaidon, New York
Only Necessary but Possible, Optimism in the Age of Global War, 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
Lyon Biennial 2007: 00's—The History of a Decade That Has Not Yet Been Named, JRP Ringier, Zurich
Allora & Calzadilla, Frieze Art Fair: Yearbook 2007–08, Frieze, London, 2007
Mckee, Yates, ed. Nongovermental Politics, Zone Books, New York
10h International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Kültür Sanat Vakfi, 2007
For Sale, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
All about Laughter, ori Art Museum, Tokyo
Depiction, Perversion, Repulsion, Obsession, Subversion, Witte de With, Rotterdam
Video Trajectories: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection and the New Art Trust, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Apocalypse Now, (Co-curated with Jens Hoffman), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
Global Multitude in the Rotunda, APC and Luxembourg 2007, Luxembourg
6th Mercosur Biennale, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Still Life: Art, Ecology & the Politics of Change, Sharjah Biennial 8, Sharjah
Otra De Vaqueros, Bâtiment d'art contemporain, Geneva
Cosmologies, James Cohan Gallery, Geneva
Otra De Vaqueros, Centre d’édition contemporaine, New York, NY
Après la pluie, Musée départmental d'art contemporain, Rochechouart, France
Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Valencia Biennial, Valencia, Spain
2006
Allora & Calzadilla, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium (solo)
(En)tropics, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Land Mark, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (solo)
Combine Platter, screening event, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Concentrations 50: Allora & Calzadilla, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (solo)
Clamor, The Moore Space, Miami, FL (solo)
Empathic, Temple Gallery, Temple University Campus, Philadelphia, PA
Beyond the Museum, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin, Germany
Busan Biennale 2006, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea
Ecotopia: The 2nd ICP Triennal of Photography and Video, International Center for Photography, New York, NY
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Une Vision du Monde, La Maison Rouge, Paris
Artificial Light, Anderson Gallery, VCU, Richmond; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Report (Not Announcement), Basis voor Actuele Kunst, BAK, Utrecht
Group Therapy, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzana
Nam June Paik Award 2006, Museum of Applied Arts, Cologne
Home of the Free, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago
Canary Island Biennial, Canary Islands
Estrecho Dudoso, San Jose, Costa Rica
Zone of Risk—Transition, 3rd Bishkek International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Territory, Artspeak/Presentation House, Vancouver
2éme Festival Photo et Vidéo de Biarritz, Biarritz
La Force de L’art, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Wrong, Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
Other Than Art, Provisions Library, Washington, D.C.
Day for Night, Whitney Biennial. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2005
Download, Art Positions: Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL (solo)
Beyond Green: Towards a Sustainable Art, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, Independent Curators International, Traveling Exhibition
Les Visiteurs, Chateau d’Oiron, France
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Ralentir Vite, Le Plateau/ FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris
Videographias In(Visibles), Museo Patio Herreriano de Arte Contemporaneo
Drivin, Exposition Frac-Collection Aquitaine, Bordeaux
Second Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Loop 05 La 3ème, Barcelona
T – Torinotriennale tremuse: The Pantagruel Syndrome, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudeng
Poesia in Forma di Rosa : Tribute to Pasolini, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Montefalcone
Uncertain States of America, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Museum Art in Oslo; traveled to CCS, Bard College, New York, NY
Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art 2005, Lyon
inSITE_05, San Diego and Tijuana
The Gesture: A Visual Library in Progress, Macedonian Museum Of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Tropical Abstraction, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam
51st International Art Exhibition, Venice
That From a Long Way off looks Like Flies, Platfotm Garantí Contemporary Arts
The Mind is a Horse (Part 2), Bloomberg Space, London, UK
Material Time/Work Time/Life Time, Reykjavik Arts Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland
Land Marks, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA
Dedicated to you, but you weren't listening, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
E-Flux Video Rental, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
No Convenient Subway Stops, Art in General, New York, NY
Contemporaneo Liquido, Franco Soffiantino Gallery, Turin, Italy
Dialectics of Hope,1st Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Utopia Station, World Social Forum, São Paulo, Brazil
I Love Art Vidéo, Le Forum Itinérant, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg
Irreducible: Contemporary Short Form Video, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA

Literature

2013
Viliani, Andrea, "Allora e Calzadilla, La musica del potere," Flash Art Italia, October/November, 2013.
"American Artistic Duo Allora & Calzadilla Takes Over Palazzo Cusani," The Huffington Post, October 25, 2013.
"Allora & Calzadilla: Fault Lines," e-flux, 2013.
"Allora & Calzadilla at Fondazione Nicola Trussardi," Designboom, October 23, 2013.
Forster, Siegfried, "Le Festival d’automne à Paris s’ouvre avec un concert pour deux elephants," RFI.fr, September 13, 2013.
Lequeux, Emmanuelle, "Sons et Sens pour Allora et Calzadilla," Le Monde, September 11, 2013, p.4.
Holzwarth, Hans Werner, Art Now Vol. 4, Cologne: Taschen, 2013.
Schneider, Claire, More Love: Art, Politics, and Sharing since the 1990s, Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum, 2013.
2012
Herzberg, Julia P, "dOCUMENTA (13)," Arte al Dia International, Issue 140, 2012, p. 90.
Sandler, Nathaniel, "Vernissage Barrage: Art Basel Miami Beach," Artslant, December 7, 2012.
Forrest, Nicholas, "Video: Allora & Calzadilla Prepare for Launch of Australian Project," Artinfo.com, November 16, 2012.
Forrest, Nicholas, "Kaldor Snatches Allora & Calzadilla’s ‘Stop, Repair, Prepare’ for Australia," Artinfo.com, October 23, 2012.
Hoffmann, Jens, Life in your Head: When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, San Francisco: California College of the Arts, 2012.
Documenta (13): Das Logbuch/The Logbook, Katalog/Catalog 2/3, Kassel: Hatje Cantaz, 2012.
2011
"Work in Progress," V Magazine, September 2011, pp. 162–163.
Wilson-Goldie, Kaelene, "54th Venice Biennale," Frieze, Issue 141, September 2011.
Navarrete, Jose Antonio, "Between Reflection and Affection," Arte Al Dia International, ed. 135, September 2011, pp. 66–71.
Saltz, Jerry, "Notes on Venice Biennales," Flash Art, July–September, 2011.
Bishop, Claire, Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship, Verso, 2011.
Contemporary Art in North America, London: Black Dog Publishing, 2011.
Slavick, Susanne, Out of Rubble, Milan: Charta, 2011.
La Biennale di Venezia 2011: ILLUMInations, Venice: Marsilio Editore, 2011.
Aux Tuileries, Paris: FIAC/Editions Dilecta, 2011.
Wappler, Friederike, ed., New Relations in Art and Society, Zurich: JRP Ringier, 2011.
2010
Hoptman, Laura, and Yilmaz Dziewior, Uta Grozenick, eds., The Art of Tomorrow, Berlin: DISTANZ Verlag, 2010.
Adaptation, Between Species, Toronto: The Power Plant, 2010.
Hope! Une exposition d’art contemporain sur l’espoir, Dinard: Palais des Arts
Nobody’s Property, Art, Land, Space 2000–2010, Princeton: Princeton Art Museum, 2010.
2009
Schambelan, Elizabeth, "Being There," ArtForum, January 2009, p. 175.
Wiley, Chris, "The Party is Over: Allora & Calzadilla’s Monstrous Art," Kaleidoscope, March–April 2009, pp. 18–22.
2008
De Ruiter, Marinus, "Allora & Calzadilla," The Wire, no. 295, September 2008.
McDonough, Tom, "Use What Sinks," Art In America, January 2008, p. 83–87.
Charlesworth, J.J., "Shaping Politics," Art Review, January 2008, pp. 70–73.
Rathgeber, Pirkko, "Allora & Calzadilla," Flash Art, vol. XLI no. 262, October 2008, p. 141.
2007
"Allora & Calzadilla," Tema Celeste, May/June 2007, p. 88.
Wei, Lilly, "Report from Richmond: Light Fantastic," Art in America, September 2007, p. 83.
"The Artists' Artists," ArtForum, December 2007, p. 122.
Charlesworth, J.J., "Power Plays," Art Review, October 2007, p. 82–85.
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