Gabriel Kuri


1970      

Born in Mexico
lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico and Brussels, Belgium

1993-95

MA Fine Arts Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK            

1988-92

Graduate in Visual Art, Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas U.N.A.M. Mexico City, Mexico

1987-1990

Gabriel Orozco’s workshop with Abraham Cruzvillegas, Damián Ortega and Jerónimo López, Mexico


Solo shows

2010      

Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Gabriel Kuri: Nobody needs to know the price of your SAAB, Blaffer Gallery, Houston University Museum,
Houston (TX), USA
Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Museion, Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy

2009      

3.66% of 3.66%, Franco Noero, Turin, Italy

2008      

Model for a Victory Parade, Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK

2007      

Space made to measure object, made to measure space, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany
Reforma Fiscal 2007, Galería Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico

2006      

And Thanks In Advance, Govett-Brewster, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Dato Duro, Dato Blando, Dato Ciego, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy

2004      

Calorie Counting, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy

2003      

Start To Stop Stopping, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Statements, Miami Art Basel, Miami (FL), USA
Let’s Go To Going To, Freespace Limburg, Belgium
Por Favor Gracias De Nada, Gabriel Kuri and Liam Gillick, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico

2002      

Recent Work, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York (NY), USA

2000      

Momento de Importancia, Museo Rufino Tamayo (Sala 7), Mexico City, Mexico
Momento de Importancia, Aula Magna, Instituto Anglo-Mexicano, Mexico
Momento de Importancia, Project Room, ARCO, Madrid, Spain

1999      

Plan De San Lunes, Museo de las Artes de Guadalajara, Mexico City, Mexico

1997      

Extra, Sinaloa 252, Mexico City, Mexico

1996      

Everyday Holiday (with Liam Gillick), Le Magasin Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France

1992      

Te amo pero donde estas, Galería Arte Actual, Monterrey, Mexico

1991      

Iconografía del capricho, Galería Etnia, Mexico City, Mexico


Selected group shows

2010      

It is it, Espacio 1414, Puerto Rico
TRANSURBANIAC, University Art Gallery, University of California San Diego, San Diego (CA)
Languages and Experimentations, MART, Rovereto, Italy
Idiolect, Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Bruges, Belgium

2009      

Where do we go from here?, Colección Jumex, Minerva Cuevas Bass Museum of Art, Miami (FL), USA
GAGARIN The Artists in their Own Words, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium
The Space of the Work and the Place of the Object, The Sculpture Centre, New York (NY)
Revolutionary of the Ordinary. The Order of Things, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Pop Up!  On Realisms and Realities, Ludwif Forum, Aachen, Germany
All That is Solid Melts into Air, MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
La Casa qu el Gato costruyo, Galerie Salvador Diaz, Madrid
2da Trienal Poli/Grafica de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2008      

Inaugural Exhibition, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
Baghdad, Space Cog, Analyst, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK
Schüttelreime, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

The Store, Tulip & Roses, Vilnius, Lithuania
Master Humphrey’s Clock, (a project by De Appel‘s curatorial programme, Utrecht, The Netherlands), 5. Berlin
Biennale, Berlin, Germany

Brave New Worlds, Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Estado de Mexico, Mexico

2007      

Unmonumental, New Museum, New York (NY), USA
Fit to print, Gagosian Gallery, New York (NY), USA
Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (MN), USA
Greed!, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley (ID), USA
Expats & Clandestins, Wiels - Centre d’art contemporain, Brussels, Belgium
Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (IL), USA

2006      

The Exotic Journey Ends, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
Los Angeles / México. Complejidades Y Heterogeneidad, Colección, Museo José Luis Cuevas, Mexico City, Mexico
An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life, Gallery at REDCAT (The Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater) and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (CA), USA

2005      

Open-Ended: Pierre Bismuth, Michel François, Gabriel Kuri (curated by Daniel McClean), Thomas, Dane Gallery, London, UK
En Route: Via Another Route (An Exhibition On Board the Trans-Siberian Train) (curated by Adam Carr), Trans-Siberian train
In This Colony, Kunstfort Bij Vijfhuizen, Vijfhuizen, The Netherlands
Omaggio Al Quadrato, Gallleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
Post Notes (curated by Adam Carr), Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (MN), USA ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), London, UK
Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco (CA), USA
Emergency Biennale in Chechnya: A Suitcase from Paris to Grosny (co-curated by Evelyne Jouanno and Jota Castro), Grozny, Chechnya; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; Brussels, Belgium; Bolzano, Italy; Milan, Italy; Florence, Italy; Calcutta, India; New York (NY), USA; Cali, Colombia; Santiago de Chile, Chile; Sydney, Australia; Melbourne, Australia; Palestine
Material Time / Work Time / Life Time (curated by Jessica Morgan), Reykjavik Arts
Festival 2005, Reykjavik Art Mueseum, Hafnarhus, Iceland
Feeling Strangely Fine, Galería Estrany-de la Mota, Barcelona, Spain
From A To B And Back Again (curated by Simon Moretti), Galerie chez Valentin, Paris, France
Material Matters, Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca (NY), USA

2004      

I’ll Be Your Mirror (organized by Fondazione Nicola Trussardi during the Frieze Art Fair), City Inn Westminster Hotel guest rooms, London, UK
Specific Objects: The Minimalist Influence, MCA, San Diego and La Jolla (CA), USA
Around the Corner (curated by Carolina Grau), Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Beating about the Bush, South London Gallery, London, UK
State of Play, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
The Happy Worker, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (NY), USA
La Colmena (curated by Guillermo Santamarina), Colección Jumex, Edo. de Mexico, Mexico

2003      

Elephant Juice (Sexo entre amigos), Kurimanzutto @ Los Manantiales, Xochimilco, Mexico
Interludes,(curated by Francesco Bonami), 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Utopia Station, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Living With Duchamp, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs (NY), USA
Supernova: Art of The 1990s from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (CA), USA
Bienal Americas De Ponta Cabeza, Fortaleza, Brazil
Killing Time and Listening Between Lines (curated by Philippe Vergne and Douglas Fogle), La Colección Jumex, Edo. de México, Mexico

2002      

Exhile on Main Street, NICC, Amberes, Belgium
Mexico City: An Exhibition about the Exchange Rates of Bodies and Values, PS1, Long Island City (NY), USA; Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany
Siete Dilemas: Diálogos en el Arte Mexicano, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico

2001      

Sonsbeek 9, Locus Focus (curated by Jan Hoet), Arnhem, The Netherlands
Demonstration Room Casa Ideal  (travelling), NICC Antwerpen,  Antwerp, Belgium; APEX ART, New York, (NY), USA; Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
Group Show, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Dedallic Convention, MAK, Vienna, Austria
Tirana Biennial, (curated by Francesco Bonami), Tirana, Albania
Escultura Mexicana Siglo XX, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico

2000      

New Sitings. Contemporary Projects 4, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (CA), USA
Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (IL), USA
c/o La Ciudad, SAW Gallery, Ottawa (ON), Canada
Galería kurimanzutto @ Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Summer Show, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York (NY), USA

1999      

Yo y mi circunstancia, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (QC), Canada
Dobles Vides (in collaboration with Taller General: Abraham Cruzvillegas, Gabriel Orozco and Damián Ortega), Barcelona, Spain
OLDnewTOWN, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York (NY), USA
Cinco Continentes Y Una Ciudad, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City, Mexico
Economía de Mercado, Galería Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
La Sala del Artista, Galería Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico

1998      

Lines of Loss, Artists Space, New York (NY), USA

1997      

Transatlantic, Incubator Gallery, London, UK, Konstakuten, Stockholm, Sweden, CASE, Harlem, The Netherlands
Tres Espacios, Art & Idea, Mexico City, Mexico

1996      

Offside! Contemporary Artists and Football, Manchester City Art Galleries, Colchester First Site, Colchester, UK
Moment Ginza, Le Magasin Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Yerself Is Steam 85, Charlotte Street, London, UK
I Feel Explosion, Flat above Arndale Centre, Manchester, UK

1995      

MA Degree Show, Goldsmiths College, London, UK

1994      

Art Koln, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Cologne, Germany
Private View, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
The Return of Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Centre, New York (NY), USA

1993      

Otros Especímenes, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
Calma instalaciones, Temístocles 44, Mexico City, Mexico

1991      

D.F. Art from Mexico City, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio (TX), USA
Reconsideración del Paisaje, Club Hípico La Sierra, Mexico City, Mexico

1990      

Aire fresco en el verano del amor, Galería División Arte México D.F, Mexico City, Mexico

1989      

De cabeza, Galería Polyforum Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexico
Novos Valores Da Arte Contemporanea e Internacional, Museo de Arte de Brasilia,  Brasilia, Brazil


Awards and distinctions

2002      

ACA Master, Artist in residence, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach (FL), USA

1999      

Premio Omnilife, Gráfica, Mexico

1997-1998

Beca de Apoyo a Jóvenes Creadores FONCA Mexico