| 1970 | Born in Mexico, lives and works in Los Angeles |
| 1993-95 | MA Fine Arts Goldsmiths College University of London |
| 1988-92 | Graduate in Visual Art, Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas U.N.A.M. Mexico City |
| 1987-90 | Gabriel Orozco’s workshop with Abraham Cruzvillegas, Damián Ortega and Jerónimo López, Mexico |
Solo Exhibitions
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Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2019 |
Belgian Art Prize 2019, Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR), Brussels |
| 2018 | Converter, Kunstmuseum St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland |
| 2017 |
ISelf Collection: The Upset Bucket, Whitechapel Gallery, London Field Guide, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada The Undercover Economist: Martin Boyce, Gabriel Kuri, Liz Magor, Tanya Leighton, BerlinLatin American Artists in the Marciano Collection, Marciano Collection, Los Angeles (CA), USA Birth as Criterion, 32nd Biennial of Graphic Arts, International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana Harold Ancart – Michel-François – Gabriel Kuri, Espace 251 Nord, Liège, Belgium Unlimited, Art Basel, Switzerland ISelf Collection: Self-Portrait as the Billy Goat, Whitechapel Gallery, London DESERT X, Palm Springs and Coachella Valley (CA), USA |
| 2016 | Portrait De L’artiste En Alter, FRAC – Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France DYSTOTAL, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, Germany ICH, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Can I step on it?, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy XYLAÑYNU. Taller de los Viernes, kurimanzutto, Mexico City Artificial Realities, East Wing Biennial, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London from here to there, kurimanzutto travels to Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco (CA), USA |
| 2015 | Strange Currencies: Art & Action in Mexico City, 1990-2000, The Galleries at Moore, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia (PA), USA (cat) The Corner Show, Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerpen, Belgium Balance Sheets, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, China Out of Office, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago (IL), USA Estudio abierto 5: Zea Mays, Museo de Arte Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico, Consumed, University Art Museum, CSULB, Long Beach (CA), USA Beyond Borders, Beaufort Triennale, Belgium Colección Jumex, In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni, Museo Jumex, Mexico City Flying over the Abyss, NEON and Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Crete, Greece Over you / you, 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana, Ljubljana De Pictura – Volume III, Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut (In collaboration with Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy) The Artist Facing the Object, Centre Pompidou, Paris 12th Havana Biennial, Havana The Persistence of Objects, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Ireland |
| 2014 | A History. Art, Architecture, Design from the 1980s Until Today, Centre Pompidou, Paris La Gioia, La Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium El derrumbe de la estatua, MUAC, Mexico City, Mexico (cat) ARCO Foundation Collection, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain Melting Walls: Works from the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, The Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Michel Kikoine Foundation, Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, Tel Aviv, Israel Kurimanzutto, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris In__We Trust: Art and Money, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus (OH), USA Made in L.A. 2014, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (CA), USA Between Critique and Absorption: Contemporary Art and Consumer Culture, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee (WI), USA |
| 2013 | Spanish Lessons, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York (NY) Xerography, Firstsite Colchester, Colchester, UK Soft Pictures, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy Mexico Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth (TX), USA Conspicuous Unusable, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (NY), USA For the Time Being, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany |
| 2012 | Amicale Succursale; Prolongation, around 'Wor((l)d)(k) in progress?, Galerie Nächt St. Stephan-Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna Expanded Fields, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland Inaugural Exhibition by Gallery Artists, Regen Projects, Los Angeles (CA), USA The Living Years: Art after 1989, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (MN), USA Seul Quelques Fragment de Nous…’, Galerie Thaddeus Ropach, Paris Art Foundation Mallorca Collection - Special Edition, CCA Andratx, Andratx B. Wurtz & Co., Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles (CA), USA Sculptural Matter, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne, Australia |
| 2011 | Pour un art pauvre (inventaire du monde et de l’atelier), Carré d'Art - Musée d'art contemporain de Nîmes, France ILLUMInations, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Un'Espressione Geografica (A Geographical Expression), curated by Francesco Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy Informellnatur, Galerie Sabine Knust, Maximilian Verlag, Munich Keeping it Real: An Exhibition in 4 Acts: Act 4: Material Intelligence, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
| 2010 | Frieze Projects 2010, Frieze Art Fair, London Out of Joint, Galerie Kamm, Berlin Where Do We Go From Here? Selections from La Colección Jumex, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (OH), USA One Leading Away from Another, 303 Gallery, New York City (NY), USA The Concrete Show, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy Press Art. The Collection Annette and Peter Nobel, Museum de Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria Is this all there is?, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London 89 Km. Colección CGAC, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain TRANSURBANIAC, University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, San Diego (CA), USA Languages and Experimentations, MART, Rovereto, Italy Che cosa sono le nuvole? Works from the Enea Righi Collection, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy Idiolect, Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Bruges, Belgium Berlin-Paris 2010, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France It is it, Espacio 1414, Puerto Rico |
| 2009 | GAGARIN The Artists in their Own Words, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium Where do we go from here?, Colección Jumex, Minerva Cuevas Bass Museum of Art, Miami (FL), USA Eröffnung: Flüchtige ZeitenI, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany Revolution of the Ordinary. The Order of Things, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany Beginnings, Middles And Ends, Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna; Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna; Christine König Galerie, Vienna 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 The Space of the Work and the Place of the Object, The Sculpture Centre, New York (NY) |
| 2008 | Inaugural Exhibition, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City Open Plan Living, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel-Aviv, Israel La invención de lo cotidiano, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City Recursos incontrolables y otros desplazamientos naturals, MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City RecollectionI, Barriera, Turin, Italy TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln (NE), USA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro (NC), USA; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta (GA), USA An Unruly History of the Readymade, Fundación / Colección Jumex, Mexico City Library, UOVO Open Office, Berlin Baghdad, Space Cog, Analyst, Frith Street Gallery, London Peripheral vision and collective body, Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst, Bolzano, Italy EphemeraI, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin 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) Supernatural, Centro Cultural Andratx, Andratx, Spain Brave New Worlds, Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Estado de Mexico, Mexico 5th Berlin Biennale, Berlin |
| 2007 | Unmonumental, New Museum, New York (NY) Private Life. Josep Maria Civit Collection, Centro de Arte Naturaleza, Fundación Beulas, Huesca Fit to print, Gagosian Gallery, New York (NY) Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (MN), USA Viva Mexico!, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw III Bienal de Jafre, Bienal de Jafre, Jafre, Spain Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (IL), USA Greed!, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley (ID), USA Domestic Irony. A Foray into Italy’s Private Collection, (curated by Letizia Ragaglia) Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy Expats & Clandestins, Wiels - Centre d’art contemporain, Brussels Collector 1:The Gaia Collection, Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio, Italy Mapas, Cosmogonias e Puntos de Referencia, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Let Everything Be Temporary, or When is the Exhibition?, Apexart, New York (NY) Globalización: indicaciones/ efectos secundarios/ advertencies, Espacio 1414, Santurce, Puerto Rico |
| 2006 | The Exotic Journey Ends, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw Brighton Photo Biennial 2006, Brighton Photo Biennial, Brighton, UK Los Angeles / México. Complejidades Y Heterogeneidad, Colección, Museo José Luis Cuevas, Mexico City Emergency Biennale in Chechnya, Centre A, Vancouver International Centre for Contempoary Asian Art, Vancouver (BC), Canada Could Have Been the Weather, Tatar Gallery, Toronto (ON), Canada 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 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 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; Brussels; Bolzano, Italy; Milan, Italy; Florence, Italy; Calcutta, India; New York (NY); 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 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 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 Beating about the Bush, South London Gallery, London State of Play, Serpentine Gallery, London 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 Siete Dilemas: Diálogos en el Arte Mexicano, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City |
| 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); Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela Group Show, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris Dedallic Convention, MAK, Vienna Tirana Biennial, (curated by Francesco Bonami), Tirana, Albania Escultura Mexicana Siglo XX, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City |
| 2000 | Permanencia Voluntaria, kurimanzutto, Cinemanía Plaza Loreto, Mexico City 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 Summer Show, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York (NY) |
| 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) Cinco Continentes Y Una Ciudad, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City Economía de Mercado, Galería Kurimanzutto, Mexico City La Sala del Artista, Galería Kurimanzutto, Mexico City |
| 1998 | Lines of Loss, Artists Space, New York (NY) |
| 1997 | Transatlantic, Incubator Gallery, London, Konstakuten, Stockholm, Sweden, CASE, Harlem, The Netherlands Tres Espacios, Art & Idea, Mexico City |
| 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 I Feel Explosion, Flat above Arndale Centre, Manchester, UK |
| 1995 | MA Degree Show, Goldsmiths College, London |
| 1994 | Art Koln, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Cologne, Germany Private View, Chisenhale Gallery, London The Return of Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Centre, New York (NY) |
| 1993 | Otros Especímenes, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City Calma instalaciones, Temístocles 44, Mexico City |
| 1991 | D.F. Art from Mexico City, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio (TX), USA Reconsideración del Paisaje, Club Hípico La Sierra, Mexico City |
| 1990 | Aire fresco en el verano del amor, Galería División Arte México D.F, Mexico City |
| 1989 | De cabeza, Galería Polyforum Siqueiros, Mexico City Novos Valores Da Arte Contemporanea e Internacional, Museo de Arte de Brasilia, Brasilia |
Awards and distinctions
| 2007 | Artist in residence, OCA Office for Contemporary Art, Oslo |
| 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 |
Commission
| 2017 | ACNE, London |
Curatorial projects
| 2018 | If You Like I Shall Growm, Kurimanzutto at Thomas Dane Gallery, London |
| 2017 | Primordial Saber Tarear Proverbiales Silabas Tonificantes Para Sublevar Tecnocracias Pero Seguir Tenazmente Produciendo Sociedades Tántricas – Pedro Salazar Torres (Partido Salazar Torres), curated by Abraham Cruzvillegas and Gabriel Kuri, on the occasion of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Regen Projects, Los Angeles (CA), USA |
| 2015 | Unidades y Continuidades, kurimanzutto, Mexico City |
| 2013 | Push pins in elastic space, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris |
Public Collections
| CAC Malaga, Malaga, Spain Centre Pompidou, Paris FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (CA), USA Museion, Bolzano, Italy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (IL), USA Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (CA), USA Museo Jumex, Mexico City Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (WA), USA Tate Modern, London Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (MN), USA |