CV - Taka Ishii Gallery

Mario Garcia Torres (Mexico, 1975)
Currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Education
MFA California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA, 2005
BFA, Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico, 1998
Grants and Awards
Premio 5 x 5 Castellón,2009
The Cartier Award 2007
Fullbright Grantee 2003-2005
PAEE – FONCA/CONACULTA Grantee 2004
La Colección Jumex Grantee 2003-2005
Solo shows
2016
Caminar juntos, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico city
2015
Mario García Torres, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Mario García Torres, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Mario García Torres, La Tallera, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Cuernavaca
Mario García Torres, Museo Jumex, Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
Mario García Torres, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth
2014
Mario García Torres presents Allen Smithee, The Hammer Museum at UCLA,
Los Angeles
Florida Withdrawal, Perez Art Museum, Miami
Xoco (Cont.), Elba Benitez, Madrid
2013
The Boetti lesson , Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples
Other Days, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
Until it Makes Sense, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
2012
Telltale of A Sunday Practice, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2011
September Piece, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels
Material Witness, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver
2010
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger, Le Pavé Dans La Mare, Besançon
I Will Be With You Shortly, PEEP HOLE, Milan
¿Alguna vez has visto la nieve caer?, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia, Madrid
2009
It's embarrassing, but for some time now I've only had title ideas in English, Espai 13,
Fundacio Miro, Barcelona
Unspoken Dailies, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
All That Color Is Making Me Blind, Jan Mot, Brussels
Je ne sais si c’en est la cause, MATRIX 227, UC Berkeley Museum of Art and Pacific Film
Archive, Berkeley
Il aurait bien pu le promettre aussi. Jeu de Paume, Paris
2008
Early Color Video Tapes, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
Some Stories… Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich
Mario Garcia Torres, White Cube, London
Pocket Scratching, gallery.sora, Tokio
2007
What Doesnt Kill You Makes You Stronger, Museum of Modern Art Syros
Materials for a Leisure Hour, Elba Benítez, Madrid
A Solo Exhibition ,Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
A Brief History of Jimmie Johnson’s Legacy, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2006
Paradoxically It Doesn’t Seem That Far From Here. Meyer-Riegger, Karlsruhe
What Happens in Halifax Stays In Halifax (In 36 Slides). Meyer-Riegger, Karlsruhe
Te Invito a Mi Mundo, Jan Mot, Brussels
The Galleries Show, Extra City, Antwerp
2005
Some Hold, Some Push and Some Don’t Even Know How to Take a Picture, Jan Mot, Brussels
2004
Shoot of Grace with Alighiero Boetti Hairstyle and Other Works, Jan Mot, Brussels
2003
Contradictory Illicit Registry (Project Room) Muestra Art Fair, Mexico City
I also asked myself... Galería de Arte Mexicano, México City, April
Group shows (Selection)
2015
Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
2014
( ) 8th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Ir para volver, 12a Bienal Internacional de Cuenca
Under The Same Sun. Art From Latin America Today, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New
York
New Ways of doing Nothing, Kunsthalle Wien
Words As Doors, Kunstlerhaus, Halle fur Kunst & Medien, Graz
Le Nouveau festival 5th Edition, Center Pompidou, Paris
The Invisible Hand. Curating as Gesture, 2nd CAFAM Biennale, Beijing
2013
The 9th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit
I am Another World, Kupferstichkabinett der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna
With a Name Like Yours, You Might Be Any Shape, Tiroler Künstlerschaft - Kunstpavillion,
Innsbruck
Paint it blck, FRAC, Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris
The Floating Admiral, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2012
dOCUMENTA (13), Fridericianum, Kassel
2010
Directions: Cyprien Gaillard and Mario Garcia Torres, Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Washington
There is always a cup of sea to sail in, 29th Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo
TB10 Taipei Biennial, Taipei
Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line, Malmo Kunsthall, Malmo
R for Replicant, CCA Wattis Institute, for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
2009
Asking Not Telling, Video Art: Replay, ICA University Of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Sculpture of the Space Age, David Roberts Foundation, London, · Pittoresk – Neue
Perspektiven auf das Landschaftsbild, Museum Marta, Herford
Le sort probable de l’homme qui avait avalé le fantôme, Conciergerie, Paris,
The Poetics of Space, Marian Goodman, Paris
Pierre Bismuth, Mario Garcia Torres, Annette Kelm, Daimantas Narkevicius, Jan Mot,
Brussels
Beyond the Picturesque. SMAK, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
The Show Formerly Known as Passengers, CCA/Wattis Institute, San Francisco
Fia Backstrom, Mario Garcia Torres, Stephen Kaltenbach, Jack Hanley, New York
Paper Exhibition, Artist Space, New York
Audio, Video, Disco, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich
2008
Recursos Incontrolables y Otros Desplazamientos Naturales, MUAC, Mexico City
Die Wahrnehmung von Ideen… Kunstverein fur die Rhenlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf
When a Clock is Seen from the Side, It No Longer Tells the Time, Johann Koenig, Berlin
Salon of the Revolution, HDLU, Croatian Asociation of Artist, Zagreb
One Of This Things Is Not Like The Other Things. 1/9 unosunove arte contemporanea, Rome
Nature, Space and Time, Recent Acquisitions, Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo
Arte y Contexto, Berezdivin Collection, Espacio 1414, San Juan
Time Crevasses, Third Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama
The Artist Is A Mysterious Entertainer, De Appel, Amsterdam
The Museum as Medium, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo
The Sweet Burnt Smell of History, 8th Panama Biennial, Panama
Other Than Yourself, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
A Stake in The Mud, A Hole in the Reel, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
Still, La Planta, Guadalajara
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican, London
Autopsia de lo Invisible, MALBA-Coleccion Constantini, Buenos Aires
2007
Nuevos Leones, Centro de las Artes, Monterrey
Someoneelse with My Fingerprints, Chantal Crousel, Paris
Der Droste Effekt, Esther Sipper, Berlin
Pawnshop, e-flux, New York
Nuevos Leones, Forum, Monterrey
Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art From Mexico City, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago
Overtake, The Reinterpretation of Modern Art, Lewis Clorkman Gallery Cork, Ireland
Accords Exentriques, BPS 22 Espace de Creation Contemporaine, Charleroi
For Sale, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon
Le Truc, Projects Art Center, Dublin
Imagine Los Angeles, Monka Spruth Philomene Magers, Munich
Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind.52.Biennale di Venezia, Venice
American Video Art at the Beginning of the 3 rd Millenium, Moscow Biennial
Disco Coppertone, Locus Athens, Athens
Sublime Objects, Collections Sans Frontiers V, National Museum of Contemporary Art,
Bukarest
Learn to Read, Tate Modern, London
The Last Piece by John Fare, gb agency, Paris
How Soon Is Now? Fundación Luis Sloane, Coruña
e-flux Video Rental, Various Venus
Whenever It Starts It Is The Right Time, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Night at the Museum or What Betty Boop Saw, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Otra de Vaqueros, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City
Saturday Live Actions & Interruptions, Tate Modern, London
Distorted Fabric, De Appel, Amsterdam
No Negative, Objective Exhibitions, Antwerp
Some, Time, Waiting, Kadist Foundation, Paris
Commitment, Sbk Strombeek, Belgium
Elephant Cementery, Artists Space, New York
May the Twelfth, Store, London
The Backroom, Various Venius
2006
Aspen 11 (Part1), Neue Alte Brucke, Frankfurt Am Main
Neo-Con. Contemporary Returns to Conceptual Art, Apex Art, New York and British School,
Rome
Bunker o No Bunker, Ramis Barquet, Monterrey
Le Spectre des Armatures, Glassbox, Paris
Bring The War Home, QED Gallery, Los Angeles and Elizabeth Dee, New York
Una Vision du Monde, La Collection Vidéo de Jean-Conrad et Isabelle Lemaitre La Maison
Rouge, Paris
Some, Time, Waiting. Variable sites.
2005
Angelo, Mai! Deconsagrated church of San Gimiliano, Roma
Black Market Worlds / 9th Baltic Triennale. CAC, Vilnius and ICA, London
Dis & Appearance Fri-Art, Fribourg
Missunderstandings. Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City
Shipping and Receiving: CalArts Graduate Show Armory Arts Center, Los Angeles
Life is Habit. Stenersen Museum, Oslo
Fragile. Analix Forever, Geneva.
I still believe in Miracles / Drawing Space. Convent du Cordeliers / ARC Museé d’art Moderne
de la Ville de Paris, Paris.
No Convenient Subway Stops Art in General, New York.
Data Space. Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid. España
Today is Just a Copy of Yesterday, Jan Mot Gallery, Brussels.
Surely We Will Be Confused. Viafarini / Careof, Milan.
2004
What did you expect? Jan Mot Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.
Off the Record / Sound ARC Museé d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / Couvent des
Cordelieres, Paris, France.
How to learn to love the bomb and stop worrying. Central de Arte, Guadalajara, Mexico City.
Other projects
Curatorial
Objetos para un momento de inercia (Objects for an inertia moment). galeria elba benitez,
Madrid, 2010
The Title of This Show Is A List… Jan Mot, Brussels, 2008
Recovered document or A show that could have happened during the seventies. Oficina para
Proyectos de Arte (OPA), Guadalajara, 2003
Editorial
Christopher D’Arcangelo. Rome, Italy, 2005
Chapter Three. Documents on the Ninth International Forum for Contemporary Art (FITAC),
Mexico (Editor), 2007
What Happens in Halifax Stays in Halifax. Newspaper Jan Mot. Brussels, 2005
A never-seen-by-the-patron art work. Cabinet magazine (In collaboration with Luis Miguel
Suro), 2004
Chapter One. The Ninth International Forum for Contemporary Art (FITAC) , Mexico (Editor),
2003
Academic
Who Killed Robert’s Secret? Visiting artist lecture at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design,
Halifax, 2006
The Artist and the City as Social Imaginary, Villa Aurora, Los Angeles, 2005
Around Bas Jan Ader. Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, 2004
(Mis)Understandng the Past: Reloading Histories in Contemporary Practice, Ninth
International Forum for Contemporary Art (FITAC), Mexico (Director), 2003
Bibliography (Selection)
2007
Mario Garcia Torres, Sven Lutken, Artforum, Nov 2007
Date Due, Kadist Art Foundation, 2007
Secrets and Lies, Craig Burnett, ArtReview, Sept 2007
Mario Garcia Torres, Catrin Lorch, Frieze, September 2007
Escultura Social A New Generatin of Art From Mexico City, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago, and Yale University Press, 2007
A la recherché des Idees Perdúes, Nicolas Trembeley, Numero, Septembre 2007
Mario Garcia Torres, Roberto Tenconi, Mousse 9, 2007
Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind.52. Biennale di Venezia, Charta, 2007
Fragments of History, Magali Arriola, Spike 12, 2007
Who Killed Robert’s Secret? Elodie Royer and Sandra Terdjman, 02, No 41, 2007
Wereldrecord Museumbezoek Frits de Conink, Museumtijdschrift, Juni-July 2007
Mario Garcia Torres, Arjan Reinders, Kunstbeeld NR9, 2007
The Beautiful and the Random, Perry Grayson, The Guardian, January 24, 2007
Venice Biennale: Eclectic art in the ‘Present Tense’. Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times,
June 29, 2007
Maybe It Was Created When Eisenhower Was President, Bit It’s Still ‘Contemporary’ Blake
Gopnik, Washington Post, July 8, 2007
2006
De Conceptual a Tropicoso. Cuauhtemoc Medina, Periodico Reforma, Junio 5, 2006
Mario Garcia Torres, Anne Dressen, Flash Art, May-June 2006
Some Stories I Overheard and Have Now Twisted, Luca Cerizza, NeueReview, 2006
2005
Tout est plus grand. Berenice Bailly, Le Monde, Nov, 2005
El Rancho es Grande. Patrick Charpenel in Crónicas del Paraíso. Ephemera, 2005
De Género a Géneros. Alberto Sánchez, Exit Express, Madrid, Verano, 2005
2004
Eyes Wide Open. Anna Daneri in Jimmie Durham. Charta Italy, 2004
What did you expect. Elena Filipovic, Frieze magazine 86, 2004
The Answer is Never the Same. Raimundas Malasauskas, Newspaper Jan Mot, 2004
2003
Géneros de Espejismo, Cuauhtemoc Medina, Periodico Reforma, Marzo, 2003
Public Collections
Tate Modern, London, UK
Museè de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Museè National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Holland
Kroller-Muller, Oterlo, Holland
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico.
Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico.
49 Nord 6 Est -FRAC, Lorraine in Metz, France.
FRAC - Franche-Comté, Besançon, France.
Coleccion FEMSA (Antes Museo de Monterrey) Monterrey, Mexico
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Fundacao Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon, Spain.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofìa, Madrid, Spain
Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA