Jose Dávila |  Biografia

Nato / Born
1974, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Lives and works in Berlin and Guadalajara.

Esposizioni personali /
Solo Exhibitions

2008
– Studies for Future Buildings, Renwick Gallery, New York

2007
– Space after Space, Borgovico 33, Como

2006
– L'architetto Illegale, Studio Dabbeni, Lugano
– Galerie Valérie Cueto, Paris

2005
– Nunca en domingo , Travesía Cuatro arte contemporáneo , Madrid
– Nomad Platform, Casa de América, Madrid

2004
– Still standing , Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City
– Project room at ARCO 04 , Madrid
– Untitled Elevation No. 2 , Les Halles, Ecole cantonale d’art du Valais, Sierre, Switzerland

2002
– Erasing Memory , Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City

2001
– Temporality is a question of survival, Camden Arts Centre, London (cat., texts by Ruben Gallo, Sacha Craddock)
– 45 Minute Project , Galería Televicentro, Guadalajara

1998
– Watch your step, NAP, Guadalajara

Esposizioni collettive (selezione) /
Group Exhibitions (selection)

2008
– Megastructure reloaded, Visionary architecture and urban design of the sixties reflected by contemporary artists

2007
– Direct Architecture Politics and Space, Borgovico 33, Como

2005
– Farsites. Urban Crisis and Domestic Symptoms in Recent Contemporary Art, San Diego Museum of Modern Art, San Diego, California (cat.)
– Prague Biennale 2, Karlin Hall, Prague (cat.)
– Domicile: Privé/Public, Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France (cat.)
– Eco: arte contemporáneo mexicano, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (cat.)

2004
– So Far, So Close. Contemporary Art From Guadalajara, The Americas Society, New York
– Gridlock: cities, spaces, structures, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
– Construction pour une déconstruction, Galerie Valérie Cueto, Paris
– Light and Atmosphere, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
– 24/7 Projects Retrospective, The Bakery/Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam

2003
– Cambio de Valores, Colección ARCO, Espai d’Art Contemporani, Castellón, Spain (cat.)
– Mexico Illuminated, Albright College, Freedman Gallery Annex Richmond Street, Reading, Pennsylvania
– In The Absence of Recombination, Bronx River Art Center, New York
– IX Salón de Arte Bancomer, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City (cat.)
– Piel fría: arte contemporáneo en Guadalajara / Peau froide: art contemporain à Guadalajara, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (cat.), Mexico City; Centro de las Artes de Nuevo León, Pinacoteca, Monterrey; Centre culturel du Mexique, Paris (cat.)

– Mexico attacks!, Associazione Prometeo per l’Arte Contemporanea, Chiesa di San Matteo, Lucca, Italy (cat.)
– Jetset, Museum of installation, London
– The translator’s notes, Cafe Gallery Projects, London

2002
– Fatamorgana, Galleria Zero Arte Contemporanea, Piacenza, Italy
– Interplay, The Moore Space, Miami, Florida; Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico (cat.)
– Anonimous, Centro de arte Santa Mónica, Barcelona
– Panorama Emergente, III Iberoamerican Architecture Biennale, Santiago, Chile
– Mexico City: An Exhibition About the Exchange Rate of Bodies and Values, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center at Museum of Modern Art, Long Island City, New York; Kunstwerke, Berlin (cat.)

– PR02 Puerto Rico Bienal, San Juan, Puerto Rico (cat.)
– Casa, vestido, sustento, Plaza Carlos Pacheco, Mexico City
– Sauvage, La Panadería, Mexico City
– Teoría del Ocio, La Colección Jumex, Edo. de Mexico, Mexico City

2001
– Asamblea, Centre Culturel du Mexique, Paris (cat.)
– The Vanishing City, Programa Art Center, Mexico City
– Recreo: Cuatro Artistas de Guadalajara, Galería Enrique Guerrero Open Studio, International Video Screenings, 291 Gallery, London
– Why Cars Don’t Fly Yet?, Centro de las Artes, Monterrey
– Ventanas, Centro de Arte.com, Madrid

2000
– Demonstration Room: Ideal House, Apex Art, New York; NICC, Antwerp; Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas
– Open Studio, Braziers International Artists Workshop, Oxfordshire, England (cat.)
– Fraccionamento del Terreno/A Piece of the Action, Galería Emma Molina, Monterrey
– Segundo Festival Internacional de Arte Sonoro, Casa-Estudio Diego Rivera, Mexico City
– Propulsión a chorro, Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara

1999
– Ciencias In-naturales, Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
– Look-Look, Espacio 16/16, Guadalajara
– An Object of Morphology, Cineteca del Estado, Monterrey
– El Arte Ataca, Urban Interventions for the León City Council
– Televisión Incidental, Televicentro, Guadalajara
– En busca de un lugar no conquistado, Museo Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City

1998
– Fotografia incidental. Expoarte '98, Public Squash Courts 7, 8, 9, Guadalajara
– Incidental. Expoarte '98, Torre Guadalajara, Guadalajara
– Doméstica. Expoarte '98, Mar Egeo # 1237, Guadalajara

1996
– Cien años de Cine, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara

Studi / Education
1993-1998
Architecture School, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente ITESO, Guadalajara

1994
Photography and Sculpture Courses, Academia de Bellas Artes, San Miguel Allende, Mexico City

1993
Art and Renaissance Architecture Courses, Accademia ARS-Grammatica, Florence, Italy

Residencies / Grants
2003-04
Residency at Kunstwerke, Berlin

2001
Residency at Camden Arts Centre, London, supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation

2000-01
Recipient of the Mexican Arts Council Grant for young artists FONCA

2000
Residency at Braziers International Artists Workshop, Oxfordshire, England

Selected Bibliography
– Nicolas de Oliveira, Nicola Oxley, Michael Petry, Installation Art in the New Millenium. The Empire of the Senses, London: Thames & Hudson, 2003, pp. 107, 128
– J.M., Frieze Art Fair. Yearbook 2004-05, London: Frieze, 2004
– Ruben Gallo, Cream 3, London: Phaidon, 2003, pp. 112-115
– Malcolm Beith, ‘Mexico’s New Wave’, in: Newsweek International (New York), May 26, 2003, p. 84
– Paola Capata, ‘Assael, Caretto, Courbout, Dávila’, in Arte e Critica (Roma), No. 33, January, 2003, p. 46
– Francisca Rivero Lake, ‘Jose Dávila’, in: Art Nexus Magazine, n. 46, October-December, 2002, p. 140

– Omar García, in: Reforma Newspaper (Mexico City), Culture Section, June 7, 2002, p. 4C
– ‘Jose Dávila’, in: Revista Celeste (Mexico City), No. 3, Winter 2001-2002
– Dan Smith, ‘Jose Dávila’, in: Art Monthly Magazine (London), No. 251, November, 2001, p. 33
– Mark Currah, ‘Jose Dávila’, in: Time Out Magazine (London), No. 1626, October 17, 2001, p. 62