Darren Bader
MARIO GARCÍA TORRES
Born in 1975, Monclova, Mexico
Lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico
EDUCATION
2005 Master of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA
1998 Bachelor in Fine Arts, Universidad de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
PRIZES & RESIDENCIES
2009 5x5CASTELLÓ, Premi Internacional d’Art Contemporani Diputació de Castelló – EACC
2007 The Cartier Award
2003-2005 Fullbright Grantee
2003-2005 Colección Jumex Grantee
2004 PAEE – FONCA/CONACULTA Grantee
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
‘A Virtually-Never-Physically-Seen Body of Work’, neugerriemschneider, Berlin
‘La poética del regreso’, MARCO – Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
2020
‘N. Date’, Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
‘MARIO GARCÍA TORRES: SOLO’, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico ‘Flowers and Meteors’, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
‘Pinturas Recientes’, joségarcía, Mérida, Mexico
2019
‘One Minute to Act a Title: Kim Jong-un’s Favorite Movies’, Jan Mot, Bruxelles, Belgium
‘Illusion Brought Me Here’, Wiels, Bruxelles, Belgium
‘The Way They Looked At Each Other’, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark
‘Falling Together In Time’, Taka Ishi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2018
‘Illusion Brought Me Here’, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
2017
‘When Time Lost Its Patience’, Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy
‘LA FIESTA FUE AYER Y NADIE RECUERDA NADA’, Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura, Mexico City, Mexico
2016
‘An Arrival Tale’, TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
‘No doubt, naturally drawn, non-determined nodes, normally detected neutral density. Neal Diamond nose downed near dark. Normal delivery notably drove non-directional navigational displays into North Dakota. And not documented nominal diameter neatly diagrammed non-dated next degree new directions’, Jan Mot Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
‘Caminar Juntos’, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
‘An Arrival Tale’, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), Vienna, Austria
2015
‘The Space We’ve Got (A Proposal for the 10th Tokyo Biennale’s Between Man and Matter)’, Taka Ishi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
‘The Strange Things my Eyes See’, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
‘Me suena a aislamiento’, La Tallera, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Cuernavaca, Mexico
‘FOCUS: Mario García Torres’, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
‘Out of Order, Works from the Haubrok Collection, Part 2’, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
‘To See Time Go By’, Galeria Fonte, Inhotim Institute, Brumadinho, Brazil
Art/Doc festival, Artport Art Center, Tel Aviv, Israel (screening)
‘1 to 31 exhibition’, The Collective Museum of Private Collections
‘À toi appartient le regard et la liaison infinie entre les choses’, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France
Melbourne Photo2020 Festival, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia (screening)
2019
‘Modes of Encounters: An Inquiry’, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
‘Ancient History of the Distant Future’, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA
‘Moved!’,Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
‘Alighiero Boetti e Mario Garcìa Torres’, Galeria Travesia e Cuadro, Madrid, Spain
‘Second Hand’, Jameel Art Center, Dubai, UAE
‘Beyond Performance: Falling Together in Time’, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
‘To See Time Go By’, Galeria Fonte, Inhotim Institute, Brumadinho, Brazil
‘Et le désert avance, les collections du musée des beaux-arts et d’archéologie à contretemps’, Musée des beaux-arts et d’archéologie, Besançon, France
‘An exhibition with an audio script by Sarah Demeuse and Wendy Tronrud, as well as a soundtrack by Mario García Torres in collaboration with Sol Oosel’, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
‘Portadores de Sentido-Arte contemporaneo en la Collection Patricia Phelps de Cisneros’, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
‘No habrà nunca una puerta. Estas adentro. Pieces from the Coleção Teixeira de Freitas Collection’, Santander Sala de Arte, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain
2018
‘Multitudinous Seas’, Fondation Hippocrène, Paris, France
‘Stories of Almost Everyone’, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
‘Take me (I’m yours)’, Villa Medici, Roma, Italy
‘Vse naše skrivnosti’, Center for Contemporary Arts Celje, Celje
‘Hello World. Revising a Collection’, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, Germany
‘A gaze into architecture’, Archi-Depot Museum, Tokyo, Japan
‘EN BUSCA DEL MURO’, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
‘Taguchi Collection of 21st Century Art: From Andy Warhol to Yoshitomo Nara’, Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan
‘Hello World. Revising a Collection’, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, Berlin, Germany
‘ARABESQUES. Antonio Ratti, il tessuto come arte’, Museo Nazionale Romano, Terme di Diocleziano, Roma, Italy
‘The Reservoir of Modernism’, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
‘The Matter of Photography in the Americas’, Pigott Family Gallery, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA
2017
‘The Classroom’, Artissima, Torino, Italy
‘Take me (I’m yours)’, Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy
‘Pacific Standard Time LA/LA Video Art in Latin America’, LAXART, Los Angeles, USA
‘Sharjah Biennial 13: Act l, Tamawuj’, Sharjah Biennial 13, Sharjah, UAE
‘A Poeth*ical Wagner’, MOCA, Cleveland, USA
‘Il tessuto come arte: Antonio Ratti imprenditore e mecenate’, Palazzo Te, Mantova, Italy
‘THE ART SHOW, Art of the New Millennium in Taguchi Art Collection’, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
‘Invitation Without Exhibition’, Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France
‘289 148’, Silesian Museum, Katowice, Poland
‘La fiesta fue ayer (y nadie recuerda nada)’, ARCHIVO Diseño y Arquitectura, Mexico City, Mexico
‘Du verbe à la communication. La collection de Josée et Marc Gensollen’, Carré d’art de Nîmes, Nîmes, France
‘Night in the Museum: Ryan Gander Curates the Arts Council Collection’, Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester
‘Punto de partida. Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel’, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid
‘WAGSTAFF’, Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales, United Kingdom
‘Temps variable et autres horizons’, ESAL de Metz – École Supérieure d’Art de Lorraine, Metz, France
‘COLOUR = REALITY. B+W = ABSTRACTION (except for zebras)’, accompanying
project of the exhibition: Alighiero Boetti: Minimum/Maximum, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy
‘The White Heat’, Marc Straus, New York, USA
‘Reverberations: Art and Sound in the MUAC collections,’ MUAC Museo Universatario Arte Contemporáneo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City
‘Phenomenon (2)’, Phenomenon Biennial, Anafi, Greece
2016
‘The Natural Order of Things’, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
‘Night in the Museum: Ryan Gander Curates the Arts Council Collection’, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, United Kingdom
‘What People Do For Money: Some Joint Ventures’, Manifesta 11, Zurich, Switzerland
‘I’m Waiting For Someone To Call Me’, Galeria Dawid Radziszewski, Warsaw, Poland
‘Che il vero possa confutare il falso’, AGI Verona, Palazzo Pubblico, Santa Maria della Scala, Accademia dei Fisiocritici, Siena, Italy
‘Moved’, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2015
‘Expeditie Land Art’, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
‘Seth Siegelaub. Beyond Conceptual Art’, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
‘Accompaniment’, EFA project Space. The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, USA
Francis Alÿs, Pierre Bismuth, Mario Garcia Torres, Joachim Koester, Tris Vonna-Michell, Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium
‘Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today’, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
‘War II. History Series’, Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales, United Kingdom
‘By Boat (farewell)’, joségarcía, Mexico City, Mexico
‘The Silence of Ordinary Things’, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, USA
‘DePictura – Volume III’, Metropolitan Art Society, Beirut, Lebonan
‘Poor Art – Rich Legacy. Arte Povera and parallel practices 1968-2015’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
‘Nobody walks away from the true collaboration triumphant or unbruised’, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico
COLLECTIONS
49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine, Metz, France
Colección FEMSA, Monterrey, Mexico
FRAC – Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon, France
Museè de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofìa, Madrid, Spain
Museè National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
