Mario García Torres  (Monclova, 1975) lives and works in Mexico City and Los Angeles.

Mario García Torres uses a variety of mediums as video, installation, photography, and sculpture to question the stability of such concepts  as time, memory, image, and the very essence of the artist’s role in society. An artist deeply interested in uncertainty and counter-narratives, his work blurs the space between fact and fiction through research and a wide range of storytelling strategies such as appropriation, narrative, repetition and reenactment.

His work has been shown in solo exhibition in international public and private Institutions, including: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (2021); Museo Jumex, Mexico City (2020); Wiels, Brussels, Belgium (2019); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA (2018); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico (2016); Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, USA (2015); Hammer Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA (2014); Museo MADRE, Naples, Italy  (2013); Project Arts Centre, Dublín, Ireland (2012); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain (2010); CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA (2009); Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain (2009); Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (2008); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2007); Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France (2007);

He has also taken part in many group exhibitions in Institutions such as: Inhotim Institute, Brumadinho, Brazil (2020); Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy (2019); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany (2018); Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy (2017); Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico (2016; 2015); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2015; 2010); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA (2014); Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2014); Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2014); FRAC - Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris, France (2010); The Bass, Miami, USA (2009); De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2008); Tate Modern, London, UK (2007).

His work has been shown in biennials and international group exhibitions such as: 13th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE (2017); Manifesta 11, Zurich, Switzerland (2016); Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany (2012); 29th São Paulo Bienal, São Paulo, Brazil; 52nd Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (2008); Yokohama Triennale 2008, Yokohama, Japan (2008). 

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