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Mario Garcia Torres

Born : 1975 in Mexico
Currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Education

MFA California Institute of the Arts, 2005
BFA, Universidad de Monterrey, 1998

Awards

The Cartier Award 2007
Fullbright Grantee 2003-2005
PAEE – FONCA/CONACULTA Grantee 2004
La Colección Jumex Grantee 2003-2005

Solo shows

Group shows (Detail)

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 3rd 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.

Public Collections

Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes, UNAM, Mexico
49 Nord 6 Est -FRAC, Lorraine in Metz, France

Other projects

Curatorial
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) 2007, Mexico. (Editor)
What Happens in Halifax Stays in Halifax. Newspaper Jan Mot. Brussels, 2005.
A never-seen-by-the-patron art work. Cabinet magazine. 2004 (In collaboration with Luis Miguel Suro)
Chapter One. The Ninth International Forum for Contemporary Art (FITAC) 2003, Mexico.(Editor)

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. 2005 Los Angeles
Around Bas Jan Ader. Museo Rufino Tamayo, 2004 Mexico City
(Mis)Understandng the Past: Reloading Histories in Contemporary Practice, Ninth International Forum for Contemporary Art (FITAC) 2003, Mexico. (Director)

Bibliography (Selection).

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
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
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
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.
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.
Géneros de Espejismo, Cuauhtemoc Medina, Periodico Reforma, Marzo, 2003