Jose Dávila
1974, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Lives and works in Guadalajara.
Solo Exhibitions
2010 No Where Can Be Here. Galeria OMR, Conia Roma, Mexico
Continuum space. MARCO, Vigo.
Continuous Space V. Jose Davila
Solo Exhibition at Marco Museo De Arte Contemporanea De Vigo, Spain
2009 Dos mas dos igual a cinco. Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain
Studies for future buildings. Travesia Cuatro, Art Basel Miami Beach, FL
Flying City, COMMA'03,Bloomberg SPACE, London, UK
2008 Studies for Future Buildings, Renwick Gallery, New York, NY
Container, Renwick Gallery Art Positions, Art Basel, Miami Beach, Florida
2007 Space after space, Borgovico 33,curated by Marco Scotini, Lake Como, Italy (cat.)
x,y,z, MACO, Mexico City, Mexico
Hechiso, Valenzuela & Klenner, Bogota, Columbia
2006 The world of yesterday. El Eco Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
The Illegal Architect, Studio d'Arte contemporanea D´abbeni. Lugano, Italy.
2005 Never on Sunday. Galería Travesía Cuatro. Madrid, Spain.
Nomadic Platform, Casa de América. Madrid, Spain.
2004 Still standing, Galería Enrique Guerrero. Mexico DF.
Untitled elevation No. 2, Les halles, Valais, Switzerland.
Project room at ARCO 04, Madrid.
2002 Erasing Memory. Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico DF.
2001 Temporality is a question of survival. Camden Arts Centre, London, UK.
45 Minute Project. Galería Televicentro, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Monocromo. Colima 64 Project Room, Mexico DF.
1998 Watch your step. NAP, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Group Exhibitions
2010 Jumex Collection, curated by Adriano Pedrosa
Where Do We Go From Here? Selections from La Colección Jumex
Group Exhibition at Bass Museum, Miami Beach
2009 PRETHUNDERDOME curated by Matthew Strauss, White Flag Projects, St Louis, MO
Colección Jumex, Bass Museum, Miami, FL
Hecho en Casa, curated by Osvaldo Sanchez, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
Panorama, Bienal de Arte Brasileno, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Museo de Arte Moderno de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Trienal Poli/Grafica de San Juan, curated by Jens Hoffman, Adriano Pedrosa and Julieta Arando. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
La nada y ser, curated by Shamim Momim. Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico.
2008 Possesion, curated by Montserrat Albores. PETRA, Mexico City, Mexico.
What is my name? Hisk, curated by Lorenzo Bruni, Gent, Belgium.
Hasta el infinito mas alla, CAC, Sevilla, Spain.
Megastructure Reloaded, curated by Dennis Crompton, Berlin, Germany
Extended Borders: Shifting Cartographies. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Per Adesso noi siamo qua, Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
An Unruly History of the Readymade, JUMEX collection, Mexico City, Mexico
To build, to dwell, to think, IVAM, Valencia
2007 Yaq, La Planta, Guadalajara, Mexico
The hyper-realism of simulation, Estudio J.C. Orozco, Guadalajara, Mexico
Conversations, Galería Travesía Cuatro. Madrid, Spain
2006 Masters and Johnson, Charro Negro, Guadalajara, Mexico
Rio Balsas, Mario Pani building, Mexico City, Mexico
The People's choice, Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy
Deshecho, Casa del Lago, Mexico City, Mexico
ARCO '06. Galería Travesía Cuatro. Madrid, Spain
2005 Domicile, Muse d'art moderne, Saint Etienne, France.
FRIEZE, Galería Enrique Guerrero. London, UK.
Farsites: urban symptoms, Museum of Art of San Diego, San Diego
MACO '05, Galería Travesía Cuatro, Mexico DF.
ART BASEL, Studio d'Arte contemporanea D´abbeni. Basel, Switzerland.
II Bienal de Praga, Karlin Hall. Praga.
Misunderstandings, GAM. Mexico DF.
Eco. Arte contemporáneo mexicano, Museo Reina Sofía. Madrid, Spain
2004 Oil. TPS. San Antonio, Texas, USA.
So far so close, America's Society. New York, USA.
Gridlock: cities, structures, spaces, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. New Zealand.
Construction por une deconstruction, Galerie Valerie Cueto. Paris, France.
Light and atmosphere, Miami Art Museum. Miami, USA.
24/7 Projects retrospective, The bakery / Annet Gelink. Amsterdam.
MACO '04, Mexico DF. Galería Enrique Guerrero.
FRIEZE, Galería Enrique Guerrero. London, UK.
ART BASEL, Galería Enrique Guerrero. Miami, USA.
2003 Cambio de Valores. ARCO Collection at the Espai de Art contemporani, Castelló, Spain.
In the absence of recombination.Bronx River Art Center, New York. USA.
Selección Bancomer. Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico DF.
Piel fria. Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico DF.
Mex attacks. Fundazione Prometeo, Lucca, Italy.
Jetset. Museum of installation, London, UK.
The translator notes. Cafe Gallery Projects, London, UK.
2002 Fatamorgana, Zero artecontemporanea, Piacenza, Italy.
Interplay. Moore Space, Miami and MAPR San Juan.
Anonimous. Centro de arte Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain.
Panorma Emergente. II Iberoamerican Architecture Biennial, Santiago, Chile.
Mexico City: An Exhibition about the exchange rate of bodies and values. PS1, New York and Kunstwerke, Berlin.
Puerto Rico PR02. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Home, Dress and Supplies. Plaza Carlos Pacheco, Mexico DF.
Sauvage. La panadería, Mexico DF.
Leisure Theory. Jumex Collection, Mexico DF.
2001 Asamblee. Centre Culturel du Mexique, Paris, France.
The Vanishing city. Programa Art Center, Mexico DF.
Recreo. Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico DF.
Why Cars Don't Fly Yet? Centro de las artes, Monterrey, Mexico.
Video Screenings. 291 Gallery, London, UK.
Windows. Project for the center of Arte.com for ARCO, Madrid, Spain.
2000 Demostrations Room: The Ideal House. Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela.
Apex Art, New York. NICC, Antwerp. Gallery 400, Chicago, USA.
Open Studio. Braziers Intl. Artists Workshop. Oxford, England.
A piece of the action. Galería Emma Molina, Monterrey, Mexico.
2nd Intl. Sound Art Festival. Casa-estudio Diego Rivera, Mexico DF.
Jet Propelled. Museo de las artes, Guadalajara, Mexico.
1999 Un-natural science. Museo Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico DF.
Look Look. Espacio 16/16, Guadalajara, Mexico.
De-materialization in parts/ An object of Morphology. Video Show at the
Cineteca del Estado, Monterrey, Mexico.
Arts Attack. Urban intervention for the council of León, Mexico.
Incidental Television. Televicentro, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Searching for an unconquered place. Museo Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico DF.
1998 Incidental Photography. Public Squash Courts, 7, 8 y 9, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Incidental. Torre Guadalajara, piso 24, Expoarte 98. Guadalajara, Mexico.
Domestic. Mar Egeo #1237, Guadalajara, Mexico.
1997 Ground Works. Galería Arte Contemporáneo, Guadalajara, Mexico
1996 One hundred years of cinema, one hundred. University of Guadalajara, Mexico.
Grants and Residences
Residence in Sao Paulo, Brazil MAM. 2009.
Residence in Kunstwerke, Berlin. August 2003 - 2004
Selected for the III Biennial of Iberoamerican Architecture, Santiago de Chile, 2002.
Residence in the Camden Arts Centre, September 2001. Scholarship from the Andy Warhol Foundation.
Selected for the Biennial of Monterrey 2001 as a member of Ediciones el chino.
Consejo Mexicano de las Artes. Scholarship from the FONCA for young artists, 2000-2001.
Residence in Braziers Intl. workshop, Oxford, England, 2000.
Bibliography (selection)
- Cream 3, Gallo, Ruben. Phaidon Press 2003.
- "Mexico's New Wave," Beith, Malcolm. Newsweek International, May 26 2003, NY, USA, p. 84.
- Cambio de Valores Exhibition Catalogue, EACC. Castello, Spain 2003.
- Mexico Attacks! Exhibition Catalogue, Macri, Teresa. Associazione Prometeo per l'Arte Contemporanea, Lucca, Italy 2003.
- "Assael, Caretto, Courbout, Davila," Capata, Paola. Arte e Critica No. 33, Jan 2003, Roma, p. 46.
- "Jose Davila," Rivero Lake, Francisca. Art Nexus Magazine No.46, Oct-Dec. 2002, USA, p. 140.
- Interplay Exhibition Catalogue, Moore Space. Miami, USA 2002.
- Mexico City: An Exhibiton about the Exchange Rates of Bodies and Values, Exhibition Catalogue, Biesenbach, Klaus and Martín, Patricia. P.S.1 – Kunstwerke. Long Island City, NY, USA 2002.
- Reforma Newspaper, García, Omar. Culture Section, June 7, 2002. Mexico City. p. 4C.
- "Jose Davila," Revista Celeste No. 3 Winter 2001 – 2002. Mexico City.
- Jose Dávila, Temporality is a question of survival, Exhibition Catalogue, Gallo, Ruben and Craddock, Sacha. Camden Arts Centre. London, UK 2001.
- "Jose Davila," Currah, Mark. Time Out Magazine No. 1626, Oct 17 2001, London, UK, p. 62.
- "Jose Davila," Smith, Dan. Art Monthly Magazine No. 251, Nov 2001, London, UK, p. 33.