Jose Dávila Guadalajara, Mexico, 1974 Lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico.

1993-1998 1993

Architecture Sculpture

ITESO, Guadalajara, MX Academia de Bellas Artes, San Miguel de Allende, MX

Solo Exhibitions 2017 2016

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(upcoming) Solo Show (upcoming) Public Sculpture Project (upcoming) Solo Show (upcoming show: Jose Dávila) (upcoming) Solo Show The Elephant and the Feather The Contracted Position There’s a Line Written on Every Corner The Theory of the Additional Element Tectonic Acts of Desire and Doubt The Lightness of Weight Daylight Found Me With No Answer Recent Work State of Rest Das muss der Ort sein Shadow as a Rumor El juego de lo posible Elogio de la sombra Promise of a Better World Only the Shadow Knows Nowhere Can Be Now Here Continous Space Ningún lugar puede ser aquí 2+2=5 The Sierpinski Variable Art Positions Studies for Future Buildings Space after Space Hechiso x,y,z El mundo de ayer The Illegal Architect Never on Sunday Nomad Platform Still Standing Untitled Elevation No. 2 Erasing Memory Temporality Is a Question of Survival

Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, DE Curated by Marc Olivier, Comporta, PT Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) and Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative, Los Angeles, US SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, US Marfa Contemporary, Marfa, US Impronta, Guadalajara, MX Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, DEN Intervention to Los Carpinteros’ Studio, 12th La Havana Biennial, CU Galería Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, SP Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK Espacio Monitor, Caracas, VE Galería OMR, Mexico City, MX Figge von Rosen Gallery, DE Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK Galería Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, SP MAZ, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, MX Galería Hotel Demetria, Guadalajara, MX Galleria Gentili, Prato, IT Figge Von Rosen Gallery, Berlin, DE MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Vigo, SP Galería OMR, Mexico City, MX Galería Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, SP Bloomberg Space, London, UK Art Basel, Miami Beach, US Renwick Gallery, New York, US Borgovico 33, Como, IT Valenzuela & Klenner, Bogota, CO MACO, Mexico City, MX El Eco Museo, Mexico City, MX Galeria Studio Dabbeni, Lugano, IT Galería Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, SP Casa de America, Madrid, SP Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City, MX Les Halles, ECAV, Valais, CH Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City, MX Camden Arts Centre, London, UK

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¿Cómo te voy a olvidar? Cher(e)s ami(e)s I Was Once Lonelyness Bienal do Mercosul Risk Colección Jumex, In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni Selección = Relación La Ciudad. Sus Afectos Konkret mehr Raum! Diane Van Deren Carambolages Do Objeto Para o Mundo. Coleção INHOTIM Testigo del siglo Art & Me. Collection Mudam Limited Visibility La persistencia de la geometría Leviatán The Theater of the World The Parergon and The Gutter Infra-Mince Weight and Measure Regrese mañana Trip and Traveling La persistencia de la geometría Bucareli Act Salón Acme 1 Now Here is also Nowhere: Part II Art Public, Art Basel Miami Footnotes on Candida Höfer New Meditations Misrepresentation Mistake and Non-Disclosure Rotary Connection Ugly, Dirty and Bad En obras: Teixeira Collection The Space Between Now and Then The Persistence of Geometry Erschaute bauten Everything Must Go Wir sind alle astronauten Atardecer ranchero Customary Beauty Now Kirkergaard’s Walk The Architecture of Tatiana Bilbao Transurbaniac The White Cabinet 30th Anniversary, Display 2 Where Do We Go From Here? Zwischenzonen Prethunderdome Getting Nowhere Hecho en casa Panorama. Foreigners everywhere Desenhos (Drawings): A – Z 2nd Poligraphic

Galerie Perrotin, Paris, FR Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR Blain Southern Gallery, Berlin, DE Porto Alegre, BR Turner Contemporary, Kent, UK Museo Jumex, Mexico, MX Espacio Monitor, Caracas, VE MUCA Roma, Mexico City, MX Kunsthalle Osnabrück, DE Galería Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, CL Gallerie Vallois, Paris, FR Palazo das Artes, Belo Horizonte, BR MAZ, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, MX Mudam Luxenbourg, LU Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, US MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, MX Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, MX Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, MX David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, DK Figge von Rosen Gallery, Berlin, DE Sigfried Conteporary, London, UK MAZ, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, MX Klaipeda Culture Communication Center, LT MUAC Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, MX Bucareli 154, Mexico City, MX Archipielago, Mexico City, MX Stroum Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, US Collins Park, Bass Museum, Miami, US Galería OMR, Mexico City, MX Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, CA Rove Gallery, London, UK Casey Kaplan, New York, US Espacio M, Mexico City, MX TEA, Tenerife, SP Espacio 52, Mexico City, MX Caixa Forum, Madrid, SP MAK, Vienna, AT Casey Kaplan, New York, US MARTa Herford, Herford, DE Galería Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, SP Mor Charpentier, Paris, FR Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, MX Galeria Marilia Razuk, Sao Paulo, BR Mexican Cultural Institute, San Antonio, US University Art Gallery, UC, San Diego, US Fundación JUMEX, Mexico City, MX Studio Dabbeni, Lugano, IT Bass Museum of Art, Miami, US MUMOK, Vienna, AT White Flags Project, St. Louis, US Galeria Gentili, Florence, IT Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, MX Museu do Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, BR Museu da Cidade, Lisboa, PT Triennial of San Juan, PR

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Possession What’s My Name? An Unruly History of the Readymade Megastructures Reloaded Per adesso noi siamo qua To Build, to Dwell, to Think Hasta el infinito y mas allá… Yaq The Hyper-realism of Simulation Conversations Masters and Johnson Rio Balsas The People’s Choice Deshecho Domicile Acción Directa – Latin American Social Sphere Misunderstandings Farsites: Urban Symptoms Eco. Mexican Contemporary Art So Far so Close Gridlock: Cities, Structures, Spaces Construction por une deconstruction Light and Atmosphere 24/7 Projects Retrospective Cambio de Valores Mexico’s Contemporary In the Absence of Recombination Salón Bancomer Piel fría Mex Attacks Jetset The Translator Notes Fatamorgana Interplay Anonymous Panorama emergente Mexico City: An Exhibition About the Exchange Rate of Bodies and Values Puerto Rico Biennale 02 Home, Dress and Supplies Sauvage Leisure Theory Asamblee The Vanishing City Recreo Why Cars Don’t Fly Yet? Windows Demostration Room: Ideal House Open Studio A Piece of the Action 2nd Intl. Sound Art Festival Jet Propelled Un-natural Science Look Look... An Object of Morphology Incidental Television Searching for an Unconquered Place

PETRa, Mexico City, MX HIST, Ghent, BE Fundación JUMEX, Mexico City, MX Mint, Berlin, DE Villa Romana, Florence, IT IVAM, Valencia, SP Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, SP La Planta, Guadalajara, MX Estudio J.C. Orozco, Guadalajara, MX Galería Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, SP Charro Negro, Guadalajara, MX Edificio Mario Pani, Mexico City, MX Isola Art Center, Milan, IT Casa del Lago, Mexico City, MX Muse d’art moderne, Saint Etienne, FR Prague Biennale 2, Prague, CZ GAM, Mexico City, MX San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, US Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, SP America’s Society Art Gallery, New York, US Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, NZ Galerie Valerie Cueto, Paris, FR Miami Art Museum, US The Bakery / Annet Gelink, Amsterdam, NL Espai de Art Contemporani, Valencia, SP Allbright College Art Gallery, Philadelphia, US Bronx River Art Center, New York, US Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, MX Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, MX Fundazione Prometeo, Lucca, IT Museum of Installation, London UK Cafe Gallery Projects, London, UK Zero, Milan, IT The Moore Space, Miami, US Centro de Arte Santa Monica, Barcelona, SP III Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura, CL MoMA PS1, New York, US Kunstwerke, Berlin, DE San Juan, PR Plaza Carlos Pacheco, Mexico City, MX La Panadería, Mexico City, MX Fundación JUMEX, Mexico City, MX Centre Culturel du Mexique, Paris, FR Programa Art Center, Mexico City, MX Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City, MX Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, MX Centro de Arte.com, Madrid, SP Apex Art, New York, US Braziers Workshop, Oxfordshire, UK Galeria Emma Molina, Monterrey, MX Casa-Estudio Diego Rivera, Mexico City, MX Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara, MX Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, MX Espacio 16/16, Guadalajara, MX Cineteca del estado, Monterrey, MX Televicentro, Guadalajara, MX Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, MX

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Incidental Photography Incidental Domestic One Hundred Years of Cinema

Public Squash Courts, Guadalajara, MX Torre Guadalajara, Expoarte98.Guadalajara, MX Mar Egeo #1237, Guadalajara, MX Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, MX

Residencies / Grants 2011-2014 2003 – 2004 2004 2004 2001 2000-2001

Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte Kunstwerke Ecole Cantonal d’Art Camden Arts Centre (supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation) Braziers Int. Workshop Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes

Awards 2015

INH Contemporary Art Collection Award EFG-ArtNexus Latin American Art Award

Public Collections, Museums, and Institutions (selected) Centre Georges Pompidou, París, FR Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, SP Inhotim Collection, Brumadinho, BR Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Viena, AT Allbright Knox Museum, Nueva York, US Boston Museum of Fine Art, US Colección JUMEX, Ciudad de México, MX Biedermann Museum, Donaueschingen, DE MUDAM, Museo de Arte Moderno de Luxemburgo, LU Museo Amparo, Puebla, MX MUAC, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Ciudad de México, MX Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, NL Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, SP Fundación La Caixa, Madrid, SP The Franks-Suss Collection, UK, US, HK Zabludowicz Collection, Londres, UK Pérez Art Museum Miami, US Private Collections (selected) Estrellita B. Brodsky, Nueva York, US Renee and Mark Rockefeller Collection, Nueva York, US Petitgas Collection, Londres, UK Krauss Collection, Nueva York, US Pereira Collection, Sao Paulo, BR Colección Charpenel, MX Colección Coppel, MX Luiz Augusto Teixeira da Freitas Collection, Lisboa, PT Susana & Ricardo Steinbruch Art Collection, Londres, UK Levinas Collection, Washington, US Michael Lynne Collection, Nueva York, US Colección Fundación Rozemblum, Buenos Aires, AR Marciano Art Collection, Los Angeles, US

Mexico Berlin, DE Valais, CH London, UK Oxfordshire, UK Mexico

UBS Art Collection, Zurich, CH Deutsche Bank Collection, DE DZ Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt, DE AXA Art Collection, MX Colección FEMSA, MX Fundación Televisa, MX Colección DKV, Valencia, SP ArtNexus, Miami, US Boston Fidelity Investment Group, Boston, US ICART Collection, Miami, US Collection Tishman Speyer, New York, US LARA (Latin America Roaming Art), Asiaciti Trust Group, Singapore, SG

Selected Bibliography Monographs. - Dávila, J., Fernandes, J., Ibarra, G. et al. (2015). Daylight found me with no Answer. Madrid: This Side Up. - Dávila, J. (2015). the contracted position. Mexico: Impronta Casa Editora. - Rangel, Gabriela. (2014). Jose Dávila. Cutouts. London: Max Wigram Gallery. - Davila, José. (2013). There but not. New York: powerHouse Books. - Richter, M., Silva C., de Looz, P. A. & Dávila. J. (2008). Jose Dávila. Mexico: Ediciones Anónimas. - Craddock, S., Gallo, R., & Dávila, J. (2001) Jose Dávila. Temporality is a question of Survival. London: Camden Arts Centre.

Exhibition Books and Catalogues. - Amirsadeghi, H. (Ed.). (2014). Contemporary Art Mexico. London: Transglobe Publishing. - Paolini, G. (2014). Temporale 70. Lugano: Studio Dabbeni. - Redstone, E., (2014). Shooting Space. Architecture in Contemporary Photography. New York: Phaidon press. - Torreblanca, A. (2014). The Theater of the World / El Teatro del Mundo. Mexico City: Museo Tamayo, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura. - Franciolli, M. (2012). Houses. Brucella: Fondazione Rolla, Repubblica e Cantone Ticino DECS Swisslos. - Blancsubé, M. (2011). ¡Sin Techo está Pelón!. Ciudad de México: Fundación/Colección Jumex - Herford, M. (Ed.). (2011). Wir sind alle Astronauten: Universum Richard Buckminster Fuller im Spiegel zeitgenössischer Kunst. Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag. - Peeping Tom’s Digest 2. (2011). Les Lilas: Peeping Tom. - Zamudio Taylor, V. (Ed.). (2011). Now: Obras de la Colección Jumex. Mexico: Fundación Jumex, Televisa Guadalajara, Hospicio Cabañas México. - Köl, E. (2010). Zwischenzonen : la colección jumex, Mexiko 16:10:09 - 07:03:10. Mexico: Fundación/Colección Jumex, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien. - Ledo, A. (2010). Puntos de Encontro / Meeting Points. Vigo: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo - Pedrosa, A. (2010). 31º Panorama da Arte Brasileira. Mamõyguara opá mamõ pupé. São Paulo: Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo. - Zamudio Taylor, V., Karman Cubiñá, S. & Platow, R. (2010). Where do we go from here? 0910 Selections from La Colección Jumex. Miami: Bass Museum of Art, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center. - Silva, C. (2009). Firulais (Fragmentos de la Historia Reciente de Guadalajara). Guadalajara: Editorial Pandora - Díez, J. (Ed.). (2008). Madrid Abierto 2004-2008. Madrid: Asociación Cultural Madrid Abierto. - Van der Ley, S. & Richter, M. (2008). Megastructure: Visionary Architecture and Urban Design of the Sixties Reflected by Contemporary Artists. Berlin: European Art Projects & Hate Cantz. - Vidal-Beneyto, J. (2008). Construir Habitar Pensar: Perspectivas del Arte y Arquitectura Contemporánea. Valencia: IVAM Institut Valencià d'art Modern - Olivares, R. (Ed.). (2007). 100 Artistas Latinoamericanos = 100 Latin American Artists. Madrid: Exit Publicaciones. - Hegyi, L., Kim, S., Piccoli, C., Gautherot, F., Di Pietrantonio, G., Bruni, L., Tillet, P. (2005). Domicile privé/public. SaintEtienne: Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Etienne Métropole. - Pedrosa, A. & Dunn, J. (2005). INSITE 05: Farsites: Sitios Distantes. San Diego: San Diego Museum of Art, inSite, Conaculta CECUT. - Sánchez, O., Medina, C., Schmelz, I., Power, K. (2005). Eco: arte contemporáneo mexicano. España: Museo Nacional Centro

de Arte Reina Sofía. - Torrente, V. (2005). Artes Plásticas en Casa de América 2005. Madrid: Consorcio Casa de América. - De Oliveira, N., Oxley, N. & Petry, M. (2003). Installation Art in the New Millennium. New York: Thames & Hudson. - Williams, G. (2003). Cream 3. New York: Phaidon Press - Biesenbach, K. (2002). Mexico City : an exhibition about the exchange rates of bodies and values. New York: P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center - Nuño, F. (Ed.). ( 2002). Puerto Rico’02 [EN RUTA]. San Juan: M&M Proyectos. - Alvarado, K. (1999). Muestra Internacional de Performance (Utopía/Distopía). Ciudad de México: Ex Teresa Arte Actual, CONACULTA INBA. - Rocha Iturbide, M. (1999). Ruido… Primer Festival de Arte Sonoro. Ciudad de México: Ex Teresa Arte Actual, CONACULTA INBA.

Contact.

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