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Miguel Monroy
Mexico City. 23/07/1975

 

Education

2017-2020

  • Master in Fine Arts, Art Practice, Stanford University

2001

  • Photography and alternative media, Centro de la Imagen, Instituto de Bellas Artes (INBA)

1998-1999

  • Studies in the degree in Mathematics. School of Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

 1994-1998

  • Bachelor of Visual Arts. National School of Fine Arts (ENAP), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

 

Solo exhibitions

2024

  • The Surveilled Image, Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City

2020

  • Street View Selfie, Playtime in Virtual Lake House

2016

  • Robbery to an art fair, ZonaMaco Sur, Galeria de Arte Mexicano

 2014

  • Mise in abyme, CoLab Projects, Austin, Texas, USA

 2012

  • Box de sombra, La Chambre Blanche, Quebec city, Canada
  • Canon, Museo Experimental el Eco, UNAM, Mexico City

 2010

  • Deuce, Alternating & Current, Mexico City

2008

  • Estado Natural, Raul Anguiano Museum of Art, Guadalajara, Mexico

2007

  • Transported Transportation, Ramis Barquet Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico

 2005

  • Versus, Art&Idea, Mexico City

2001

  • Healthy Effort, Col. Condesa, Mexico City

 

Selected group exhibitions

2022

  • Unbound 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Stanford Gallery

2021

  • Desmontajes visuales, Yesterday Guadalajara Jalisco
  • Constructive Eviction , all of us projects, 2 Swinson, Oakland California
  • Sentido del tiempo, Museum of the Foreign Ministry, Mexico City

2020

  • Another day ok, All of us projects
  • GL Mutant and Jaus at QIPO Art Fair

 2018

  • The Annual Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Award Exhibition, SOMA Arts Art center, San Francisco California, USA
  • The 13th National Juried Exhibition, Axis gallery, Sacramento California, USA
  • Hi5. The Annual First Year MFA Exhibition, Coulter Art Gallery, Stanford University, Palo Alto California, USA
  • The hand that guides, San Francisco California, USA

 2017

  • Mexibility, We are in the city We can not leave it, Casa del Lago, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) – Goethe Institute, Mexico City
  • Analog currency, The mistake room, Los Angeles California, USA

2016

  • Una red de líneas que se intersecan, ESPAC Gallery, Mexico City

2015

  • OBJECTSFOODROOMS, Proyecto Paralelo, Mexico City
  • 2nd Edition of the Hors Pistes Festival, Rosario, Argentina
  • La estela en el horizonte: Becoming of monuments in public space, Casa del Lago, Mexico City
  • Todos juegan, La miscelánea, Puebla, Mexico

2013

  • Mexico inside out, Modern Museum, Forthworth, Texas, USA
  • Transitios, ArtPace, San Antonio Texas, USA
  • Formas y pasajes, Centro de las Artes, Parque Fundidora, Monterrey, Mexico

2012

  • In other words, NGBK + Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany

 2011

  • Tiempo de sospecha, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City
  • Skin Antiguo Ateneo Español, Mexico City
  • San Curador, Border Cultural Center, Mexico City

2010

  • The mole’s horizon, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
  • Random Trajectories, Ancienne école des vétérinaires, Brussels, Belgium
  • Aftermath, Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

2009

  • One foot apart, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Hecho en casa, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City

2008

  • The Best Art Work in the World, Galeria Charro Negro, Jalisco, Mexico
  • Well-known treasures, Sara Meltzer Gallery NY, USA
  • Black Elephant, Anahuacalli Museum, Mexico City
  • Everything enters through the eyes, Casino Metropolitano, Mexico City
  • Works of Art with a minimum of steel, Mexican Art Gallery, Mexico City

2006

  • Lamina Animal, KuntsWerk Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
  • iAAB Open Studio, Basel, Switzerland
  • Dust in the wind, Ramis Barquet Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
  • Skier at the bottom of a well, La Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico

2005

  • Morir de Amor, MUCA Campus. UNAM, Mexico City
  • Statements, Museo de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
  • Killing me softly, Ramis Barquet Gallery, NY, USA
  • Systematic repertoire of quick consultation for the student and professional with definitions according to the reality of the current world. CANAIA, Mexico City

2002

  • Reflejo/Reflex, Art & Idea, Mexico City

 2001

  • With Fulgente Hado, Xteresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
  • Rotation XII, MUCA Rome, UNAM, Mexico City
  • Recovery Room, Carrillo Gil Museum, Mexico City

 

Artistic Residencies

 2015

  • Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico

2013

  • El Ganzo, San Jose del Cabo, BCS, Mexico

2012

  • La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

2006

  • iAAB Atelier. Christoph Merian Foundation, Basel, Switzerland

 

Scholarships and awards

 2021

  • Support to Book Production Grant for Why is everything together written separately and separately all together?, Jumex Foundation/Collection

2018

  • The Annual Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards. The San Francisco Foundation

 2015-2018

  • Member of the National Artists Network, Mexican Endowment for the Arts (FONCA)

 2011

  • Support to Book Production Grant for Transported Transport, Fundación/Colección Jumex

2010-2011

  • Young Artist Fellowship, Mexican Endowment for the Arts (FONCA). Alternative Media

2007-2008

  • Young Artist Fellowship, Mexican Endowment for the Arts (FONCA). Alternative Media

2002-2003

  • Young Artist Fellowship, Mexican Endowment for the Arts (FONCA). Alternative Media

 

Teaching and workshops

2021-2022

Full time Professor at the Fine Arts Department, University of the Americas Puebla UDLAP

2020

  • Teaching assistant, Art and Electronics, Stanford University

2019

  • Lecturer, Interdisciplinary Art Survey, Stanford University

2018

  • Teaching assistant, Digital Photography, Stanford University
  • Teaching assistant, Advanced Photography Seminar, Stanford University
  • Teaching assistant, Kinetic Sculpture, Stanford University

 2017

  • Teaching assistant, Intro to Digital design, Stanford University
  • Instructor, Installation Art projects production workshop. Antonio López Sáenz Gallery, Culiacan, Sinaloa

 20016-2017

  • Lecturer, 3D workshop. National School for Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking (ENPEG), La Esmeralda. National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA), Mexico City
  • Lecturer, Art Practice. National School for Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking (ENPEG), La Esmeralda. National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA), Mexico City

 2009-2017

  • Adjunct Professor, Performance Art, University of the Arts (UNARTE), Puebla, Mexico
  • Adjunct Professor, Installation Art, University of the Arts (UNARTE), Puebla, Mexico
  • Adjunct Professor, Digital graphics, University of the Arts (UNARTE), Puebla, Mexico
  • Adjunct Professor, Art Theory, University of the Arts (UNARTE), Puebla, Mexico

2015

  • Instructor, Workshop Imagining a Monument, Casa del Lago, Mexico City

2014

  • Lecturer, Sculpture and Time Workshop, SAPS-La Tallera, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
  • Lecturer, Introduction to Contemporary Art Workshop, Design, Film and Television Center, Mexico City

2012

  • Adjunct Professor, Media art and electronic art workshop, Escuela Superior de Artes de Yucatan (ESAY), Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

2008-2011

  • Adjunct Professor, Artistic Expression Workshop, Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico City

 2004

  • Instructor, Portable sculpture workshop, International Book Fair, Mexico City

2002-2003

  • Instructor, Media integration, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City

 

Talks

2022

  • Talk with Esteban King, Fabiola Torres-Alzaga, about the participation in Audiovisual Dismontages in Ayer.

2021

  • ig Live David Miranda and Miguel Monroy about the exhibition Canon at the Museo Experimental El Eco.

2018

  • Christian Whitworth and Miguel Monroy on Larry Bell’s Glass Cube. Anderson Collection, Stanford University

2017

  • Talk about own work, Stanford University, Oshman Hall, Palo Alto, California, USA
  • Economy of mobility in times of neoliberalism and globalization, with: Marjetica Potrc, Miguel Monroy and Alicia Puyana, Casa del Lago, UNAM, Mexico city

2012

  • Talk with Nataliya Petkova about Shadow Box, Quebec, Canada
  • Talk on the book Transport transport, Artbook fair, PS1 New York, USA
  • Talk with Emilio Allier about the Canon exhibition, Museo Experimental el Eco, Mexico City

2010

  • Talk about Deuce exhibition, Soma, Mexico City

2008

  • Talk about Estado Natural exhibition, Museo Raul Anguiano, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

  

Publications and collaborations

2012

  • Transport transported. Artist’s book/catalog about the project of the same name, Fundación/Colección Jumex, Galeria de Arte Mexicano
  • Carga Útil, 39 contemporary artists at the MAM, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City
  • Kubli Pablo, El ensamblaje escultórico. Análisis y tipologías objetuales en el arte contemporáneo mexicano, UNAM

2011

  • Dialogue with Ruth Estevez, Peeping Tom art magazine. Art Magazine, France

2006

  • Esquiador en el fondo de un pozo. Jumex Foundation/Collection
  • Morir de Amor, Catalog of the exhibition Muca Campus National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

2005

  • Never Odd or Even. Collaboration on a publication by Mariana Castillo, Marres Center for Contemporary Art, Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Chilango, magazine of art, culture and fashion, Mexico City

2003

  • Felix Risk, Art magazine, USA, Collaboration
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