Miguel Calderón - Biography

Born Mexico City, Mexico, 1971
Lives and works in Mexico City

EDUCATION
1994 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005
kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico (fall)

2003
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, September 19 – October 25

2001
"Gran-Dote", Miguel Calderón and Milena Muquiz, La Panaderia, Mexico City, July 25-August 18

2000
"CostCo Series", La Panaderia, Mexico City, April 19 – April 30

1999
INOVA, Milwaukee, WI, September 24 – November 24
"Joven Entusiasta", Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, June 24 – August

1998
"Aggressively Mediocre/Mentally Challenged/Fantasy Island", Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, New York, September 12 – October 17
"Ridiculum Vitae", La Panaderia, Mexico City, Mexico, January – February

1997
"A Propósito.....instalación colaboración de Yoshua Okon y Miguel Calderón", La Panaderia,
Mexico City, Mexico, April 2
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, March 14 – April 19

1996
Andrea Rosen Gallery (with Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle), New York, NY

1995
"Historia Artificial", Museum of Natural History, Mexico City, Mexico La Panadería, Mexico City, Mexico

1994
"From Social Activist to Drug Lord Transformation (A Touristic Manifestour)", Diego Rivera
Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006
"Yokohama 2005: International Tiennale of Contemporary Art," Yokohama, Japan. (catalogue)
"Shoot the Family", organized by iCI, traveling to: Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan, February 4- April 2, Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee, June 23 – September 3, Western Washington University, Washington, October 2 – December 1. (catalogue)

2005
"Artists Cinema," curated by Tirdad Zolghadr for the Frieze Art Fair, London, October 20 – 24, 2005
"Landmark", Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Oregon, June 10 – July 16
"Prometer no empobrece: arte contemporáneo mexicano," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, February 8 – June 6, 2005.
"Outpost," Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, January 26 – March 16, 2005
"In the Air: Projections of Mexico," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, January 15
February 12, 2005.
Sharjah Biennale 7, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, April 6 – June 6, 2005.

2004
São Paulo Bienal, Brazil, September 25 – December 19
"Flowers in the Dustbin," curated by Clare Manchester, Impakt Festival 2004, Utrecht, The
Netherlands, October 27 – 31.
"Reverse Engineers: New Media and Installation Art", Herndon Gallery, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH, March 19 – April 13, 2004.
"mhn.03", Museo de Historia Natural, Mexico City, Mexico, May 18, 2004.

2003
"Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self", International Center of Photography, New York, December 12, 2003 – February29, 2004 (catalogue)
"To Be Political It Has To Look Nice", Apexart, New York, curated by Pablo León de la Barra,
October 11 – November 8
"Fantastic!", Mass MOCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, March 8, 2003 – February 2004
Media Gallery, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, May 24 – September 14, 2003

2002
"…You Think I am Superficial", Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, September 14
November 17, 2002
"An Exhibition about the Exchange Rates of Bodies and Values", PS1 Contemporary Art Center, June 30 – September 20, 2002

2001
"Tele[visions]", Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna, Austria, curated by Joshua Decter, October 12, 2001 January 6, 2002

2000
"Distinctions", Berrie Center for Visual Arts, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ, September 28 – October 20
"Ultra Baroque: Aspects of Post Latin American Art", Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, September 25, 2000 – January 7, 2001, traveling to Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, February 4 – May 6, 2001, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, August 18, 2001 – January 2, 2002, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, January 30 – April 28, 2002, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, June 20 – August 24, 2002, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, October 13, 2002 – January 5, 2003
"Creacion en Movimiento", Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico, July 31 –
September 26 (catalogue)
"Distinctions", Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, April 30 –May 28
"I Saw Stars", Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Leslie Brack, April 9 – May 8
"Eró Gena", Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, March 15 – June 11
"Talleres: Art from Gauadalajara Workshops", Gallery of the Mexican Cultural Institute, curated by Carlos Ashida, March 1 - ?

1999
"go away: artists and travel", Royal College of Art, London, April 17 – May 9
"Modern and Contemporary Mexican Painting from the Collection of Jacques and Natasha Gelman", Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, March 10 – May 8
"Positioning", Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, February 7 -21

1998
"En Crudo", Museo Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, October 27 - ?, curated by Robert Littman"JOTOSEPTIEMBRE", La Panadería, Mexico City, October 22 – November 14
"The Garden of the Forking Paths", Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 25 –June (catalogue)
"Interferencias", Canal de Isabel II, (Center of Photography) Madrid, Spain, April 3 – May 30 (catalogue)
"The Cutting Edge Invitational", ARCO '98, La Panaderia, Madrid, Spain, February 12- February 17

1997
"Funny Pictures", Ten in One Gallery, Chicago, IL, November 21 – December 20"InSite 97: New Projects in Public Spaces by Artists of the Americas", San Diego, CA/Tijuana, Mexico, September 26 - November 30. Exhibition in conjunction with Guadalajara Art Fair, Museo de las Altes de la Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico, September 26 – September 30
"Asi Esta la Cosa: instalacion y arte objeto en America Latina", Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico, July 25 – October (catalogue)

1996
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, New York, (two-person show with Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle), May/June
"Pushing Image Paradigms: Conceptual Maneuvers in Recent Photography", Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR, June 27 – August 24

1995
"Nuevas Prácticas Colectivas (New Collective Practice)", Galeria Arte Contemporaneo,
Mexico City, Mexico
"Hogar Dulce Hogar" (Home Sweet Home), La Panadería, Mexico City, Mexico
"La Liga de la Injustica (The League of Injustice)", La Panadería, Mexico City, Mexico
"Ummagumma", especies de indeterminación, parallel exhibit to Expoarte Guadalajara 95 and the IVFITAC, Corpus Callosum, Guadalajara, Jalisco

1994
"La Feria del Rebelde (Rebel Fair)", La Panadería, Mexico City, Mexico "Facil de Digerir (Easy to Digest)", La Panadería, Mexico City, Mexico, three performances "The Chain South", The Lab, San Francisco, CA, video performance, collaboration with Nao Bustamente "Latin Chicks and Blond Spics", Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA video and performance night, Clara Space, San Francisco, CA