Jose Dávila

Biography

1974

Born in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he still lives and works

1993–98

Studied at the Architecture School, ITESO University, Guadalajara, Mexico

2000

Residency at Braziers International Artists Workshop, Oxfordshire, England

2001

Residency at Camden Arts Centre, London, England, 2001 (sponsored by The Andy Warhol Foundation)
Grant Programa Nacional para Artistas Jóvenes, FONCA, Mexico

2004

Residency at École Cantonale d’Art du Valais, Sierre, Switzerland
Residency at Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany

2013

Residency at Hotel El Ganzo, San Jose del Cabo, Mexico

2015

Residency at Fundación Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido, Mexico.

Selected solo exhibitions

2022

Memory of a Telluric Movement, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland
The fact of constantly returning to the same point or situation, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark

2021

Fuerzas Opuestas, KEWENIG, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
The Circularity of Desire, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY, United States
Le pietre sanno aspettare, Centro Internazionale di Scultura, Peccia, Switzerland
To Each Era Its Art. To Art, Its Freedom, Central Wharf Park, Massachusetts
Jose Dávila, Centro Internazionale di Scultura, Peccia, Switzerland

2020

"El primer fuego", Travesía Cuatro, Guadalajara, Mexico
"Directional Energies", Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX, United States

2019

Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
König Galerie, Berlin, Germany
"Sueño autosuficiente", Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico

2018

"A Simple Rule to Remember", Franz Josef Kai, Vienna, Austria
"Not all those who wander are lost", Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain
"Non tutti quelli che vagano sono persi", Museo del Novecento, Florence, Italy
"Somewhere Behind the Eyes", Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany
"The Body is Lost Outside", Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Newton’s Fault", König Galerie, Berlin, Germany
"Mecánica de lo inestable", Galería OMR, Mexico City, Mexico

2017

"Sense of Place" ,LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
BALTIC Artists’ Award 2017, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, England
Conjunto escultórico Parque San Jacinto, Permanent public sculpture, Guadalajara, Mexico
"Every Blind Wondering Ends in a Circle", Blueproject Foundation Barcelona, Spain
"Die Feder und der Elefant", Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
"The Stone That The Builder Refused", König Galerie, Berlin, Germany
"Unchartered Territory", Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

2016

"Transformer", Curated by Marc Olivier, Comporta, Portugal
"Practical Structures", SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, United States
"Stones Don’t Move", Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY, United States
"El Objeto y el Entorno", Museo Jumex, Mexico city, Mexico
"The Elephant and the Feather", Marfa Contemporary, Marfa, TX, United States

2015

"The Contracted Position", Impronta, Guadalajara, Mexico
"The Theory of the Additional Element", Intervention to Los Carpinteros’ Studio, 12th La Havana Biennial, Cuba
"There’s a Line Written on Every Corner", Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Tectonic Acts of Desire and Doubt", Galería Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain

2014

"The Lightness of Weight", Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY, United States
"Daylight Found Me With No Answer", Max Wigram Gallery, London, England
"Recent Work", Espacio Monitor, Caracas, Venezuela
"State of Rest", Galería OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
"Shadow as a Rumor", Max Wigram Gallery, London, England

2013

"Das muss der Ort sein", Figge von Rosen Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Shadow as a Rumor, Max Wigram Gallery, London, England

2012

"El juego de lo posible", Galería Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain
"Elogio de la sombra", MAZ - Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico

2011

"Promise of a Better World", Galería Hotel Demetria, Guadalajara, Mexico
"Only the Shadow Knows", Galleria Gentili, Prato, Italy
"Nowhere Can Be Now Here", Figge Von Rosen Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2010

"Continuous Space", MARCO - Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Vigo, Spain
"Ningún lugar puede ser aquí", Galería OMR, Mexico City, Mexico

2009

"The Sierpinski Variable", Bloomberg Space, London, England
"2 + 2 = 5", Galería Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain

2008

"Studies for Future Buildings", Renwick Gallery, New York, NY, United States

2007

"Space after Space", Orgovico 33, Como, Italy
"Hechiso", Valenzuela & Klenner, Bogota, Columbia

2006

"El mundo de ayer", Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico
"The Illegal Architect", Galeria Studio Dabbeni, Lugano, Italy

2005

"Nomad Platform", Casa de America, Madrid, Spain
"Never on Sunday", Galería Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain

2004

"Untitled Elevation No. 2", Les Halles Espace d'Art Contemporain, Valais, Switzerland
"Still Standing", Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City, Mexico

2002

Erasing Memory, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City, Mexico

2001

"Temporality Is a Question of Survival", Camden Arts Centre, London, England

Selected group exhibitions

2021

"Picasso & Les Femmes d’Alger", Museum Berggruen, Berlin, Germany
"MASA x Mario García Torres", Mexico City, Mexico
"Excepciones Normales: Arte Contemporáneo en México", Mexico City, Mexico

2020

"Nirin", 22nd Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia
"Instantánea", Antigua Fábrica Kodak, Guadalajara, Mexico
"Momentum", Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands

2019

"La última de las tribus", MAZ - Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico
"Durch Mauer Gehen", Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
"Detrás del Muro", 13th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
"Negativer Raum", ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Germany
"Konkrete Gegenwart", Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
"Infinitud. Collección Es Bauland", Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires , Argentina

2018

"Connections to the World, Hildebrand Collection", G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig, Germany
"The Artist is Present", Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
The Feather and The Elephant, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

2017

"Perpetual Construction: A Dialogue with the House of Jean Prouvé III", CAB Art Center, Brussels, Belgium
"Saber Acomodar", Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO, United States
"Latin American Artists in the Marciano Collection", Marciano Collection, Los Angeles, CA, United States
"The Art Show, Art of the New Millenium in Taguchi Art Collection", Museum of Modern Art Gunma, Gunma, Japan
"Monumentos, anti-monumentos y nueva escultura pública", MAZ - Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico
"Sign o’ the Times - Jose Dávila, Nic Hess, Arcangelo Sassolino", Philipp von Rosen Galerie, Cologne, Germany
"The Queen Falls", Galería OMR, Mexico City, Mexico

2016

"Sol LeWitt: A Tribute", Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands
"Full Moon", Museum Voorlinden, AG Wassenaar, Netherlands
"Latin America Calling", Häusler Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland
"Exhibitions are the best excuses", Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany
"Inside Out", Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
"¿Cómo te voy a olvidar?", Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
"Cher(e)s ami(e)s", Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2015

"I Was Once Lonelyness", Blain Southern Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
"Risk", Turner Contemporary, Kent, England
"Colección Jumex, In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni", Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
"Selección = Relación", Espacio Monitor, Caracas, Venezuela
"La Ciudad. Sus Afectos", Museo MUCA Roma, Mexico City, Mexico
"Konkret mehr Raum!", Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany
"Diane Van Deren", Galería Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile
"Carambolages", Gallerie Vallois, Paris, France

2014

"Do Objeto Para o Mundo - Coleção Inhotim", Palazo das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
"Testigo del siglo", MAZ - Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Mexico
"Art & Me - Collection MUDAM", MUDAM - Musée D’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
"Limited Visibility", Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC, United States
"La persistencia de la geometría", MARCO - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, Mexico
"Leviatán", Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico
"The Theater of the World", Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico

2013

"The Parergon and the Gutter", David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Infra-Mince", Figge von Rosen Gallery, Berlin, Germany
"Weight and Measure", Sigfried Contemporary, London, England
"Regrese mañana", MAZ - Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico
"Trip and Traveling", Klaipėda Culture Communication Center, Klaipėda, Lithuania
"La persistencia de la geometría", MUAC - Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
"Bucareli Act", Bucareli 154, Mexico City, Mexico
"Salón Acme 1", Archipielago, Mexico City, Mexico
"Now Here is also Nowhere: Part II", Stroum Gallery - University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

2012

"Footnotes on Candida Höfer", Galería OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
"New Meditations", Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, Canada
"Misrepresentation Mistake and Non-Disclosure", Rove Gallery, London, England
"Rotary Connection", Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY, United States
"Ugly, Dirty and Bad", Espacio M, Mexico City, Mexico

2011

"En obras: Teixeira Collection", TEA - Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Spain
"The Space Between Now and Then", Espacio 52, Mexico City, Mexico
"The Persistence of Geometry", Caixa Forum, Madrid, Spain
"Erschaute bauten", MAK - Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
"Wir sind alle Astronauten", Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
"Atardecer ranchero", Galería Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain
"Customary Beauty", Mor Charpentier, Paris, France
"Now", Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico

2010

"Kirkergaard’s Walk", Galeria Marilia Razuk, São Paulo, Brazil
"The Architecture of Tatiana Bilbao", Mexican Cultural Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
"Transurbaniac", University Art Gallery - University of California San Diego, CA, United States
"The White Cabinet", Fundación JUMEX, Mexico City, Mexico
"30th Anniversary, Display 2", Studio Dabbeni, Lugano, Italy

2009

"Where Do We Go From Here?", Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, United States
"Zwischenzonen", MUMOK - Museum für moderne Kunst, Vienna, Austria
"Prethunderdome", White Flags Project, St Louis, MO, United States
"Getting Nowhere", Galeria Gentili, Florence, Italy
"Hecho en casa", Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
"Panorama. Foreigners everywhere", Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil
"Desenhos: A – Z", Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal
"2nd Poligraphic", San Juan Triennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2008

"An Unruly History of the Readymade", Fundación JUMEX, Mexico City, Mexico
"Megastructures Reloaded", Mint, Berlin, Germany
"Per adesso noi siamo qua", Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
"To Build, to Dwell, to Think", IVAM - Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
"Hasta el infinito y mas allá…", Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain

2007

"Yaq", La Planta, Guadalajara, Mexico
"The Hyper-realism of Simulation", Estudio J.C. Orozco, Guadalajara, Mexico
"Conversations", Galería Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain

2006

"Masters and Johnson", Charro Negro, Guadalajara, Mexico
"Rio Balsas", Edificio Mario Pani, Mexico City, Mexico
"The People’s Choice", Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy
"Deshecho", Casa del Lago, Mexico City, Mexico

2005

"Domicile, Musée d’Art Moderne Saint Étienne Métropole", Saint Étienne, France
"Acción Directa – Latin American Social Sphere", Prague Biennale 2, Prague, Czech Republic
"Misunderstandings", GAM, Mexico City, Mexico
"Farsites: Urban Symptoms", San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, United States
"Eco. Mexican Contemporary Art", Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

2004

"So Far so Close", America’s Society Art Gallery, New York, NY, United States
"Gridlock: Cities, Structures, Spaces", Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
"Construction pour une deconstruction", Galerie Valerie Cueto, Paris, France
"24/7 Projects Retrospective", The Bakery / Annet Gelink, Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Light and Atmosphere", Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, United States

2003

"Cambio de Valores" Espai d'Art Contemporani, Valencia, Spain
"Mexico’s Contemporary", Allbright College Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, United States
"In the Absence of Recombination", Bronx River Art Center, New York, NY, United States
"Salón Bancomer", Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
"Piel fría", Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
"Mex Attacks", Fundazione Prometeo, Lucca, Italy
"Jetset", Museum of Installation, London, England
"The Translator Notes", Cafe Gallery Projects, London, England

2002

"Fatamorgana", Zero, Milan, Italy
"Interplay", Moore Space, Miami, FL, United States
"Anonymous", Centro de Arte Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
"Panorama emergente", III Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura, Chile
"Mexico City: an Exhibition About the Exchange Rates of Bodies and Values", MoMA PS1, New York, NY, United States; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Puerto Rico Biennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico
"Sauvage", La Panadería, Mexico City, Mexico
"Leisure Theory", Fundación JUMEX, Mexico City, Mexico

2001

"Assemblée", Centre Culturel du Mexique, Paris, France
"The Vanishing City", Programa Art Center, Mexico City, Mexico
"Recreo", Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City, Mexico
"Why Cars Don’t Fly Yet?", Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, Mexico

2000

"Demonstration Room: Ideal House", Apex Art, New York, NY, United States
Open Studio, Braziers Workshop, Oxfordshire, England
"A Piece of the Action", Galeria Emma Molina, Monterrey, Mexico
Sound Art Festival Casa-Estudio Diego Rivera, Mexico City, Mexico
"Jet Propelled", Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico

1999

"Un-natural Science", Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico
"Look Look...", Espacio 16/16, Guadalajara, Mexico
"An Object of Morphology", Cineteca del Estado, Monterrey, Mexico
"Incidental Television", Televicentro, Guadalajara, Mexico
"Searching for an Unconquered Place", Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico

1998

"Incidental Photography", Public Squash Courts, Guadalajara, Mexico
"Incidental", Torre Guadalajara, Expoarte 98, Guadalajara, Mexico
"Domestic", Mar Egeo #1237, Guadalajara, Mexico

1996

"One Hundred Years of Cinema", Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico

Selected collections

Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY, United States
Biedermann Museum, Donaueschingen, Germany
Boston Fidelity Investment Group, Boston, MA, United States
Coleção Pereira, São Paulo, Brazil
Coleção Teixeira de Freitas, Lisbon, Portugal
Colección DKV, Zaragosa, Spain
Colección FEMSA, Monterrey, Mexico
Colección Fundación Rozenblum, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel, Mexico City, Mexico
Colección ICART, Miami, FL, United States
Colección JUMEX, Mexico City, Mexico
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York, NY, United States
Colección Patrick Charpenel, Guadalajara, Mexico
Comunidad de Madrid, Colección de Arte, Madrid, Spain
Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
Fundación "La Caixa", Madrid, Spain
Instituto Inhotim, Brumandinho, Brazil
Krauss Collection, New York, NY, United States
Levinas Collection, Washington D. C., United States
MALBA - Museo de Art Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Michael Lynne Collection, New York, NY, United States
MUAC - Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, United States
Zabludowicz Collection, London, England