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Mario Garcia Torres    (Mexican, 1975)

 Mario Garcia Torres - My Westphalia Days (Video/Film)
Mario Garcia Torres
My Westphalia Days 2008
 
 Mario Garcia Torres - Sometimes the World is Heavier than an Artist's Breath (Sculptures)
Mario Garcia Torres
Sometimes the World is Heavier than an Artist's Breath 2008
 
 Mario Garcia Torres - What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger (Installations)
Mario Garcia Torres
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger 2007
 

Biography
1975 born in Mexico
1998 BFA, Universidad de Monterrey
2004 PAEE – FONCA/CONACULTA Grantee
2003 - 2005 Fullbright Grantee
2003 - 2005 La Colección Jumex Grantee
2005 MFA, California Institute of the Arts
2007 The Cartier Award

Exhibitions
2009 This is not a Void, Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo
2009 Mario Garcia Torres: Je ne sais si c’en est la cause, What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger, and Some Reference Materials / MATRIX 227, Berkeley Museum of Art, Berkeley, CA (solo)
2009 The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2009 Pittoresk - Neue Perspektiven auf das Landschaftsbild, MARTA Herford, Germany
2009 Il aurait bien pu le promettre aussi, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France (solo)
2008 Early Color Video Tapes, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)
2008 Some Stories… Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2008 Mario Garcia Torres, White Cube, London, UK (solo)
2008 Pocket Scratching, Gallery Sora, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2008 Time Crevasses, Third Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan
2008 The Sweet Burnt Smell of History, 8th Panama Biennial, Panama
2008 Other Than Yourself, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
2008 A Stake in The Mud, A Hole in the Reel, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
2008 Still, La Planta, Guadalajara, Mexico
2008 Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican, London, UK
2008 Autopsia de lo Invisible, MALBA-Coleccion Constantini, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2007 Nuevos Leones, Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, Mexico
2007 Someoneelse with My Fingerprints, Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
2007 Der Droste Effekt, Esther Sipper, Berlin, Germany
2007 What Doesnt Kill You Makes You Stronger, Museum of Modern Art Syros, Greece (solo)
2007 Materials for a Leisure Hour, Elba Benítez, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2007 A Solo Exhibition, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France (solo)
2007 A Brief History of Jimmie Johnson’s Legacy, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (solo)
2007 Pawnshop, e-flux, New York, USA
2007 Nuevos Leones, Forum, Monterrey, Mexico
2007 Some, Time, Waiting, Kadist Foundation, Paris, France
2007 Commitment, Sbk Strombeek, Belgium
2007 Elephant Cementery, Artists Space, New York, USA
2007 May the Twelfth, Store, London, UK
2007 The Backroom, Various Venius
2007 Sublime Objects, Collections Sans Frontiers V, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bukarest, Rumania
2007 Learn to Read, Tate Modern, London, UK
2007 The Last Piece by John Fare, gb agency, Paris, France
2007 How Soon Is Now? Fundación Luis Sloane, Coruña, Spain
2007 Whenever It Starts It Is The Right Time, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
2007 Night at the Museum or What Betty Boop Saw, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
2007 Otra de Vaqueros, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico
2007 Saturday Live Actions & Interruptions, Tate Modern, London, UK
2007 Distorted Fabric, De Appel, Amsterdam, the Netherlabnds
2007 No Negative, Objective Exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium
2007 Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art From Mexico City, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
2007 Overtake, The Reinterpretation of Modern Art, Lewis Clorkman Gallery Cork, Ireland
2007 Accords Exentriques, BPS 22 Espace de Creation Contemporaine, Charleroi, Belgium
2007 For Sale, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
2007 Le Truc, Projects Art Center, Dublin, Ireland
2007 Imagine Los Angeles, Monka Spruth Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany
2007 Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind.52.Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2007 American Video Art at the Beginning of the 3rd Millenium, Moscow Biennial Disco Coppertone, Locus Athens, Athens, Greece
2006 Paradoxically It Doesn’t Seem That Far From Here. Meyer-Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany (solo)
2006 What Happens in Halifax Stays In Halifax (In 36 Slides). Meyer-Riegger, Karlsruhe, Germany (solo)
2006 Te Invito a Mi Mundo, Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2006 The Galleries Show, Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium (solo)
2005 Some Hold, Some Push and Some Don’t Even Know How to Take a Picture, Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2004 Shoot of Grace with Alighiero Boetti Hairstyle and Other Works, Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2003 Contradictory Illicit Registry (Project Room) Muestra Art Fair, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)
2003 I also asked myself... Galería de Arte Mexicano, México City, Mexico (solo)
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