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Allora and Calzadilla Biography
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1971 |
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Guillermo Calzadilla born in Havana, Cuba
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1974 |
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Jennifer Allora born in Philadelphia, USA
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1996 |
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Jennifer Allora receives her BA, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA
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1996 |
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Guillermo Calzadilla receives BFA, Escuela de Artes Plásticas, San Juan, PR
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1998 - 1999 |
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Jennifer Allora participates in the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY
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2000 - 2001 |
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Cintas Fellowship
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2002 |
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Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
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2000 - 2003 |
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Guillermo Calzadilla receives MFA, Bard College, Anandale-on-Hudson, NY
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2001 - 2003 |
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Jennifer Allora receives MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
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2003 |
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Penny McCall Foundation Grant
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2004 |
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Gwangju Biennial Prize
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Live and work in San Juan, Puerto Rico
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2011
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Living as Form, Creative Time, New York, NY
Stop, Repair, Prepare, MoMA, New York, NY (solo)
GLORIA, U.S. Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (solo)
A Man Screaming is not a Dancing Bear, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC (solo)
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2010
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4th Plinth Commission, The 2010 shortlist exhibition, The Foyer, St Martin- in-the- Field,Trafalgar Square, London
29th São Paulo Biennial, Brazil
Adaptation: Between Species, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Nobody's Property: Art, Land, Space, 2000-2010, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
Restless Empathy, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
Autoconstruccion (self-construction) an exhinbition by Antonio Castro, Abraham
Cruzvillegas and Antonio Fernández Ros, Kurimanzutto, Mexico
Art, Media and Material Witness: Contemporary Art from the Harn Museum of Art, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida
Stop, Repair, Prepare, MoMA, New York (solo)
Compass, Kurimanzutto, Mexico, DF (solo)
Allora & Calzadilla, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (solo)
Number Three: Here And Now, The Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf (solo)
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2009
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RETHINK Relations, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen (solo)
Stop, Repair, Prepare, Gladstone Gallery, New York (solo)
Allora & Calzadilla, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany (solo)
Allora & Calzadilla, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo (solo)
Allora & Calzadilla: How to Appear Invisible, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin (solo)
Number Three: Here and Now, The Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf
Free as Air and Water, Cooper Union Gallery, New York
Rotating Views #1, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Un Certain Etat du Monde? Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
Private Univeres: Media Works, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Wake Up, Please, Le Quartier, centre d’art contemporain de Quimper, Quimper, France
Art TLV 09, Tel Aviv
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2008
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Las Implicaciones de la Imagen, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte (MUCA), Mexico City, 2008
Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn, 2008 Biennale of Syney: Revolutions-Forms That Turn, Thames & Hudsion, Sydney.
Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on “Ode to Joy” for a Prepared Piano, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter Konig
Prospect.1 New Orleans, curated by Dan Cameron, New Orleans, LA
Quiet Politics, Zwirner & Wirth, New York
Perplexed in Public, Lisson Gallery, London
Peripheral Vision and Collective Body, MUSEION Museo d’arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bolzano
After Nature, The New Museum, New York
Viva la muerte, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Las Implicaciones de la Imagen (The implications of image), Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte – MUCA, Mexico City
Field Work – part 1, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
OPEN/ INVITED E V+ A 2008 ev+a, Limerick
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican, London
Greenwashing, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Collection Videos & Films Jean-Conrad& Isabelle Lemaitre, Kunsthalle zu Kiel der Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel
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2007
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Artificial Light: New Light-Based Sculpture and Installation Art, John B. Ravenal, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007
Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century, Susan Sollins and Marybeth Sollins, Abrams Books, 2007
Curiger, Bice, ed. Parkett 80: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Mark Grotjahn, and Allora & Calzadilla, Parkett, New York
Ice Cream: Contemporary Art in Culture, Phaidon, New York
Lyon Biennial 2007: 00s - The History of a Decade That Has Not Yet Been Named, JRP Ringier, Zurich
Allora & Calzadilla, Frieze Art Fair: Yearbook 2007-08, Frieze, London, 2007
Mckee, Yates, ed. Nongovermental Politics, Zone Books, New York
10h International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Kültür Sanat Vakfi, 2007
For Sale, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon
All about Laughter, ori Art Museum, Tokyo
Depiction, Perversion, Repulsion, Obsession, Subversion, Witte de With, Rotterdam
Video Trajectories: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection and the New Art Trust MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Apocalypse Now, (Co-curated with Jens Hoffman), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
Global Multitude in the Rotunda, APC and Luxembourg 2007, Luxembourg
6th Mercosur Biennale, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn
Still Life: Art, Ecology & the Politics of Change, Sharjah Biennial 8, Sharjah
Otra De Vaqueros, Bâtiment d'art contemporain, Geneva
Cosmologies, James Cohan Gallery, Geneva
Otra De Vaqueros, Centre d’édition contemporaine, New York
Après la pluie, Musée départmental d'art contemporain, Rochechouart, France
Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Valencia Biennial, Valencia, Spain
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2006
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Allora, Jennifer and Guillermo Calzadilla. Land Mark, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Empathic, Temple Gallery, Temple University Campus, Philadelphia
Beyond the Museum, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin
Busan Biennale 2006, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea
Ecotopia: The 2nd ICP Triennal of Photography and Video, International Center for Photography, New York
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Une Vision du Monde, La Maison Rouge, Paris
Artificial Light, Anderson Gallery, VCU, Richmond; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Report (Not Announcement) Basis voor Actuele Kunst, BAK, Utrecht
Group Therapy, MUSEION, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzana
Nam June Paik Award 2006, Museum of Applied Arts, Cologne
Home of the Free, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago
Canary Island Biennial, Canary Islands
Estrecho Dudoso, San Jose, Costa Rica
Zone of Risk – Transition, 3rd Bishkek International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Territory, Artspeak/Presentation House, Vancouver
2éme Festival Photo et Vidéo de Biarritz, Biarritz
La Force de L’art, Grand Palais, Paris
Wrong, Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin
Other Than Art, Provisions Library, Washington, D.C.
Day for Night, Whitney Biennial. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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2005
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Hernandez Chong-Cuy, Sofia ed. Allora & Calzadilla, Ink, Monterrey and the Americas Society, New York
Beyond Green: Towards a Sustainable Art, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, Independent Curators International, Traveling Exhibition
Les Visiteurs, Chateau d’Oiron, France
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Ralentir Vite, Le Plateau/ FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris
Videographias In(Visibles), Museo Patio Herreriano de Arte Contemporaneo
Drivin, Exposition Frac-Collection Aquitaine, Bordeaux
Second Guangzhou Triennial. Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Loop 05 La 3ème, Barcelona
T – Torinotriennale tremuse: The Pantagruel Syndrome, Castello di Rivoli Museo
d’Arte Contemporanea, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudeng
Poesia in Forma di Rosa : Tribute to Pasolini, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Montefalcone
Uncertain States of America, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Museum Art in Oslo; traveled to CCS, Bard College, New York
Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art 2005, Lyon
inSITE_05, San Diego and Tijuana
The Gesture: A Visual Library in Progress, Macedonian Museum Of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
Tropical Abstraction, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam
51st International Art Exhibition, Venice
That From a Long Way off looks Like Flies, Platfotm Garantí Contemporary Arts
The Mind is a Horse (Part 2), Bloomberg Space, London
Material Time/Work Time/Life Time, Reykjavik Arts Festival, Reykjavik
Land Marks, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco
Dedicated to you, but you weren't listening, Power Plant, Toronto
E-Flux Video Rental, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
No Convenient Subway Stops, Art in General, New York
Contemporaneo Liquido, Franco Soffiantino Gallery, Turin
1 Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art: Dialectics of Hope, Moscow
Utopia Station, World Social Forum, São Paulo
I Love Art Vidéo, Le Forum Itinérant, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg
Irreducible: Contemporary Short Form Video, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco
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2004
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Unstable Atmospheres. Lisson Gallery, London (solo)
Ciclonismo. Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (solo)
Chalk. 7 th Annual ICA/Vita Brevis Project, Institute of Contemporary Art ( ICA), Boston (solo)
Radio Revolt: One Person, One Watt. Artist in Residence Project, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (solo)
Triennal Poli/grafica de San Juan, San Juan, PR
Island Nations. The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Gwangju Biennale 2004: A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water. Gwangju, South Korea
PARA SITES. When Space Comes Into Play. Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Wien, Austria
Dakar Biennial: Le Monde: Dak’Art 2004. Dakar, Senegal
None of the Above. Real Art Ways, Hartford
Son et Lumiere. List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Ailleurs/Ici. Musee D’Art Moderne de La Ville De Paris/Arc Au Couvent Des Cordeliers, Paris
Situations construites, Attitudes, Espace d’art contemporain, Geneva
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2003
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Land Mark. Escuela de Artes Plásticas, San Juan, PR (solo)
Puerto Rican Light. Americas Society, New York (solo)
Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self. International Center of Photography, New York
Common Wealth. Tate Modern, London
Away From Home. The Wexner Center for The Arts, Columbus, OH
How Latitudes Become Forms. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo per L’Arte, Turin, Italy; Contemporary Arts Center, Houston
24/7. Center of Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
Institution2, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland, in collaboration with the Center of Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
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2002
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Allora & Calzadilla. Institute of Visual Arts (INOVA) at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (solo)
Interplay. The Moore Building, Miami
Fair. Royal College of Art, London
III Bienal Iberoamericana. Lima, Peru
Bird’s Eye View. The Arch at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
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2001
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Allora & Calzadilla. Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce, PR (solo)
Zoning. The Project, New York
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2000
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Other Worlds. Project Rooms, ARCO, Madrid (solo)
VII Bienal de la Habana. Havana, Cuba
Puerto Rico 00 (Parentesis en la ‘Ciudad’). San Juan, PR
S-Files. El Museo del Barrio, New York
Distinctions. A thesis exhibition at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard
College, NY; Berrie Center for the Arts, Ramapo College, Ramapo, NJ
Puerto Rico Hoy. Instituto de America, Santa Fe, Spain
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1999
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1999. P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY
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1998
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XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo. São Paulo, Brazil
Caribe: Exclusión, Fragmentación, y Paraiso. MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain; Casa Las Americas, Madrid
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1997
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Charcoal Dance Floor. Luigi Marrozzini Gallery, San Juan, PR (solo)
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| Literature |
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2009
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Schambelan, Elizabeth, “Being There,” Artforum, January 2009, p 175
Wiley, Chris, “The Party is Over: Allora & Calzadilla’s Monstrous Art,” Kaleidoscope, March-April 2009, pp. 18-22
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2008
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De Ruiter, Marinus, “Allora & Calzadilla”, The Wire, no295, September 2008
McDonough,, Tom, “Use What Sinks”, Art In America, January 2008, p 83-87
Charlesworth, J.J., "Shaping Politics," Art Review, January 2008, p 70-73
Rathgeber, Pirkko, “Allora & Calzadilla,” Flash Art Vol. XLI No. 262, October 2008, p. 141.
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2007
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“Allora & Calzadilla,” Tema Celeste, May/ June 2007, p. 88.
Wei, Lilly, "Report from Richmond: Light Fantastic," Art in America, September 2007, p.83
"The Artists' Artists," ArtForum, December 2007, p 122
Charlesworth, J.J. "Power Plays," Art Review, October 2007, p 82 - 85
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