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Gonzalo Lebrija (Mexican, 1972)

Timeline

1972: Born in Mexico City, Mexico
1994–1998: BFA in Cience of Comunication at the Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO).
: Co-founder and director of Oficina para Poyectos de Arte A.C. (OPA)
: Lives and works in Guadalajara, México.

Exhibitions

2013: Arte Video Night, Palais de Tokyo, France
2013: 13th Instanbul Biennal, Instanbul, Turkey
2013: GRIT: Contemporary Mexican Video Art, Goleb, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2013: Who Knows where the time goes, Faggionato, London, UK (solo)
2013: Misrepresentation Mistake and non Disclosure, 33-34 Hoxton Square, London, UK (solo)
2012: R75/ Toaster, Moscow Photobienniale, - Le Grand Manège, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia (solo)
2012: Trou noir, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris, France (solo)
2012: Galerie Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2012: Resisting the Present, Mexico 2000-2012, ARC – Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
2012: Audience as a Subject, Yerba Buena Centre of the Arts , San Francisco, USA
2011: Paperwork, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris, France
2011: The Distance Between You and Me - Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
2011: Deriva Especular, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico (solo)
2011: Bas Jan Ader: Suspendido entre la risa y el llanto, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Mexico
2001–2011: Resisting the Present, Mexico 2000-2012, Museo Amparo, Puebla Mexique, Mexico
2010: The Distance Between You and Me, I-20 Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2010: Travesio Quatro, Madrid, Spain at Pinta London, UK (solo)
2010: Via, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), public video screening, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2010: Arena Mexico at Pinta London, UK
2010: Energy Effects, MCA Denver, USA
2010: Armory Show, Galerie Laurent Godin, New York, USA
2009: Art Basel Miami Beach: Art Projects, Miami Beach, FL, USA
2009: Creative Time Presents Emerging Artists: Bestué-Vives, Martha Colburn, and Gonzalo Lebrija, at 44 1/2, Times Square, New York, USA
2009: Breve historia del tiempo (Brief History of Time), Galerie van der Mieden, Antwerpen, Belgium
2009: The distance between you and me, I20 at Mesler&Hug, Los Angeles, USA
2009: Les enfants terribles, Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
2009: Nothingness and Being, curated by Shamim M. Momin, La Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
2009: First Look, curated by Simon Watson and Craig Hensala, House of Campari, Los Angeles, USA
2009: Hecho en Casa, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
2009: Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
2009: Femaco, Mexico DF, Mexico
2009: Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris
2009: Armory Show, New York, USA
2009: The distance between you and me, I20 at Mesler&Hug, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
2008: R75/5 Toaster, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris, France (solo)
2008: Entre la vida y la muerte, Galeria Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2008: The Future is but the Obsolete in Reverse, Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany
2008: ZOO ART FAIR, Galerie Laurent Godin, London, UK
2007: Viva Mexico!, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
2007: Trinchera, (curated by Emanuel Tovar), Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico
2007: Galeria Fermin Echauri, Pamplona, Spain
2007: The Damage is Done, I-20 Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2007: La Nuit Etoilée, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris, France (solo)
2007: Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2007: Proyecto Liga, Guadalajara, Mexico
2007: Casa Museo Luis Barragan, Mexico City, Mexico
2007: Conversations, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain
2006–2007: Columba livia, Pilar Parra & Romero Galería de Arte, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2006: R75/5 Toaster, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico (solo)
2006: The Hiper-realism of simulation, Casa Taller J.C. Orozco, Guadalajara, Mexico (solo)
2006: El Mundo de Ayer, Museo experimental Eco, Mexico City, Mexico, In collaboration with Jose Davila (solo)
2006: Art Nova, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, Florida, USA
2006: Perdidos en el despacio,, Fundació Espais d’art contemporani, Girona, Spain
2006: Esquiador en el fondo de un pozo, Fifth interpratation of the Jumex Collection by Michel Blancsubé, Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
2006: Territory, Artspeak and Presentation House gallery, Britich Columbia, Canada
2006: Some Postcards from Mexico, curated by Carlos Ashida, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Santiago, Chile
2006: Pasion/Provocation: fotografia & video en la coleccion Teofilo Cohen, curated by Victor Zamudio-Taylor, Centro de la Imagen
2006: …Un minuto por favor, La Casa Taller Jose Clemente Orozco, Guadalajara, Mexico
2006: Spanish as a global language, Instituto Cervantes, New York, NY
2006: El Desollado, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2006: Bussiness Class, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile
2006: THE DAMAGE IS DONE, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, MEXICO (solo)
2006: Come closer. Espace Piano Nobile, Geneva, SWITZERLAND
2005: LA IMAGEN Y LO INVISIBLE, Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid, SPAIN
2005: SOFT MACHOS, Pilar Parra & Romero Galería de Arte, Madrid, SPAIN
2005: ECO, MÉXICO, Museo de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, SPAIN
2005: INSITE, San Diego, USA
2005: GONZALO LEBRIJA, Pynercontreras Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2005: COME CLOSER, Künstlehaus Bethanien Gmbh, Berlin, GERMANY
2005: Come closer. Isola Art Center, Milan, ITALY
2005: Come closer. Centro Histórico, Mexico City, MEXICO
2005: Playing high, La BF15 Gallery, Lyon, France
2004: SO FAR SO CLOSE, The Americas Society, New York, NY, USA
2004: LA COLMENA, Colección Jumex, Curada por Guillermo Santamarina, Mexico City, MEXICO
2004: OIL, Triangle Project Space, San Antonio, TX, USA
2004: PEAU FROIDE, Institut du Mexique, Paris, FRANCE
2003: LIGTHS ON, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo)
2003: PARIS PHOTO, Carroussel du Louvre, Paris, FRANCE
2003: ARENA MEXICO, Ramis Barquet Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2003: L’ARTISTE PORTATIF, Instituto de México en Paris, FRANCE
2003: CLUSTERFUCK, Latch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2003: WASLA INTERNATIONA ARTIST WORKSHOP, Sinai, Egypt
2003: JET SET, Museum of installation, London, USA
2003: PIEL FRIA, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, MEXICO
2002: Zebra crossing, Haus der Kulturen der Welt GmbH, Berlin, GERMANY
2002: Axis Mexico (Common objects and cosmopolitan actions), San Diego Art Museum, San Diego, USA
2002: National Grant ship by FONCA (Fondo Nacional paras la Culturas y las Artes) MEXICO
2002: 7 dilemas, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, MEXICO
2002: Intangible, Casa Clavijero, Guadalajara, MEXICO
2002: Thinking local, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2002: La panaderia, The Americas Society, New York, NY, USA
2002: Sauvage, La Panaderia, Mexico City, MEXICO
2002: Leisure theory, Jumex collection, Mexico City, MEXICO
2002: 15753 Kms., Galería Arena México Arte Contemporáneo, Guadalajara, MEXICO (solo)
2001: 01-800-TV-Mex, IASPIS, Stockholm, SWEDEN
2001: Minutos chinos, 291 Gallery, London, ENGLAND
2001: Sonido blanco / ruido blanco, Programa Art Center, Mexico City, MEXICO
2001: Recreo, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City, MEXICO
2001: Braziers international artist workshop, Oxfordshire, UK
2000: Demostration room / ideal house, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, VENEZUELA
2000: America foto latina, Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara, MEXICO
2000: National Grant ship by FONCA (Fondo Nacional paras la Culturas y las Artes) MEXICO
2000: Propulsion a chorro, Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara, MEXICO
2000: Fraccionamiento del terreno – a piece of the action, Galería Emma Molina, Garza García, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
2000: Apex art, Nueva York, NY. The big show, NICC Antwerp, BELGIUM
2000: America foto latina, Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara, MEXICO
1999: 2000, un dia después, Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara, MEXICO
1999: Look look, Espacio 16/16, Grupo incidental. Guadalajara, MEXICO
1999: En busca de un lugar no conquistado, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, MEXICO
1999: Television incidental, Televisa Guadalajara, Channel 4, Guadalajara, MEXICO INTERNATIONAL BIENNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, MEXICO
1998: Incidental, Condominio Guadalajara, Guadalajara, MEXICO
1998: Doméstica, Grupo Incidental, Guadalajara, MEXICO
1998: Squash tapatio, Grupo incidental, Guadalajara, MEXICO
1997: Exposicion de zanahorias, NAP, Guadalajara, MEXICO
1997: Mercurio, comunicación y dinero, Galería Vallarta, Guadalajara, MEXICO
1997: Obra al piso, Galería Vallarta, Guadalajara, MEXICO

Literature

2008: R75/5 Toaster, Galerie Laurent Godin / onestar press, Paris, France
2005: Madrid, Spain. Sala Alcala 31, La Imágen y lo Invisible, 2005. Edited by Juan Carlos Rego and Victoria Combalia.
2005: Madrid, Spain. Museo Reina Sofía, Eco, Arte Contemporaneo Mexicano, 2005. Edited by Osvaldo Sanchez and Kevin Powell.
2004: New York. Americas Society. So Far so Close, 2004. Edited by Gabriela Rangel.
2003: Mexico City, Mexico. Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil. Piel Fría, 2003. Edited by Carlos Ashida.
2003: Paris, France. Instituto de México á Paris. L’Artiste Portatif, 2003. Edited by Daniela Franco.
2003: Sinai, Egypt. Wasla Workshop 2003 Sinai, Edited by Mai Abu Eldahab.
2002: Berlin, Germany. Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Zebra Crossing, 2002. Edited by Magalí Arriola.
2002: San Diego, California. San Diego Art Museum. Axis Mexico (Common Objects and Cosmopolitan Actions), 2002. Edited by Betty Sue.
2001: Guadalajara, Mexico. Museo de las Artes, América Foto Latino, 2001. Edited by Carlos Ashida and Enrrique Arce.
1999: México City, Mexico. Centro de la Imagen. 9 International Photography Biennale: Bif Frontera, 1999. Edited by Guillermo Santamarina.