SILVIA GRUNER BIOGRAPHY
[ Solo Exhibitions | Group Exhibitions | Video | Performance | Recognitions ]
1959 Born in Mexico City
Fine Arts Degree from Betzalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem Israel
Masters in Fine Art, from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston Massachusetts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2001
Away From You, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Nado Vigilado, video installation, project for Hotel Habita, Mexico City
Away From You, installation and video, project for Hotel Deseo, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico
2000
Circuito Interior (retrospective exhibition), Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
1998
500 kilos de impotencia (o posibilidad). Installation, Torre de los Vientos, Mexico City, Mexico
Collares, Fotoseptiembre, Centro Morelense de las Artes, Morelos, Mexico
Silvia Gruner: Project for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Pan American Series, San Diego, California
1997
Collares, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico
Detalles Arquitectonicos, Galeria Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
1996
Cubiertos, XXIV Festival Cervantino, Alhondiga de Granaditas, Guanajuato, Mexico
1994
Azote – a, Installation, Temistocles 44, Mexico City, Mexico
Reliquias, Instituto de Cooperacion Iberoamericana de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Inventario, Video installation, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
1993
La expulsion del paraiso, Ex-Convento de Tepoztlan, Morelos, Mexico
Los justificaciones del placer, Galeria Nina Menocal, Mexico City, Mexico
1992
Destierro, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Destierro, Itzamatitlan, Morelos, Mexico
Fetiches domesticos, Itzamatitlan, Morelos, Mexico
1991
De las formas ancestrales o uno comiendose su propia cola, Curare, Mexico City, Mexico
1990
Silvia Gruner, Instalaciones, Dibujos, Video, Museo del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
1987
El Callejon del Beso, Boston, Massachusetts
1986
Conversaciones con un loto azul, Thompson Gallery, Massachusetts College of Arts, Boston Massachusetts
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2001
Muestra de Video Mexicano, Touluse, Montpellier y Barcelona
Re-Hacer, Selection of works from the JUMEX collection, Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
Ubicaciones, Arte Contemporaneo de Mexico, MUCA, UNAM, Mexico City
Drama Queens, Women Behind the Camera, Guggenheim Film Series, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The Gelman Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, Dallas Art Museum, Dallas, TX, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Art Line, Borken, Germany
The Road to Aztlan, Art from a Mythic Homeland, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, The Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX, The Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Phoenix Triennial, Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ
Video Café, Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY
2000
Cinco Continentes y Una Ciudad, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City
El Enigma de los Cotidiano, Casa de América, Madrid, Spain
InSITE 2000, San Diego, CA – Tijuana, Mexico
Kwanju Biennale 2000, Kwangju, Korea
1999
Yo y mi circunstancia, Museo de Bellas Artes, Montreal, Canada
Performed Sculpture: Food, Rare Art Projects, New York, NY
Talleres: Art from Guadalajara Workshops, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica
Sous la grisalle de Mexico, Espace dArt Yvonamor Palix, Paris, France
1998
En Crudo, Museo Nacional De Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
Collares, Fotoseptiembre International 98, Instituto Morelense de las Artes, Cuernavaca, Mexico
El Cuerpo Aludido, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
En crudo, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
Desde el cuerpo: Alegorias de lo femenino, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
97- Escultura Itinerante, Museo Regional de Guadalajara, y 10 sitios mas, Mexico
1997
Asi esta la cosa, Instalacion y Arte objeto en Latinoamerica, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Life’s Little Necessities, 2nd Johannesburg Biennial, Cape Town, South Africa
Cercanias Distantes, Undialogo entre artistas chicanos, irlandeses y mexicanos, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
The Conceptual Trend: Six Artists, Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
Mexico Hoy, Punto de partida, Ohio Arts Councils Riffe Gallery, Ohio
1996
Distant Relations, an exhibition of contemporary Irish, Mexican and Chicano Art, Camden Arts Center, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ireland and Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA
Tendencies, New Art from Mexico City, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Video Faz, Art+Idea, Mexico City and Museo Regional de Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
10th Biennale of Sidney, Sidney, Australia
Vivir es dejar huella, Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
1994
Distant Relations, an exhibition of contemporary Irish, Mexican and Chicano Art, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
El nacimiento de Venus, TRIANGULAR, Guatemala, Mexico and Switzerland
Tendencies, New Art from Mexico City, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
La Mitad del camino, InSITE 94, border Tijuana-San Diego and Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Las Nuevas Majas, Ottis Parsons Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993
Hedendaagse Mexicaanse Kunstenaars Europalia 93 Mexico, Museum Dhondt Dhaenens-Deurle, Belgium
Objeto-Sujeto, XXI Festival Cervantino, Guanajuato y Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Otras graficas, Museo Carrillo Gil, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
Lesa Natura, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Confrontaciones, Casa de America, Madrid Spain
1992
Aktuellekunst aus Mexico, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Entretropicos, Museo Sofia Imber, Caracas, Venezuela
1991
El corazon sangrante/The Bleeding Heart, Institute of Contemporary Art,
Boston, Massachusetts
La ilusion perenne de un principio vulnerable: otro arte mexicano, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Art from Mexico City, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas
Personal Profecies, Miami Dade Community College, Miami, FL
Todo sereno… 7 jovenes artistas hijos de la ciudad, Galeria del IFAL, Mexico Ciy, Mexico
1990
New Directions, La Raza Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The face of the Pyramid, The Gallery, New York, NY
1989
Tercera Bienal de la Habana, La Habana, Cuba
Arte=Vida, Installation, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, Mexico
De la estructuracion plastica en serie, Centro Cultural Santo Domingo, Mexico City, Mexico
A proposito, 14 obras en torno a Joseph Beuys, Ex-Convento del Desierto de los Leones, Mexico City, Mexico
1986
La Isla de Pandora, Thompson Gallery, Boston, MA
Safari, Thompson Gallery, Boston, MA
Textos con lagartijas, North Hall Gallery, Boston, MA
FILM AND VIDEO
2001
Nado Vigilado, video wall for four monitors, instalacion in-situ, Hotel Habita, Mexico City
Away From You, video installation, variable dimensions , Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Table Garden, video installation, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Videos para Circuito Interior, Exposicion retrospectiva, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Lazy Susan, Video, 3:40 min.
Canal, Video Installation for 2 projectors
Eclipse, Video Installation for 2 projectors
Deco México, Video Installation for 2 projectors
El Hombre Que Amo / La Mujer Que Espera, Video Installation for 2 projectors
1999
Atravesar las grandes aguas, !ventura!, video-installation for 8 projectors
Tregua, 15 min. video
1998
500 kilos de impotencia (o posibilidad), Video Loop, 10 min.
Luna, video, 6 min.
1996
In situ, video, 18 min.
1995
El Nacimiento de Venus, Video Loop, 15 min. videotapes for TRIANGULAR in Guatemala, Mexico and Switzerland
1994
Inventario, Video Installation, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
1990
Yo soy esa simetria, Video, 14 min.
1989
El Vuelo, Video, 18 min.
1988
Rito de Iniciación, (Magdalena Campos, Silvia Gruner y Neil Leonard), Film, Super-8, 12 min.
Cada cosa toma su tiempo, Film, Super-8, 3 min.
Pregunta, Film, Super-8, 6 min.
1987
Canción Gitana, Film, Super-8, 3 min.
El Parque, Video, 3min.
Sin Titulo, Video, 3 min.
Sin Titulo, Film, Super-8, 6 min.
1986
El Pecado Original/Reproducción, Film, Super-8, 5 min.
Desnudo desciende, Film, Super-8, 3 min.
Desnudo con alcatraces, Film, Super-8, 3 min.
Arena, Film, Super-8, 6 min.
These shorts and videos have been presented at:
Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, 2001
Casa de América, Madrid, Spain, 2000
Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2000
Kwangju Biennale 2000, Kwangju, Korea, 2000
Museo de Bellas Artes, Montreal, Canada, 1999
Rare Art Projects, New York, NY, 1999
Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 1999
Insync. Anthology film archives, New York, NY, 1998
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA, 1998
Festival Internacional de Cortometraje, Mexico City, MX, 1998
Art & Idea, Mexico City, MX, 1996
Museo Regional de Guadalajara, Jalisco, MX, 1996
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 1996
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1996
Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, 1997
The San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA, 1988, 1990
The Collective for Living Cinema, New York, NY, 1988
Film Society, Massachusetts College of Art, Massachusetts, 1987, 1988, 1990
Centro Wilfredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba 1988
Centro Cultural Santo Domingo, Mexico City, MX, 1989
Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, MX, 1990
Miami Dade Community College, Miami, FL, 1991
Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, MX, 1991
Galeria Nina Menocal, Mexico City, MX, 1993
Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, MX, 1993, 1994
PERFORMANCES
1991
Yo soy esa simetria, San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA and Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, MX
1990
El Vuelo, Museo del Chopo, Mexico City, MX
1988
Via o de paso, Mobius, Boston, MA
1987
Serenata, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1986
Serán abejas, avispas o luciernagas ?, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
RECOGNITIONS
1999-2000
Rockefeller Mac Arthur Film, Video, Multimedia Fellowship, USA
1999-2002
Sistema Nacional de Creadores, FONCA, Mexico
1993-1994
Apoyo del FONCA para Proyectos Especiales y Coinversiones Culturales, Mexico
1990-91
Beca del FONCA para Jóvenes Creadores, Mexico
1986
MFA with honors, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
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