Born in 1974 in Guadalajara, Mexico
Lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico

Born in 1974 in Guadalajara, Mexico
Lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico
education
1993 – 1998
- Studied Architecture at ITESO, Guadalajara, Mexico
1993
- Studied Sculpture at Academia de Bellas Artes, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
solo shows
2019
- (Upcoming), Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
2018
- (Upcoming), 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, Saamlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany
- The Body Is Lost Outside, Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Newton's Fault, Galerie König, Berlin, Germany
- Mecánica de lo Inestable, OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
2017
- Sense of Place, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) and Getty's Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initaitve, Los Angeles, US
- Baltic Artists' Award 2017, Baltic Centre for Contmeporary Art, Gateshead, UK
- Conjunto escultórico Parque San Jacinto, Permanent public sculpture, Guadalajara, Mexico
- Every Blind Wondering Ends in a Circle, Blueproject Foundation, Barcelona, Spain
- Die Feder and der Elefant, Kunstalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- The Stone that the Builder Refused, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2016
- Transformer, curated by Marc Olivier, Comporta, Portugal
- Practical Structures, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Savannah, US
- Stones don't move, Sean Kelly, New York, New York, US
- Jose Dávila: The Object and the Environment, Jumex Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
- The Elephant and the Feather, Marfa Contemporary, Marfa, US
2015
- The Contracted Position, Impronta, Guadalajara, Mexico
- A Line Written on Every Corner, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
- The Theory of the Additional Element, Intervention to Los Carpinteros' Studio, 12th La Havana Biennial, Cuba
- Tectonic Acts of Doubt and Desire, Galería Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain
2014
- The Lightness of Weight, Sean Kelly, New York, New York, US
- Daylight Found Me With No Answer, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK
- Recent Work, Espacio Monitor, Caracas, Venezuela
- State of Rest, OMR Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
2013
- Das muss der Ort sein, Figge von Rosen Gallery, Germany
- Shadow as a Rumor, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK
2012
- El juego de lo posible, Galería Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain
- Elogio de la sombra, MAZ, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Mexico
2011
-Promise of a Better World, Galeria Hotel Demetria, Guadalajara, Mexico
- Only the Shadow Knows, Galleria Gentili, Prato, Italy
- Nowhere Can Be Now Here, Figge von Rosen Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2010
- Continuos Space, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Vigo, Spain
- Ningún lugar puede ser aquí, Galería OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
2009
- 2 + 2 = 5, Galería Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain
- The Sierpinski Variable, Bloomberg Space, London, UK
2008
- Art Positions, Art Basel, Miami Beach, Florida, US
- Studies for Future Buildings, Renwick Gallery, New York, New York, US
2007
- Space after Space, Borgovico 33, Lake Como, Italy
- Hechizo, TBogota, Colombia
- x,y,z, MACO, Mexico City, Mexico
2006
- El mundo de ayer, El Eco Museo, Mexico City, Mexico
- The Illegal Architect, Galeria Studio Dabbeni, Lugano, Italy
2005
- Never on Sunday, Galería Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain
- Nomad Platform, Casa de America, Madrid, Spain
2004
- Still Standing, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City, Mexico
- Untitled Elevation No. 2, Les Halles, ECAV, Valais, Switzerland
2002
- Erasing Memory, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City, Mexico
2001
- Temporality Is a Question of Survival, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
group shows
2018
- Unstable Stillness, Perrotin, Hong Kong, China
- ACCROCHAGE, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany
- Almost Solid Light: New Work from Mexico, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, US
- A Time between Ashes and Roses, International Fair, Tripoli, Lebanon
- Pensamiento Especulativo, Fundación Calosa, Irapuato, Mexico
- Common Currents, Hemisfair Park, San Antonio, Texas, US
- Acrópolis, Hotel Demetria, Guadalajara, Mexico
- Latinoamérica: Volver al Futuro, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bueno Aires, Fundación Rubino, Bueno Aires, Argentina
- Edifice, complex, visionary, structure, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US
2017
- Sin Título. Contemporary Mexican Art, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, US
- Saber Acomodar (Know How), Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, US
- Art of the New Millennium in Taguchi Collection, The Museum of Modern Art Gunma, Japan
- Perpetual Construction: A Dialogue with the House of Jean Prouvé III, CAB, Brussels, Belgium
- Lecturas de un Territorio Fracturado, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
- Selected, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US
- Taguchi Art Collection, The Museum of Modern Art Gunma, Japan
- Perspectives 2: Artists in the Berla Collection, MACT/CACT TIcino, Switzerland
- Sign o' the Times, Philipp von Rosen Gallery, Cologne, Germany
- The Queen Falls , OMR Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
- Monumentos, anti-monumentos y nueva escultura pública, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Mexico
2016
- Sol LeWitt: A Tribute, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Mexico
- Frieze Sculpture Park, Regents Park, London, UK
- Full Moon, Museum Voorlinden, AG Wassenaar, the Netherlands
- Exhibitions are the best excuses, curated by Christian Jankowski, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany
- Inside Out, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
- ¿Cómo te voy a Olvidar?, Perrotin, Paris, France
- Cher(es) 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, UK
- Colección Jumex, In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni, Museo Jumex, Mexico
- Selección = Relación, Espacio Monitor, Caracas, Venezuela
- La Ciudad. Sus Afectos, MUCA Roma, Mexico City, Mexico
- Konkret mehr Rahm!, Kunsthalle 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 Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Limited Visibility, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, US
- La persistencia de la geometría, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico
- Leviatán, Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico
- The Theatre 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, UK
- Regrese mañana, MAZ, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Mexico
- Trip and Traveling, Klaipeda Culture Communication Center, Klaipeda, 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, US
2012
- Art Public, Art Basel Miami, Collins Park, Bass Museum, Miami, Florida, US
- Footnotes on Candida Höfer, OMR Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
- New Meditations, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, Canada
- Misrepresentation Mistake and Non-Disclosure, Rove Gallery, London, UK
- Rotary Connection, Casey Kaplan, New York, US
- Ugly, Dirty and Bad, Espacio M, Mexico City, Mexico
2011
- En obras: Teixeira Collection, TEA, Tenerife, Spain
- The Space Between Now and Then, Espacio 52, Mexico City, Mexico
- The Persistence of Geometry, Caixa Forum, Madrid, Spain
- Erschaute bauten, MAK, Vienna, Austria
- Everything Must Go, Casey Kaplan, New York, US
- Wir sind alle astronauten, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany
- Atardecer ranchero, Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain
- Customary Beauty, Mor Charpentier, Paris, France
- Now, Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico
2010
- Kirkergaard’s Walk, Galeria Marilia Razuk, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- The Architecture of Tatiana Bilbao, Mexican Cultural Institute, San Antonio, Texas, US
- Transurbaniac, University Art Gallery, UC, San Diego, California, US
- 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, Florida, US
- Zwischenzonen, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
- Prethunderdome, White Flags Project, St. Louis, Missouri, US
- Getting Nowhere, Galeria Gentili, Florence, Italy
- Hecho en casa, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
- Panorama. Foreigners everywhere, Museu do Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Desenhos (Drawings): A – Z, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal
- 2nd Poligraphic, Triennial of San Juan, Puerto Rico
2008
- Posession, PETRa, Mexico City, Mexico
- What's My Name?, HIST, Ghent, Belgium
- 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, 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 Travesía 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, Muse d’art moderne, Saint Etienne, France
- Acción Directa - Latin American Social Sphere, Prague Biennale 2, Czech Republic
- Misunderstandings, GAM, Mexico City, Mexico
- Farsites: Urban Symptoms, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, US
- Eco. Mexican Contemporary Art, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
2004
- So Far So Close, America’s Society Art Gallery, New York, US
- Gridlock: Cities, Structures, Spaces, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zeland
- Construction por une deconstruction, Galerie Valerie Cueto, Paris, France
- Light and Atmosphere, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida, US
- 24/7 Projects Retrospective, The Bakery / Annet Gelink, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2003
- Cambio de Valores, Espai de Art Contemporani, Valencia, Spain
- Mexico’s Contemporary, Allbright College Art Gallery, Philadelphia, US
- In the Absence of Recombination, Bronx River Art Center, New York, US
- 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, UK
- The Translator Notes, Cafe Gallery Projects, London, UK
2002
- Fatamorgana, Zero, Milan, Italy
- Interplay, The Moore Space, Miami, US
- Anonymous, Centro de Arte Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
- Panorama emergente, III Bienal Iberoamericana de Arquitectura, Chile
- Mexico City: An Exhibition About the Exchange Rate of Bodies and Values, MoMA PS1, New York, US and Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany
- Puerto Rico Biennale 02, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Home, Dress and Supplies, Plaza Carlos Pacheco, Mexico City, Mexico
- Sauvage, La Panadería, Mexico City, Mexico
- Leisure Theory, Fundación JUMEX, México City, Mexico
2001
- Asamblee, 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
- Windows, Centro de Arte.com, Madrid, Spain
2000
- Demonstration Room: Ideal House, Apex Art, New York, US
- Open Studio, Braziers Workshop, Oxfordshire, UK
- A Piece of the Action, Galeria Emma Molina, Monterrey, Mexico
- 2nd Intl. 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, Museo Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico
1998
- Incidental Photography, Public Squash Courts, Guadalajara, Mexico
- Incidental, Torre Guadalajara, Expoarte98, Guadalajara, Mexico
- Domestic, Mar Egeo #1237, Guadalajara, Mexico
1996
- One Hundred Years of Cinema, Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico
public collections
- Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- Museo Nacional De Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
- Inhotim Collection, Brumadinho, Brazil
- Stifung für die Hamburger Kunstsammlungen, Hamburg, Germany
- Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
- Allbright Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York, US
- Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, US
- MUDAM, Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg
- Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, the Netherlands
- Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
- Boston Museum of Fine Art, US
- Colección JUMEX, Mexico City, Mexico
- Biedermann Museum, Donaueschingen, Germany
- Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
- MUAC, Museo Universitario De Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
- Comunidad De Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Fundación La Caixa, Madrid, Spain
- The Frank-Suss Collection, UK, US, Hong Kong
- Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
- Pérez Art Museum Miami, US
- AXA Art Collection, Mexico
- UBS Art Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
- MALBA, Buenos Aires Museum of Latin American Art, Argentina
- Coppel Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
- Rozemblum Collection Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- ICART Collection, Miami, US
- Cisneros Foundation, New York, US and Venezuela
- Collection Charpenel, Guadalajara, Mexico
- Collection Luiz Augusto Teixeira da Freitas, Lisbon, Portugal
- Collection DKV, Valencia, Spain
- Collection Michael Lynne, New York, US
- Boston Fidelity Investment Group, Boston, US
- Collection Krauss, New York, US
- Collection Levinas, Washington DC, US
- Collection Pereira, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Collection Deutsche Bank, Germany
- Colección FEMSA, Monterrey, Mexico
awards
2017
Baltic Artist’s Award
2016
Artist Honoree Hirshhorn Museum
2015
Inh Contemporary Art Collection Award
Efg-Artnexus Latin American Art Award
Residency at Fundación Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido, Mexico
2014
Efg-Artnexus Latin American Art Award
2011-2014
Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, FONCA, Mexico
2013
Hotel El Ganzo, San Jose del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico
2003-2004
Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany
2004
Ecole Cantonal D’art, Valais, Switzerland
Camden Arts Centre (supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation), London, UK
2001
Braziers Int. Workshop, Oxfordshire, UK
2000-2001
Jóvenes Creadores, FONCA, Mexico
2018
Jose Leon CERRILLO, Jose DAVILA, Gabriel RICO, Martin SOTO CLIMENT
1 novembre 2018 - 1 décembre 2018
hong kong
50 CONNAUGHT ROAD CENTRAL, 17TH FLOOR - HONG KONG
Unstable Stillness
2016
Gwladys ALONZO, Edgardo ARAGON, Ana BIDART, Pia CAMIL, José León Cerrillo, Jose Dávila, DR LAKRA, Yann GERSTBERGER, Fritzia IRIZAR, Gonzalo LEBRIJA, Jorge MENDEZ BLAKE, Ariel OROZCO, Tania PEREZ CORDOVA, Gabriel RICO, Martín SOTO CLIMENT, TERCERUNQUINTO
10 juin 2016 - 30 juillet 2016
paris
76 RUE DE TURENNE 75003 PARIS
¿ Cómo te voy a Olvidar ?
curateur : Anissa Touati & Peggy Leboeuf