Born in 1987 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Joaquín BOZ

Joaquín Boz (b.1987) creates earthy-colored abstract paintings that rely on his physical energy, careful scrutiny and patient refinement. He spreads, scrapes, and pushes oil paints across wood panels with his hands, creating various textures and gestures that leave behind a record of his physical presence. He uses an array of undulating loops, staccato scratches, and calligraphic marks to flirt with identifiable forms without allowing them to coalesce into recognizable images. When he is not applying paint, he is wiping it away. 
Every painting exhibits the presence of countless discrete decisions and organic networks of marks that record the artist’s intimate and pointed conversations with his materials.
He is equally comfortable making works as large as ten by thirty feet and others as small as eleven by thirteen inches. Regardless of size, the paintings are composed of anti-heroic gestures that celebrate the potential of touch and the humble, earthbound nature of material things.

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education

2005 
B.F.A. Art and Humanities Department, National University of Rosario, Argentina 
 
2011
M.F.A. Artist Program, Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentina 
 

solo shows

2023
- diffusion, Perrotin, Seoul, Korea

2022
- Todo el tiempo, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Caudal, BARRO, Buenos Aires, Argentina
 
2020
- Mano sin hora, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, CA, USA
 
2018
- Los días, BARRO, Buenos Aires, Argentina
 
2017
- New Work, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2015
- Sonido blanco, Big Sur, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Inscripción en la Tierra, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, CA, USA
 
2014
- Insolada, Móvil, Buenos Aires, Argentina
 

group shows

2023
- Othering, BARRO NY, New York, NY, USA
 
2020
- Inédita, BARRO, Buenos Aires, Argentina
 
2019
- Bardo, BARRO, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Dos museos y un río, BIENALSUR (curated by Ticio Escobar), Museo Castagnino+MACRO, Rosario, Argentina
- Surface Tension, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, CA, USA
 
2018
- Through-Line: Drawing and Weaving by 19 Artists, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Carbon, FOCA (Fellows of Contemporary Art), Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Arte argentino: 100 años en la colección Castagnino+Macro, Rosario, Argentina
 
2017
- Agramaticalismos, Aldo de Sousa Galería, Buenos Aires, Argentina
 
2016
- El procedimiento silencio, Fundación OSDE, Rosario, Argentina
- Diagonal Sur, Arte Argentino Hoy, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina
 
2015
- Extraction, Steve Turner, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- My Buenos Aires, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
- CAPITAL, Castagnino+Macro, Santa Fe, Argentina
 
2013
- Motion Blur, Otero, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Oh, James, eres tan inteligente, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
- Bienal de Arte Joven, Konex, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Vergel, MCHG, Buenos Aires, Argentina
 
2012
- Xanadú, Di Tella University, Buenos Aires, Argentina
 
2010
- Ahora es cuando, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
 
2009
- La novela del dibujo, Centro Cultural Parque de España, Rosario, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Arqueología de los afectos, Oficina 26, Rosario, Argentina

public collections

- MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art Rosario), Argentina
- Central Bank of Argentina

awards

2018
- XXII Federico Jorge Klemm Foundation Award, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Residency program, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, NY, USA  

2016
- Second prize IX Central Bank National Painting Exhibition, Buenos Aires, Argentina
 
2014
- First Prize LXVIII Rosario National Salon, Argentina
 
2013
- Braque Prize, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- First Prize Proyecto A, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Igualdad Cultural a las Artes Visuales Prize, Argentina
 
2009
- Drawing Acquisition Prize, Salón Nacional de Santa Fe, Museo Rosa Galisteo, Argentina

PERROTIN

Closed for installation

Perrotin Los Angeles is closed for installation through Friday, April 5.

We look forward to welcoming you at our next exhibition, Art 2 by MSCHF. Join us at the opening on Saturday, April 6, 2024 between 3pm to 8pm! The exhibition will continue through June 1.
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