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Javier Téllez
- 1969born in Valencia, Venezuela
- lives and works in New York
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Soloshows
- 2013S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent (upcoming)
- 2012The Conquest of Mexico, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne
- Ungesehen und unerhört II: Javier Téllez, Museum Sammlung Prinzhorn, Heidelberg
- Rotations, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
- 2011Javier Téllez. O Rinoceronte de Dürer, Galerie ArratiaBeer, Berlin
- 2010Larger Than Life -Mais que a vida, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo
- Larger Than Life -Mais que a vida, CAM -Fundacäo Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
- 20094 ½, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig
- Mind The Gap, Kunsthaus Basselland, Muttenz/Basel
- Javier Téllez: International Artist in Residence, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
- Caligari und der Schlafwandler, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne
- 2008Letter on the blind for the use of those, who can see, Peter Kilchmann Galerie, Zurich
- 2007Oedipus Marshal, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne
- Oedipus Marshal, Loop, Barelona
- 2006Oedipus Marshal, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
- La Batalla de Mexico, Arriata/Beer Galerie, Berlin
- La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Rozelle Hospital), Peter Kilchmann Galerie, Zurich
- 2005La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Rozelle Hospital), The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto
- S-t-e-r-e-o-v-i-e-w, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
- 2004A Hunger Artist, Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico City
- 2002Alpha 60 (The Mind-Body Problem), White Box, New York
- A Hunger Artist, Sala Mendoza, Caracas
- 2001Bedlam, Sala 7, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
- Aire de México, La Panadería, Mexico City
- 2000Bounced, Serge Ziegler Galerie, Zurich
- 1999I am Happy Because Everyone Loves Me, Gasworks Gallery, London
- 1997The Ship of Fools, Sala Mendoza, Caracas
- 1996Penalty, Silverstein Gallery, New York
- The Cure of Folly, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas and Museo Arturo Michelena, Valencia, Venezuela
- Jonac 2001 mg, Silverstein Gallery, New York
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Groupshows
- 2014Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden (upcoming)
- 2013What To Do, Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona (upcoming)
- KINO DER KUNST, Munich
- Changing Scenes: Points of View in Contemporary Media Art, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
- 2012Castle in the Air. A séance of imagination, Zamek Culture Center, Poznan
- Von hier nach dort, Vögele Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon
- Gestures in Time, Qalandiya International, Jerusalem / Ramallah
- Busan Biennale 2012, Busan
- Voices of Images, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
- Artaud's cave, dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel
- Track, S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
- Parallelwelt Zirkus, Kunsthalle Wien
- Air de Lyon, Fundacion PROA, Buenos Aires
- More to Tell, Museum Het Domein, Sittard
- Wunder, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
- 201111. Biennale de Lyon "A Terrible Beauty is Born", Biennale Lyon
- Spectrums of Light, Temporary Gallery, Cologne
- El Grito/ The cry, Musac Museo de arte Contempora´neo de Castilla y León
- Daydream Believer!! Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
- 2010Die Nase des Michelangelo, Galerie Peter Kilchmann at Marktgasse, Zurich
- Highlights From the Cologne Kunstfilmbiennale in Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
- Epilogo (Epiloque), Museo de Arte Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico, cur. Cristián Silva
- Sem Fronteiras, Museu, Bispo de Rosário Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro
- De Frente al Sol (Facing the Sun), Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
- Alienator: Le Retour, Museum Murten, Murten
- Model Kits, Musac Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Castilla y León, León
- De Frente al Sol (curated by Patrick Charpenel), Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
- Adaption, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto
- Substitute Teacher, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta
- Larger Than Life Stranger Than Fiction, 11. Triennale Felbach Kleinplastik 2010, Fellbach
- 2009For the Use of Those Who See, Kunst-Werke Berlin
- Alienator on Tour, Marks Blond Project, Berne
- Islands + Ghettos, Stadtmuseum Graz, Graz
- Alienator on Tour, Ancienne Gare, Fribourg
- For You / Para Usted, Videos aus der Daros-Latinamerica Sammlung, Daros Exhibitions, Zurich
- Acting Out, ICA, Boston
- Islands + Ghettos, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V., Berlin
- 2008Rational / Irrational, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
- Manifesta 7, Bozen
- Whitney Biennial, New York
- 2007Atlas Américas (curated by Paulo Herkenhoff), 01 Futuro, Rio de Janeiro
- Doppelgänger. O dobre da realidade, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo
- Zwischen zwei Toden/Between two deaths, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
- Constructing a poetic universe: The Diane and Bruce Halle collection of Latin American Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Visiones del paraíso: utopías/distopías/heterotopías, espacio 1414, Coleccion Berezvidin, San Juan
- Jump Cuts, Cisnero Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami
- 2nd Moscow Bienniale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
- CE3, MCA, Sydney
- 2006Limites - Estrecho Dudoso, ARS TEOR/éTica, San José Norte
- postEr, Hydra School Project, Hydra
- On Mobility (final sequence), De Appel, Amsterdam
- Die Kunst erlöst uns von gar nichts, ACC Weimar, Weimar
- Capital Culture, prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milano
- First Architecture and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Canary Islands
- Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles
- When Artists Say We, Artists Space, New York
- 2005T1 Pantagruel Syndrome, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d' Arte Contemporanea, Turin
- InSite_05, San Diego / Tijuana
- Jump Cuts, Americas Society, New York
- The Here and Now, The Renaissance Society, Chicago
- 2004On Reason and Emotion, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
- Emotion eins, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt
- Settlements, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole, St. Etienne
- Serge Ziegler, Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
- 2003Utopia Station, 50th Venice Biennale
- Living in a Cloud, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
- 2nd Valencia Biennale, Valencia
- Prague Biennale 1, Pheripheries become the center, Prague
- Dreamspaces, Deutsche Bank, New York
- Forbidden, Gana Art Center, Seoul
- Etnografia: Instrucciones de uso, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas
- Queens International, Queens Museum of Art, New York
- 2002Fotofest, Houston Community College, Houston
- Bienal Iberoamericana de Lima, Lima
- Think Local, Sicardi Gallery, Houston
- Taboo and Marvericks, Kunsthalle Baselland, Basel
- 2001Plateau of Humankind, 49th Venice Biennale
- Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama
- Ideal House, NICC, Antwerp
- Hieronymus Bosch, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
- Loop: Alles auf anfang, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich
- 2000Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju
- Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, P.S.1/MOMA, Long Island City
- SOS: Scenes of Sounds, Tang Museum, Saratoga
- False Start, Center for curatorial studies, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson
- The End, Exit Art, New York
- Demostration Räume, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada and Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago
- 1998III Bienal Barro de América, Paço das Artes, Sao Paulo
- IX Premio Mendoza, Sala Mendoza, Caracas
- Longitud de Onda: Videos-Fotografía, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas
- 1997Así Está la Cosa, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
- Primera Bienal de Artes Visuales MercoSur, Porto Alegre
- Norte del Sur: Venezuelan Art Today, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa
- 1996Video Faz, Art & Idea, Mexico City and Museo de Guadalajara, Guadalajara
- 1995Imaginary Beings, Exit Art, New York
- Una Visión del Arte Venezolano, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofía Imber, Caracas
- 1994Insane Asylum, I.S.P. P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City
- The art of the Next Generation, Cristinerose Gallery, New York
- Courage, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
- Projects, Franklin Furnace Archive, New York
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Works in public collections
- MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
- Tate Modern, London
- Nouveau Musée National de Monaco
- Princeton University Art Museum
- Daros Latinamerica Collection, Zurich
