• Javier Téllez

    1. 1969born in Valencia, Venezuela
    2. Lives and works in New York

  • Soloshows

     

    1. 2011Javier Téllez. O Rinoceronte de Dürer, Galerie ArratiaBeer, Berlin
    2. 2010Larger Than Life -Mais que a vida, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spanien
    3. Larger Than Life -Mais que a vida, CAM -Fundacäo Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
    4. 20094 ½, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig
    5. Mind The Gap, Kunsthaus Basselland, Muttenz/Basel
    6. Javier Téllez: International Artist in Residence, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
    7. Caligari und der Schlafwandler, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne
    8. 2008Letter on the blind for the use of those, who can see, Peter Kilchmann Galerie, Zurich
    9. 2007Oedipus Marshal, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne
    10. Oedipus Marshal, Loop, Barelona
    11. 2006Oedipus Marshal, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
    12. La Batalla de Mexico, Arriata/Beer Galerie, Berlin
    13. La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Rozelle Hospital), Peter Kilchmann Galerie, Zurich
    14. 2005La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Rozelle Hospital), The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto
    15. S-t-e-r-e-o-v-i-e-w, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
    16. 2004A Hunger Artist, Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
    17. 2002Alpha 60 (The Mind-Body Problem), White Box, New York
    18. A Hunger Artist, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela
    19. 2001Bedlam, Sala 7, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
    20. Aire de México, La Panadería. Mexico City, Mexico
    21. 2000Bounced, Serge Ziegler Galerie, Zurich
    22. 1999I am Happy Because Everyone Loves Me, Gasworks Gallery, London, UK
    23. 1997The Ship of Fools, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela
    24. 1996Penalty, Silverstein Gallery, New York
    25. The Cure of Folly, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas and Museo Arturo Michelena, Valencia, Venezuela
    26. Jonac 2001 mg, Silverstein Gallery, New York

     

  • Groupshows

    1. 2011El Grito/ The cry, Musac Museo de arte Contempora´neo de Castilla y León 
    2. Daydream Believer!! Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan, cur. Hiroko Tasaka
    3. 2010Die Nase des Michelangelo, Galerie Peter Kilchmann at Marktgasse, Zurich
    4. Highlights From the Cologne Kunstfilmbiennale in Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
    5. Epilogo (Epiloque), Museo de Arte Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico, cur. Cristián Silva
    6. Sem Fronteiras, Museu, Bispo de Rosário Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    7. De Frente al Sol (Facing the Sun), Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
    8. Alienator: Le Retour, Museum Murten, Murten, Switzerland
    9. Model Kits, Musac Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Castilla y León, León, Spain
    10. De Frente al Sol, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, cur. Patrick Charpenel
    11. Adaption, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
    12. Substitute Teacher, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, USA
    13. Larger Than Life Stranger Than Fiction, 11. Triennale Felbach Kleinplastik 2010 Fellbach
    14. 2009For the Use of Those Who See, Kunst-Werke Berlin
    15. Alienator on Tour, Marks Blond Project, Berne
    16. Islands + Ghettos, Stadtmuseum Graz, Graz
    17. Alienator on Tour, Ancienne Gare, Fribourg
    18. For You / Para Usted, Videos aus der Daros-Latinamerica Sammlung, Daros Exhibitions, Zurich
    19. Acting Out, ICA, Boston
    20. Islands + Ghettos, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V., Berlin
    21. 2008Rational / Irrational, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
    22. Manifesta 7, Bozen
    23. Whitney Biennial, New York
    24. 2007Atlas Américas, 01 Futuro, Rio de Janeiro (curated by Paulo Herkenhoff)
    25. Doppelgänger. O dobre da realidade, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Spain
    26. Zwischen zwei Toden/Between two deaths, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
    27. Constructing a poetic universe: The Diane and Bruce Halle collection of Latin American Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
    28. Visiones del paraíso: utopías/distopías/heterotopías, espacio 1414, Coleccion Berezvidin, San Juan, Puerto Rico
    29. Jump Cuts, Cisnero Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami
    30. 2nd Moscow Bienniale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
    31. CE3, MCA, Sydney
    32. 2006Limites - Estrecho Dudoso, ARS TEOR/éTica, San José Norte, Costa Rica
    33. postEr, Hydra School Project, Hydra, Greece
    34. On Mobility (final sequence), De Appel, Amsterdam 
    35. Die Kunst erlöst uns von gar nichts, ACC Weimar, Weimar
    36. Capital Culture, prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milano 
    37. First Architecture and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Canary Islands
    38. Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles
    39. When Artists Say We, Artists Space, New York
    40. 2005T1 Pantagruel Syndrome, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d' Arte Contemporanea, Turin
    41. InSite_05, San Diego/Tijuana
    42. Jump Cuts, Americas Society, New York
    43. The Here and Now, The Renaissance Society, Chicago
    44. 2004On Reason and Emotion, Biennale of Sydney, Museum of contemporary Art, Australia
    45. Emotion eins, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Germany 
    46. Settlements, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole, St.Etienne
    47. Serge Ziegler, Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
    48. 2003Utopia Station, 50 Venice Biennale, Italy
    49. Living in a Cloud, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
    50. 2nd Valencia Biennale, Valencia, Spain
    51. Prague Biennale 1, Pheripheries become the center. Prague
    52. Dreamspaces, Deutsche Bank, New York
    53. Forbidden, Gana Art Center, Seoul
    54. Etnografia: Instrucciones de uso, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
    55. Queens International, Queens Museum of Art, Queens
    56. 2002Fotofest, Houston Community College, Houston
    57. Bienal Iberoamericana de Lima, Lima, Peru
    58. Think Local, Sicardi Gallery, Houston
    59. Taboo and Marvericks, Kunsthalle Baselland, Switzerland 
    60. 2001Plateau of Humankind, 49 Venice Biennale, Italy
    61. Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan 
    62. Ideal House, NICC, Antwerp
    63. Hieronymus Bosch, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rótterdam
    64. Loop: Alles auf anfang, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich
    65. 2000Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
    66. Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, P.S.1/MOMA, Long Island City, NY
    67. SOS: Scenes of Sounds, Tang Museum, Saratoga, NY
    68. False Start, Center for curatorial studies, Bard College, Annandele on Hudson, NY
    69. The End, Exit Art, New York
    70. Demostration Räume, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada and Gallery 400, University of Illinois,  Chicago
    71. 1998III Bienal Barro de América, Paço das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil
    72. IX Premio Mendoza, Sala Mendoza, Caracas
    73. Longitud de Onda: Videos-Fotografía, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
    74. 1997Así Está la Cosa, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
    75. Primera Bienal de Artes Visuales MercoSur, Porto Alegre, Brazil
    76. Norte del Sur: Venezuelan Art Today, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa
    77. 1996Video Faz, Art & Idea, Mexico City and Museo de Guadalajara, Mexico
    78. 1995Imaginary Beings, Exit Art, New York
    79. Una Visión del Arte Venezolano, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofía Imber, Caracas, Venezuela
    80. 1994Insane Asylum, I.S.P. P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NY
    81. The art of the Next Generation, Cristinerose Gallery, New York
    82. Courage, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
    83. Projects, Franklin Furnace Archive, New York

     

  • Works in public collections