• Javier Téllez

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

  • Soloshows

    1. 2013S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent (upcoming)
    2. 2012The Conquest of Mexico, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne
    3. Ungesehen und unerhört II: Javier Téllez, Museum Sammlung Prinzhorn, Heidelberg
    4. Rotations, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
    5. 2011Javier Téllez. O Rinoceronte de Dürer, Galerie ArratiaBeer, Berlin
    6. 2010Larger Than Life -Mais que a vida, MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo
    7. Larger Than Life -Mais que a vida, CAM -Fundacäo Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
    8. 20094 ½, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig
    9. Mind The Gap, Kunsthaus Basselland, Muttenz/Basel
    10. Javier Téllez: International Artist in Residence, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
    11. Caligari und der Schlafwandler, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne
    12. 2008Letter on the blind for the use of those, who can see, Peter Kilchmann Galerie, Zurich
    13. 2007Oedipus Marshal, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne
    14. Oedipus Marshal, Loop, Barelona
    15. 2006Oedipus Marshal, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
    16. La Batalla de Mexico, Arriata/Beer Galerie, Berlin
    17. La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Rozelle Hospital), Peter Kilchmann Galerie, Zurich
    18. 2005La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Rozelle Hospital), The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto
    19. S-t-e-r-e-o-v-i-e-w, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
    20. 2004A Hunger Artist, Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico City
    21. 2002Alpha 60 (The Mind-Body Problem), White Box, New York
    22. A Hunger Artist, Sala Mendoza, Caracas
    23. 2001Bedlam, Sala 7, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
    24. Aire de México, La Panadería, Mexico City
    25. 2000Bounced, Serge Ziegler Galerie, Zurich
    26. 1999I am Happy Because Everyone Loves Me, Gasworks Gallery, London
    27. 1997The Ship of Fools, Sala Mendoza, Caracas
    28. 1996Penalty, Silverstein Gallery, New York
    29. The Cure of Folly, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas and Museo Arturo Michelena, Valencia, Venezuela
    30. Jonac 2001 mg, Silverstein Gallery, New York

  • Groupshows

    1. 2014Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden (upcoming)
    2. 2013What To Do, Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona (upcoming)
    3. KINO DER KUNST, Munich
    4. Changing Scenes: Points of View in Contemporary Media Art, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
    5. 2012Castle in the Air. A séance of imagination, Zamek Culture Center, Poznan
    6. Von hier nach dort, Vögele Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon
    7. Gestures in Time, Qalandiya International, Jerusalem / Ramallah
    8. Busan Biennale 2012, Busan
    9. Voices of Images, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
    10. Artaud's cave, dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel
    11. Track, S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
    12. Parallelwelt Zirkus, Kunsthalle Wien
    13. Air de Lyon, Fundacion PROA, Buenos Aires
    14. More to Tell, Museum Het Domein, Sittard
    15. Wunder, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
    16. 201111. Biennale de Lyon "A Terrible Beauty is Born", Biennale Lyon
    17. Spectrums of Light, Temporary Gallery, Cologne
    18. El Grito/ The cry, Musac Museo de arte Contempora´neo de Castilla y León 
    19. Daydream Believer!! Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
    20. 2010Die Nase des Michelangelo, Galerie Peter Kilchmann at Marktgasse, Zurich
    21. Highlights From the Cologne Kunstfilmbiennale in Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
    22. Epilogo (Epiloque), Museo de Arte Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico, cur. Cristián Silva
    23. Sem Fronteiras, Museu, Bispo de Rosário Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro
    24. De Frente al Sol (Facing the Sun), Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
    25. Alienator: Le Retour, Museum Murten, Murten
    26. Model Kits, Musac Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Castilla y León, León
    27. De Frente al Sol (curated by Patrick Charpenel), Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
    28. Adaption, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto
    29. Substitute Teacher, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta
    30. Larger Than Life Stranger Than Fiction, 11. Triennale Felbach Kleinplastik 2010, Fellbach
    31. 2009For the Use of Those Who See, Kunst-Werke Berlin
    32. Alienator on Tour, Marks Blond Project, Berne
    33. Islands + Ghettos, Stadtmuseum Graz, Graz
    34. Alienator on Tour, Ancienne Gare, Fribourg
    35. For You / Para Usted, Videos aus der Daros-Latinamerica Sammlung, Daros Exhibitions, Zurich
    36. Acting Out, ICA, Boston
    37. Islands + Ghettos, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V., Berlin
    38. 2008Rational / Irrational, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
    39. Manifesta 7, Bozen
    40. Whitney Biennial, New York
    41. 2007Atlas Américas (curated by Paulo Herkenhoff), 01 Futuro, Rio de Janeiro
    42. Doppelgänger. O dobre da realidade, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo
    43. Zwischen zwei Toden/Between two deaths, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
    44. Constructing a poetic universe: The Diane and Bruce Halle collection of Latin American Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
    45. Visiones del paraíso: utopías/distopías/heterotopías, espacio 1414, Coleccion Berezvidin, San Juan
    46. Jump Cuts, Cisnero Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami
    47. 2nd Moscow Bienniale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
    48. CE3, MCA, Sydney
    49. 2006Limites - Estrecho Dudoso, ARS TEOR/éTica, San José Norte
    50. postEr, Hydra School Project, Hydra
    51. On Mobility (final sequence), De Appel, Amsterdam 
    52. Die Kunst erlöst uns von gar nichts, ACC Weimar, Weimar
    53. Capital Culture, prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milano 
    54. First Architecture and Landscape Biennial of the Canaries, Canary Islands
    55. Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles
    56. When Artists Say We, Artists Space, New York
    57. 2005T1 Pantagruel Syndrome, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d' Arte Contemporanea, Turin
    58. InSite_05, San Diego / Tijuana
    59. Jump Cuts, Americas Society, New York
    60. The Here and Now, The Renaissance Society, Chicago
    61. 2004On Reason and Emotion, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
    62. Emotion eins, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt
    63. Settlements, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole, St. Etienne
    64. Serge Ziegler, Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
    65. 2003Utopia Station, 50th Venice Biennale
    66. Living in a Cloud, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
    67. 2nd Valencia Biennale, Valencia
    68. Prague Biennale 1, Pheripheries become the center, Prague
    69. Dreamspaces, Deutsche Bank, New York
    70. Forbidden, Gana Art Center, Seoul
    71. Etnografia: Instrucciones de uso, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas
    72. Queens International, Queens Museum of Art, New York
    73. 2002Fotofest, Houston Community College, Houston
    74. Bienal Iberoamericana de Lima, Lima
    75. Think Local, Sicardi Gallery, Houston
    76. Taboo and Marvericks, Kunsthalle Baselland, Basel
    77. 2001Plateau of Humankind, 49th Venice Biennale
    78. Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama
    79. Ideal House, NICC, Antwerp
    80. Hieronymus Bosch, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
    81. Loop: Alles auf anfang, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich
    82. 2000Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju
    83. Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, P.S.1/MOMA, Long Island City
    84. SOS: Scenes of Sounds, Tang Museum, Saratoga
    85. False Start, Center for curatorial studies, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson
    86. The End, Exit Art, New York
    87. Demostration Räume, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada and Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago
    88. 1998III Bienal Barro de América, Paço das Artes, Sao Paulo
    89. IX Premio Mendoza, Sala Mendoza, Caracas
    90. Longitud de Onda: Videos-Fotografía, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas
    91. 1997Así Está la Cosa, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
    92. Primera Bienal de Artes Visuales MercoSur, Porto Alegre
    93. Norte del Sur: Venezuelan Art Today, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa
    94. 1996Video Faz, Art & Idea, Mexico City and Museo de Guadalajara, Guadalajara
    95. 1995Imaginary Beings, Exit Art, New York
    96. Una Visión del Arte Venezolano, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofía Imber, Caracas
    97. 1994Insane Asylum, I.S.P. P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City
    98. The art of the Next Generation, Cristinerose Gallery, New York
    99. Courage, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
    100. Projects, Franklin Furnace Archive, New York

  • Works in public collections

    1. MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
    2. Tate Modern, London
    3. Nouveau Musée National de Monaco
    4. Princeton University Art Museum
    5. Daros Latinamerica Collection, Zurich