• Jose Dávila

    1. 1974born in Guadalajara, Mexico
    2. lives and works in Mexico
    3. 1993-1998study of architecture, ITESO University Guadalajara
    4. 1993study of sculpture, Fine arts Academy San Miguel de Allende

     

     

     

  • Soloshows

    1. 2011Nowhere Can Be Now Here, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne
    2. Exterior Sculpture project, LACMA, Los Angeles (LAND project)
    3. Only the shadow knows, Gentili Gallery, Florence
    4. 2010Continuum space, MARCO, Vigo
    5. Nowhere can be now here, OMR Gallery, Mexico city
    6. 20092 + 2 = 5, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid
    7. The Sierpinski Variable, Bloomberg Space, London
    8. 2008Art Positions, Art Basel, Miami Beach
    9. Studies for future buildings, Renwick Gallery, New York
    10. 2007Space after space, Borgovico 33, Lake Como, Italy
    11. Hechiso, Valenzuela & Klenner, Bogota
    12. 2006The world of yesterday, El Eco Museum, Mexico city
    13. The Illegal architect, Galeria Studio Dabbeni, Lugano
    14. 2005Never on Sunday, Galería Travesía Cuatro, Madrid
    15. Nomad platform, Casa de América, Madrid
    16. 2004Still standing, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico city
    17. Untitled elevation No. 2, Les Halles, ECAV, Valais, Switzerland
    18. 2002Erasing Memory, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico city
    19. 2001Temporality is a question of survival, Camden Arts Centre, London
    20. 1998Watch your step, NAP, Guadalajara

  • Groupshows

    1. 2012Rotary Connection, Casey Kaplan, New York
    2. 2011Everything must go, Casey Kaplan, New York
    3. Wir sind alle Astronauten, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
    4. 2010The architecture of Tatiana Bilbao, Mexican cultural institute, San Antonio, TX
    5. Transurbaniac, University Art Gallery, UC, San Diego
    6. The white cabinet, Fundación colección JUMEX, México DF
    7. 30th Anniversary, Display 2, Studio Dabbeni, Lugano
    8. 2009Where do we go from here?, Bass Museum of Art, Miami
    9. Zwischenzonen, MUMOK, Viena
    10. Prethunderdome, White flags project, St. Louis
    11. Getting nowhere, Galeria Gentili, Florence, Italy
    12. Hecho en casa, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico city
    13. Panorama. Foreigners everywhere., Museu do Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo
    14. Desenhos (Drawings): A – Z, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon
    15. 2nd Poligraphic Triennial of San Juan, Puerto Rico
    16. 2008Posession, PETRA, Mexico city
    17. Whats my name?, HIST, Ghent, Belgium
    18. An Unruly History of the Readymade, Fundación Colección JUMEX, México DF
    19. Megastructures Reloaded, Mint, Berlin
    20. Per adesso noi siamo qua, Villa Romana, Florence, Italy
    21. To build, to dwell, to think,  IVAM, Valencia
    22. Hasta el infinito y mas alla…, CAC, Seville
    23. 2007Yaq, La planta, Guadalajara
    24. The hyper-realism of simulation, Estudio J.C. Orozco, Guadalajara
    25. Conversations, Galeria Travesia 4, Madrid
    26. 2006Masters and Johnson, Charro Negro, Guadalajara
    27. Rio Balsas, Mario Pani building, Mexico city
    28. The People’s choice, Isola Art Center, Milan
    29. Deshecho, Casa del Lago, Mexico city
    30. 2005Domicile, Musée d’art moderne, Saint Etienne
    31. Acción Directa - Latin American Social Sphere, Prague Biennale 2, Czech Republic
    32. Misunderstandings, GAM, México DF
    33. Farsites: urban symptoms, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego
    34. Eco. Mexican contemporary art, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid
    35. 2004So far so close, America’s Society Art Gallery, New York
    36. Gridlock: cities, structures, spaces, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zeland
    37. Construction pour une déconstruction, Galerie Valérie Cueto, Paris
    38. Light and atmosphere, Miami Art Museum, Miami
    39. 24/7 Projects retrospective, The bakery / Annet Gelink, Amsterdam
    40. 2003Cambio de Valores, Espai de Art contemporani, Castello
    41. Mexico’s contemporary, Allbright College Art Gallery, PA, USA
    42. In the absence of recombination, Bronx River Art Center, New York
    43. Salon Bancomer, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
    44. Piel fria, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
    45. Mex attacks, Fundazione Prometeo, Lucca
    46. Jetset, Museum of installation, London
    47. The translator notes, Cafe Gallery Projects, London
    48. Cambio de Valores, Espai de Art contemporani, Castello
    49. Mexico’s contemporary, Allbright College Art Gallery, PA, USA
    50. In the absence of recombination, Bronx River Art Center, New York
    51. Salon Bancomer, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
    52. Piel fria, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
    53. Mex attacks, Fundazione Prometeo, Lucca
    54. Jetset, Museum of installation, London
    55. The translator notes, Cafe Gallery Projects, London
    56. 2002Fatamorgana, Zero, Milan
    57. Interplay, The Moore Space, Miami and MA Puerto Rico
    58. Anonimous, Centro de arte Santa Monica, Barcelona
    59. Panorma Emergente, III Iberoamerican Architecture Biennale, Chile
    60. Mexico City: An Exhibition about the exchange rate of bodies and values, PS1, New York and Kunstwerke, Berlin
    61. Puerto Rico Biennale 02, San Juan
    62. Home, Dress and Supplies,  Plaza Carlos Pacheco, Mexico City
    63. Sauvage, La Panadería, Mexico City
    64. Leisure Theory, JUMEX Collection, Mexico City
    65. 2001Asamblee, Centre Culturel du Mexique, Paris
    66. The Vanishing city, Programa Art Center, Mexico city
    67. Recreo, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City
    68. Why Cars Don’t Fly Yet?, Centro de las artes, Monterrey
    69. Windows, Project for Centro de Arte.com, Madrid
    70. 2000Demostrations Room:, Apex Art, New York. NICC, Antwerp
    71. The Ideal House, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas
    72. Open Studio, Braziers workshop, Oxfordshire, England  
    73. A piece of the action, Galería Emma Molina, Monterrey
    74. 2nd Intl. Sound Art Festival, House-studio Diego Rivera, Mexico City
    75. Jet Propelled, Museo de las artes, Guadalajara
    76. 1999Un-natural science, Museo Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
    77. Look Look.., Espacio 16/16, Guadalajara
    78. An object of Morphology, Cineteca del estado, Monterrey
    79. Incidental Television, Televicentro, Guadalajara
    80. Searching for an unconquered place, Museo Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
    81. 1998Incidental Photography, Public Squash Courts, 7, 8 y 9,Guadalajara
    82. Incidental, Torre Guadalajara, Expoarte 98. Guadalajara
    83. Domestic, Mar Egeo #1237, Guadalajara
    84. 1996One hundred years of cinema, University of Guadalajara

  • Works in public collections

    1. Jumex Collection, México city
    2. Collection Coppel, México city
    3. Collection Phelps de Cesneros, N.Y.C, Venezuela
    4. Fondation Rozenblum, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    5. Fondation Luis Teixeira da Freitas, Lisbon, Portugal
    6. MUDAM, Luxembourg
    7. ARTIUM, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria, Spain