• 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. 2012Untitled (The Space Beneath Us), tc: temporaray contemporary, bass museum of art, Miami Beach
    2. El Juego de lo Posible, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid
    3. Àrbol objeto de arte, Fondation d'entreprise Hermès, Mexico City
    4. Elogio de la Sombra, MAZ - Museo de Arte Zapopan, Guadalajara
    5. 2011Nowhere Can Be Now Here, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne
    6. Exterior Sculpture project, LACMA, Los Angeles (LAND project)
    7. Only the shadow knows, Gentili Gallery, Florence
    8. 2010Continuum space, MARCO, Vigo
    9. Nowhere can be now here, OMR Gallery, Mexico City
    10. 20092 + 2 = 5, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid
    11. The Sierpinski Variable, Bloomberg Space, London
    12. 2008Art Positions, Art Basel, Miami Beach
    13. Studies for future buildings, Renwick Gallery, New York
    14. 2007Space after space, Borgovico 33, Lake Como
    15. Hechiso, Valenzuela & Klenner, Bogota
    16. 2006The world of yesterday, El Eco Museum, Mexico city
    17. The Illegal architect, Galeria Studio Dabbeni, Lugano
    18. 2005Never on Sunday, Galería Travesía Cuatro, Madrid
    19. Nomad platform, Casa de América, Madrid
    20. 2004Still standing, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City
    21. Untitled elevation No. 2, Les Halles, ECAV, Valais, Switzerland
    22. 2002Erasing Memory, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City
    23. 2001Temporality is a question of survival, Camden Arts Centre, London
    24. 1998Watch your step, NAP, Guadalajara

  • Groupshows

    1. 2013Bucareli Act: Un Mal Necesario, Espacio _M_ Bucareli, Mexico City
    2. No. 1, SALON ACME, Mexico City
    3. Now Here is also Nowhere: Part II, Stroum Gallery, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
    4. Opinione Latina, Galleria Francesca Minini, Milan
    5. 2012Art Rio, Rio de Janeiro 
    6. New meditations on a familiar form, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto
    7. Misrepresentation, Mistake and Non-Disclosure, Rove Gallery, London
    8. Rotary connection, Casey Kaplan, New York
    9. Ugly, Dirty and Bad, Espacio M, Mexico City
    10. La Persistencia de la geometría, CaixaForum, Madrid
    11. Spectral Landscapes with Viewing Stations /Colorand Contemporary Art, Gallery 400, Chicago  
    12. 2011En obras: Teixeira Collection, TEA, Tenerife
    13. The space between now and then, Espacio 52, Mexico City
    14. The persistence of geometry, Caixa Forum, Madrid
    15. Erschaute Bauten, MAK Museum for Applied Art, Vienna
    16. Everything Must Go, Casey Kaplan, New York  
    17. Wir sind alle Astronauten, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
    18. Atardecer ranchero, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid
    19. Customary Beauty, Mor Charpentier, Paris
    20. Now, Museo Cabanas, Guadelajara
    21. 2010The architecture of Tatiana Bilbao, Mexican cultural institute, San Antonio, TX
    22. Transurbaniac, University Art Gallery, UC, San Diego
    23. The white cabinet, Fundación colección JUMEX, Mexico City
    24. 30th Anniversary, Display 2, Studio Dabbeni, Lugano
    25. 2009Where do we go from here?, Bass Museum of Art, Miami
    26. Zwischenzonen, MUMOK, Vienna
    27. Prethunderdome, White flags project, St. Louis
    28. Getting nowhere, Galeria Gentili, Florence
    29. Hecho en casa, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
    30. Panorama. Foreigners everywhere., Museu do Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo
    31. Desenhos (Drawings): A – Z, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon
    32. 2nd Poligraphic Triennial of San Juan, Puerto Rico
    33. 2008Posession, PETRA, Mexico City
    34. Whats my name?, HIST, Ghent, Belgium
    35. An Unruly History of the Readymade, Fundación Colección JUMEX, Mexico City
    36. Megastructures Reloaded, Mint, Berlin
    37. Per adesso noi siamo qua, Villa Romana, Florence
    38. To build, to dwell, to think,  IVAM, Valencia
    39. Hasta el infinito y mas alla…, CAC, Seville
    40. 2007Yaq, La planta, Guadalajara
    41. The hyper-realism of simulation, Estudio J.C. Orozco, Guadalajara
    42. Conversations, Galeria Travesia 4, Madrid
    43. 2006Masters and Johnson, Charro Negro, Guadalajara
    44. Rio Balsas, Mario Pani building, Mexico City
    45. The People’s choice, Isola Art Center, Milan
    46. Deshecho, Casa del Lago, Mexico City
    47. 2005Domicile, Musée d’art moderne, Saint Etienne
    48. Acción Directa - Latin American Social Sphere, Prague Biennale 2, Prague
    49. Misunderstandings, GAM, Mexico City
    50. Farsites: urban symptoms, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego
    51. Eco. Mexican contemporary art, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid
    52. 2004So far so close, America’s Society Art Gallery, New York
    53. Gridlock: cities, structures, spaces, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zeland
    54. Construction pour une déconstruction, Galerie Valérie Cueto, Paris
    55. Light and atmosphere, Miami Art Museum, Miami
    56. 24/7 Projects retrospective, The bakery / Annet Gelink, Amsterdam
    57. 2003Cambio de Valores, Espai de Art contemporani, Castello
    58. Mexico’s contemporary, Allbright College Art Gallery, PA, USA
    59. In the absence of recombination, Bronx River Art Center, New York
    60. Salon Bancomer, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
    61. Piel fria, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
    62. Mex attacks, Fondazione Prometeo, Lucca
    63. Jetset, Museum of installation, London
    64. The translator notes, Cafe Gallery Projects, London
    65. Cambio de Valores, Espai de Art contemporani, Castello
    66. Mexico’s contemporary, Allbright College Art Gallery, PA, USA
    67. In the absence of recombination, Bronx River Art Center, New York
    68. Salon Bancomer, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
    69. Piel fria, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
    70. Mex attacks, Fundazione Prometeo, Lucca
    71. Jetset, Museum of installation, London
    72. The translator notes, Cafe Gallery Projects, London
    73. 2002Fatamorgana, Zero, Milan
    74. Interplay, The Moore Space, Miami and MA Puerto Rico
    75. Anonimous, Centro de arte Santa Monica, Barcelona
    76. Panorma Emergente, III Iberoamerican Architecture Biennale, Chile
    77. Mexico City: An Exhibition about the exchange rate of bodies and values, PS1, New York and Kunstwerke, Berlin
    78. Puerto Rico Biennale 02, San Juan
    79. Home, Dress and Supplies,  Plaza Carlos Pacheco, Mexico City
    80. Sauvage, La Panadería, Mexico City
    81. Leisure Theory, JUMEX Collection, Mexico City
    82. 2001Asamblee, Centre Culturel du Mexique, Paris
    83. The Vanishing city, Programa Art Center, Mexico city
    84. Recreo, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City
    85. Why Cars Don’t Fly Yet?, Centro de las artes, Monterrey
    86. Windows, Project for Centro de Arte.com, Madrid
    87. 2000Demostrations Room:, Apex Art, New York. NICC, Antwerp
    88. The Ideal House, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas 
    89. Open Studio, Braziers workshop, Oxfordshire, England  
    90. A piece of the action, Galería Emma Molina, Monterrey
    91. 2nd Intl. Sound Art Festival, House-studio Diego Rivera, Mexico City
    92. Jet Propelled, Museo de las artes, Guadalajara
    93. 1999Un-natural science, Museo Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
    94. Look Look.., Espacio 16/16, Guadalajara
    95. An object of Morphology, Cineteca del estado, Monterrey
    96. Incidental Television, Televicentro, Guadalajara
    97. Searching for an unconquered place, Museo Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
    98. 1998Incidental Photography, Public Squash Courts, 7, 8 y 9,Guadalajara
    99. Incidental, Torre Guadalajara, Expoarte 98. Guadalajara
    100. Domestic, Mar Egeo #1237, Guadalajara
    101. 1996One hundred years of cinema, University of Guadalajara

  • Works in public collections

    1. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
    2. ARTIUM, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria
    3. Biedermann Museum, Donaueschingen
    4. Boston Fidelity Investment Group, Boston
    5. Collecction Patrick Charpenel, Guadalajara
    6. Collection Cisneros, New York / Caracas
    7. Collection Coppel, Mexico
    8. Collection ICART, Miami
    9. Collection Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil
    10. Collection Krauss, New York
    11. Collection Levinas, Washington DC
    12. Collection Michael Lynne, New York
    13. Collection Ninah and Michael Lynne, New York
    14. Collection Pereira, Sao Paulo
    15. Comunidad de Madrid, Collection of Art, Madrid
    16. Deutsche Bank Collection, New York
    17. Fondation Luis Augusto Teixeira da Freitas, Lisbon
    18. Fondation Rozenblum, Argentina
    19. JUMEX Collection, Mexico
    20. MALBA - Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
    21. MUAC - Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
    22. MUDAM - Musée d'Art Moderne, Luxembourg
    23. Museo Amparo, Puebla
    24. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid