ELENA BAJO

*1976, in Madrid, Spain. Lives and works in Los Angeles and Berlin www.elenabajo.com

Education 2005 Central Saint Martins School of Art London UK MA Fine Arts 2006 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Maine US 2002 ESARQ School of Architecture Barcelona Spain MA Architecture

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2017 The Owl of Minerva only Flies at Dusk (Urania’s Mirror) Parallel, Oaxaca, Mexico All Tangled Up in a Fading Star, Arco Madrid, Madrid, Spain

2016 Throwing Car Parts form a Cliff before Sunrise, Garcia Galeria, Madrid, Spain Victory Over the Sun, D+T Project Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Kai 10, Arthena Foundation, Dusseldorf, Germany

2015 Isle of Innocence After Fordlandia, Kunsthalle Sao Paulo, Brazil Time is the Form of the Object, annex14, Zurich, Switzerland

2014 Timeless Considerations Stacion, Center for Contemporary Art, Prishtina, Kosovo A Universe comes into Being, ARTIUM Basque Museum, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain With Entheogenic Intent (Burn the Witch), 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, US The Absence of Work, D+T Project Gallery, Brussels, Belgium An Arbitrary Issue, Garcia Galeria, Madrid, Spain

2013 La Femme Radicale or The Point of No Return, D+T Project, Brussels, Belgium Opening - Solo Objects, ARCO Art Fair, Madrid, Spain BCC Brussels, Cologne Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium

2012 The Absence of Work, PLATFORM3, curated by Marlene Rigler, Munich, Germany Reconstructing of the Common, D+T Project, Brussels, Belgium The Factory of Forms, Manifesta Parallel, Genk, Belgium The Factory of Forms, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands

2011 The Pervasive Element, Frieze Art Fair, London, England On Uncertain Terms, S/T Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, Berlin, Germany

2010 The Object of A Movement, D+T Project, Brussels, Belgium The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The Woodmill, London, England Performance Universal Flag, Lake Dry Desert CA, Los Angeles, US

2008 The Divided Line, Museum of the City Puerto Lumbreras Explum, Murcia, Spain

2007 The Garden of Dreams, Museum of the City, Galway, Ireland

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Selected Group Exhibitions

2019 I want to know Now, Center of Contemporary Art Complutense University Madrid, ES (upcoming)

2018 Itineraria XXIV, Centro Botin, Santander, Spain Hände haben eine tragische Hierachie, Five Car Garage, Los Angeles, US I never thought I’d need so many people, Garcia Galeria, Madrid, Spain Universal Flag, La Galerie Imaginaire, Brussels, Belgium The Pleiades (Anarchoreographies), Blue Project Foundation, Barcelona, Spain So Sieht der Hase, annex14, Zurich, Switzerland Manifesto: A Moderate Proposal Pitzer, Art Galleries, Los Angeles, US White Covers, Frederic de Goldschmidt Collection, Brussels, Belgium Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, US Movement Research, New York, US

2017 Urania’s Mirror – Parallel, curated by Oliver Martinez Kandt, Oaxaca, Mexico Modus Operandi, La Societé, curatey by Société, with Gregory Lang, Brussels, Belgium The Box, curated by Corazon de Sol, Los Angeles, US Miart Art Fair, Garcia Galeria, Milan, Italy Posters, Frac Noramandie Rouan, Paris, France

2016 Aun, The 44th Salon Nacional de Artes, Pereira, Colombia Victory Over the Sun (Black Love, Two Bodies Racing in Space, D+T Project, Brussels, Belgium Take Up your Space, Kai 10, Arthena Foundation, Dusseldorf, Germany Scoping Spaces, 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, US Piel y simulacro, Travesia Cuatro, Gudadalajara Jalisco, Mexico Art and the Politics of Individuation: Affect and the Multiple Body in Cognitive Capitalism, SAAS-FEE Summer Institute of Art, Berlin Not really really, Frederic de Goldschmidt Collection, Brussels, Belgium ArcoMadrid, Madrid, Spain

2015 Josuha Treenial, curated by Koah Jeff Baysa, Joshua Tree, US Let Power Take A Female Form Talk, with Corazon de Sol Paul and Paul McCarthy, The Bodx, Los Angeles, US LAXART, 10 year Benefit Exhibition, Los Angeles, US The Infinite Persistence of Matter, ESPTV – Human Resources, Los Angeles, US Plagiarizing the Future, Hangar, Lisbon, Portugal Universal Flag (Reloaded), SWAB, Barcelona, Spain Trust The Palace, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark The Gaia Effect, Los Angeles, US Figment, Angstrom Gallery, Venice, US Mythologies, 3rd Mardin Biennial, Mardin, Turkey Theorem, Contemporary Art Center, Newark, US Movements Toward Formation, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany Sounds like Music, D+T Project Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Berlin, Berlin Botschaft von Spanien, Berlin, Germany Buscadores de Oro, OTR – Espacio de Arte, Madrid, Spain

2014 With Entheogenic Intent, 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, US The Absence of Work, LACA, Los Angeles, US The Factory of Forms, For your Art, Los Angeles, US If I Can’t Dance to it, It’s not my Revolution, The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery,

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Haverford College, Philadelphia, US Retrolimentacion, Atelier Sala de Arte Joven Comunidad, Madrid, Spain

2013 Rockaway to LA, Waterhouse Project Gallery, Los Angeles, US Ma Vie Prochaine, Ceci N’est Pas Courtesy, Los Angeles, US Original Doubt, Plataforma Revolver, Lisbon, Portugal Zero Hours, Art Sheffield, Sheffield, UK The Phylogenesis of Generosity, Berlin, Germany Vers une Hypothese Fort Du Bruissin Xll, Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France Material Conceptualism, Der Trost der Dinge, Anaant and Zoo Gallery, Berlin, Germany Throw a Rock and see what happens, La Casa, Madrid, Spain The Cosmic Artisan, Contemporary London, UK Can't Hear my Eyes, Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid, Spain Social Sound, VHDG Blokhuispoort, Leeuwarden, Netherlands Petrella's Pictorial Field, D+T Project Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Imports, Newstand Project Bowery & Canal, New York, US Art Brussels, D+T Project Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Quick Response, PRACTICE, Philadelphia, US

2012 Artist Tower of Protest, Public Domain, Los Angeles, US Art in the Parking Space PST 2012 Pacific Standard Time, LAXART, Los Angeles US Art in the Parking RedCat CALARTS, LAXART, Los Angeles US Who told you so? #2 Truth vs. Organization, Onomatope, Eindhoven, Netherlands The Absence of Work, Liste 17, Basel, Switzerland

2011 LAXART Benefit Exhibiton, Los Angeles, US Uncommon Places: Reinventing the Everyday, Extra City Antwerp / ICI, New York, US A Script for a Form PERFORMA 11, Biennial, New York, US VESSEL-The Stone House, Fringe BAS 7, Plymouth, UK Art in the Parking Space A One Year Long Project, LAXART, Los Angeles, US Art in the Parking PERFORM! NOW!, LAXART, Los Angeles, US Studies for an Exhibition, DRAF, London, UK Berlin:Metrospective 1, Program-Future Gallery, Berlin, Germany Love Letters to a Surrogate Stage ll, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium Aesthetic Anarchy, Scaramouche, New York, US Photomusee de la Danse, L'Ecole d'Art à Avignon, Avignon, France

2010 Perform! Now!, Human Resources Gallery Chinatown, Los Angeles, US Universal Flag, Joshua Tree, Los Angeles, US Discretion/Determination, La Salle de Bains, Lyon, France When A Tree Falls in the Forrest..., Sølyst Skulpturpark, Copenhagen, Denmark Love Letters to a Surrogate Torrance, Art Museum Los Angeles, Los Angeles, US The Horizon Line is Here, Galleria Umberto di Marino, Naples, Italy 36 Dramatic Situations, Louis V.E.S.P., New York, US Done to a Dead End & the Dead or Alive, Sale One Hundred and One Nights, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2009 Registered, White Columns, New York, US Bread and Roses 101, with Jon Cuyson, University of Trash Sculpture Center, New York, US EXHIBITION 211, Elizabeth St, New York, US Haunting the City, Le Roy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, US Unaddressed Circumventions...Gresham’s Ghost New York, Financial District ISCP, New York, US Off the Streets, A Foundation Rochelle School, London, UK The 4th annual Festival TINA B, Prague, Czech Republic

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Dodai, Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia A New Refutation of Time, 179 Canal, New York, US A New Refutation of Time, Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany

2008 Visions Request, A-Z West Andrea Zittel, Los Angeles, US Wanderlust, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, US VonJetz Bis Dann Goldrausch 08, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin, Germany Public Improvisations, Fondazione Ratti, Milan, Italy Lost in Your Eyes, Le Roy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, US Peekskill Project, HVCCA Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, New York, US Destino Futuro, Arte Madrid 6, Royal Botanical Garden, Madrid, Spain Bad Moon Rising, ISCP, New York, US

2007 Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia Myths, Air Garten, Berlin, Germany

2006 The Space Between, Saheb Galerie, Berlin, Germany One Hundred, Jeannie Freilich Fine Art, New York, US

2005 Two Continents and Beyond: Waterways, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey The One, NGC 224, New York, US Leviathan, Candid Arts, London, UK MFA Degree Show, Central Saint Martins School of Art, London, UK

2004 Border Conditions, East 66 Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands Public.Exe, Exit Art, New York, US Water, Yoko Ono, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, US

Grants & Awards

2016 Grant: Becas Internationales de Artes Plásticas Fundación Botín, Barcelona,Spain Grant for the project Urania’s Mirror (Mexico – Los Angeles)

2014 18th St Arts Center Artist in Residence, Los Angeles, US

2012 Platform3 Artist in Residence, Munich, Germany 23 Studio Time Geoffrey Farmer BANFF Center Artist in Residence, Alberta, Canada

2011 Accion y Promocion Cultural Ministerio de Cultura Gobierno de Espana s/t, Berlin Germany

2010 SEACEX The Woodmill, London, UK

2008 International Studio and Curatorial Program ISCP, New York, US Goldrausch 08 Künstlerinnenprojekt, Berlin, Germany Fondazione Antonio Ratti ACVA Yona Friedman, Como, Milan, Italy

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Fellowship Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, US Award Saatchi Gallery Art Competition, London, UK

2005 Scholarship Fundacion Marcelino Botin Gabriel Orozco Taller Villa Iris, Santander, Spain Scholarship Domus Academy Venice Biennial O Eliasson Hans U Obrist, Venice, Italy

2004 Artist Residency Duende Studios, Rotterdam, Netherlands PZI Bik Van der Pol Master Project Participant Rotterdam, Netherlands Award Madrid Abierto Public Art ARCO Madrid, Netherlands

Publications

2014 With Entheogenic Intent (Burn the Witch) Published by 18th Street Arts Center

2013 The Absence of Work Artist Book Published by Taube Edition, Berlin, Germany La Femme Radicale Commissioned by Octavio Zaya Atlantica Arts Journal, Spain

2012 The Factory of Forms Artist Book Published by Onomatopee, Eindhoven, Netherlands

2011 On Uncertain Terms Artist Book Published by s/t, Berlin, Germany The Pervasive Element Artist Book Frieze Frame D+T Project, London, UK

2010 The Object of A Movement Artist Book D+T Project, Brussels, Belgium Me, Myself and I, INPUT Journal Iteration 2, New York, US Shifter 16 Pluripotential, New York, US

2009 INPUT Journal Iteration 1, New York, US

2008 Mousse Magazine, Elena Bajo, Public Improvisations / Yona Friedman, December, Milan, Italy

Selected Bibliography Art Nerd Los Angeles Elena Bajo at 18th St Arts Center by Stacy Conde March 2014 Frieze Magazine A Detail of Elena Bajo An Arbitrary Issue at Garcia Galeria February 2014 Spanish Art World Wide BRUSSELS Elena Bajo "The Absence of Work" D+T Project Gallery April 5, 2014 XTRART Elena Bajo expone 'The Absence of Work' en Bruselas tras su paso por Munich This is Tomorrow Magazine Elena Bajo An Arbitrary Issue at Garcia Galeria March 24, 2014 KCET Under a Spell: The Witchcraft of Elena Bajo by Isabelle Le Normand and Anuradha Vikram LA Feb 2014 A*DESK Estoy paseando o estoy trabajando? por Juan Canela March 2014 -English Version El Cultural Piedra Papel Tijera by Bea Espejo, Spain March 2014 ART NERD LOS ANGELES ELENA BAJO AT 18TH STREET ARTS CENTER by Stacy Conde LA March 2014 ABC CULTURAL Madrid Lecturas entre Pliegues y Lineas by Emilia Limia February 2014 EL PAIS Cultura Visita guiada por el Arte Madrileno by Miguel Angle Garcia Vega Madrid March 3 2014 Mousse Magazine Can't Hear my Eyes Milan IT May 2013 CURA Magazine Can't Hear my Eyes April 2013 La Libre Elena Bajo La Femme Radicale, BE May 24, 2013 Artslant Brussels Watchlist Artists: Elena Bajo May 2013 Atlantica Journal of Art and Thought Assessing the Works of Elena Bajo by Mathieu Copeland ISSUE #53 2013 Art Book Review The Factory of Forms by

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Anthony Leslie April 2013 Arte Informado La Espanola Elena Bajo expone en Belgica, Holanda y Suiza April 2012 ArtSlant Aesthetic Anarchy at Scaramouche New York "Minimal Mayhem" Review by Charlie Schultz Art News Lots to see by Keith Plocek pag 32 Jan 2012 This is Tomorrow Uncommon Places at Extra City Review by Pieter Van Bogaert, Dec 2011 a-n Magazine Vessel, Plymouth Review by Gabrielle Hoad, Oct 2011 Metropolis M Frieze Art Fair 2011 by Alexander Mayhew, Oct 2011 Art Monthly Studies for an Exhibition Review by Chris Fite-Wassilak May 2011 This is Tomorrow Elena Bajo The Object of A Movement by Pieter Vermeulen Jan 2011 Catalogue Magazine Issue 4 Selected by Mathieu Copeland June 2010 Le Monde Qu'est-ce que l'art Discretion /Determination a La Salle de Bains (Lyon) June 2010 Artlicks Holly Willats London May 2010 Even Bare Walls look Barer Now Tom Trevatt Catalogue Exhibition The Woodmill London April 2010 Diagram for an Exhibition Naomi Pearce Catalogue Exhibition The Woodmill London April 2010 Whitehot Magazine Unaddressed Circumventions... by Marco Antonini, July 2009 Art Lies A Quarterly Journal The Rules of Engagement:Exhibition, N 62, Houston, Texas, July 2009 Art in America Do it Yourself by T.J Carlin NY, June 18, 2009 Time Out The Best New Art by T. J Carlin, NY, June 4, 2009 Art 21 What is the Value of Art? by Kemi Ilesanmi, NY, May 12th, 2009 New York Times In Peekskill Two Shows of Raw Works by Benjamin Genocchio, NY, Sept 26, 2008 Taz Elena Bajo, Zurzeit Teilnehmerin des GoldrauschKunstlerinnenprojekts, Berlin August 27, 2008 Die Welt Zufallstreffen Von Tonkrugen und Karategurtein Von Sophie Von Maltzahn, Berlin, 2008 Saatchi Daily Magazine Berlin Round up by Alix Rule March, Berlin, 2008 Artnet Schatze Hinter Dem Vorhang Aus tand Astrid Mania March 5th, Berlin, 2008 Art Review Issue 13 Tales from the City: Berlin by JJ Charlesworth, pg 45, 2007 Neo 2 Art Accumulation Mariano Mayer Nov, 2007 Ten by Ten LAXART Elena Bajo by Melissa Lo May, 2007 Saatchi Daily Magazine Berlin Round up by Alix Rule May 6, 2007 El Pais Art Una Movida de Probeta Patricia Gosalvez, January 26, 2007 The Guardian London Winners of the Guardian Saatchi Art Competition November 19, 2006 The Guardian Arts London Alive and Clicking by Jonathan Jones November 19, 2006 Zing Magazine USA The One by Aniko Erdosi, February 2006 New York Arts Magazine, Prophetic Balance by Susan Thomas, Nov-Dec 2005, Vol. 10, No. 11-12 Hampstead & Highgate Express London Turfed Out by Alison Oldham, November 15th, 2004 The New York Times, Politics that make peace with the beauty of objects by Holland Cotter, June 18th 2004 Exit Art: Public.Exe Catalogue, Silent by Anne Ellegood, June 2004 El Cultural-El Mundo-Arte Spain Madrid Abierto y Cerrado (Madrid Abierto and Closed) by Jose Jimenez 12-18th Feb 2004 pg 42-44 El Mundo Spain La Provocacion esta en la Calle (The Provocation is on the Street) by Cote Villar Feb 6th, 2004 pg 1

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