Born in Rosario, Argentina. Lives and Works Between Rosario and Buenos Aires

Adrián Villar Rojas

Born in Rosario, Argentina. Lives and works between Rosario and Buenos Aires.

Solo Exhibitions

2011 Pijas y paisajes - Luisa Strina Art Gallery - Sao Paulo, Brasil 2011 Ahora estaré con mi hijo - SAM ART Projects - Villa Rafet à Paris, Paris, France 2010 Un Beso Infinito, Casas Riegner Art Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia 2008 Lo que el fuego me trajo, Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery, Buenos Aires 2007 15.000 años nuevos, Belleza y Felicidad, Buenos Aires Diario íntimo 3D, Borges Cultural Center, Buenos Aires 2006 Estas son las probabilidades de que te pase algo, El Poste Gallery, Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center, Buenos Aires 2005 Un mar, Alianza Francesa Cultural Center, Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery, Buenos Aires 2004 Incendio, Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery, Buenos Aires

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011 Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial), Istanbul, Turquey Iluminations, 54th Venice Biennial, Italy 2010 Serpentine Gallery Map Marathon 2010, London, England Panamericana, Kurimanzutto Art Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico Zona MACO Project Room, Mexico City, Mexico The return of the landscape, Akademie der Künst, Berlin, Germany Frieze Art Fair, Luisa Strina Art Gallery, London, England ART BASEL Miami Beach, Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery, Miami, USA ART BASEL Miami Beach, Luisa Strina Art Gallery, Miami, USA 2009 Moby Dick, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA Panorama das Artes Brasileira, Sao Paulo Museum of Modern Art, Brazil X Bienal de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador Intemperie - 2nd End of the World Biennal, Ushuaia, Argentina 2nd Poligraphic Triennal, San Juan, Puerto Rico ART BASEL Miami Beach, Luisa Strina Art Gallery, Miami, USA 2008 Nuevas incorporaciones, MACRO - Juan B. Castagnino Fine Arts Museum, Rosario, Argentina ART 39 BASEL International Art Fair, Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery, Basel, Switzerland ARCO 27 ª Contemporary Art Fair, Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain 2007 Open Studio, El Basilisco Residency, Buenos Aires ArteBA - Petrobras Prize, ArteBA 16 Contemporary Art Fair, Buenos Aires Foro Sur Feria Iberoamericana de Arte Contemporáneo, Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery, Extremadura, Spain 2006 Buenos Aires Photo, Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery, Buenos Aires ArteBA 15 Contemporary Art Ferie, Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery, Buenos Aires 2005 Periférica / Arte de Base, Club del Dibujo, Borges Cultural Center, Buenos Aires Sobre el amor (en el arte contemporáneo), Borges Cultural Center - Alberto Sendros Art Gallery, Buenos Aires ArteBA 14 Contemporary Art Ferie, Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery, Buenos Aires. Bienal Nacional de Arte de Bahía Blanca, Contemporary Art Museum, Bahía Blanca, Argentina 2004 LVIII Rosario´s National Saloon, Juan B. Castagnino Fine Arts Museum, Rosario, Argentina Contemporary Argentinean Art, Melting Point Gallery, San Francisco, USA Festival de la Luz, Bellas Artes Rosa Galisteo Fine Arts Museum, Santa Fe 2003 Currículum Cero 03, Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery, Buenos Aires

Awards

2010 Raul Urtasun - Frances Harley Scholarship for Young Emerging Artists from Argentina, Bannf Centre, Alberta, Canada 2007 ArteBA - Petrobras Prize, ArteBA 16 Contemporary Art Fair, Buenos Aires 2006 Nuevo Banco de Santa Fe Scholarship for Young Artists, Rosario 2005 First Prize “Bienal Nacional de Arte de Bahía Blanca”, Contemporary Art Museum, Bahía Blanca Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center Art Clinic, Buenos Aires 2003 First Prize “Currículum Cero 03”, Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery, Buenos Aires

Residencies

2011 SAM ART Residency Program, Paris, France 2010 Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada 2010 La Residencia, Fundaciòn Colateral, Bogota, Colombia 2009 Panorama´s Residency, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2007 El Basilisco - Artist Residency, Buenos Aires

Curatorial Work

2010 Pre-selection Comitee for the Petrobras ArteBA Prize, ArteBA 19 Art Fair, Buenos Aires 2008 700 mil respiraciones (with Claudia del Río), Zavaleta Lab Art Gallery, Buenos Aires 2007 macro + canciones, MACRO, Rosario, Argentina MACRO Emerge, MACRO, Rosario, Argentina Cogliostro Team, Second Life experimental project coordinated by Rafael Cippolini

Bibliography: 2011 - LABAKÉ Andrés, FARINA Fernando, CIPPOLLINI Rafael, Arte Argentino Contemporáneo, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2010 - HOFFMANN, Jens, Panamericana, Kurimanzutto Art Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico

2010 - VERLICHAK, Victoria, Adrián Villar Rojas “No estoy listo para perder nada - Memorias del futuro”, Arte al Día, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2010 - OBRIST, Hans Ulrich, Curating the 21st Century, DU Magazin, Zurich, Switzerland

2010 - VILLAR ROJAS, Adrián, Songs During the War, The Serpentine Gallery Map Marathon 2010, Rosario, Argentina

2010 - KATZENSTEIN, Inés, Creamier, Phaidon, London, England

2010 - GARCÍA NAVARRO, Santiago, Adrián Villar Rojas “La memoria como resistencia”, Exit, Madrid, España

2010 - PEDROSA, Adriano, MAMÕYGUARA OPÁ MAMÕ PUPÉ, Panorama da Arte Brasileira, Sao Paulo Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2010 - HOFFMANN, Jens, Moby Dick, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, USA

2009 - HUG, Alfons, Intemperie, 2nd End of the World Biennial, Ushuaia, Argentina

2009 - KATZENSTEIN, Inés, Arte y sentimiento, Sobre “Lo que el fuego me trajo” de Adrián Villar Rojas, Otra Parte, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2009 - GAINZA, María, Adrián Villar Rojas “Lo que el fuego me trajo”, Artforum, New York, USA.

2009 - VERLICHAK, Victoria, “Lo que el fuego me trajo”, Art Nexus, Bogotá, Colombia.

2008 - VILLAR ROJAS, Sebastián, Para Ongry, Atypica Editora, Rosario, Argentina

2008 - GARCÍA NAVARRO, Santiago, Escombros, Inrockuptibes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2008 - BATTISTOZZI, Ana María, Un Artista en Duelo, Ñ Clarín, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2008 - GARCÍA NAVARRO, Santiago, Micropolíticas, Otra Parte, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2007 - GRINSTEIN, Eva, Diario Intimo 3D, Artecontexto, Madrid, España.

2007 - MAYER, Mariano, Arte Acumulación, Neo2, Madrid, España.

2007 - CIPPOLLINI, Rafael, Kurt - Itinerarios de un fan, Diario Intimo 3D, Ciclo Contemporáneo del Centro Cultural Borges, Atypica Editora, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2007 - GARCÍA Fernando, Cobain is dead, La Mano, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2007 - BIGNOLI, Beatriz, Crear el Universo sin salir de casa, Rosario 12, Página 12, Rosario, Argentina.