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Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla Biography Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla Biography Jennifer Allora (b. 1974, Philadelphia, U.S.A.) Guillermo Calzadilla (b. 1971, La Havana, Cuba) EDUCATION Jennifer Allora 2001-2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS) Cambridge, U.S.A. 1998-1999 Whitney Independent Study Program New York, U.S.A. 1996 University of Richmond (BA), Richmond, U.S.A. Guillermo Calzadilla 1999-2001 Bard College (MFA), U.S.A. 1998 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, U.S.A. 1996 Escuela de Artes Plásticas (BFA), San Juan, Puerto Rico. AWARDS 2017 Scientific Merit Award for science, 10th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival, New York, U.S.A.. The Audience Award, 10th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival, New York, U.S.A.. FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES (SELECTION) 2008 DAAD, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Berlin, Germany. 2006 Couvent des Récollets, Résidence des Récollets, Paris, France. Cintas Fellowship, U.S.A. 10 RUE CHARLOT, 75003 PARIS +33 1 42 77 38 87 | CROUSEL.COM [email protected] 2004 Walker Art Center Artist in Residence Program, Minneapolis, U.S.A. Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, Umbertide, Italy. Headlands Center for the Arts Bridge Residency Program, U.S.A. 1998-1999 P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center National Studio Program, New York, U.S.A. SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) 2020 Allora & Calzadilla: Specters of Noon, Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, U.S.A. 2019 TBA21, Prague, Czech Republic. Allora & Calzadilla: Cadastre, Gladstone Gallery, New York, U.S.A. The Tropical Pharmacy, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain. Graft, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia. Allora & Calzadilla: Chalk, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, U.S.A. 2018 Hope Hippo, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico. Allora & Calzadilla. Blackout, MAXXI, Rome, Italy. 2017 Allora & Calzadilla, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain. 2016 Allora & Calzadilla, Alt Art Space, Istanbul, Turkey. Foreign in a Domestic Sense, Lisson Gallery, London, U.K. Echo to Artifact, Art Gallery of Alberta, Canada. kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico. Split The Lark, Abbaye de Royaumont, Asnières sur Oise, France. 2015 Intervals, Philadelphia Museum of Art / The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, U.S.A. Puerto Rican Light (Cueva Vientos), Dia Art Foundation, Guayanilla–Peñuelas, Puerto Rico. 2014 Fault lines, Gladstone Gallery, New York, U.S.A. Apotomē, REDCAT, Los Angeles, U.S.A. 2013 Vidéo et Après, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. Fault Lines, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy. 10 RUE CHARLOT, 75003 PARIS +33 1 42 77 38 87 | CROUSEL.COM [email protected] Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France. 2012 Body in Flight (Delta), Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, U.S.A. 2011 Gloria, US Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy. 2010 Compass, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico. Lisson Gallery, London, U.K. Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France. 2009 The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway. Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Germany. Museum Haus Esters, Kunstmuseum Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany. Stop, Repair, Prepare, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, U.S.A. 2008 Never Mind That Noise You Heard, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Stop, repair, prepare, variations on ode to joy for a prepared piano, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany. Wake Up, Clamor, Sediments, Sentiments, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany. Franco Soffiantino, Turin, Italy. 2007 Sediments, Sentiments (Figures of Speech), curated by Hou Hanru, San Francisco Art Institute, U.S.A. Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland. Clamor, Serpentine Gallery, London, U.K. Wake Up, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, U.S.A. Whitechapel Laboratory, London, U.K. 2007. Beacon Art Project, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire, U.K. Unrealizable Goals, CCA Kytakyushu, Japan. Balance of Power, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy. Whitechapel Gallery, London, U.K. Lisson Gallery, London, U.K. 2006 S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium. (En)Tropics, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France. Land Mark, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. Combine Platter, Screening event, MOCA, Los Angeles, U.S.A. Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, U.S.A. Clamor, The Moore Space, Miami, U.S.A. 2005 Art Positions, ArtBasel Miami Beach, Miami, U.S.A. 2004 Unstable Atmospheres. Lisson Gallery, London, England Ciclonismo. Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France. Chalk. 7th Annual ICA/Vita Brevis Project, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, U.S.A. 10 RUE CHARLOT, 75003 PARIS +33 1 42 77 38 87 | CROUSEL.COM [email protected] Radio Revolt: One Person, One Watt. Artist in Residence Project, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, U.S.A. 2003 Land Mark. Escuela de Artes Plásticas, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Puerto Rican Light. Americas Society, New York, U.S.A. 2002 Institute of Visual Arts (INOVA) at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, U.S.A. 2001 Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce, Puerto Rico. 2000 Other Worlds. Project Rooms, ARCO, Madrid, Spain. 1997 Charcoal Dance Floor. Luigi Marrozzini Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico. GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION) 2021 Sustainable Museum: Art and Environment, Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, Busan, South Korea. Guangzhou Image Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, China. I am a Multitude, North Norwegian Art Centre (NNKS), Svolvær, Norway. We Are History, Somerset House, London, UK. Sheffield DocFest 2021, Sheffield, U.K. 2020 The Willfulness of Objects, Bass Museum, Miami, U.S.A.. Demain est la question, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France. Beyond the End of the World, Santa Cruz, U.S.A.. Reverb: Sound into Art, Hayward Gallery, London, U.K.. Des marches, démarches, Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France. 2019 Surrounds : 11 Installations, MoMA, USA. Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, U.K.. Gaïa, que deviens-tu ?, Maison Guerlain, Paris, France. Museum of Modern Art and Western Antiquities, Section II Department of Carving and Modeling: Form and Volume, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisboa, Portugal. Kaldor Art Projects 50th anniversary (2019), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. The Coming World: Economy as the New Politics: 2030-2100, Garage Museum for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia. Other Walks, Other Lines, San José Museum of Art, California, USA. THE STREET. Where the World is Made, MAXXI, Rome, Italy. Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai, China. 10 RUE CHARLOT, 75003 PARIS +33 1 42 77 38 87 | CROUSEL.COM [email protected] Préhistoire, une énigme moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. Tomorrow is the Question, ARoS Museum, Aarhus, Denmark. Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber, Sharjah Art Foundation, U.A.E. Big Orchestra, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany. Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden. I woke with a marble head in my hands, K-Gold Temporary Galleryn Lesvos, Greece. 40,000 - A Museum of Curiosity, 14th Triennale Kleinplastik / Fellbach Triennial of Small-Scale Sculpture, Fellbach, Germany. No habrá nunca una puerta. Estás adentro. Pieces from the Coleção Teixeira de Freitas, Sala de ARte Santander, Madrid, Spain. Heart of Darkness, Castello di Rivoli & OGR Torino, OGR Turin, Italy. Cosmological Arrows - Journeys Through Inner and Outer Space, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden. 2018 The street. Where the world is made, MAXXI Museo, Rome, Italy. Chevel, radiceterna, arte e ambiente, calidarium of the botanical gardens, Palermo, Italy. Pro-Regress, Shanghai Biennial, China. Other Walks, Other Lines, San José Museum of Art, U.S.A. Anthropocenic: Art About the Natural World in the Human Era, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, U.S.A. Democracy Anew, Pinchuck Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine. General Rehearsal, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia. The D-Tale, Cideo Art from the Pearl River Delta, TACB - Times Art Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany. 2017 Tamawuj, Sharjah Biennial 13, U.A.E. Elevation 1049, Gstaad, Switzerland. Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, U.S.A.. 2016 Making Nature, Wellcome Collection, London, U.K. The Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, U.A.E. Politic(s), Art Stays Festival, Ptuj, Slovenia. Summer Exhibition 2016, Royal Academy of Art, London, U.K. Homo Faber: A Rainbow Caravan, Aichi Triennale, Japan. Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, South London Gallery, London, U.K. Exquisite Corpse, Galerie Chantal Crousel at The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, U.S.A. Under Discussion, Rêve de pierre, Centre Pompidou - Cinéma 2, Aichi Trienniale, Japan. Wellcome Collection, London, U.K. 2015 Camera of Wonders, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico. Aqueous Earth, International Studio & Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, New York, United States. In The Midst Of Thing as part of All The World’s Futures, 56th Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venice, Italy. Witness of the Century (Testigo del siglo), Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico. Unseen Existence: Dialogues with the Environnement in Contemporary Art, Hong Kong Art Center, China. Art Eco, deel III: Art-ivism, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, Gent, Belgium. Pop & Musique/Son, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Bois de Boulogne, France. Terrapolis, French School, Athens, Greece. 2014 6th Migrating Forms, BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. Under Erasure, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Stars & Stripes: American Art of the 21st Century from the Goldberg Collection, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, Australia. 10 RUE CHARLOT, 75003 PARIS +33 1 42
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