José Dávila

Guadalajara, Méjico, 1974

Works and lives in Mexico City.

Works in Madrid Abierto

Mirador Nómada

1993
  • Degree in Architecture, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios
  • Superiores de Occidente ITESO, Guadalajara, Jal., Mexico
1997
  • Theory workshop “Nuevos medios/desaparición del objeto”
1994
  • Photography and sculpture course, Academia de Bellas Artes, San Miguel Allende, Gto., Mexico
1993
  • Art and Architecture of the rennaissance courses, Academia ARS - Grammatica, Florence, Italy

Individual Exhibitions

2004
  • Jose Dávila . Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City
2003
  • Untitled Elevation No 2 . Les halles, Valais, Switzerland
  • ARCO'03. Project Room. Galería Enrique Guerrero, Madrid
  • Erasing Memory . Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City
2001
  • Temporality is a question of survival. Camden Arts Center, London
  • Monocromo . Project Room, Mexico City
  • 45 minute Project . Televicentro, Guadalajara, Jal. Mexico
1998
  • Watch your step . Galería 3.90 x 2.40 NAP, Guadalajara, Jal., Mexico

Group Exhibitions

2004
  • Deconstruction for a construction . Galerie Valerie Cueto, Paris
  • Light and atmosphere . Miami Art Museum, Miami
  • Piel Fría /Peau Froide . Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; Instituto de Mexico in Paris
2003
  • Cambio de valores . Colección ARCO/Espai de Art contemporani, Castellón
  • In the absence of recombination . Bronx River Art Center, New York
  • IX Salón de Arte Bancomer. Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Alfredo Zalce, Morelia, Mich., Mexico
  • Mexico Iluminado . Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Philadelphia
  • Mexico Attacks! . Associazione Prometeo per L'arte Contemporanea, Chiesa di San Matteo, Lucca, Italy
  • Jetset . Museum of Installation, London
  • The translator notes . Café Gallery Projects, London
2002
  • Fatamorgana . Zero artecontemporanea, Piacenza, Italy
  • INTER.PLAY . The Moore Building, Miami; MAPR San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Anonimous . Centro de arte Santa Mónica, Barcelona
  • Panorama Emergente . III Iberoamerican Architecture Biennal, Santiago, Chile
  • Mexico City: An Exhibition about the Exchange Rates of Bodies and Value . P.S.1 Contemporary, New York; Art Center at Museum of Modern Art, Long Island City, New York; Kunstwerke, Berlín
  • Doble Interior . Visite la Casa Muestra, Galería ARTE3, Guanajuato, Gto., Mexico
  • Puerto Rico PR02 . San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Casa, vestido, sustento . Plaza Carlos Pacheco, Mexico City
  • Sauvage . La Panadería, Mexico City
  • Teoría del Ocio . La Colección Jumex, Edo. de Mexico
2001
  • Asamblaire . Centre Culturel du Mexique, Paris
  • The vanishing city . Programa Art Center, Mexico City; Centro de las Artes, Monterrey
  • Recreo: Cuatro Artistas de Guadalajara . Galería Enrique Guerrero Open Studio, International Video Screenings, 291 Gallery, London
  • Ventanas . Centro de Arte.com, Madrid
2000
  • Cuarto de Demostraciones/La casa ideal . Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas; Apex Art, New York; Gallery 400, Chicago; NICC, Antwerp, Belgium.
  • Artists Workshop, Oxford, R.U.
  • Open Studio . Braziers Intl. Oxford, England
  • Fraccionamiento del terreno/a piece of the action . Galería Emma Molina, Monterrey
  • Segundo Festival Internacional de Arte Sonoro, Museo Estudio Diego Rivera, Mexico City
  • Propulsión a chorro . Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico
1999
  • Ciencias In-naturales . Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
  • Look-Look, 1.Insideout ó Por qué ponerle dos rebanadas de jamón al sandwich cuando se le puede dar una mordida al puerco vivo? 2. Los secretos de victoria 3 . Expose, Espacio 16/16, Guadalajara, Mexico
  • Yo y mis circunstancias / movilidad en el arte contemporáneo de Mexico . Muestra de Video, Museo de Bellas Artes, Montreal, Canada
  • VIII Muestra Internacional de Performance (utopía/distopía). Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
  • Desmaterialización en raciones/Objeto de morfología . León, Gto.; Cineteca de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico
  • El Arte Ataca . FIAC ‘99, León, Guanajuato, Mexico
  • Televisión Incidental . Grupo Incidental, Televicentro, Guadalajara, Mexico
  • En Busca De Un Lugar No Conquistado . Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
1998
  • Fotografía Incidental . Grupo Incidental, Guadalajara, Mexico
  • Doméstica . Grupo Incidental, Guadalajara, Mexico
1997
  • Obra al piso . Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, Guadalajara, Mexico
1996
  • Cien años de Cine . Universidad de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico

Awrads and grants

2004
  • Residence in Kunswerke, Berlin
2002
  • Selected forthe III Iberoamerican Biennial of Architecture in Santiago de Chile
2001
  • Residence in Camden Arts Centre. The Andy Warhol Foundation Award.
  • Selected for the Monterrey Biennial, member of Ediciones el chino
  • Jóvenes Creadores (young creators) award, FONCA, Mexico
2000
  • Residence in Braziers Intl. Workshop, Oxford, England
1998
  • Grant to participate in the ‘Estudios de Arte Contemporáneo' (contemporary art studies) seminar, FARCO A.C., Guadalajara, Mexico
1996
  • Honorary mention. Architecture competition: ‘Vivienda Estudiantil', Architecture Week, ITESO, Guadalajara, Mexico
  • Honorary mention, ITESO Cultural Week, ITESO, Guadalajara, Mexico

Bibliography

 
  • Gallo, Ruben, ‘Cream 3', Phaidon Press 2003.
  • Beith, Malcolm. ‘Mexico's New Wave'. Newsweek International, New York 2003
  • ‘Cambio de Valores'. Exhibition catalogue. EACC, Castellón, 2003
  • Macri, Teresa. ‘Mexico Attacks'. Exhibition catalogue. Associazione Prometeo per l'Arte Contemporanea, Lucca, 2003.
  • Capata, Paola. ‘Assael, Caretto, Courbout, Davila'. Arte e Critica No. 33, Roma 2003
  • Rivero Lake, Francisca. ‘Jose Davila'. Art Nexus Magazine No.46, 2002
  • ‘Interplay'. Exhibition catalogue. Moore Space, Miami 2002.
  • Biesenbach, Klaus and Martín. ‘Mexico City: An Exhibiton about the Exchange Rates of Bodies and Values'. Exhibition catalogue. P.S.1–Kunstwerke. Long Island City, New York 2002.
  • García, Omar. Reforma newspaper, Culture section, Mexico City, 2002.
  • ‘Jose Davila'. Celeste (magazine) No. 3, 2001 – 2002
  • Gallo, Ruben and Craddock, Sacha. ‘Jose Dávila, Temporality is a question of survival'. Exhibition catalogue. Camden Arts Centre. London 2001.
  • Currah, Mark. ‘Jose Davila'. Time Out Magazine No. 1626, London 2001
  • Smith, Dan. ‘Jose Davila'. Art Monthly Magazine No. 251, London 2001.