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The work of Cisco Jiménez (Morelos, Mexico, 1969) is fundamentally an exploration of the contrasts within Latin American culture and society—from pre-Hispanic origins to the complexities of contemporary daily life. His themes include politics, economics, popular expression, and the creativity born from survival, as well as the tensions between high art and popular culture, folklore and mass media, political corruption and religious manipulation, economic monopolies and narco-culture. These forces form the foundation for constructing metaphors and a kind of “ironic debris”.
Cisco Jiménez
Member of the National System of Art Creators FONCA 2014–2016 (Mexico’s most prestigious art grant)
Education
1980–1983 Instituto de Bellas Artes, Instituto Regional de Bellas Artes, Cuernavaca.
1989–1991 Industrial Design, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City.
1991 Art Students League, New York, with Bruce Dorfman.
1993 Printmaking with José Manuel Springer, Cuernavaca.
Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
2018 “TEPOZBRONX” Executive Lounge, Hotel Posada Tepozteco, Tepoztlán, Morelos.
2017 “Radiograbadoras, balazos, unio y la sierra” Galería Thomas Flechel, Mexico City.
“Radiograbadoras y otros derivados” Museo de la Ciudad de Cuernavaca, Cuernavaca, Morelos.
2016 “Antes de una próstata rota” Farside Gallery, Miami, USA.
2015 “Con toda intensión” (with Helio Montiel and Iván Villaseñor) Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca MACO, Oaxaca. Curated by Cecilia Minger.
Gallery “RADIOGRABADORAS” The Black Hall, Puebla. Curated by Jaime Contreras.
“Tendrás una vida larga y saludable” Lust and the Apple Gallery, Edinburgh, UK. Curated by Paul Robertson.
“Desastrerama” Centro Cultural Jardín Borda, Cuernavaca. Curated by José Manuel Springer.
2014 Museum “Molecular Coatlicue” in Cuernavaca.
2013 “BONAMPUNK” Galería YAM, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato.
Art Gallery 2011 of the Universidad de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico. Museo de Arte de Mazatlán, Sinaloa.
2009 “Vista Panorámica 1989–2009” Centro Cultural Jardín Borda, Cuernavaca.
2007 “New Works” The Loft Galería, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco.
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo “Dulce Caos Amarga Armonía” Guayaquil, Ecuador.
2004 “Domestic Bioterrorism” Centro Morelense de las Artes, Cuernavaca.
“ADN de Cocodrilo” Galería OMR, Mexico City.
2003 “Escurrimiento Nasal” Galería Casa Colón, Mérida, Yucatán.
2002 “La Temperatura de un espejo está siempre en cero” Entre Estudio y Galería, Puebla.
“Nacimiento Transglobal” Espacio 21, Cuernavaca.
2001 “Diagrama del Pene” Galería Canvas, Porto, Portugal.
2000 “Chicken Pox, Death and Missing” Galería Fúcares, Madrid, Spain.
1999 “Monumento a mi neurosis” Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
“Comprar una estufa pero ovulando al mismo tiempo” Associated American Artists, New York.
1998 “Solo si tened muchas posibilidades de pertenecer a nuestro club” Galería OMR, Mexico City.
Galería Camargo Vilaca, São Paulo, Brazil.
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
2017
Museo “Carlos Ashida Collection” Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Jalisco.
“URIARTE Talavera” Instituto Cervantes, New York, USA.
“Procesos en el arte” Museo de la Cancillería, Mexico City. Curated by José Manuel Springer.
Catalogue.
Museo de Arte Moderno “Subasta México Vivo”, Mexico City. November 2017.
2018
Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City. Curated by Guillermo Santa María.
2016
“UNO CAÑA” Artículo 123, Mexico City. Curated by Alva Calymayor and Enrin Sickler.
“Paralelas” Galería Oscar Román, Mexico City. Curated by Agustín Portillo.
“The José Pinto Collection,” Embassy of Mexico in Berlin, Germany.
“LA Art Book” The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, California, USA.
First Biennial of the Volcanoes, Museo de la Estampa, Toluca, State of Mexico.
“Manos por México” Jardines de México, Morelos. Curated by Alejandro Sordo.
2015
Museo “Manos por México” Reyes Meza, Nuevo Laredo. Curated by Alejandro Sordo.
“Mejor activo que radiactivo” Collateral exhibition at Cinema Planeta film festival, Salón Emiliano’s, Cuernavaca. Curated by Cisco Jiménez.
“Les Livres insolites du la Cartonera” Maison du Mexique, Paris.
“Permanent Collection” Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
“New York Print Art Fair,” New York. Participating with Ruiz Healy Art gallery.
2014
“Variables Geografías” Contemporary Drawing, Galería YAM, San Miguel de Allende.
Museo “Manos por México” Franz Mayer, curated by Alejandro Sordo, Mexico City.
Christie’s Auction, New York, June 24.
Casa Fernando Durán Auction, Madrid, July 16.
2013
Galería “7th Anniversary” YAM, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato.
“Post-Apocalyptic Art” Galería de Arte Marenko, Houston, Texas. Curated by Fulk / Marenco.
“DDESSIN 13”, Atelier Richelieu, Paris, in collaboration with Galería YAM of Mexico.
“The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection” Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City.
“Contemporary Talavera” Galería Ramis Barquet, New York.
“ColArt” Kunstausstellung, Murnau, Germany.
2012
“Lo Carnavalesco” Piso 51, Torre Mayor, Mexico City. Curated by Sarina Basta (NY).
“Contemporary Talavera” Museo Alarca, Puebla.
“URIARTE Talavera Contemporánea” Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City. Curated by Sylvia Navarrete.
2011
“Campo de Asociaciones: Contemporary Drawing” Centro Cultural Simón Bolívar, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
“Contemporary Art of Cuernavaca” Art Gallery of the Mexican Consulate General in Miami.
“ColArt” Galería López Quiroga, Mexico City, Museo de la Ciudad de Mérida and Rectoría Tower Gallery, Universidad Autónoma de Morelos.
2007
“No somos nadie” Galería O, Mexico City.
2006
“Un puñado de polvo” Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London.
Museo de Arte Nacional “Alarca Contemporary Talavera”, Beijing, China.
2005
“Mexican Report” Meridian International Center, Washington DC.
“Mexico fits in a Basin” Museo de la Ciudad de México.
“Sky Shout” Galicia Auditorium, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
2004
ARCO 04 Galería OMR Stand, Madrid.
“Fucares de papel” Galería Carmen de la Calle, Jerez, Spain.
2003
“Catastrofi minime” Museo de Arte, Provincia de Nouro, Italy.
“Comic Release” Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans.
“Diálogos inciertos” Museo Palacio del Arzobispado, SHCP, Mexico City.
2002
“The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection” Sotheby’s, New York and Seattle Art Museum, Seattle.
Montreal Biennale, Montreal, Canada. Organized by Claude Gosselin.
“Corpografías” Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City.
“New Acquisitions” Galería Fernando Santos, Porto, Portugal.
Art Basel, participating with Galería OMR, Basel.
2001
Venice Biennale, collaboration with Jimmie Durham, project MARKERS curated by Ryszard Wasko.
1999
Art Forum Berlin, participating with Galería OMR, Berlin.
Círculo de Bellas Artes “Chile y Chocolate”, Madrid.
1997
“Asi está la cosa” Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Fundación Cultural Televisa, Mexico City.
“Cambio” Chelsea Temporary Space, New York. Organized by Kenny Schacter.
1996
“Exvotos” Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Fundación Cultural Televisa, Mexico City.
“Benefit Show” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.
Museum Collections:
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico City
Museo Palacio del Arzobispado SHCP, Mexico City
Museo de la Cancillería, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico City
MUAC Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, UNAM, Mexico City (3 artworks donated by Francis Alÿs)
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California
DeYoung Art Museum, San Francisco, California
Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de la Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Museo Arqueológico y de Arte Contemporáneo, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Oaxaca
Schoenen Museum, Waalwijk, Holland
British Museum, London, England (the print “Seis Próstatás”)
Museo John Spencer, Cuernavaca
Museo de la Ciudad de Cuernavaca
Private Collections:
The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, Mexico
Andrés Blaisten Collection, Mexico City
Jimmie Durham Collection, Berlin
Francesco Pellizzi Collection, New York
Francis Alÿs, Mexico City (donated to MUAC)
Coppel Collection, Mexico
Fundación Cultural Televisa Collection, Mexico City
Enrique Guerrero Collection, Mexico City
Michael Nyman Collection, Mexico City
Tom Patchett Collection, Los Angeles
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Ramis Barquet Gallery, New York
Fundación Dimitri Ganzelevich, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil
Galería Trouvé, Mexico City
Galería Nina Menocal, Mexico City
The Estate of Tony Feher, New York