Born in 1974, in Guadalajara (Mexico)
Solo Exhibitions
2010
All the Poetry Books, Museum of Latin American Art, Los Angeles (USA)
2009
3 bibliotecas, OMR Gallery, Ciudad de México (Mexico)
Art Brussels Solo show, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
Das Kapital, Meessen De Clercq, Brussels (Belgium)
2008
The Exploration, Library Moti Hasson Gallery, New York (USA)
The Castle, Museo de Arte Moderno, Ciudad de México (Mexico)
2007
The Castle, José Cornejo Franco Public Library, Guadalajara (Mexico)
2006
Fiction is the Beginning of Exile, OMR Gallery, Ciudad de México (Mexico)
2005
Isla Negra's Treasure, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Ciudad de México (Mexico)
Unable to Establish Any Contact, José Clemente Orozco's Studio, Guadalajara (Mexico)
The Characters Interfer with Architecture, Casa Encendida, Madrid (Spain)
2004
Almost Stories (Variations to Build a Text or the Complete Stories, maybe), OMR Gallery, México City (Mexico)
2002
Journey to the Center of the Earth, Arena México Gallery, Guadalajara (Mexico)
Artists can write, INTAR Gallery, New York (USA)
2001
Stage, Zapopan Project, Guadalajara (Mexico)
Group Exhibitions
2010
Twenty-first Century, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland (Australia)
A+D. Alegorías de la migración, Instituto Cabañas, Guadalajara (México)
The Mole Horizon, Bozar, Center for Fine Arts, Brussels (Belgium)
Voces Invisibles/ Unseen voices, Proa Foundation, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
2009
México : Expected-Unexpected, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schiedam (The Netherlands)
Where do we go from here ?, Bass Museum, Miami (USA)
Zona Maco, OMR Gallery, Monterrey (Mexico)
One foot Apart, Leme Gallery, Sao Paulo (Brasil)
1301pe Gallery, Los Angeles, California (USA)
Mexico: Expected/Unexpected, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife (Spain)
Nothingness and Being, Fundación/Colección JUMEX, Ecatepec (México)
Una serie de microfascismo s consecutivos y sin fin, MUCA Roma, Ciudad de México (México)
Pavillion m, Madonna del Orto, Venezia (Italy)
Opus 6, Teatro Diana, Guadalajara, (México)
ArtBasel 40, Galeria OMR (Mexico City), Basel (Zwitserland)
2008
Animal Roto, Museo de Arte Moderno, Ciudad de México (Mexico)
La invencion de lo Cotidiano, Museo Nacional de Arte, Ciudad de México (Mexico)
Obra Pùblica, Instituto Cultural Cabanas, Guadalajara (Mexico)
City: Instructions, urban interventions on diverse locations, Guadalajara (Mexico)
Unexpected México, The Isabel and Agustín Coppel Collection, Maison Rouge, Paris (France)
Art Basel, OMR Gallery, Basel (Switzerland)
The Best Art Work in the World (or The Portrait of the Artist), Charro Negro Gallery, Guadalajara (Mexico)
25 años, OMR Gallery, Ciudad de México (Mexico)
MACO, International Art Fair, Moti Hasson Gallery and OMR Gallery, Ciudad de México (Mexico)
Implications of Image, Arts and Sciences University Museum, MUCA, CU, Ciudad de México (Mexico)
2007
Art Basel Miami, International art Fair, OMR Gallery, Miami (USA)
YAQ, La Planta, Guadalajara (Mexico)
Stardust ou la dernière frontière, MAC/VAL Museè d'art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Paris (France)
Viva México?, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (Poland)
Vento-Sul 4a. Muestra Latinoamericana de Artes Visuales, Paraenense Art Institute, Curitiba (Brazil)
L'Ottava Tavola: An Etymology of Contemporary Codes, Cortona (Italy)
Art Basel, International Art Fair, OMR Gallery, Basel (Switzerland)
Glitch, Triangle Project Space, San Antonio (USA)
LA Art, International Art Fair, OMR Gallery, New York (USA)
2006
Object-Book, Editions, National Museum of the Stamp, México DF (Mexico)
Fatti e Finzione della venusta isola di San Servolo in Venezia, San Servolo, Venice (Italy)
Skier in the Bottom of a Well, The JUMEX Collection, Ecatepec (Mexico)
Limbo, Carrillo Gil Museum, Ciudad de México (Mexico)
Implications of Image, Sinaloa Museum of Art, Culiacán (Mexico)
2005
I Am He As You Are He As You Are Me And We Are All Together, Art Central, Guadalajara (Mexico)
Air Container, Raul Anguiano Museum, Guadalajara (Mexico)
2004
Only Characters Change, Museum of Contemporary Art , Monterrey (Mexico)
23 Zones, Cabañas Cultural Institute, Guadalajara (Mexico)
Multitasquin, OMR Gallery, México DF (Mexico)
VIII Cuenca International Painting Bienal, Cuenca (Ecuador)
Small Pieces Big Spaces, Occurrence Gallery, Montreal (Canada)
The Relativity of Time and the Different Systems of Reference, OPA, Guadalajara (Mexico)
2003
Tekhne, , The Buena Vista Building, Miami, Florida (USA)
Within Temporary Crossroads, Central de Arte, Guadalajara (Mexico)
Vulnerable, Hermenegildo Bustos and Polivalent Rooms, Guanajuato University, Guanajuato (Mexico)
Mexico Illuminated, Freedman Gallery, Reading, PA (USA)
Passages, Rufino Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art, México DF (Mexico)
REMIX, Arena México Gallery, Guadalajara (Mexico)
Arena México, 3 Artists from Guadalajara, Ramis Barquet Gallery, New York, (USA)
Cold Skin, Carrillo Gil Museum, México DF, Center for the Arts, Monterrey, Mexican Institue, París (France)
Creation in Movement. National Center for the Arts, México DF (Mexico)
2002
Item. Spain Cultural Center in México, México DF (Mexico)
7 dilemmas, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico DF (Mexico)
Untouchable, Luis Barragán Hommage , Clavijero House, Guadalajara (Mexico)
Site and surface. University of Guanajuato, Guanajuato (Mexico)
Vidarte 2002, International Festival of Video and Electronic Arts, Palacio de Correos, México DF (Mexico)
MexArtFest, Osaka Sky Building, Osaka (Japan)
Sauvage, La panaderia, México DF (Mexico)
Winter Show, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York (USA)
Leisure Theory, The JUMEX Collection, Estado de México (Mexico)
Anecdot, Arte 3 Gallery, León (Mexico)
2001
Braziers Internacional Artist Workshop, Braziers Park, Oxfordshire (UK)
It´s not so much a living hell, it´s just a dying fiction, FAZ Studio, Guadalajara (Mexico)
Confulgente hado (or Reinventing Principles) New Visual Art Talents in Mexican Art, Ex Teresa Arte Actual -
Bancomer Cultural Foundation, México DF (Mexico)
Proyecta Versión 1.0, Goethe Institute, Guadalajara (Mexico)
2000
Propulsión a Chorro, Museum of the Arts, Guadalajara (Mexico)
1999
A Day After 2000, Museum of the Arts, Guadalajara (México)
Simulacria, 16/16, Guadalajara (Mexico)
Superfino, 16/16, Guadalajara (México)
SHOWS AS MEMBER OF THE COLLECTIVE PROJECT EDICIONES EL CHINO (2000-2004)
2006
a.20. XX Century Art in Jalisco. Cabañas Museum, Guadalajara (México)
Ediciones el chino, OPA, Guadalajara (México)
Sensible Inmateriality. Lake House, México DF (Mexico)
2004
Image Uses: Photography, Film and Video in the JUMEX Collection, MALBA, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
The Hive, The JUMEX Colection, Edo. de México (Mexico)
2003
To Be Political It Has To Look Nice, Apex Art, New York (USA)
In the Absence of Recombination and a Mexican Video Extravaganza, Bronx River Art Center, New York (USA)
L' artiste portatif, Mexican Institute, París (France)
2002
Zebra Crossing, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlín (Germany)
Sauvage, La Panaderia, México DF (Mexico)
2001
Monterrey Biennale FEMSA 2001, Center for the Arts, Monterrey (Mexico)
2000
Video Screening, 291Gallery, London (UK)
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2007
Art Omi International Artist's Residence, Omi, New York (USA)
2006
ArtLab San Servolo Artist Residence, Venice (Italy)
2001
Braziers International Artist Workshop, Oxfordshire (UK)
AWARDS
2007-08
Recipient of the grant Young Creators 2007-2008, by the National Funding for Culture and Arts.
2004
Honor Mention in the 2nd Yucatan Biennale, Mérida, Yucatán (Mexico)
2003-04
Recipient of the grant Young Creators 2003-2004, by the State Funding for Culture and Arts.
2002
Selected work for the XXIII National Young Art Encounter, Contemporary Art Museum, Aguascalientes (Mexico)
Selected work for Vidarte. International Festival of Video and Electronic Arts, Palacio de Correos (Mexico)
2001-02
Recipient of the grant Young Creators 2001-2002, by the National Funding for Culture and Arts.
2001
Selected work for the Monterrey Biennale FEMSA 2001, Center for the Arts, Monterrey (Mexico)
(As member of the collective project Ediciones El Chino)
CONFERENCES, CURATORIAL , TEACHING EXPERIENCE, OTHERS.
2008
City: Instructions. Curator. Urban interventions on diverse locations, Guadalajara (Mexico)
The Best Art Work in the World (or The Portrait of the Artist. Curator. Charro Negro Gallery, Guadalajara (Mexico)
2007
Art People. Jorge Méndez Blake Talks to Elisa Alanís, Public Interview. Arts and Sciences University Museum,
MUCA, CU (Mexico)
Honk Kong Syndicate. Curator. Second Floor Art Space, Guadalajara (Mexico)
2001-08
Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory of Design, Architecture and Design School, ITESO University, Guadalajara (Mexico)
2006
Union Western by Alejandro Fournier. Curator. Raul Anguiano Museum, Guadalajara (Mexico)
Jorge Méndez Blake Talks to Ana Elena Mallet, Artist talk. Implications of Image Show, Sinaloa Museum of Art (Mexico)
2005-06
Bureaucracy. The Work of Luis Miguel Suro. Associated Curator. October 2005 - January 2006, Art Central,
Guadalajara (Mexico)
2004
They Say I Fake or I Lie. Fiction Revisited. Curator. November 2004 - February 2005, Art Central, Guadalajara (Mexico)
Urban Expeditions. Workshop. Museum of Contemporary Art (MARCO), Monterrey (Mexico)
2000-04
Member of the Collective Project Ediciones El Chino.
2003
Conceptual Art, a Perspective 1965-1975. Conference. School of Visual Arts, University of Guadalajara (Mexico)
Introduction to Contemporary Art. Seminar at Casa Gonzalez Luna, Guadalajara (Mexico)
2001
Maurizio Cattelan, Conference. Natural History Museum, Guadalajara (Mexico)
1998-2001
Cofounder of Space 16/16, independent art space in Guadalajara (Mexico)