Teresa Margolles

Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, 1963.

Lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico.

Education:

Diploma in Forensic Medicine and Science of Communication at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.

Solo exhibitions:

2011

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Teresa Margolles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA. Los Angeles, United States.

Kunsthalle Fridericianum, curated by Rein Wolfs. Kassel, Germany.
“Video otra vez”, Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Patrick Hamilton. Fortaleza, Brazil.
Museo de Arte Garrillo Gil, Curated by Itala Schmelz. Mexico City, Mexico.

Recados Póstumos – Teresa Margolles, Museo de la Ciudad, curated by Patrick Charpenel.
Querétaro, Mexico.
What Else Could We Talk About?, The Venice Biennale, The 53rd International Art Exhibition “Making Worlds”, curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina. Mexican Pavilion. Venice, Italy.
Video otra vez, Metales Pesado Visual, curated by Patrick Hamilton. Santiago de Chile.
Los Herederos–Die Erben, Galerie Peter Kilchmann. Zurich, Switzerland.

En Lugar de los Hechos–Anstelle der Tatsachen, Factory, curated by Hartwig Knack Kunsthalle Krems.
Krems, Austiia.
OPERATIVO, Y Gallery, curated by Cecilia Jurado. New York, United States.
Escombro, Project Arcaute Art Contemporaneo. Beijing, China.
OPERATIVO: PART 2, Y Gallery, curated by Cecilia Jurado. New York, United States.

21, Galeria Salvador Diaz. Madrid, Spain.
Decálogo, Museo Experimental El ECO, curated by Guillermo Santamarina. Mexico City, Mexico.
Galerie Peter Kilchmann. Zurich, Switzerland.
Herida, Proyecto para Ecatepec en la Coleccion Jumex, curated by Taiyana Pimentel. Ecatepec, Mexico.

127 cuerpos, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, curated by Patrizia Dander.
Düsseldorf, Germany,
tres minutos, Casa Taller José Clemente Orozco. Guadalajara, Mexico.
Teresa Margolles & Curating Library, deSingel, curated by Moritz Kung. Amberes, Beligium.

Detonantes, Espacio OPA, curated by Guillermo Santamarina. Guadalajara, Mexico.
Ciudad Juárez, Galerie Peter Kilchmann. Zurich, Switzerland.
Involution, CAC Centre d’Art Contemporain de Brétigny, curated by Pierre Bal-Blanc.
Brétigny/Paris, France.
Caída Libre/Chute libre, Frac de Lorraine, curated by Béatrice Josse. Metz, France.

Teresa Margolles. Muerte sin fin, Museum für Moderne Kunst, curated by Udo Kittelmann.
Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

Crematorio, Galeria Enrique Guerrero. Mexico City, Mexico.
En el aire, Vorarlberger Kunstverein, curated by Wolfgang Fetz. Bregenz, Austria.
Teresa Margolles, Galerie Peter Kilchmann. Zurich, Switzerland.
Das Leichentuch, Kunsthalle Wien, curated by Wolfgang Fetz, Gerald Matt, LucasGehrmann.
Viena, Austria.

Fin, La Panaderia. Mexico City, Mexico.
Aire, Art Palace. Madrid, Spain.

Vaporización, ACE Gallery. Mexico City. Mexico.
El agua en la ciudad, Sala 22, curated by Eduardo Pérez Soler. Barcelona, Spain.
Grumos sobre la piel. Barcelona, Spain.
Fotografías y Videos, Espace d’art Yvonamor Palix. Paris, France.

Lengua, ACE Gallery. New York-Los Angeles, United States.
Lienzo, Espacio Contexto. Guatemala.
Bondaje, Kunsthaus Santa Fe, San Miguel de Allende, curated by Lothar Müller. Guanajuato, Mexico.

Andén. Santiago de Cali, Colombia.

Tarjetas para cortar cocaína, Galeria Caja Dos, curated by Armando Sariñana. Mexico.
Autorretratos en la morgue, Museo de la ciudad de Querétaro, curated by Gabriel Hörner.
Querétaro, Mexico.

Cadáveres, El Getho, curated by Josechú Dávila. Madrid, Spain.

Group Exhibitions:

2011
 
 

2010
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Disponible: A kind of Mexican show Phase 2, Galería Walter and McBean en San Francisco Art Institute.
San Francisco, United States.
Epílogo, Museo de Arte de Zapopan. Zapopan, Mexico.

Die Nase des Michelangelo, Galerie Peter Kilchmann at Marktgasse, Zurich, Switzerland.
Mixed Emotion–Gemischte Gefühle, Kunsthalle Brennabor, curated by Bodo Rau, Michael Nungesser. Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany.
Epílogo (Epilogue), Museo de Arte de Zapopan, curated by Cristián Silva. Zapopan, Mexico.
What next for the Body, Inbetween Time Festival, Arnolfini Museum, curated by Helen Cole.
Bristol, United Kingdom.
Beyond Borders–Mexican Public Art, Museum of Sketches, curated by Elisabet Haglund. Lund, Sweden.
Une Idée, une Forme, un Être–Poésie/Politique du corporel, Migros Museum, curated by Raphael Gygax.
Zurich, Switzerland.
“Model Kits”, Musac Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Castilla y León, curated by María Inés
Rodríguez a.o. León, Spain.
The Living Currency, Berlin Biennial, Hebbel Theater Eins, curated by Pierre Bal-Blanc. Berlin, Germany.
Team Gallery, curated by Raphael Gygax. New York, EUA.
Critical Fetishes. CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina, Mariana Botey & Helena Chavez. Madrid, Spain.
En Privado 2. La Opción Desamable, Es Baluard, curated by Carlos Jover. Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
The Living Currency, Museum of Modern Art. curated by Ana Janevski y Pierre Bal –Blanc. Warsaw, Polonia.
Concrete, steel, brick, aluminium, wood and paint: The architecture of Tatiana Bilbao 2004-2010, Instituto Culture de Mexico, curated by Patrick Charpenel, San Antonio, United States.
In Lieu of Unity, Ballroom Marfa, curated by Alicia Ritson. Marfa, United States.
El Horizonte del Topo/The Mole’s Horizon, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, curated by Ruth Estevez.
Brussels, Beligium.

Vi-deum; Reality and fiction in later day video, Netherlands Media Art Institute, curated by Jose Springer.
Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The Forbidden Death, Center for Contemporary Art, curated by Irena Cercnik. Celje, Slovenia.
Los sonidos de la muerte, Centro Cultural Montehermoso Kulturenea, curated by Xabier Arakistain.
Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain.
This World Nearer Ones, Creative Time, curated by Mark Beasley, Governor’s Island.
New York, United States.
Arte ≠ Vida. Actions by Artists of the Americas. 1960–2000, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil. Mexico City, Mexico.
For You/Para Usted. Videos aus der Daros-Latinamerica Sammlung, Daros Exhibitions. Zurich, Switzerland.
MAN SON 1969. Vom Schrecken der Situation, Galerie der Gegenwart. Hamburg, Germany.

7 + 1 Project Rooms, MARCO, curated by Gerardo Mosquera. Vigo, Spain.
Endless Sphere, Center for Contemporary Art, curated by Thomas Trummer. Kiew, Ucraine.
Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence, University of Southern California Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte and The John and Mable Ringing Museum of Art,
curated by José Roca Sarasota, United States.
The Rest of Now, MANIFESTA7. European Biennial for Contemporary Art, curated by Raqs Media Collective,
Ex-Alumix. Bolzano, Italy.
Die Lucky Bush, MuHKA – Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, curated by Imogen Stidworthy.
Ambers, Beligium.
¡Viva la muerte!, CAAM–Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, curated by Gerald Matt, Thomas Mießgang, Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya. Las Palmas de Cran Canaria, Spain.
Las Implicaciones de la Imagen, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte,
MUCA Campus. Mexico City, Mexico,
Autopsia de lo Invisible, MALBA–Fundación Constantini, curated by Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy.
Buenos Aires, Argentine.
Arte ≠ Vida. Actions by Artists of the Americas. 1960–2000, El Museo del barrio.New York, United States.

Emotional Systems, Palazzo Strozzi, curated by Franziska Nori y Martin Steinhoff. Florencia, Italy.
¡Viva la muerte! Kunst und Tod in Lateinamerika, Kunsthalle Wien,
curated by Gerald Matt y Thomas Mießgang. Viena, Austria.
Iberoamerica glocal: Entre la globalización y el localismo, Casa de América,
curated by Dennys Matos y Lorena Peréz Rumpler. Madrid, Spain.
Six Feet Under – Autopsie unseres Umgang mit den Toten, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, curated by Bernhard Fibicher y Susanne Friedli. Dresden, Germany.
Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence, The Contemporary Museum,
curated by José Roca. Honolulu, Hawaii.
Cross lake atlantic, galleria enrico fornello, curated by John Duncan Prato, Italy.
ERA, curated by Gerardo Mosquera. Montevideo, Uruguay.
Grey Water, Institute of Modern Art, curated by Robert Leonard. Brisbane, Australia.
Theater of Cruelty, White Box, curated by Raúl Zamudio, New York, United States.
7. Internationale Foto-Triennale Esslingen 2007, Villa Merkel. Esslingen, Germany.
Rites and Rituals, Herzliya Museum, curated by Dalia Levin. Jerusalem, Israel.
Collezione La Gaia, Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio, Italy.
The Art of Failure, Kunsthaus Baselland, curated by Sabine Schaschl y Claudia Spinelli.
Muttenz/Basel, Switzerland.
e-flux VIDEO RENTAL, Centre Culturel Suisse. Paris, France.
Into Me/Out of Me, MACRO Future, curated by Klaus Biesenbach. Rome, Italy.
OTRAS CONTEMPORANEIDADES. CONVIVENCIAS PROBLEMÁTICAS, Bienal de Valencia, curated by Kevin Power y Ticio Escobar. Valencia, Spain.
Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence, Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, curated by José Roca.
Bogota, Colombia.
We are your future, Special program during the 2nd Moscow Biennial,
curated by Juan Puntes y Ethan Cohen. Moscow, Russia.
Global Feminism, Brooklyn Museum, curated by Maura Reilly, Linda Nochlin. New York, United States.

Fumus Fugiens, Smart Project Space, curated by Bianca Visser a.o. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Limites – Estrecho Dudoso, ARS TEOR/éTica, curated by Virginia Pérez-Ratton y Tamara Díaz Bringas.
San José Norte, Costa Rica.
Six Feet Under–Autopsie unseres Umgang mit Toten, Kunstmuseum Bern, curated by Bernhard Fibicher.
Bern, Switzerland.
Liverpool Biennial 2006. Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Certain Encounters, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery,
The University of British Columbia. Vancouver, Canada.
ExcESs, Z33, curated by Pieter van Bogaert. Hasselt, Beligium.

Indelible Images (trafficking between Life and Death), The Museum of Fine Arts, curated by Gilbert Vicario.
Houston, Texas, United States.
9. Baltic Triennial of International Art, CAC Vilnius, curated by Sofia Hernandez, Chong Cuy, Raimundas Malasauskas y Alexis Vaillant.Vilna, Lithuania.
Baroque and Neobaroque, Domus Atrium 2002, curated by F. Javiar Panera. Salamanca, Spain.
Prague Biennale 2, Section: Acción Directa: Latin American Social Sphere, curated by Marco Scotini.
Prague, Czech Republic.
Arte Contemporáneo Mexicano, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia,
curated by Kevin Power & Osvaldo Sánchez. Madrid, Spain.
Murmur, International Film Festival of Rotterdam/Rotterdam Centre for Contemporary Art,
curated by Edwin Carrels. Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Triennale Poligráfica. San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Casas en Acción, Casa de América. Madrid, Spain.
A grain of dust a drop of water, Gwangju Biennale, curated by Milena Kalinovska y Roberto Pinto.
Gwangju, South Korea
Produciendo Realidad. Arte e resistenza latinoamericana, Prometeo Associazione per l’arte contemporanea,
curated by Marco Scotini. Lucca, Italy.
I need you, Centre Pasqu Art, curated by Bernhard Bischoff, Dolores Denaro y Beate Engel.
Biel, Switzerland.
Die Zehn Gebote, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, curated by Klaus Biesenbach. Dresden, Germany.
Le mystère du kilo d’or, Art Contemporain de Sinaloa, Instituto de Mexico. Paris, France.
Made in Mexico, UCLA Hammer Museum, curated by Gilbert Vicario. Los Angeles, California, United States.
Excéntrico, Museo Provincial de Lugo, curated by J. Lavagne. Lugo, Spain.
Narcoculture, Musée International des Arts Modestes, curated by Marco Granados. Sète, France.
Public/Private, 2nd Auckland Triennial, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, curated by Ngahiraka Mason.
Auckland, New Zeland.
Made in Mexico, Institute of Contemporary Art, curated by Gilbert Vicario. Boston, United States.

Outlook, curated by Christos Joachimides. Athens, Greece.
Mercosur, curated by Edgardo Ganado Kim. Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Terror Chic, Monika Sprüth/Philomene Magers Gallery, curated by Dr. Eva Karcher. Munich, Germany.
Corps et fruits, Galerie Baudoin Lebon. Paris, France.
In faccia al mondo. Esperienze del retratto fotografico contemporaneo, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, curated by Matteo Fochessati. Génova, Italy.
Fuera de campo, ExTeresa Arte Actual, curated by David Perea. Mexico City, Mexico.
Stretch, The Power Plant, curated by Eugenio Valdez Figueroa y Keith Wallace. Toronto, Canada.
Des/fragmentar, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte Roma, curated by David Perea. Mexico City, Mexico.
Espectacular, Centro Cultural Spain, curated by Taiyana Pimentel. Mexico City, Mexico.
Göteborgs Internationella Konstbiennal, curated by Carl Michael von Hausswollff. Gothenborg, Sweden.
Bankett, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, curated by Peter Weibel a.o. Karlsruhe, Germany.
Mexico Attacks, Associazione per L’Arte Contemporanea Prometeo, curated by Teresa Macrì. Lucca, Italy.
Flor y Canto, Mexic-Arte Museum, curated by Ivonamor Palix. Texas, United States.
20 Million Mexicans Can’t be Wrong, John Hansard Gallery, curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina.
Southampton, United Kingdom.

Mexico: Sensitive Negotiations, The Institute of Mexico in Miami, curated by Taiyana Pimentel.
Miami, Florida, United States.
Otredad y mismidad, Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, curated by Aldo Sanchez. Puebla, Mexico.
Sugar and spice and everything nice, Nikolai Fine Arts, curated by Raul Zamudio. New York, United States.
Entre Lineas, Casa Encendida, curated by Virginia Perez Ratton y Santiago Olmo. Madrid, Spain.
Mexiko-Stadt: Eine Ausstellung über den Tauschwert von Körpern und Werten, Kunst-Werke, curated by Klaus Biesenbach. Berlin, Germany.
Mexico City: An Exhibition about the Exchange Rates of Bodies and Values, P.S.1, curated by Klaus Biesenbach. Long Island, United States.
20 Million Mexicans Can’t be Wrong, South London Gallery, curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina.
London, United Kingdom.
Lascas, L’Oil de Poisson, curated by Jorge Reynoso. Québec, Canada.
Zebra Crossing, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, curated by Magali Arreola. Berlin, Germany.
VII Bienal de Pintura de Cuenca. Cuenca, Ecuador.

Escultura Mexicana, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes. Mexico City, Mexico.
Hábitat Global, Universidad de Guanajuato, curated by Leonardo Ramirez. Guanajuato, Mexico.
Ventanas, curated by Guillermo Santamarina. Madrid, Spain.
Muestra de video mexicano, Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes, curated by Eduardo Pérez Soler.
Toulousse, France.
25 x 25, Galeria de Arte Mexicano, curated by Adolfo Patiño. Mexico City, Mexico.
Extramuros, Bienal de Habana, curated by Taiyana Pimentel. Habana, Cuba.
Cuerpo y fruta, Embajada de France. Mexico City, Mexico.
00 Paréntesis de una ciudad, curated by Guillermo Santamarina. San Juan de Puerto Rico.
Cinco continentes y una ciudad, Museo de la Mexico City, curated by Victor Zuñiga. Mexico City, Mexico.
Señales de resistencia, Museo de la Mexico City, curated by Lorena Wolffer. Mexico City, Mexico.
Exotismos, IV Bienal de Lyon, curated by Jean H. Martín. Lyon, France.

Baño María, Cineteca Nacional, curated by Ximena Cuevas. Mexico City, Mexico.
Bienal de Fotografía, Centro de la Imagen. Mexico City, Mexico.

Foto Construcciones, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Morelia, curated by Moises Argüello.
Michoacán, Mexico.
Bienal Bidimensional, Centro Nacional de las Artes. Mexico City, Mexico.

Mariposas Negras. Escocia.

XVII Salón de la plástica Sinaloense. Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico.
Muestra Latinoamericana de Fotografía, Travelling exhibition. Latinoamérica.

Realidad Virtual, Galería José María Velasco, curated by Armando Cristero. Mexico City, Mexico.

Proyecciones y transmisiones:

2009

2005
 

2003

Vom Tod in Venedig: Teresa Margolles, Aspekte, ZDF. Berlin. Germany.

In the Air: Projections of Mexico/La Muerte”, Guggenheim Museum, curated by Maria-Christina Villaseñor. New York, United States.

Spots, Von Twickel, Felicitas, Aspekte, ZDF, Berlin, Germany.
Fuera de Campo, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, curated by Guillermo Santamarina. Mexico City, Mexico.

Premios:

2001-2003

2002
 

2001

1999
 

1995-1996

1994

1993

National Creative Art System, sponsored by the National Art Found, FONCA. Mexico City, Mexico.

First place: VII Bienal de Pintura de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador.
Honorary mention at the Northwest Bienal, Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico.

Acquisition at the contest "Body and fruit" by the French Embassy, Mexico City, Mexico.

Awarded by the Mexican and Colombian Exchange Program.
With SEMEFO-IV Bienal de Monterrey Award, Instalation category. Mexico.

Scholarship awarded by FONCA in "Medios Alternativos" category. Mexico.

First place: XVI Salón de la Plástica Sinaloense, organized by Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa.

With SEMEFO-Scholarship awarded by FONCA in sculpture category, Mexico.