Héctor Zamora

Mexico City, Mexico, 1974.

Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.

Education:

2000
 

1994-1998

Postgraduate Course in Lightweight Structures (structural geometry),
UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico. (non-enrolled)

Bachelor Degree in Graphic Design, UAM – X. Mexico City, Mexico.

Upcoming exhibitions:

2012

2011

Architecture + Art, SMoCA, Scottsdale. Arizona, Unites States.

8va Bienal de Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Wasser,Schiene, Straße, Luft, Zeppelin Museum. Friedrichshafen, Germany.
Future Generation Art Prize Exhibition, Ukraine Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale. Venice, Italy.
Solo Exhibition, Zeppelin Museum. Friedrichshafen, Germany.

Solo exhibitions:

2011
 
 

2010
 

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005
 

2004

2003

2000

White Noise, Bethells beach – Shed 6 – Elam project-space B431, Auckland Festival.
Auckland, New Zealand.
Offered paradises, Museo El Eco. Mexico City, Mexico.

Credibility Crisis, Project room, Miami Basel. Miami, United States.
Cerâmica 6, Galería Vermelho. São Paulo, Brasil.

NSEONENOSESO, FEMACO project room. Mexico City, Mexico.

‘De Belg wordt geboren met een baksteen in de maag’, FLACC. Genk, Belgium.

Specular Reflections, Cerca Series, MCASD. San Diego, United States.

Divisiones. Hotel Condesa DF. Mexico City, Mexico.

Líneas de suspensión, ensayo sobre geometría funicular. Enrique Guerrero Gallery. Mexico City, Mexico.
Unidad habitacional. La Casa Encendida. Madrid, Spain.

Paracaidista, Av. Revolución 1608 bis. Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil. Mexico City, Mexico.

PNEU, Garash Gallery. Mexico City, Mexico.

a=360º r/R, Arte in Situ “La Torre de los Vientos”. Mexico City, Mexico.

Group exhibitions:

2011

2010
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

2009
 
 
 

2008
 

2007
 
 
 

2006
 
 
 
 
 

2005
 
 

2003
 

2002

2001

1999

Suspended Sculptures, EX3 Contemporary Art Centre. Florence, Italy.

The diversity of all and everything possible, 12th International Cairo Biennale. Cairo, Egypt.
Disponible, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco, United States.
Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre. Kiev, Ukraine.
Margem, Itaú Cultural. São Paulo, Brazil.
Touched, Liverpool Biennial. Liverpool, United Kingdom.
A Contemplação do Mundo, Paralela Exhibition. São Paulo, Brazil.
Art and Cities, Aichi Triennial. Nagoya, Japan.
Constante, La Nueva Babilônia, Museo de Arte de Zapopan. Jalisco, Mexico.
Mientras sea Posible, Casa America. Madrid, Spain.

Labor, labor, LABOR Gallery. Mexico City, Mexico.
Lugares Comunes. Bogota, Colombia.
Making Worlds, 53ª International Exhibition Biennale di Venezia. Venice, Italy.
PH Neutro, Vermelho Gallery. Sao Paulo, Brazil.

II Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan: América Latina y el Caribe. Puerto Rico.
Quase Líquido, Itaú Cultural. São Paulo, Brazil.

Viva México, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland.
Positions in Context, CIFO, grants program 2007 exhibition, Miami, United States.
Encuentro Internacional Medellín 2007 (MDE07). Medellin, Colombia.
27th Bienal de São Paulo. São Paulo, Brazil.

Busan Biennale 2006. Pusan, South Korea.
Sueño de una noche de verano; Muros Museum, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
Novena Bienal de la Habana. Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba.
Frontera. Esbozo para la creación de una sociedad del futuro;
Lacandon Mountain National Park. Guatemala.
Deshecho, Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola. Mexico City, Mexico.

Dialogues, Indian International Center, New Delhi, India.
Farsites/sitios distantes, San Diego Museum of Art, Insite05, San Diego, United States.
Eco: arte contemporáneo mexicano, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Madrid, Spain.

Festival Flama. Xalapa, Veracruz. Mexico.
Fission/fusion, Mexican Cultural Institute. Washington, United States.

Exposición Item, Centro Cultural España. Mexico City, Mexico.

Con Fulgente Hado, outdoor program by X – Teresa Museum. Mexico City, Mexico.

II Bienal de Puebla. Puebla, Mexico.

Participations and other projects:

2011
 

2009

2007
 
 
 
 

2006

2005

Easy Listening Talk, Elam School of Fine Arts. Auckland, New Zealand.
Artists Lecture Program, Museo Experimental EL ECO. Mexico City, Mexico.

Programa de Lectura de Artistas Mexicanos, MAM. Mexico City, Mexico.

Lecture at FLACC. Genk, Belgium.
Conference at 7º Bienal internacional de Arquitetura. São Paulo, Brazil.
La casa del encuentro lecture programs (MDE07). Medellín, Colombia.
TNT Cerca lecture program, MCASD. San Diego, United States.
Comission project for artist Gabriel Orozco, Playa Roca Blanca. Oaxaca, Mexico.

IV Foro de expertos en arte contemporáneo, Conference, ARCO 06. Madrid, Spain.

Mexican contemporary art at the Kültur Büro Barcelona, lecture. Barcelona, Spain.

Other activities:

2001-2005

LSD’s Director– Studio dedicated to develop lightweight structures for architecture, Mexico City, Mexico.

Architecture:

2008

2007
 

2005
 

2004
 
 

2002

2001

Cícera, House remodeling project Minas Gerais 364,. São Paulo, Brazil.

Traction – Flexion, Lightweight shadow structures, Commission project for the artist Gabriel Orozco, Roca Blanca. Oaxaca, Mexico.

Starry night, Lightweight shadow structures, Commission project for Punta Cancun Apartments.
Punta Cancun, Mexico.

Waves, Lightweight shadow structures, Commission project for private house,
Puerto Escondido. Oaxaca, Mexico.
Nestle booth, Inflatable penetrable structure, Commission project for Nestle, Monterrey, Mexico.

Masaryk 275, Lightweight shadow structure, Commission project for business building, Mexico City, Mexico.

Swimming pool bar, Lightweight shadow structure, Commission project for private house, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico

Books:

Paracaidista, Av. Revolución 1608 bis / intervención de Héctor Zamora.

Grants:

2010
 

2009
 
 

2007

2006
 

2003

Programa Brasil Arte Contemporânea, Sao Paulo Bienal Foundation, International Exhibition award,.
São Paulo, Brasil.

Gran Centenario Emerging Artist Award, Cuervo Foundation, FEMACO. Mexico City, Mexico.
The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture (GCCC Moscow) sponsorship for the
53rd Biennale di Venezia project.

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. Arizona, United States.

CIFO Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation. Miami, United States.
Jumex Collection Foundation. Ecatepec, Mexico.

BBVA Bancomer Foundation. Mexico City, México.

Colecctions:

Jumex Collection Foundation

AXA Collection

Galleries:

LABOR – Mexico City, Mexico.

Vermelho – São Paulo, Brazil.