PATRICIA ESQUIVIAS
Born 1979 in Caracas, Venezuela
Lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico, and Madrid, Spain
Education
| 2005–07 | California College of Arts, MFA |
| 2006 | Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture |
| 1998–01 | Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, BA |
| 1997–98 | Chelsea College of Art and Design, Foundation Studies |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2016 | At Times Embellished, CA2M, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid |
| 2014 | 111-119 Generalísimo/Castellana, Murray Guy, New York |
| 2013 | Kunsthalle, Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland All Traditions are Inventions, MARCO Museo de arte contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain Folklore, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic (G-MK), Zagreb, Croatia |
| 2012 | The Apartment, Vancouver, Canada Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona |
| 2011 | Hammer Projects, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Phoon, phoon, phoon, Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 2010 | Murray Guy, New York |
| 2009 | Everything that is not a portion is speculation, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid Patricia Esquivias: Reads like the paper, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN |
| 2008 | Folklore, Murray Guy, New York White Room, White Columns, New York |
| 2007 | Reads like the paper, Maisterravalbuena Galería, Madrid |
| 2006 | Folklore, DF Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela Let me make you and your car in Spanish Style, Playspace, San Fransisco |
| 2004 | Temporalmente Hawaii, Centro Arte Joven Av. de América, Madrid |
| 2003 | Fútbol de Papel, Ler Devagar, Lisboa |
| 2002 | ¡Mira, mira!, Espacio F, Madrid |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2015 | Itinerarios: XXI Becas de Artes Plásticas, Fundación Botin, Santander, Spain Points for a Surrounding Movement, Tabakalera, San Sebastian, Spain Undiscovered Words, High Line Channel 14, 14th Street Passage, New York |
| 2014 | Before Our Eyes: Other Cartographies of the Rif, MACBA, Barcelona TEXTURA y TRAMA y ABSTRACCIÓN. Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona Chapter I: Chronicle. Narrative, History and Subjectivity. Centre d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona 12th International Cuenca Biennial, Ecuador |
| 2013 | Architecture & …, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart |
| 2012 | Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear, Tate Modern, London Frieze Film, Frieze London |
| 2011 | Case Histories, Alex Zachary, New York Belvedere [VVAA], Galeria Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona Update #2, White Columns, New York Well Formed Data, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada Personal Histories, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI Towards Middle Ground, Stiftelsen 3,14 – International Contemporary Art Foundation, Bergen, Norway |
| 2010 | All we ever wanted was everything (curated by galeria perdida), Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York The Mass Ornament (curated by John Rasmussen), Gladstone Gallery, New York Faux Amis, vidéothèque éphémère (curated by Marta Ponsa), Jeu de Paume, Paris Nachleben (curated by Fionn Meade and Lucy Raven), Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building, New York Public Image, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, UK Not a Place, an Outlook (curated by Regine Basha), Governorʼs Island, New York Antes que Todo (curated by Manuela Moscoso and Aimar Arriola), Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid 7a Biennal d’Art Leandre Cristòfol de Lleida, Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida, Spain Gestures and Procedures, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Victoria, Australia |
| 2009 | Video Art: Replay, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Reflection, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago Report on Probability (curated by Adam Szymczyk), Kunsthalle Basel, Basel 5x5Castelló09, Espai dʼart contemporani de Castelló, Castellon de la Plana, Spain The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, New York Wrinkles in Time, IVAM Instituto Valencia de Arte Moderna, Valencia, Spain Monument to Transformation, City Gallery Prague, Prague; Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria, Spain |
| 2008 | Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium Since 1960 (curated by Doug Eklund), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Bending the Word, Matrix 226, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA Other Than History, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA When Things Cast No Shadow – 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin Beyond Paradise, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam Other Certainties, New York Center for Art and Media Studies, New York The Pathologies of the Tourist Experience, PiST/// Interdisciplinary Project Space, Istanbul Self Storage, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA Of this tale I cannot guarantee a single word, Royal College of Art Galleries, London Two or Three Things I Know About Her (curated by Helen Molesworth), Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA The World Is All That Is The Case, Hudson Franklin, New York L’Argent (curated by Caroline Bourgeois and Elisabeth Lebovici), Le Plateau, Ile-de-France, Paris Mildred’s Lane (curated by Mark Dion and J. Morgan Puett), Alexander Gray Associates, New York E-Flux Video Rental, Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon Video a la carta 2, Galeria DF Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela Until I Find You / Folklore I&II, Ergül Cengiz / Patricia Esquivias, Rodeo Galley, Istanbul |
| 2007 | Preview Berlin, Stand Maisterravalbuena Galería, Madrid Pensée Sauvage- On human freedom, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt EASTinternational, Norwich, United Kingdom A Kingdom for a Horse, Peles Empire, Los Angeles En exhibidor vs Anaquel, Celda Contemporánea, Mexico City Barclay Simpson Award, Oliver Center, Oakland, CA |
| 2006 | Certamen Internacional Artes Plásticas Pollença, Pollença, Mallorca |
| 2005 | Air Container, Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico |
| 2004 | Casas y Calles, Atocha 36, Madrid |
| 2003 | Guasipichai, Fernando Sexto, Madrid Heco por mano…., Galería Artificial, Madrid |
Selected Screenings
| 2008 | Más o menos cine, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Spain ITALIA ITALIE ITALIEN ITALY WLOCHY, Sannio Contemporary Art Museum, Italy |
| 2007 | Cine Casi Cine, Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid Night at the museum (or what Betty Boop saw), Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid Mass Views Video Series, Mass Gallery, Austin, TX |
| 2006 | Death by Tealight IV, ATA, San Francisco, CA OK, Quoi?, Struts Gallery, Sackville, Canada Material World, French Allience, San Francisco, CA Mañana es demasiado tarde, los29enchufes, Madrid, Spain Pixapins, Photoespaña, Madrid, Spain |
| 2005 | Video Nuit “Adding up,” Nice, France |
Awards and Grants
| 2008 | Generación ’09 Prize, Caja Madrid |
| 2007 | Present Future, Illy Award, Artissima EAST Award EASTinternational fellowship Barclay Simpson Award |
| 2006 | Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship Fulbright Scholarship for extended studies in the USA Merit Scholarship, California College of Arts |
| 2005 | Mexican Government Grant, Residency at O.P.A. Guadalajara, Mexico |
| 2004 | Workshop with artist Mireya Masó, Murcia, Spain |
Public Collections
Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida, Spain
Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, Paris
Books and Monographs
| 2016 | Patricia Esquivias: At Times Embellished. Madrid: CA2M, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, 2016. Texts by Soledad Gutiérrez, Pablo Martínez, Fernando Ochoa, David Bestué, and Robert Blackston. |
| 2013 | The World According to… Patricia Esquivias. Berlin: Argobooks, 2013. |
| 2011 | Gonzalez, Emily. Patricia Esquivias. Exhibition brochure. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, 2011. |
| 2009 | Patricia Esquivias: Everything that is not a portion is speculation. Exhibition brochure. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2009. |
| 2008 | Gleadowe, Teresa. Interview with Patricia Esquivias. San Francisco: Silverman Gallery, 2008. |
Selected Bibliography
| 2016 | Bestué, David. “Traces on Cement.” In Patricia Esquivias: At Times Embellished. Madrid: CA2M, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, 2016, pp. 43–49 Blackston, Robert. “Filling in for Someone Else.” In Patricia Esquivias: At Times Embellished. Madrid: CA2M, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, 2016, pp. 51–56 Gutiérrez, Soledad. “Good Morning, Maestro.” In Patricia Esquivias: At Times Embellished. Madrid: CA2M, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, 2016, pp. 9–20 Martínez, Pablo. “The Art of the Puzzle.” In Patricia Esquivias: At Times Embellished. Madrid: CA2M, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, 2016, pp. 23–33 Ochoa, Pedro. “Patricia Esquivias’ Net.” In Patricia Esquivias: At Times Embellished. Madrid: CA2M, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, 2016, pp. 35–41 |
| 2014 | Linnert, Nicolas. “Patricias Esquivias.” Artforum.com, 22 July 2014 Rhodes, David. “TEXTURA Y TRAMA Y ABSTRACCION.” Brooklyn Rail (May 2014) Smith, Roberta. “Patricia Esquivias: ‘111–119 Generalísimo/Castellana.'” The New York Times, 25 July 2014, p. C20 |
| 2013 | AYP. “Patricia Esquivias.” Arte y Parte, no. 106 (August/September 2013), p. 119 Cendán, Susana. “Patricia Esquivias.” M arte y cultura visual, 1 June 2013 Hontoria, Javier. “Patricia Esquivias.” Artforum (October 2013), pp. 314–315 |
| 2012 | Guardiola, Javier D. “Entrevista a Patricia Esquivias.” ABC Cultural, 6 April 2013 |
| 2011 | Esquivias, Patricia. “Natures at the Hand.” Shifter, no. 17 (2011), pp. 27–29 Gartenfield, Alex. “First Look: Patricia Esquivias.” Art in America (November 2011), p. 35 Gonzalez, Emily. Patricia Esquivias. Exhibition brochure. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum, 2011 |
| 2010 | 7BL: 7a Biennal d’art Leandre Cristòfol. Lleida. Lleida: Ajuntament de Lleida, Centre d’Art la Panera, 2010, pp. 12–13, 38–39 Boucher, Brian. “Patricia Esquivias.” Art in America (October 2010), pp. 184–185 Cotter, Holland. “Young Curators, New Ideas III.” New York Times, 20 August 2010, p. C23 Esquivias, Patricia. Untitled. Poster edition for Antes que todo–Before Everything. Madrid: CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, 2010 Kerr, Merrily. “Patricia Esquivias – Murray Guy.” Time Out New York, 17–23 June 2010 Moscoso, Manuela. “Patricia Esquivias.” Bomb, no. 113 (Fall 2010), pp. 64–65 Moscoso, Manuela. “Patricia Esquivias.” In Antes que todo—Before Everything. Madrid: CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, 2010, pp. 108–111 “Patricia Esquivias.” The New Yorker, 1 June 2010 “Patricia Esquivias.” In Becas de Arte Caja Madrid. Madrid: Caja Madrid Obra Social, 2010, pp. 55–65 Stern, Melissa. “Patricia Esquivias.” Cityarts.info, 19 May 2010 Van Loo, Sofie. “Home(lessness): Feel-thinking the Notion of Expectation.” In Antes que todo—Before Everything. Madrid: CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, 2010, pp. 65–74, esp. 66 Walleston, Aimee. “A History of Coincidences.” Art in America, 7 May 2010 |
| 2009 | Clegg, Rachel. “Nun but the brave…” The Star (Sheffield), 7 July 2009 Confines: Valencia 09: Pasajes de las artes contemporáneas. Valencia: IVAM, 2009, pp. 154–55 Cornell, Lauren. “New Age Thinking.” In Younger Than Jesus: The Generation Book. Edited by Lauren Cornell, et. al. Göttingen: Steidl, 2009, pp. 18–29, esp. 25. See also pp. 92–93, 473–74 D’Urso, Alysia. “Patricia Esquivias.” Modern Painters (Summer 2009), p. 13 García, Ángeles. “El arte como una paella.” El País, 24 June 2009 McHugh, Gene. “The Generational: Younger than Jesus.” Artforum 47, no. 10 (Summer 2009), p. 325 Patricia Esquivias: Everything that is not a portion is speculation. Exhibition brochure. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2009 |
| 2008 | Alemani, Cecilia. “Patricia Esquivias.” Artforum.com, 5 February 2008 “Bending the Word.” Shotgunreview.com, 2 December 2008 de la Torre, Blanca. “Patricia Esquivias – Murray Guy and White Columns.” Arte al día International Coulter-Smith, Graham. “Patricia Esquivias at 5th Berlin Biennial.” Artintelligence.com, 10 April 2008 Of This Tale I Cannot Guarantee a Single Word. London: Royal College of Art, 2008, esp. pp. 100–103 “Patricia Esquivias.” The New Yorker, 4 February 2008 Szymczyk, Adam and Filipovic, Elena, eds. When Things Cast No Shadow. Zurich: JRP Ringier, 2008 Thomas, Elizabeth. Bending the Word. Matrix 226. Exhibition brochure. Berkeley: UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2008 Van Pee, Yasmine. “Bending the Word.” Modern Painters (December 2008/January 2009), p. 104 Ward, Ossian. “Of this tale I cannot guarantee a single word.” Time Out London, 15 April 2008 |
| 2007 | Martinez, Chus. Pensée Sauvage von Freiheit. Frankfurt: Revolver and Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2007 “Patricia Esquivias.” Calle 20 (June 2007) “Patricia Esquivias.” On Madrid, no. 54, 1–7 June 2007 Pearson, Tony. “East International: Norwich Gallery and Norwich School of Art and Design.” Modern Painters (November 2007), pp. 96–97 Pozuelo, Abel. “Patricia Esquivias, decir lo indecible.” El Cultural, 21–27 June 2007 |
| 2005 | Mayer, Mariano. No mueras sin laberinto. Buenos Aires: bajo la luna, 2005 |