Artistas Damián Ortega Currículo
Currículo

Nasceu na Cidade do México, México, 1967
Vive e trabalha na Cidade do México, México, e Berlim, Alemanha


Exposições Individuais
2010 New comission for the Curve Barbican, London, UK
2009 Do it yourself, ICA, Boston, USA
Materialista, Galpão Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brasil
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
2008 Champ de Vision, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2007 Incide/Inside, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brasil
Inversión de Poderes, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Nine Types of Terrain, White Cube, London, UK
Obelisco, Public Art Fund, Central Park, New York, SA
The Man is the Controller of the Universe, DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Being Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2005 The Beetle Trilogy and other works, The Redcat Gallery (The Roy and Edna Disney Cal Arts Theater), MOCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
The Uncertainty Principle. Untitled Project Series, Tate Modern, London, UK
2004 Moby Dick, Kurimanzutto and Mega Comercial Mexicana, Parking Lot, 3rd. Level, March 25th, Mexico City, Mexico
Spirit and Matter, White Cube, London, UK
Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brasil
2003 A Matéria, A Energia, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brasil
2002 Cosmic Thing, ICA – Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA
D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, USA
2001 Alguém me Soletra, (Residência [Artist in Residence]), Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
1997 Reglas e Instintos, Galería Art & Idea, Mexico City, Mexico
1991 Fuerza Viva, Galeria ETNIA, Mexico City, Mexico
Exposições Coletivas
2010 Art Parcours, Art Basel, Switzerland
2009 Desenhos [Drawings]: A – Z, Museu da Cidade, Lisboa, Portugal
Panorama da Arte  Brasileira, MAM - Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brasil
2008 A Skate in the Mud, a Hole in the Reel, Land Art’s Expanded Field 1968-2008, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
An Unruly history of the Ready Made, Colección Jumex, Ecatapec, Mexico
Las implicaciones de la imagen, Colección Isabel & Agustin Coppel, MUCA, Mexico City, Mexico
Mexico: Expected / Unexpected, Colección Isabel & Agustin Coppel, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
That Was Then... This Is Now, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center,Long Island, New York, USA
Unitednationsplaza, Casa Refugio, Mexico City, Mexico
2007 Escultura social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chigaco, USA
Hidden in Plain Sight: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Preis Der Nationalgalerie fur Junge Kunst, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
ShimabInglaterrao’s Sakespirinha, DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2006  Of Mice and Men, 4th Berlin Biennial, Germany
10 years of Art & Idea, Art & Idea, Vienna, Austria
Al Confinei Della Realta: Arte, Ciencia e Tecnologia, Benevento, Italy
Biennale of Sydney – International Festival of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Black Matter, White Cube Gallery, London, UK
Como Viver Junto, 27ª Bienal de São Paulo, Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brasil
Dirty Yoga, The Taipei Biennial, Taiwan
El Equilibrio y sus Derivados, Casa del Lago, Mexico City, Mexico
Elipse Fundation, Contemporary Art Collection, Cascais, Portugal
Los Ángeles/Mexico. Complejidades y heterogeneidad, Colección, Museo José Luis Cuevas, Mexico City, Mexico
Metro Pictures, The Moore Space, Miami, USA
Space is the place, ICI, New York, USA
The Exotic Journey Ends, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Polônia; Warsaw and Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
2005 Come Closer, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Desenhos: A-Z [Drawings: A-Z], Colecção Madeira Corporate Services, Porta 33, Funchall, Ilha da Madeira, Portugal
Emergency Biennale in Chechnya: A Suitcase from Paris to Grosny, Grosny, Chechenia; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Bruxelas, Bolzano, Milan, Florence, Calcutta, New York, Cali, Santiago do Chile, Sydney, Melbourne, Palestine
Farsites: Urban crisis and domestic symptoms in recent contemporary art, San Diego, USA
Gabriel Orozco, Carlos Amorales, Damian Ortega: Memória de la creaction del eco, El Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico
September Back Up: Come Closer, Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy
T1: Turintriennale Tremusei: The Pantagruel Syndrome, GAM - Galleria Civica d‘Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Turin, Italy
2004 Dedicated to a proposition, Extra City: Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
Espacios de paisaje y memoria, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Fragmentos e Souvenires paulistanos VOL I, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brasil
La Colmena, curadoria de Guillermo Santamarina, Colección Jumex, México City, Mexico
Los usos de la imagen: fotografía, film y video em la colección Jumex, Malba e Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Solo los personajes cambian, Marco, Monterrey, Mexico
Specific Objects: the minimalist influence, MCA, San Diego and La Jolla, USA
Video Mundi, de Bonanza Projects, Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago; Heaven Gallery, Chicago, USA
2003 A Nova Geometria, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brasil
Elephant Juice (Sexo entre amigos), kurimanzutto e, Los Manantiales, Xochimilco, Mexico City, Mexico
Il Quotidiano Alterato, 50. Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Made in Mexico, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Our Mutual Friend, Bloomberg Space, London, UK 
2002 Arte All’ Arte, Arte Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Gwanju Biennale, Gwanju, South Korea
Siete Dilemas: Diálogos en el Arte Mexicano, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Sublime Artificial, La Capella, Barcelona, Spain
The Air is Blue, Casa Barragán, Mexico City, Mexico
2001  Metropolis Mexica, Musée de Picardie, Amiens, France
Animation, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
ARS 2001, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Como es que los autos no vuelan aún, Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, Mexico
Do It!, Museo de Arte Carrilo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Escultura Mexicana. De la Academía a la Instalación, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Mutations. La Video Mexicaine Actuelle, Palais des Arts, Toulouse;
Iconoscope, Montpellier, France
Squatters, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal; Museum Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Tirana Biennale, Albany
2000 Galerie Kurimanzutto @ Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Guarene 2000, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per L´Arte, Turin, Italy
Permanencia Voluntaria, Galería kurimanzutto, Cinemanía, Plaza Loreto, Mexico City, Mexico
Puerto Rico 00 (Paréntesis en la Ciudad), Porto Rico
Supermodernismo (improvisado), Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico
Videoarte de la Nueva Generacion, Generalli Foundation, Switzerland
Turin Prize, Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo per L’arte, Turin, Italy
1999 B.I.F. Bienal Internacional de Fotografia, Centro de la Imágen, Mexico City, Mexico
Dobles Vidas, Taller General (Abraham Cruzvillegas, Gabriel Kuri e Gabriel Orozco), Museo Barbier-Mueller d´Art Precolombí/ Museo Textil I d´Indumentaria, Barcelona, Spain
Economia de Mercado, Galería kurimanzutto, Mercado de Medellín, Mexico City, Mexico
La Sala Del Artista, Galería kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
Yo y mi Circunstancia, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada
1998 Prepositions II, Musée Departamental d´Art Contemporain, Palace du Rochechouart, France
Yesterday Begins Tomorrow: Ideals, Dreams and Contemporary Awakenings, Center for Curatorial Studies and Contemporary Art & Culture, Bard College, New York, USA
1997 Creacion en Movimento, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Instalaciones, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, MACO - Oaxaca, Mexico
Lines of Loss, Artists Space, New York, USA
Mercurio, Comunicacion y Dinero, Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, Guadalajara, Mexico
1995 (En Transito) Señales Presentes, Mexico City, Mexico; Buenos Aires, Argentina
Deux ex Machina, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
Nuevas Practicas Colectivas, Galería Arte Contemporâneo, Guadalajara, Mexico
1994  Tento Onstelling, Galería C.D. Tielt, Belgium
Beelden Buiten 1994, Tuin de Brabandere – Tielt, Belgium
Cronologias, Temístocles 144, Mexico City, Mexico
Temístocles 44, Mexico City, Mexico
Prêmios e Bolsas
2007 Preis Der Nationalgalerie fur junge kunst, Hambuerguer Banhof, Germany
2006 DAAD - Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienst, Programa de Residência [Residency Program], Berlin, Germany
2005

Hugo Boss Prize, Indicação [Nominee], USA

Coleção Teixeira de Freitas – Lisboa, Portugal
Coleções públicas
CIFO - Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA
Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão, Portugal
Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA
Inhotim Centro de Arte Contemporânea, Minas Gerais, Brasil
Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France
Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães - MAMAM, Recife, Brasil
Villa Manin. Centro d'arte contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy