Dario Escobar

Dario Escobar

News

A Singular Plurality: The Works of Dario Escobar, Editor Jose Falconi, Harvard University Press
April 2013

Dario Escobar Exhibition, ArteCentro Graciela Andrade de Paiz, Guatemala City, Guatemala
(Solo Show)
June 13 - August 14, 2013

2013 California-Pacific Triennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
(June 30, 2013 - November 17, 2013)


Biography

Born in Guatemala City, Guatemala, 1971. Lives and works in Guatemala City.

Selected One-Person Exhibitions

2013
Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
Dario Escobar Exhibition, ArteCentro Graciela Andrade de Paiz, Guatemala City, Guatemala

2012
Dario Escobar/La experiencia del objeto, (MAC) Museo de arte Contemporáneo de Santiago, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Singular-Plural, SCAD Savannah College of Art and Design Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Dario Escobar/Recent Work, Baró Galeria, Sao Paulo, Brasil
Singular-Plural, SCAD Savannah College of Art and Design, Gallery 1600, Atlanta, GA
Dario Escobar, Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC), Santiago de Chile, Chile

2011
Recent Acquisitions, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno Carlos Mérida, Guatemala City, Gautemala

2010
Obverse and Reverse, Art Positions, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
Anverso/Reverso, Gonzalez y Gonzalez, Santiago, Chile
Side and Back, Kamel Mennour Galerie, Paris, France

2009
Video otra vez, Metales Pesados, Santiago, Chile

2008
Play Offs, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY

2007
Dario Escobar/Project Room, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
La Linea Interrumpida, Galeria KBK, Ciudad de Mexico/ Centro Cultural Metropolitano (CCM), Guatemala City, Guatemala

2006
Objects en Transito, Sala Gasco, Santiago de Chile, Chile

2005
Serpentario, Centro Cultural de España Guatemala(CCEG), Guatemala

2004
Out!, Galería Jacobo Karpio, Miami, FL
Trabajo reciente, Galería Jacobo Karpio, Miami, FL

2003
Espacios provisionales, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo (MADC)
San José, Costa Rica
Visual Entertainments, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mérida, México

2001
Dario Escobar, Trabajo reciente, Galería Jocobo Karpio, San José, Costa Rica

2000
Dario Escobar: Selección, II National Biennial of Lima, Perú.


Selected Group Exhibitions

2013
2013 California-Pacific Triennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Sin Titulo, Josée Bienvenu Gallery and Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY

2012
Art, Talks and Sensations, The Island/A Game of Life, Gallery 1, Manarat al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi
Guatemala Biennial, Historic Center, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Play with me, (MOLAA) Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
Los Impolíticos, Espacio Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay
Optimismo Radical 2, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY

2011
Now, (Selections from La Colección Jumex), Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, México
Four Views from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Latin American Art MOLA, Long Beach, CA
Proyecto ideal (Part II), Centro Cultural de Sao Paulo, Brazil
From the Recent Past: New Acquisitions, The Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Video otra vez, Museo de arte contemporáno de Fortaleza, Brazil
Now, Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico

2010
Chapter II: Ruido, 9.99/proyecto, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Proyecto Ideal, Museo de arte Contemporáneo de Chile(MAC), Santiago, Chile
Optimismo Radical, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
XXXI Bienal de Pontevedra, Museo de Pontevedra, Pontevedra, Galicia
XVII Bienal de Guatemala, Centro Cultural Metropolitano(CCM), Guatemala City, Guatemala
Efecto Drácula, Curated by Victor Zamudio Taylor, Museo Universitario del CHOPO, México
Social Affects: A selection from the permanent collection of the David Rochefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, Boston Center for the art/ Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
Four Views from the Permanent Collection exhibition, (MOLAA) Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA

2009
Los Impoliticos, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli (PAN), Naples, Italy
10 Springs in the fall, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France
Périfériks, CAN (Centre d'art Neuchatel), Zurich, Switzerland
Mundus Novus: 53rd Biennale Internacional de Venecia, Artiglerie dell’Arsenale, Venice, Italy
0.3333333333333333, 9.99/proyecto, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Nada y el ser (The 7th Interpretation of the Jumex Collection, Curated by Shamim Momim, La Colección Jumex, Mexico DF
Performing Localities, Institute of International Visual Arts, London
Décima Bienal de La Habana, Fortaleza de San Carlos de la Cabaña, La Habana

2008
La Invención de lo cotidiano, Museo Nacional de Arte (Munal), Mexico DF
Objects of Value, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Playtime, Bétonsalon/ Centre d'art et de recherche, Paris, France
World Histories, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Visions From Abroad, Flushing Town Hall, New York, NY
Elefante Negro, Museo Diego Rivera, Mexico
Museum Presents, Organized by CIFO at Scope Miami, FL

2007
Fortunate Object, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami, FL
Silence & Echo, Arena 1, Santa Monica, CA
The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Poetics of the Handmade, MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), Los Angeles, CA

2006
El esquiador en el fondo del pozo, La Colección Jumex, México DF
Stil Biuti, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Zamek Ujazdowski, Varsovia
The Beautiful Game: Contemporary Art and Fútbol, BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), NY
Constant Disturbance, The Spanish Cultural Center, Miami, FL

2005
The Hours. Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America, Dublin Museum,
Ireland
Living for the city, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; Centre International d'Expositions de Larouche (CIEL), Toronto, Canada

2004
Newpapers, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY

2003
Intangible, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo (MADC), San José, Costa Rica
Freewaves : Latin America, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA; America’s Society, New York, NY (2004)
RAIN Project, Pabellón Cuba, Havana, Cuba
Stretch, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
TransEAT, Food Culture Museum, Miami, FL
VIII Bienal de la Habana, Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba

2002
ARTitsmo, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo; San José, Costa Rica
Contaminados, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo (MADC), San José, Costa Rica
Del centro a la isla, Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba
Intimate/Universal, Ateneo de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela
Mesoamérica: Oscilaciones y Artificios, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Canary Islands, Spain
Zones in Tension, de GANG Gallery, Haarlem, Holland

2001
Continuous Connection, Felissimo Project, New York, NY
Short Stories, La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan
Spaces/Bodies/Identities, Centro Cultural de España, San José, Costa Rica
13 Hours, Sala Mendoza Caracas, Venezuela
I Tirana Biennial, National Gallery & Chinese Pavilion, Tirana, Albania
IV Caribbean Biennial, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
IV Biennial Barro de América, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofía Imber, Caracas, Venezuela

2000
Dario Escobar: Trabajo reciente, II National Biennial of Lima, Perú
2eme, Biennale du Design 2000, Ecole des Beaux Arts de Saint-Etienne, France
L’ art dans le monde, Pont Alexandre III, Paris, France, 1999

1999
Guatemalan Art, Sala Oficial Juan Ismael del Cabildo de Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain
II Latin American Biennial of Lima, Lima, Perú

1998
Fotojornada’98, National Museum of Modern Art, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Without Title, Plaza G&T; Guatemala City, Guatemala
I Central American Biennale, Centro Cultural Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemala City, Guatemala
I Central American Biennale, Duke University Museum of Art (DUMA), NC
VI International Art Biennale of Cuenca, Ecuador

1998
Fotojornada’98, National Museum of Modern Art, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Without Title, Plaza G&T; Guatemala City, Guatemala
I Central American Biennale, Centro Cultural Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemala City, Guatemala
I Central American Biennale, Duke University Museum of Art (DUMA), NC
VI International Art Biennale of Cuenca, Ecuador

1997
La Joven Estampa, Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba


Selected Bibliography

2011
Ruiz, Alma, "Where Matter and Myth Come Together", ArtNexus, No. 80.

2008
Cazali, Rosina, "Dario Escobar: Play Offs", Arte Al Día #125, November/December.

2007
Ruiz-Lax, Alma. "En Portada: La Linea Interrumpida", Artmedia Arte en Mesoamérica.

2006
Zamudio-Taylor, Víctor. "Objetos Relacionales: Darío Escobar & Patrick Hamilton", Sala Gasco, (2006): 10-13. Santiago de Chile, Chile.
Brielmaier, Isolde. "Double Take: The art of Dario Escobar and Patrick Hamilton", Objetos en Transito, Sala Gasco, Santiago de Chile, 21 – 27.
Spinger, José Manuel, "Dario Escobar, KBK Arte Contempoáneo", Art Nexus, No. 61, 132-133.

2005
Cazali, Rosina. "Ready Made Ready”, Serpentario,Centro Cultural de España en Guatemala, 20, 26.
Calvo, Enesto. "Espacios Provisionales: Sentidos difusos, significaciones equivocas", Serpentario.
Gallegos, Carina. "Dario Escobar", Art Nexus, no. 55 vol. 3, January-March, 153-155.
Gomez Eduard M. "Hip home for art in Mexico City", International Herald Tribune, April, 27.

2004
Cisneros, Dayamick. "Dessicated and Reconstituted", Arteamérica.
Herrera, Adriana. "On Out!", Miami Herald, June.
Valdés, Emiliano. Striking objects, Contemporary, no. 66.
"In the Labyrinth of Consumptions and Creation", Artes en Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, November.
González, Lorena. "The Object's Evil Genius", Arte al Día News, no. 5.

2003
Valdés Eugenio and Keith Wallace. "Stretch", The Power Plant,Toronto, Canada, introduction.
Loría, Vivianne, "Dario Escobar: Emblems of Modern Stubbornness in Visual Entertainments", Museo de Arte Moderno, Mérida, México.

2002
Astiasarán, Clara Elena Concepción. "Darío Escobar", Art Nexus, volume 1, no. 43.
Auerbach, Ruth. ARCOnoticias, no. 24.
Bondone, Tomás. "Problematic and feverish", ARCOnoticias, no. 23.
Díaz, Tamara. "Art in Central America: The Critical Glance", Atlántica, no. 31.
López Anaya, Jorge. "La fluida geografía del arte latinoamericano", ARCOnoticias no. 23.
Zaya, Antonio. "Dario Escobar", Atlántica, no. 31.
de Santa Ana, Mariano. "Hybrids on the Side", Lápiz, no. 186.

2001
Damian, Carol. "Art Miami 2001", Art Nexus, no. 40, May-July, 96-98.
Loría, Vivianne. "Marginalidad y transculturación en el arte centroamericano", Lápiz, no. 177, vol. 20.
Loría, Vivianne, "Mesoamérica: Oscilaciones y Artificios", In Mesoamérica: Oscilaciones y Artificios, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM).
Valdés, Eugenio. "Stories of Alienatives (any similarities to real facts or persons are not purely coincidental)", Short Stories: New Narrative Forms in Contemporary Art, La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, 41-49.

2000
Navarro, Mario. Objetos en suspención, Sol del Río Gallery, Guatemala City.
Quirós, Luis. "En la Era de la Mitotécnia", La Nación, San José, Costa Rica.


Public and Corporate Collections

The Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles, CA
La Colección JUMEX, Mexico D.F.
Colección DAROS-Latinamerica, Zurich, Switzerland
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami, FL
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Deutsche Bank, Miami, FL
The Gang, Haarlem, Holland