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Born in Guatemala City, Guatemala, 1971. Lives and works in Guatemala
City.
Selected One-Person Exhibitions
2010
Side and Back, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris, France
2009
Video otra vez, Metales Pesados, Santiago, Chile
2008
Play Offs, Josée Bienvenu gallery, New York
2007
Dario Escobar/Project Room, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn,
NY
La Linea Interrumpida, Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2006
Objects en Transito, Sala Gasco, Santiago de Chile, Chile
2005
Objetos Suspendidos, Galería KBK, Ciudad de Mexico
Serpentario, Centro Cultural de España Guatemala(CCEG),
Guatemala
2004
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
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
Proyecto Ideal, Museo de arte Contemporáneo de Chile(MAC), Santiago, Chile
Optimismo Radical, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York
XXXI Bienal de Pontevedra, Museo de Pontevedra; Pontevedra, Galicia
XVII Bienal de Guatemala, Centro Cultural Metropolitano(CCM), Guatemala City
Efecto Drácula, Curated by Victor Zamudio Taylor, Museo Universitario del CHOPO, México
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
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
0.3333333333333333, 9.99/proyecto, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2008
La Invención de lo cotidiano, Museo Nacional de Arte (Munal), Mexico DF
Objects of Value, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Museum Presents, Organized by CIFO at Scope Miami, FL
Elefante Negro, Museo Diego Rivera, Mexico
World Histories, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Playtime, Bétonsalon/ Centre d'art et de recherche, Paris, France
Visions From Abroad, Flushing Town Hall, New York
2007
Fortunate Object, Ciseros Fontanalis Art Foundations (CIFO), Miami, FL
Silence & Echo, Arena 1, Santa Monica California
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
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),
New York
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
2003
Intangible, Museo de Arte y Diseño
Contemporáneo (MADC), San José, Costa Rica
Freewaves : Latin America, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los
Angeles; America’s Society, New York (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
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
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
1997
La Joven Estampa, Casa de las Américas, Havana,
Cuba
Selected Bibliography
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. Exh. Cat. Sala Gasco,(2006):
10-13. Santiago de Chile, Chile
Brielmaier, Isolde. Double Take: The art
of Dario Escobar and Patrick Hamilton, Exh. Cat. (Pag.
21 – 27) Objetos en Transito, Sala Gasco, Santiago de Chile
Spinger, José Manuel, Dario Escobar,
KBK Arte Contempoáneo, Art Nexus, No.
61 (2006): 132-133
2005
Cazali, Rosina. Ready Made Ready”, Exh.
Cat.Serpentario (Pag. 20, 26) Centro
Cultural de España en Guatemala
Calvo, Enesto. Espacios Provisionales:
Sentidos difusos, significaciones equivocas
Exh. Cat. Serpentario ( Pag. 20, 26) Centro Cultural de España
en Guatemala
Gallegos, Carina. Dario Escobar, Art Nexus,
no. 55 vol. 3 (January-March, 2005)
Gomez Eduard M. Hip home for art in Mexico City, International
Herald Tribune, 27/04/2005
Gallegos, Carina. Dario Escobar, Art Nexus,
no. 55 vol. 3 (January-March, 2005): 153-55.
2004
Cisneros, Dayamick. Dessicated and Reconstituted, Arteamérica
Herrera, Adriana. On Out!, Miami Herald,
June
Valdés, Emiliano. Striking objects, Contemporary,
no. 66
In the Labyrith of Consumptions and Creation, Artes en Santo
Domingo, Dominican Republic, November
González, Lorena. The Object´s Evil Genious, Arte
al Día News, no. 5
2003
Valdés Eugenio and Keith Wallace. Introduction., Stretch.
Exh Cat. The Power PlantToronto, Canadá: press
Loría, Vivianne, Dario Escobar: Emblems of Modern
Stubbornness. In Visual Entertainments. Exh.
Cat. 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 2001): 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.
Exh. Cat. Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM).
Valdés, Eugenio. Stories of
Alienatives (any similarities to real facts or persons are
not purely coincidental). In Short Stories: New Narrative
Forms in Contemporary Art, 41-49. Exh. Cat. La Fabbrica del Vapore.
Milan
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, NC
The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Collection of The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, North Carolina
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami, FL
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Deutsche Bank, Miami, FL
The Gang, Haarlem, Holland
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