ADRIÁN VILLAR ROJAS
Born:
Rosario, Argentina, 1980
AWARDS
2015
Prix Canson, Fonds Canson pour l’Art et le papier, Paris, France
Sharjah Biennial Prize, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
2013
Zurich Art Prize, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
2012
Konex Prize: Merit Diploma-Sculpture and Object: 2007-2011, Ciudad Cultural Konex, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2011
The 9th Benesse Prize, Benesse Holdings Inc. Naoshima, Japan
SAM Art Projects, Artist Residency, Paris, France
2010
Raul Urtasun - Frances Harley Scholarship, Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada
La Residencia, Bogota, Columbia
2009
Panorama´s Residency, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2007
ArteBA- Petrobras Prize, ArteBA 16
Contemporary Art Fair, Buenos Aires, Argentina
El Basilisco, Artist Residency, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006
Nuevo Banco de Santa Fe Scholarship for Young Artists, Rosario, Argentina
2005
First Prize Bienal Nacional de Arte de Bahía Blanca, Contemporary Art Museum, Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Visual Arts Workshop, Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2003
First Prize Currículum Cero 03, Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
The Theater of Disappearance, Roof Garden Commission, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Theater of Disappearance, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
The Theater of Disappearance, NEON Foundation, Athens, Greece
The Theater of Disappearance, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, US
From the series The Theater of Disappearance, Marian Goodman Gallery, London
2015
Two Suns, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Fantasma, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Rinascimento, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
2014
Lo que el fuego me trajo: a Film by Adrian Villar Rojas, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
En Casa, a collaboration with Enrique Radigales, Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
The Evolution of God, The High Line, New York
Los teatros de Saturno (The Theaters of Saturn), Kurimanzutto, Mexico DF, Mexico
2013
The Work of the Ocean, Foundation de 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Brussels, Belgium
Today We Reboot The Planet, Serpentine Gallery, London
Films Before Revolution, Museum Haus Konstructiv, Zurich, Switzerland
2012
Before My Birth, Arts Brookfield with The New Museum Triennial : The Ungovernables, World Financial Center Plaza, New York
2011
Ahora estaré con mi hijo, el asesino de tu herencia (Now I will be with my son, the murderer of your heritage), ILLUMInations, The 54th International Art Venice Biennial, Italy
Poems For Earthlings, SAM ART Projects, Musée du Louvre, Paris
La Moral de los Inmortales (The Immortals Morality), Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
2010
My Dead Grandfather, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Un Beso Infinito, Casa Riegner Gallery, Bogota, Columbia
2008
Lo que el fuego me trajo (What Fire Has Brought Me), Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2007
15,000 años nuevos (15,000 New Years), Belleza y Felicidad, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Diario íntimo 3D, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006
Estas son las probabilidades de que te pase algo (These are the Probabilities that Something Will Happen to You), El Poste Gallery, Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2005
Un mar (A sea), Alianza Francesa de Buenos Aries & Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2004
Si a vos te pasa algo yo me mato (If Anything Happens to You I’ll Kill Myself), with Mariana Telleria, Subsecretaría de Cultura de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Rosario, Argentina
Incendio (Fire), Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
From the Series The Theater of Disappearance, Jerusalem Live, The Palestinian Museum, Birzeit, Palestine
From the Series Return the World, Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Two Suns II, Unpacking: The Marciano Collection, The Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, US
Untitled (From the Series Rinascimento), The Ungestalt, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Song During the War, Mondialité, Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
2016
Unknown Soldier, The 6th Marrakech Biennale, Marrakech, Morocco
From the series Brick Farm, 5th Anyang Public Art Project, Anyang, South Korea
From the series The Most Beautiful of All Mothers, ANIMALITY, Marian Goodman
Gallery, London
Miracle Marathon, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Los teatros de Saturno I, from the series Fantasma (Ghost), Towards A Larger World, Moderna Museet Malmö, Malmö, Switzerland
2015
The Most Beautiful of All Mothers, The 14th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Motherland, Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
From the series Brick Farm, Twelfth Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
Planetarium, Sharjah Biennial 12: the past, the present, the possible, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Untitled I, from the series Today We Reboot the Planet, Une Histoire. Art, architecture
et design. Des années 1980 à nos jours, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2014
From the series Return the World, A Thousand Doors, The Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece
Where the Slaves Live, Foundation Louis Vuitton (LVMH), Paris
El momento más hermoso de la guerra (The Most Beautiful Moment of War), The Real DMZ Project, Artsonje Center and other locations, Seoul, South Korea
From the series Brick Farm, Rockaway!, Fort Tilden and Rockaway Beach, New York
2013
Lo que el fuego me trajo (What Fire Brought to Me), The Insides are on the Outside, Casa de Vidro and SESC Pompeia, Sao Paulo, Brazil
From the series The Work of the Ocean, 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art,
Moscow, Russia
La Inocencia de los animales (The Innocence of Animals), EXPO 1, MoMA PS1, New York
2012
The Tiger and The Family House , IX Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
Una persona me amó (A Person Loved Me), The New Museum Triennial: The Ungovernables, New Museum, New York
Return the World, dOCUMENTA(13), Kassel, Germany and Kabul, Afghanistan
2011
La tecnología del silencio (The Technology of Silence), Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial), Istanbul, Turkey
Songs During the war, Ars Apocalipsis – Kunst und Kollaps, Kunstverein Kreis Gütersloh e.V., Gütersloh, Germany
2010
Las mariposas eternas (The Eternal Butterflies), Panamericana, Kurimanzutto Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Song During the War, Map Marathon 2010, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
My Dead Grandfather, The Return of the Landscape, Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Quiero un mundo abstracto (I Want An Abstract World), Zona MACO Project Room, Mexico City, Mexico
2009
El momento más hermoso de la guerra no sabe distinguir el amor de cualquier sentimiento (The Most Beautiful Moment of War Cannot Distinguish Love From Any Other Feeling), X Bienal de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
Mi abuelo muerto (My Dead Grandfather), Moby Dick, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US
Nunca esquecerei Brasil (I Will Never Forget Brazil), Mamõyguara Opá Mamõ Pupé, Panorama das Artes Brasileiras, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Brazil
Mi familia muerta (My Dead Family), II Bienal del Fin del Mundo, Ushuaia, Argentina
Diario Íntimo 3D (Intimate Diary 3D), The Poly/Graphic San Juan Triennial Second Edition, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2008
Nuevas incorporaciones, MACRO – Juan B. Castagnino Fine Arts Museum, Rosario, Argentina
2007
80 millones de cosas me hacen mal (80 Million Things Hurt Me), Open Studio, Basilisco Residency, Buenos Aires, Argentina Pedazos de las personas que amamos (Pieces of The People We Love), Arteba– Petrobras de Artes Visuales Cuarta Edición (Visual Arts Arteba-Petrobras Fourth Edition), Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006
Me Sangra la Nariz+Paisajismo+Tareas+Año 15.038 (My Nose Bleeds+Landscape+Tasks+Year 15.038), Amores posibles: 13 rosarinos/7 ensayos (Impossible Loves: 13 People from Rosaio/7 Essays), Zavaleta Lab Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2005
El viento mueve a las cosas (The Wind Moves Things), LIX Salón Nacional de Rosario (LXI National Salon in Rosario), Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino, Rosario, Argentina
2004
La serie de las casas de amantes celosos (The House of The Jealous Lovers Series), LVIII Salón Nacional de Rosario (LVIII National Salon in Rosario), Juan B. Castagnino Museo de Bellas Artes, Rosario, Argentina
Besos sin boca (Kisses Without Mouth), LVII Salón Nacional de Rosario (LVII National Salon in Rosario), Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino, Rosario, Argentina
2003
Currículum Cero 03, Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
