MÁXIMO GONZÁLEZ

SEMBLANCE

He has completed 43 solo shows: POGO, Hospicio Cabañas Museum, Guadalajara (MX); Magnificent Warning at Stanlee & Rubin Center, El Paso TX (USA); Playful, CAFAM, Los Angeles (USA); Walk among Worlds at Casa de América, Madrid (ES) y Fowler Museum, Los Angeles CA (USA), Something like an answer to something, Artane gallery, Istanbul (TUR); Project for the reutilization of obsolete vehicles after the extinction of petrol at Travesía Cuatro Gallery, Madrid (ES) and Project B, Milano (IT); PISAR at Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires (ARG); Greenhouse effect at Art&Idea, Mexico City (MX).

He has participated in 148 group exhibitions: The possibility of everything, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto, (CA) Where have all the flowers gone?, Poetics of the handmade exhibition at MOCA LA (USA); The tree: from the sublime to the social at the Vancouver Art Gallery, (CA); Fine Line at Museo de Las Americas, Denver (USA); The lines of the hand at MUAC, Mexico City (MX); 2nd Polygraphic Triennial of San Juan, Latina America and the Caribbean, Puerto Rico; Mexico: Poetry/Politics, San Francisco State University, San Francisco CA (USA) and at Nordic Watercolor Museum, Gothenburg (SE); Tiempo de Sospecha, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City (MX).

Since 15 years Máximo lives and works in Mexico City.

GALERÍA

CURRICULUM

Solo exhibitions

2017
Un inmense Banyan Aural Gallery, Alicante, ES

2016
Lo Cíclico Museo de la Cancillería (Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores), Mexico City, MX

2015
Magnificent Warning Monument at San Idelfonso Museum FILUX (The international Light Festival), Mexico City, MX
Estertor GACX (Galería de Arte Contemporáneo de Xalapa), Xalapa (JAL), MX
Temperance of the distant things ETHRA Gallery, Mexico City, MX

2014
POGO Museo Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara, MX
Walk among Worlds Centro Cultural de España en El Salvador, SAL
Take the verse by the flower Art Careyes, Careyes, Jalisco, MX

2013
Figuring Exchange: Art and Money (IMTFI) Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion, University of California, Irvine (CA), USA
Walk among Worlds, Fowler Museum Los Angeles (CA), USA
Magnificent Warning Stanlee & Rubin Center, El Paso (TX), USA

2012
Playful at CAFAM (Craft and Folk Art Museum), Los Angeles, (CA), USA

2011
Tartar: my arm is a sling Valle Ortí Gallery, Valencia, ES
Installation “Walk among worlds built in Casa America for Enredados: the week of the Cultural Centers Network, organized by AECID, Madrid, ES
Something like an answer to something Artane gallery, Istanbul, TR

2010
Material poems Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago (IL), USA
Open Studio Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago (IL), USA

2008
Heart of lead Galería Valle Ortí, Valencia, Spain
Recession Queen’s Nails Annex, San Francisco (CA), USA 2007
Project for the reutilization of vehicles after the extinction of petrol Travesía
Cuatro gallery Madrid, Spain
Progetto di reutilizzazione dei veicoli obsoleti dopo l’estinzione del petrolio Project B Contemporary Art, Milano, Italy
The Chignahuapan Project Voges gallery, Frankfurt, Germany

2006
Changarrito MDF gallery, Mexico City, MX
Bureau Pyner Contreras, London, UK
Wait Haydeé Rovirosa gallery, New York (NY), USA
Hotel Roesler #6 Nara Roesler gallery, Sao Paulo, BRA
Chignahuapan Skestos Gabriele gallery, ChicagO (IL), USA

2005
Moral and civic instruction Travesía Cuatro gallery, Madrid, Spain
PISAR, Ruth Benzacar gallery Buenos Aires, ARG

2004
Greenhouse effect Art&Idea gallery, Mexico City, MX

2003
Eagle and sun (heads or tails) Polyforum de Arte Siqueiros, Mexico City, MX

2002
Photographs and light installations Taller de las Artes, Salta, ARG
Light installation Boquitas Pintadas, Buenos Aires, ARG

2001
Objects of light Espacio 33 y 1/3, Buenos Aires, ARG

2000
Evento Desentido artist’s studio, Buenos Aires, ARG
Boards Rozenblum Foundation, Buenos Aires, ARG

1999
Relicatógrafos Apeyron, Córdoba, ARG
Objects and installation Goldman Foundation, Córdoba, ARG
Rastro Muerto multimedia installation, 10 presentations, Casona Municipal, Córdoba, ARG

1998
Boards Cripta Jesuítica del Noviciado, Viejo Córdoba, ARG
Tesis de lo inexplicable Centro Cultural Camba Cuá, Corrientes, ARG

1997
Paintings, objects, performance Ecology and young art Cultural Center, Corrientes, ARG

1996
Light and shadow sculpture, Yapeyú Hall, City Hall, Bella Vista, Corrientes, ARG


Group Exhibitions

2018
Nuit Blanche Toronto, Scarborough Town Center, Totonto, CA
Después del orden natural, Página en blando, CDMX, MX
Open Studio en La Verdi, Residencia de arte, Mexico City, MX
Exposición en dúo, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, USA


2017
Procesos en el Arte, Museo de la Cancillería, Mexico City, MX.
Anachronismes, Mairie du 2e arrondissement, Paris, FRA
Inlight Richmond, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, USA
Imbalance, Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk, PL
Stranger lands, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA
Luck of the Draw, DiversWorks, Houston, TX, USA
Tell me why (we can't live together), Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, USA


2016
Todo es innombrable salvo el tiempo, Galería Proyecto H, Madrid, ES
Afinidades/Discordancias, Museo de la Cancillería (Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores), Mexico City, MX
Genius Loci, Casa Díaz Morales, Zapopan, JL, MX
Arte para la Nación, Palacio Nacional, Mexico City, MX
Simulacro, ETHRA Gallery, Mexico City, MX
Verdad y No, Nina Menocal Gallery, Mexico City, MX
Les Sentiers de la Création, Galerie de Collége Jacques Cartier, Issou, FRA
Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, USA
2015
Heritage, MACA (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante), Alicante, Spain
Dream of Freedom, ICON of Freedom Festival, London, UK
Pique Nique Héritage, Lizières Centre de Culteres et de Ressources, Paris, FRA
Walk among Worlds, Chalk The Block Festival, El Paso, TX, USA
Opening Quinientos cincuenta Gallery, Mexico City, MX
Ser o no Sur, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Tamaulipas, TAMPS, MX
Vignettes, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, USA
13 works you'll be lucky to see this summer, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, USA
ES2014 Tijuana, 8th International Banner Biennal / 11th edition, Centro Cultural Santo Tomás, Ensenada (BJC), MX
PLAY-Semana de videoarte IV Edition, Centro Cultural Universitario de la UNNE, Corrientes, ARG
Pautas desiguales, ETHRA gallery, Mexico City, MX
Maletas migrantes, Ambulante A.C., New Americans Museum de San Diego, CA., USA
Enigma. Lo gestual y lo Cotidiano; Museo de la Cancillería (Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores), Mexico City, MX
Ser o no Sur, Museum of Art of Ciudad Juarez, CHIH, MX
30 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, USA
Tell Me What You Think of Me, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA


2014
10 años después: Post emergencias en la Colección MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
ES2014 Tijuana, 8th International Banner Biennal / 11th edition, CECUT (Centro Cultural de Tijuana), Tijuana (BJC), MX
The Possibility of everything, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Toronto, CA
Untitle, Galería Diéresis, Guadalajara (JAL), MX
I Am: Money matters (ArtPrize 2014), Kendall College of Art and Design, Ferris State University (KCAD), Grand Rapids (MI), USA
Ser o no Sur, Museo de la Ciudad, Santiago de Querétaro (QRO) + Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Chihuahua (CHIH) + Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Zapopan (JAL), MX
Equivocados de Cielo, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo N°8, Aguascalientes, AGS, MX
Herencia, Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda", Mexico City
Resonancias, Museo de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Púlbico, Mexico City, MX
Memorias Flotantes, White Spider Project, Mexico City, MX
A book between two stools, Boghossian Foundation - Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
Maletas migrantes, Ambulante A.C., Museo Nacional de Antropología Dr. David J. Guzmán de la República de El Salvador, San Salvador, SAL
Maletas migrantes, Ambulante A.C., European Foundation Centre Philanthropy House, Brussels, Belgium
Maletas migrantes, Ambulante A.C., Centro Cultural Tijuana - CECUT, Tijuana, Baja California, MX
Omar Alonso Gallery, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, MX


2013
Transcendental evocations, Lakeeren Gallery, Mumbay, IN
Biophilia 3.7, Mexico City, MX
Arquetipos Imaginarios, Mexico City, MX
Untitle, Omar Alonso Gallery, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, MX
Principios Activos, DA2 Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
Semana de la Cultura Argenmex, Museo José Luis Cuevas, Centro Cultural Bella Época y Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico City, MX
Not Just Another Pretty Face, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, USA
Inaugural Group Show, The Mission Projects Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
[Pai-sa-je.m], Museo de la Cancillería, SRE, Mexico City, MX
La mejor persona del mundo, Centro Cultural Border, Mexico City, MX
Biophilia, Galería Mycellium Ingenium, Piso 51, Torre Mayor, Mexico City, MX
Materia Prima, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo (CAC), Quito, Ecuador
Words of Art, EDS Gallery, Mexico City, MX
KARMADOOM buscando el equilibrio, Centro Cultural de México Contemporáneo, Mexico City, MX
Love me tender, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA, USA
Sex,Money and Power, Art Center Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium
Transitios, Artpace, San Antonio, TX, USA


2012
Con Pies y Cabeza, Mycellium Ingenium Gallery, Mexico City, MX
Jornada migratorias, Claustro de Sor Juana University, Mexico City, MX
Openining exhibition, Yet Projects Conteporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Maletas migrantes, Ambulante A.C., Museo de la Memoria y Tolerancia, Mexico City, MX
Codo a Codo, Iberoamericana University, Mexico City, MX
Mexicanísimo Through artist's eyes, San José Museum of Art, San José (CA) and William Patterson University, New Jersey, USA
En mi ser eterno, at El Patio 77 B&B, Mexico City, MX
…Game on :), at PEVETO, Houston,TX, USA
Moi je construis des marionnettes, at LAMM, Madrid, Spain


2011
Nunca más. Nunca Menos, Museo de la Memoria y Tolerancia, Mexico City. MX
Tiempo de Sospecha, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, MX
Mexico: Poetry/Politics, Nordic Watercolor Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden
Conciencia Urbana, Andrés Siegel/Arte, Mexico City, MX
Art Room Talent 2da Edición, special guest with an installation called Arrhythmia, Mexico City, MX
Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (TX), USA
Summer 2011: Transition, The Mission Projects, Chicago (IL), USA
Fragilidad: Naturaleza y Arte, Gallery at Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público, Mexico City, MX
Trans/action, Guadalupe Gallery, San Antonio (TX), USA


2010
Mexico: Poetry/Politics, San Francisco State University, San Francisco (CA), USA
MFAH Benefit Gala Exhibition and Auction, Museum of Fine Arts Houston (TX), USA
Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston (TX), USA
Biennial of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro (NC), USA
Mano/Mundo/Corazón, Center for Book & Paper Art, Columbia College, Chicago (IL), USA
Volver, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco (CA), USA
Final Open Studio, URRA Art residences and exchanges, Buenos Aires, ARG
Opening exhibition URRA, Del Infinito Arte gallery, Buenos Aires, ARG
In Llieu of Unity, Ballroom Marfa (TX), USA
Sinfonía de una decadencia, Centro Cultural Border, Mexico City, MX
Conversations II, Travesía Cuatro Gallery, Madrid, Spain


2009
PROGRESO! Centro Cultural España, Guatemala City, Guatemala Sing of the Times, Monique Meloche gallery, Chicago (IL), USA
Cleve Carney’s Collection, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst (IL), USA
Tarde o Temprano, Instituto de Cultura de Zacatecas, MX
Partisan, ArtChicago, Chicago (IL), USA
2nd Polygraphic Triennial of San Juan, Latin America and the Caribbean, Puerto Rico Criteria, A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago (IL), USA
Heads or tails, Red Galería, Buenos Aires, ARG
No rhyme or reason, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco (CA), USA


2008
Viva México!, BWA Awangarda gallery, Wroclaw, Poland The tree: from the sublime to the social, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
The lines of the hand, MUAC University Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City, MX
To the infinite and beyond, Centro de las Artes de Sevilla, Spain
Boureau, Pyner Contreras gallery, London, UK


2007
Poetics of the handmade, MOCA, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (CA), USA
Eat the Food, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, MOCCA, Toronto, Canada
Domestic mail, Galería NoD, Prague, Check Republic Viva México!, Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Poland
Microwave 5, Josee Bienvenu gallery, New York (NY), USA
Media Asta, Haydeé Rovirosa gallery, New York (NY), USA
Corrientes paints well, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires,


2006
Present Perfect, Volitant Gallery, AustiN (TX), USA
Paper cut, Galería Vogues gallery, Frankfurt, GER
Theatrum Mundi, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, FRA
Material abuse, Caren Golden Fine Art, New Yor (NY), USA
Paper, Skestos Gabriele Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Banners, Tijuana, Baja California, MX
SIVAM Artes Visuales 2da. Edición, CDMX, MX


2005
Sensexperiment 05, International creation reunion, Lucena, Córdoba, Spain
VII Convocatoria Jóvenes Artistas, Luis Adelantado, Valencia, Spain
Serene obsession, Haim Chanin Fine Arts, New York (NY), USA
Money, X-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, MX
America Tropical, Institut du Mexique a Paris, FRA
X Salon d’art Bancomer, Institut du Mexique a Paris, FRA
Corrientes paints well, Museo de Bellas Artes de Corrientes, Juan Ramón Vidal, Corrientes, ARG


2004
Weapons and tools, Salón Bancomer, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, MX
Invasion, ocupation, expansion, Centro Cultural España, Mexico City, MX
Newspapers, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York (NY), USA
Bordermates, Mexico City, MX
Máximo participates with video H, in the show “Everything is going to be fine”, Museum of Contemporary Art Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, MX
Domestic mail, Harto Espacio, Montevideo, Uruguay


2003
Light installation, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, ARG
Art in progression, Teatro San Martín, Buenos Aires, ARG


2002 Light installation, Boquitas Pintadas, Buenos Aires, ARG
Estudio Abierto San Telmo, Buenos Aires, ARG


2001
Three, Sonoridad Amarilla, Buenos Aires, ARG


1998
Consulate of Argentina in Encarnación, Paraguay
University Extention, Corrientes, ARG


1997
Organiza y exhibe en el 2do ReciclArte - Macro Muestra de Micro formato, Corrientes, ARG


1996
Café Cultural El Mariscall, Corrientes, ARG
2nd Prize sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts Ramón Vidal, Corrientes, ARG


1994
Cambá-Cuá Park Cultural Center, Corrientes, ARG


1993
City Hall Fair, El Colorado, Formosa, ARG
Museo Provincial Bellas Artes Dr. Juan Ramón Vidal, Corrientes, ARG


Performance, actions and other projects

2011
Intervention in the exhibition Nunca más. Nunca Menos, Museo de la Memoria y Tolerancia, Mexico City, MX

2010
Group action A white sky-blue and flight with participation of elementary schools of Bella Vista city, Corrientes, ARG
Project Room in Zona MACO SUR, Mexico City, MX

2006
Dream, piece comissioned by DFMC, Pritzker, Chicago (IL), USA

2005
First presentation Changarrito Project, Madrid, Spain

2002
Action Mil gracias, Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, ARG

2000
Installation at Centro Cultural Recoleta, Liliana Vitale concert, Buenos Aires, ARG

1999
Window installation Pantalones de la Mona, Apeyron Córdoba, ARG
Window installation Ropa tendida del Bosco, Apeyron Córdoba, ARG
Window installation Bollo de papel, Apeyron Córdoba, ARG
Performance Choreo Verde, Museum of Modern Art Emilio Caraffa, Córdoba, ARG
Images Concert, Apeyron, Córdoba, ARG

1998
Installation Lluvia azul Centro Cultural Universitario de la UNNE, Corrientes, ARG
Body painting, Espacio Los Chanchos, Resistencia, Chaco, ARG
Body painting, Café Cultural El Mariscal, Corrientes, ARG
Body painting, Pub cultural Místico, Corrientes, ARG

International art fairs and festivals

5 HOUR SCULPTURE: A POP-UP ART FESTIVAL 2016, Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga, CA, USA
ART MIAMI 2015, 2016, 2017 Lisa Sette Gallery
SMART 2015, Festival en San Miguel de Allende, GTO, MX
CHALK THE BLOCK 2015, El Paso, TX, USA
SMART, Festival at San Miguel de Allende, 2015
FILUX, Mexico City, 2015
DUMBO ARTS FESTIVAL, 2013, New York, USA
, 2010, with Valle Ortí gallery, Valencia, Spain
ART CHICAGO, 2010, 2016 with Skestos Gabriele gallery, Chicago and Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, USA
VOLTA NY, 2010 with Valle Ortí, Valencia, Spain
PULSE Miami, 2009, 2010 with Valle Ortí, Valencia, Spain
ARCO Madrid, 2005-2013, 2017, 2018 with galleries: Travesía Cuatro, Madrid; Art&Idea, Mexico City, Valle Ortí, Valencia, Spain, Galería Aural (Alicante, ES)
MACO Mexico City, 2004-2012,2015, with Travesía Cuatro, Madrid; Art&Idea, Mexico City; Haydeé Rovirosa, NYC; Skestos Gabriele, Chicago; and Valle Ortí, Valencia, Spain; ETHRA, Mexico City;
NEXT Chicago, 2009, with Valle Ortí, Valencia, Spain
BALELATINA Basel, 2006-2008, with Travesía Cuatro, Madrid and Valle Ortí, Valencia
NADA Miami, 2008, with Travesía Cuatro, Madrid
ZOO London, 2008-2009 with Travesía Cuatro, Madrid
VALENCIA.ART, 2007-2009 with Travesía Cuatro, Madrid and Valle Ortí, Valencia
AQUA Miami, 2007, with Haydeé Rovirosa, NYC
FEIRA INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE SAO PAULO, 2007, with Nara Roesler, Sao Paulo
ARTE-BA Buenos Aires, 2007 y 2011, with Terreno Baldío, Mexico City and Del Paseo Gallery, Montevideo.
SCOPE Miami, 2005-2006, with Art&Idea, Mexico City
SCOPE London, 2006, with Art&Idea, Mexico City
SCOPE NY, 2005, with Art&Idea, Mexico City
ARTASIA, Miami 2011, with Hat Art Fruit, Istambul

Artists Residencies

2017
Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga, CA, USA

2016
Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga, CA, USA

2015
LIZIERES, Centre de Culteres et de Ressources, Paris, FRA
CentralTrak UT, Dallas, Texas, USA

2014
Siena Art Institute, Siena, IT

2013
What about Art?, Bombay, IN

2010
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago (IL), USA

URRA, Buenos Aires, ARG

2007
Artist to artist, Artist residency in Glasgow, Scotland

Conferences and talks

2018
Taller “Investigación de Abandonos”, UNESCO, Zapopan, Guadalajara, MX

2017
Into de Woods, Commissioning Artists in a Forest, Lucas Artists Program, Montalvo Art Center, CA, USA
Maximo Gonzalez projects presentation, La Esmeralda University, CDMX, MX
Talk about the exhibition “Changarrito en Acción, 12 years”, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, CDMX, MX

2015
Miércoles de SOMA, Talk about Maximo Gonzalez’s work, CDMX, MX
Talk about “Changarrito Project” at Universidad de Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco MX

2014
Encounter at Fundación Marín, CDMX, MX
Talk at Ogden Junior Public School about the installation Walk among World at Scotiabank Nuit Blanch, Toronto, Canada

2013
Talk 'Representations of Power', Jnanapravaha, Bombay, India
Talk 'Figuring Exchange: Art and Money', (IMTFI) Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion, University of California, Irvine (CA), USA
Talk about the installation "Walk among Worlds", Fowler Museum, Los Angeles (CA), USA
Talk “Bastard Pop y reciclaje cultural”, Museo del Chopo. Participants: Viviana Martinez, Mariana Aguirre, Javier López Pulido, Misael Marín. Mexico City, Mx

2012
Talk "Being Playful: Máximo González on the social significance of art making" at University of Southern California; Los Angeles (CA), USA

2011
Talk at Museo Nacional de San Carlos on a exhibition named “Realidad y utopía” 200 years of Argentine Art. A vision from the Present. Mexico City. MX

2010
Talk on the exhibition Volver: Mexican Folk Art into Play, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco (CA), USA
Artist presentation for URRA Art residences and exchanges, Centro Cultural España, Buenos Aires, ARG
Art work in video: 2004-2010, Centro Cultural España, Córdoba, ARG

2009
Talk at DePaul University, Chicago (IL), USA
Talk at Museum of Fine Arts Ramón Vidal, Corrientes, ARG
Conversation on The lines of the hand exhibition at MUAC, Mexico City, MX

2008
Contact 1, conversation at Museo de las Américas, Denver (CO), USA
Talk at Monica Giron’s workshop, Buenos Aires

2007
Talk on Poetics of the handmade exhibition at MOCA LA, Los Angeles (CA), USA

2004
Máximo taught Special Projects at the National School of Painting and Engraving, La Esmeralda, Mexico City, MX

Awards

2014
ArtPrize 2014, Grand Rapids (MI), USA

2010
Premio Tequila Centenario 2010, Zona MACO, Mexico International Art Fair

1996
2do premio en escultura, Museo de Bellas Artes Dr Juan Ramón Vidal, Corrientes, ARG

1992
1er premio en escultura y 3er premio en instalación, Salón SAAP, Corrientes, ARG.