ADRIÁN GUERRERO

SEMBLANCE

Adrian Guerrero Castellanos (1975, Guadalajara, Mexico) has been continuously reshaping Art and Philosophy in terms of process, gesture and interpretation, as well as expanding dialogues towards the phenomenology of perception and spatiality while both conceptual and subjective interpretations operate a seminal transfiguration of mundanity in order to restore those ideas beneath a specific topic in the visual discourse.

Expanding outside the confines of pure philosophical notions to create tensions and make the spectator’s experience of forms conceptually distinctive, Guerrero’s work never “hangs together” enunciation and representation. In such state, the pieces are distributed within a perceptive space in which our singular relation to the context itself forms a distinctive tie to the objects in terms of distance, dimension and volume. Even if in Guerrero’s work philosophy is somehow the focus, ideas become forms and not just concepts in a process that contests the very possibilities of ideas to exist under different states of determination and literal representation: the physical object transfigures any mental abstraction or absolute thinking to impose alternative categories of interpretation and understanding derived from the partition between objects and ideas. The objects he creates meld the restrained formal qualities of a limited variety of materials such as ceramics, bronze or copper as a trick to never overemphasize on the idea itself in a way that is rather difficult to perceive the physical object as essentially mental or as a pure thought.

Selected solo and collective exhibitions: El tiempo no es nada (Cabañas Museum, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 2023) [mid-carreer retrospective], Construcciones Primeras (Palazzo Bembo, Bienale di Venezia, Venecia, Italia, 2012), 5ta Bienal de Ceramica de Gyeeonggi (GICB, Korea, 2011), Contemplacion (Museo de Arte de Zapopan, MAZ, Jalisco, Mexico, 2007), Formas del pensamiento (Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 2006).

GALERÍA

CURRICULUM

Residencies/grants

Selected by CERCO 2021
The International Contemporary Ceramics Award in Zaragoza, Spain

Selected for the X International Biennale of ceramic on the city of Talavera. 2021

Selected for the 9th International Festival of VideoArt in Camagüey, Cuba

Selected for the 14th Festival for VideoArts “Proyector”, Spain

Recipient of the “Proyecta Producción” scholarship, granted by the State of Jalisco.2019

Selected Jury for the 2nd Biennale for Contemporary Art and Ceramics, CECUT, Tijuana, Mexico

Selected for the 1st Biennale for Contemporary Art and Ceramics, CECUT, Tijuana, Mexico

Recipient of the PECDA scholarship granted by Conaculta and The State of Jalisco. 2014

Residency on the 10DAYS GYEONGGI program in Korea 2011

Honorary mention on the International Ceramics Biennale GYEONGGI Korea

Selected by National Biennale for Visual Arts, Yucatán 2011

Selected by CERCO 2011; The International Contemporary Ceramics Award in Zaragoza, Spain

Selected for the 57th Faenza Award, Italy

Selected jury for the National ceramic award 2010, Tlaquepaque, Mexico

Selected for the IX International Ceramics Biennale of Manises, Valencia, Spain 2010

Selected for the IV Biennale for utilitary ceramics on the Franz Mayer museum, Mexico, DF

Honorary mention on the International Ceramics Biennale of Manises, Valencia, Spain 2007

Selected by the Nuevo León Biennal award 2007 for ceramic sculpturing

Selected jury for the National Ceramic award 2007, Tlaquepaque, Mexico

Selected for the III Biennale for utilitary ceramics on the Franz Mayer museum, Mexico, DF

Selected for the third International Trienale for Ceramic tiles ico elit-tile 2006
Museum of contemporary ceramics, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Selected by CERCO 2006; The International Contemporary Ceramics Award in Zaragoza, Spain

Award ”Ciudad de Vénissieux” VII International Ceramics Biennale of Manises, Valencia, Spain.2005


Solo Exhibitions

2021
Incorporaciones No Concientes
Drexel Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico. 2020 “MORAR”, Museum of contemporary arts, SLP, Mexico.

2019
LO QUE ESTÁ AHÍ
Dos Topos Gallery, León, Guanajuato, México.
LO QUE SE ENTREGA
intervention, main patio, Cabañas Cultural Institute Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. In Colaboration with Isa Carrillo.

2016
POSIBILIDADES DE ORIGEN
Ex hospice “Del Carmen”, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
ALLES KANN ETWAS SEIN
Impronta Editing House, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

2015
TRAMA
theater facade proyect Torres Bodet, Guadalajara, Jalisco. In colaboration with Francisco Morales Doufour.
PERCEPTIO
Casa Taller José Clemente Orozco musuem, Guadalajara, Mexico. In colaboration with Ana Paula Santana.

2014
POSIBILIDAD PERPETUA
Raúl Anguiano Museum, Guadalajara, Mexico.

2013
ESTRUCTURA DEL PENSAMIENTO
EDS Gallery, D.F.Mexico.

2012
(IN)QUIETUD
Alvaro Aceves Gallery, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.

2010
PUNTO DE VISTA
National Ceramic Museum Tonalá, Jalisco, Mexico.
DISERTACIONES DEL PUNTO
Atelier Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, México.
REALIDAD ES
Cultural center Casa Vallarta, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
PINTA
NY EUA, and Álvaro Aceves Gallery (Solo Show).
CÓDIGO
Alvaro Aceves Gallery, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

2009
MUTACIONES DEL PUNTO
Pablo Guerrero Gallery, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
SENTIDO DE PERTENENCIA
urban intervention, Metro Station “Revolución”, Guadalajara, Mexico.

2007
CONTEMPLACIÓN
Museum of art Zapopan (MAZ), Jalisco, Mexico.
ENCUENTROS, escape de una soledad
Pablo Guerrero Gallery, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

2006
FORMAS DEL PENSAMIENTO
Museum Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

2005
ENSOÑACIÓN
Televisa’s art space, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
ALTAR DE MUERTOS CONTEMPORÁNEO
Museum of art Zapopan,(MAZ) Jalisco, Mexico.

2004
FOMAS QUE EL FUEGO DA PERMANENCIA
National Chamber of Comerce Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
ENCUENTROS, escape de una soledad
Pablo Guerrero Gallery, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

2006
FORMAS DEL PENSAMIENTO
Museum Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.

2005
ENSOÑACIÓN
Televisa’s art space, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
ALTAR DE MUERTOS CONTEMPORÁNEO
Museum of art Zapopan (MAZ) Jalisco, Mexico.

2004
FOMAS QUE EL FUEGO DA PERMANENCIA
National Chamber of Comerce Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.


Group Exhibitions (selection)

2022
Colectiva de Verano,
Quetzalli Gallery, Oaxaca, México.
Cerco,
Teruel Museum, Teruel, España.

2021
PROYECTOR, video art festival
Madrid, Spain.
International Festival of VideoArt in Camagüey
Cuba.
Treinta y seis
Museum of contemporary Arts, San Luis Potosí, México.
The great petite collection
Quetzalli Gallery, Oaxaca, México.

2020
Fellini 1920 - 2020
Ex Hospice “del Carmen”, Guadalajara, México.2021.

2019
ATL
Raúl Anguiano Museum, Guadalajara Jalisco, México.

2018
MU
Quetzalli Gallery, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México.
ÍGNEO
SHCP Gallery, Ciudad de México, México.
DESPUÉS DEL JARDÍN
Cabañas Cultural Institute, Guadalajara, México.
LIFE/DEATH
Franco·Moragrega Gallery, San Diego, CA. USA.

2017
THE ILLUSION OF ORDER
Franco·Moragrega Gallery, San Diego CA. USA.
Explorations on Human's Inner History.
Franco·Moragrega Gallery, San Diego CA. USA.
SHAPED IN MEXICO
Düsseldorf, Germany.
SHAPED IN MEXICO
Venice, Italy.

2016
CAMPOS VISUALES
EDS Gallery, CDMX.

2015
SALÓN DE OCTUBRE
Exconvento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
SHAPED IN MEXICO
Oxo Tower, London. UK.

2014
CONVERGENCIAS DISTANTES
EDS Gallery, D.F. México.
LEVIATÁN
Raúl Anguiano Museum, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
BARRO TOTAL
cerámica de autor, SHCP Art museum, México D.F.

2013
WORS OF ART
EDS Gallery, D.F.
RESONANCIAS
SHCP Art Museum, México D.F.
WORS OF ART
EDS Gallery, D.F.
RESONANCIAS
SHCP Art museum, México D.F.

2012
ARTE CAREYES
Careyes, Jalisco. México
CONSTRUCCIONES PRIMERAS
Palazzo Bembo, Bienale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
Contemporary Alternatives II
Kavachnina Gallery, Miami,USA
Concurso internacional de cerámica de arte contemporáneo
Museum MIC, Faenza, Italy "GYEONGGI" international biennale 2011, Korea.
BIENAL NACIONAL DE ARTES VISUALES DE YUCATÁN
Mérida, México.

2009
IX BIENAL INTERNACIONAL DE CERÁMICA DE MANISES
Valencia, Spain.
CUADRO
Estación Indianilla Cultural Centre, Mexico City.
CUADRO
Reyes Meza Museum, Nuevo Laredo, México.

2008
GRABANDO CON LUZ
Pablo Guerrero Gallery, Guadalajara, México.
METAMORFOSIS ESPACIAL
Pablo Guerrero Gallery, Guadalajara, México.

2007
90 CABALLOS EN EL ARTE MEXICANO
Cabañas Cultural Institute, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.

2006
ESCENAS DE MESA
Raúl Anguiano Museum, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
2005
VII Bienal Internacional de Cerámica de Manises".
Sala Esl Filtres Manises, Valencia, Spain.

Collections

Louis Vuitton collection, Paris, France.
Ceramic Museum of Manises, Valencia, Spain.
CERCO, Aragón, España.
Guadalajara University Collection MUSA , Jalisco, Mexico. Zapopan Art Museum, Jalisco, Mexico.
MIC Museum, Faenza, Italy.
Gyeonggi Ceramic Museum, South Korea.
MCC Museum, Dominican Republic.

Art fairs features

+ Dallas Art Fair 2021, 2022. +MACO, Mexico city, 2016.
+ MACO, Mexico city, 2015. +Singapour Art Fair, Singapour, 2014.
+ MACO, Ciudad de México 2014. +Scope Art, Basel, Switzerland, 2013.
+ Maco, Mexico City , 2013.
+ London Art Fair, London, 2012.
+ Pinta London, London, 2012.
+ Houston Art Fair, Houston 2012.
+ Chicago Art Fair, Chicago 2011.