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Education and residencies


2022 Amant Foundation, Brooklyn, Nueva York  Estados Unidos.
2018 2015 Gasworks  London.
2014 ACC- Rijksakademie residencies program, Gwangju  Korea.
2013 Le Pavillon, Palais du Tokio, Paris,  France.
2011 2012 Intermedia Artist in Residence, Parsons School of Art Media and Technology, New York  United States.
2003 2008 Rijksakademie Van beeldende kunsten. Amsterdam  Netherlands.
2000 2004 National School of Fine Arts, Undergraduate studies in Visual Arts. Mexico City  Mexico.

Solo and group shows selection

2022
“It is corpse, it is dust, it is shadow it is nothing”, Labor, Mexico City Mexico.

2021
“No linear fucking time”, BAK, Utrecht  Países Bajos.
“Plural Domains”, Harn Museum, Florida  Estados Unidos.
“You and I Don’t Live On the Same Planet”, Centre Pompidou Metz  Francia.
34th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo Brasil.
“Rehabitar el LAA”, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City  Mexico.
The Musical Brain, High Line, Nueva York  Estados Unidos.

2020
12th  Bienal de Taipei, Taipei China. “#TodosSomosHonolulu”, LABOR, Mexico City  Mexico.

2019
“Fin del Futuro”, La Tallera, Cuernavaca  Mexico.
“Incendio”, CIAP, Hasselt  Belgium.

2018
“Comfortably Numb”, Another Space, New York United States.
“Constructing the World: Art and Economy 2008-2018”, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim  Germany.
“Stories of Almost Everyone”, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles  United States.

2017
dOCUMENTA 14, Kassel  Germany. “Lecturas de un territorio fracturado”,
Museo Amparo, Puebla  Mexico.
“We the people are the work”, Peninsula Arts at Plymouth University  United Kingdom
“El cincel y el socavón”, Art Basel Statments, Basilea  Switzerland.

2016
Sample of the works produced within the framework of the Support Program for
Production and Research in Art and Media, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City  Mexico.
Amsterdam Weekend Rijksakademie van beldende Kunsten / ACC Gwangju,
Amsterdam, Países Bajos and Gwangju,  South Korea.

2015
“Asymmetrical Warfare”, Witte de With Contemporary Art Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
“It’s money Jim but not as you know it”, Mario Marouner Gallery, Vienna, Austria.
“Deseos y Necesidades”, Nuevas incorporaciones a la Colección MACBA, MACBA Barcelona Spain.
“There is only one catch and is catch 22”, Y Gallery, New York  United States.
“Pheidippidics – Studies on Exhaustion”, LABOR, Mexico City  Mexico.
“Theorem. You Simply Destroy the Image I Always Had of Myself”, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City  United States.
“Other ways other means”, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles United States.
Sin oficio ni Beneficio, Galeria la moderna, 12 Bienal de la Habana, Habana  Cuba.

2014
Prospect 3 Biennial, Nueva Orleans,  United States.
“100 ans plus tard”, Palais du Tokyo, Paris  France.
“Unsettled Landscapes”, SITE Santa Fe International Biennial, Santa Fe, United States.
“Ilusión Óptica”, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City  Mexico.
“Re:visited”, Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia.

2013
“Cacao”, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City  Mexico.
13 thIstambul Biennial, Istambul  TurKEY. “Agoraphobia”, Tana, Berlín Germany.
“Time Divisa”, Rubin Center, El Paso, Texas United States.
“México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990”, The Modern, Fort Worth, Texas,
United States.
“La empresa soy yo”, Casa del Lago, Mexico City Mexico.
“Liste 18”, The Young Art Fair, Basel,  Switzerland.
“Time/resistance”, Israeli Center for Digital Art Tel Aviv  Israel.
“More Love: Art Politics and Sharing”, Ackland Museum, North Carolina University  United States.
“Opinione Latina”, Francesca Minini Gallery, Milan Italy.
“Transitios”, Artspace San Antonio TX,  United States.
“Unsaid/unspoken”, Cisneros Foundation Miami United States.

2012
“Open Studio”, Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam Netherlands.
San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial: América Latina y el Caribe, San Juan,  Puerto Rico.
Manifesta 9, Genk  Belgium. “Whispering”,
Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles  United States
“The Ungovernables”, The New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York United States.
“MAY YOUR WISH COME TRUE...”, Gonzales Hulshof Gallery, Amsterdam Netherlands.
“La hora y los sitios”, Museum of Contemporary Art Oaxaca, Oaxaca,  Mexico.
“Unsaid/Spoken”, Selections from the Ella Fontanals–Cisneros and CIFO, Collections, Miami, Florida  United States.
“ACIREMA”, Curated by: Cesar Garcia, Honor Fraser, Culver City  United States
“Backspace: Antonio Vega Macotela”, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam Netherlands.

2011
“X Bienal de Cuenca”, Cuenca, Ecuador.
Open Studio, Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam Netherlands.
“Informality: Art, economics, precarity”, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam  Netherlands
“On Not To”, Galería Fernando Santos, Oporto  Portugal.
“6th Göteborg Biennial”  Sweden.
“Viewpoint: 2011 CIFO Grants & Commissions Program Exhibition”, Cisneros Fontanals, Art Foundation, Miami  United States.
“Silent Song”, Calit2 University of California San Diego Gallery, San Diego  United States.
“Modelling Standard”, Joan Pratts, Barcelona  Spain.

2010
29 Biennial San Paulo, San Paulo  Brazil.

2009
Biennial of Young Art in Moscow, Moscú,  Russia.
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City Mexico.
Bolso Negro, Casa Vecina, Mexico City  Mexico.
Presuntos culpables, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City Mexico.
“Time Divisa”, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City  Mexico.
“Sinergia”, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City  Mexico.
“Imágenes multimedia de un mundo complejo”, Simultaneous exhibition in Granada Spain; Buenos Aires Argentina.
“Argentina”; La Habana, Cuba and Mexico City Mexico.

2007
MACO 07, Galería Lart23tres, Mexico City  Mexico.
Seleccionado Estacionarte 2007, Mexico City  Mexico.

2005
Instalación “sin nombre”, Faro de Oriente,Mexico City Mexico.
“Poco a poquito”, Intervention on the Philadephia Products factory, Mexico City  Mexico.

2004
“Momentito”, Series of interventions in Mexico City  Mexico.
“Poesía visual”, Galerías 2 y 3, Ciudad de México  México.

2003
Bienal Nacional de Arte Universitario, Ciudad de México  México.
Bienal Nacional de Tercera Dimensión, Ciudad de México  México.



Antonio Vega Macotela

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Mexico 1980,  Lives and works between Barcelona, Amsterdam and Oslo.

Antonio Vega Macotela among other Fellowships and residencies has been a fellow Resident of The Rijksakademie Van Beldende Kunsten, the National acaddemy of art in Oslo, and more recently the ETH in Zurich.He has exhibited his work in international venues such as the 23th and 34th Sao Paulo Biennial, the 14th Istanbul Biennial, the Second Triennial of the New Museum in NY, Manifesta 9 in Genk Belgium, Prospect 3 in New Orleans, dOCUMENTA 14 in Kassel, the Center Pompidou Metz and The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles among others.