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Héctor Zamora

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1974
Mexico City
Lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico

Education

2000  Postgraduate Course in Lightweight Structures (structural geometry), UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico (non-enrolled)

 

1998  Bachelor Degree in Graphic Design, UAM – X, Mexico City, Mexico

Exhibitions

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024
Emergencia. Albarrán Bourdais, Madrid, Spain
Quimera. MAZ Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico

2023

As Circunstâncias. Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brasil

Ordem e Progresso - Senhora do Cabo. Museu Marítimo de Ílhavo, Ílhavo, Portugal

Delírio. Labor, Mexico City, Mexico

 

2020

The Roof Garden Commission: Héctor Zamora, Lattice Detour. The MET, New York, USA

 

2019

Solo exhibition. Gluck 50, Milan, Italy
Summer Group Show. Solo Gallery, Teruel, Spain

Movimientos Emisores de Existencia. Labor Gallery, Cidade do México, México

Uma Boa Ordem. Pavilion, coauthor Lucia Koch, Casa Wabi, Oaxaca, México 

  

2018

Vibrações Centrífugas. Pavilhão Branco, Lisboa, Portugal

Comissioned project. Kunst in öffentlichen Raum, Viena, Austria

Solo exhibition. Viborg Kunsthal, Viborg, Denmark

Solo exhibition. Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil

Comissioned Art Project. For Kista Äng, por AM Public. Stockholm Konst, Stockholm, Sweeden

 

2017

RE/VUELTA. MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico

Cappadox Festival, Cappadocia, Turkey

Memorándum. Museo Universitário de Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico

Ordem e Progresso. Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Técnologia, Lisbon, Portugal

Fundación RAC, Pontevedra, Spain

Urdiendo Ritmos. Jardín Ochil, Merida, Mexico

 

2016

Ordre et Progrès. SAM Art Projects, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

Héctor Zamora. CCBB. São Paulo, Brazil

 

2015

La réalité et autres tromperies. FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France

Intervention – workshop. Ecole D’Architecture de Nantes, France

Kreëmart. Paris, France

 

2014

Projeto Janela #2. Espaço Aurora, São Paulo, Brazil

Héctor Zamora [documentary videos]. Kunststation Delden/ Het-Loket, Delden, Holland

 

2013

Protogeometries, Essay On the Anexact. Labor Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico

Panglossian Paradigm. Redcat - Center for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA

Potencialidades. Galerie Mélanie Rio. Nantes, France

 

2012

Muegano. Comissioned by SCAPE Public Art, Christchurch, New Zeland

Architeture+ Art. SMoCA. Scottsdale. Arizona, USA

Inconstância Material. Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil

 

2011

Zeppelin Schärme. Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen, Germany

White Noise. Bethells beach – Shed 6 – Elam project-space B431, Auckland Festival, Auckland, New Zealand

Offered Paradise. Museo El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico

 

2010

Errant, Margem Project. Tamanduateí river, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil

Credibility Crisis. Miami Basel, Miami, USA

 

2008

De Belg wordt geboren met een baksteen in de maag. FLACC, Genk, Belgium

 

2007 

Specular Reflections. Cerca Series, MCASD, San Diego, USA

 

2006

Divisiones. Hotel Condesa DF, Mexico City, Mexico

 

2005

Líneas de suspensión, ensayo sobre geometría funicular. Enrique Guerrero Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico

Unidad habitacional. La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain

 

2004

Paracaidista, Av. Revolución 1608 bis. Carrillo Gil Museum, Mexico City, Mexico

 

2003

PNEU. Garash Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico

 

2000

a=360º r/R. Arte in Situ “La Torre de los Vientos”. Mexico City, Mexico

           

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
The Objects We Choose. Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
MASA: Cinco Años Después. Masa Galeria, Mexico City, Mexico
Coincidencias/Divergencias. Plataforma, Guadalajara, Mexico
Mini-Size Cinema. MIKC Productions, Hengelo, Netherlands
Trienal Tijuana: 2. Internacional Pictórica. Tijuana, Mexico
Construir, habitar, crear. Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico
¿Hecho Consumado?: Memoria, civismo crítico y arte contemporáneo. Complejo Cultural Los Pinos, Mexico City, Mexico
 
2023
Primavera Silenciosa. Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil
AMEXICA Arte Mexicano Contemporáneo de la Collección de la Familia Servais. Instituto Cultural de México, Paris, France
Desert X. Coachella Valley, Palm Springs, EUA
 
2022
Un lugar en un momento. Prácticas de sitio específico. Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Pago en especie SHCP. Museo de Arte de Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico
Trauma, Sonho e Fuga. 13ª Bienal do Mercosul. Travessa dos Cataventos, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Inaudito Magdalena. 46º Salón Nacional de Artistas. Santa Cruz de Mompox, Colombia
Raiz y Rizoma. México en la Colección Otazu. Fundación Casa de México en España, Madrid, Spain
No Sonho do Homem que Sonhava o Sonhado Acordou. Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
Contemporary Sculpture from Mexico. Assembly NY, Monticello, USA
BAKSTEEN | BRICK. Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands
Bitácoras: Colección Fundación Casa Wabi. El MACQ - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Querétaro, Queretaro, Mexico
 
2021
The Sowers. Fondation Thalie, Brussels, Belgium
Liquid Modernity. Persons Project, Berlin, Germany
Somos Aunque Nos Olviden. Concha Acústica, Parque de las Américas, Mérida, Mexico
Trauma Brugge Triennale. Brugge, Belgium
Humming. Koes Museum, Kopenhagen, Denmark
Living Together Crossing Borders. 4th Mediterranean Biennial, Sahknin, Israel 
Inaspettatamente. Cloud Seven, Brussels, Belgium
Anozero: Bienal de Coimbra. Casa Municipal da Cultura, Coimbra, Portugal
 
2020
Arte em Campo. Estádio do Pacaembu, São Paulo, Brazil

(Im)possible Bodies. Spark Makers Zone, ’s-Hertogenbosch, Holland

LB/Online Video Festival. Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil

In the Beginning: Media Art & History from the Hishhorn's Collection. Hishhorn Museum, Washington, USA

Amexica. The Loft, Brussels, Belgium

Les Extatiques. Paris La Défense, Paris, France

Homebound. Francisco Fino Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal 

 

2019

SOLO Sumeer Group. Solo Houses, Teruel, Spain

Les Extatiques. Paris La Défense, Paris, France

Bienal Transatlântica do Príncipe. Ilha do Principe, São Tomé and Príncipe

Walking Through Walls/ Durch Mauem Gehen. The Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany

Det Andet Sted. KØS Museum of Art in Public Spaces, Copenhagen, Denmark

Movimentos Emisores de Existencia. Fundación Otazu, Pamplona, Espanha / Galeria Labor, Mexico City, Mexico

Mass Spectacle. Eduardo Secci Gallery, Florenza, Italy

I don’t understand what you’re talking about, but I know what you mean. Pasto Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Mi Tierra. Otazu Foundation, Pamplona, Spain 

 

 

 

2018

South South Between Land and Sea. Film Program, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

Exposición Inaugural. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico

En Construcción. Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain

The Atlantic Triangle. 11ª Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Shanghai Biennial. Shanghai, China

Los Artefactos Subordinados. Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico

 

2017

L’inconfort Moderne. La FabriC Fondation Salomon pour l’Art Contemporain, Annecy, France

Mondes Flotants. Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France

4th Ural Industrial Biennial, Ural, Russia

Condemned to be Modern. Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Frestas. Trienal de Artes, Sesc Sorocaba, Brazil

 

2016

Residência Moderna. Luciana Brito Galeria. São Paulo, Brazil

Brazil, Beleza?! Beelden aan Zee Museum, Museum of Modern Sculpture, The Hague, Netherlands       

Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection. Museum of Modern Sculpture, The Hague, Netherlands

Work=Being in the World. Borusan Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey

Notícias de um novo MUBE: arquiteura e paisagem urbana. MUBE Museu Brasileiro de Escultura, São Paulo, Brazil

Ritournelle. La FabriC, Fondation Salomon, Annency, France

Window Cinema. MIKC Kunststation Delden, Holland

 

2015

15. Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil

Mini Size Art Works. MIKC, Delden, Netherlands

1: The Third Entity. ASAKUSA, Tokyo Japan

Between Dissent and Discipline: Art and Public Space. Inter Arts Center, Malmö, Sweden

Reverta: Arte e Sustentabilidade. Museu da Cidade OCA, São Paulo, Brazil

Between the Idea and Experience. 12th Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba

CRU: Comida, Transformação e Arte. CCBB, Brasília, Brazil

 

2014

Buildering: Misbehaving the City. Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, USA

13. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo La Conservera, Ceutí, Spain

PER/FORM. CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain

Re-outline. Beit HaGefen – a Jewish-Arab Culture Center, Haifa, Israel

Alimentário. Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Feito por Brasileiros. Cidade Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brazil

Restrospectiva Lupa. ArtRio. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

artBO. Bogotá, Colombia

We have never participated. The 8th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, Shenzhen, China

 

2013

Escalas. Estúdio Alvaro Razuk, São Paulo, Brazil

Cidades Modos de Fazer Modos de Usar. 10th International Biennial of Architecture of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Participatory City: 100 Urban Trends from the BMW Guggenheim Lab. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

Mom, Am I Barbarian? 13th Istanbul Biennal, Istanbul, Turkey

Blind Field. Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, USA

 

2012

En Suspensión. Espai D’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castelló, Spain

Gilvan Samico, Paulo Monteiro, Hector Zamora e Eduardo Verderame. Centro Universitário Maria Antonia, São Paulo, Brazil

BMW Guggenheim Lab Mumbai. Guggenheim Foundation, Mumbai, Índia

Centro Abierto. MALI Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima, Peru

Move Towards the Light. Auckland Art Festival, Auckland, New Zealand

Resisting the Present. Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, Paris, France

About Change. The World Bank Group, Washington DC, USA

 

2011

Performance & Arquitectura. Tabacalera, Madrid, Spain

A terrible Beauty is Born. 11th Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France

32o Panorama da Arte Brasileira. Modern Art Museum, São Paulo, Brazil

Resisting the Present. Amparo Museum, Puebla, Mexico

Ustedes Nosotros. Centro Cultural de Esapaña, Managua, Nicaragua

Disponible. School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

FGAP@Venice. Official Collateral Event, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Wasser, Schiene, Straße, Luft. Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen, Germany

Porque sim. Millan Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Ustedes Nosotros. Centro Cultural de España en Guatemala, Guatemala

Suspended Sculptures. EX3 Contemporary Art Centre, Florence, Italy

 

2010

The diversity of all and everything possible. 12th International Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt

Disponible. Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA

Future Generation Art Prize. Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine

Touched. Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK

A Contemplação do Mundo. Paralela Exhibition, São Paulo, Brazil

Art and Cities. Aichi Triennial, Nagoya, Japan

Constante, La Nueva Babilônia. Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico

Mientras sea posible. Casa de America, Madrid, Spain

 

2009

Inaugural Show. Galeria Labor, Mexico City, Mexico

Lugares Comunes. Bogota, Colombia

Making Worlds. 53th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

PH Neutro. Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo, Brazil

Cartas/Trajetos. Usina Cultura Energisa, João Pessoa, Brazil

 

2008

II Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan: América Latina y el Caribe. San Juan, Puerto Rico

Quase Líquido. Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil

 

2007

Viva Mexico. Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland

Positions in Context. CIFO, Grants Program 2007 Exhibition, Miami, USA

Encuentro Internacional Medellín 2007 (MDE07). Medellin, Colombia

 

2006

27th Bienal de Sao Paulo. São Paulo, Brazil

Busan Biennale 2006. Pusan, South Korea

Sueño de una noche de verano. Muros Museum, Cuernavaca, Mexico

Novena Bienal de la Habana. Habana, Cuba

Frontera. Esbozo para la creación de una sociedad del futuro. Lacandon Mountain National Park, Guatemala

Desecho. Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola, Mexico City, Mexico

 

2005

Dialogues. Indian International Center, New Delhi, India

Farsites / sitios distantes. San Diego Museum of Art, Insite05, San Diego, USA

Eco: arte contemporáneo mexicano. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

 

2003

Festival Flama. Xalapa, Mexico

Fission/fusion. Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington DC, USA

 

2002

Item. Centro Cultural España, Mexico City, Mexico

 

2001

Con Fulgente Hado. X – Teresa Museum, Mexico City, Mexico

Prizes

2014

Premio Arco Comunidad de Madrid para Jovenes Artistas, Madrid, Spain

 

2011  

Graham Foundation, Architecture + Art: Héctor Zamora Solo Exhibition fall 2012, SMoCA, Scottsdale, AZ

 

2010

Programa Brasil Arte Contemporânea, Sao Paulo Bienal Foundation, International   Exhibition award, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

 

2009

Gran Centenario Emerging Artist Award, Cuervo Foundation, FEMACO, Mexico City, Mexico.

The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture (GCCC Moscow) sponsorship for the 53rd Biennale di Venezia project.

 

2007

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.

 

2006

CIFO Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation

Jumex Collection Foundation

 

2003

BBVA Bancomer Foundation

Public Collections

Amparo Museum, Puebla, Mexico

AXA Collection, Mexico City, Mexico

CA2M Centro de Arte dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain

CNAP, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France

Chartwell Collection, Auckland, New Zeland

21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, USA

Fundación RAC, Pontevedra, Spain

Fundación Casa Wabi, Oaxaca, Mexico

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA

Jumex Collection Foundation, Mexico City, Mexico

Luis Paulo Montenegro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

MAAT Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia, Lisbon, Portugal