MÁXIMO GONZÁLEZ
Solo shows
Upcoming
Travesía Cuatro gallery, Madrid – May 2011
Valle Ortí gallery, Valencia, Spain – October 2011
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA – 2012
Ignacio Liprandi gallery, Buenos Aires – 2012
2010
Material poems, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Open Studio, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2008
Heart of lead, Galería Valle Ortí, Valencia, Spain
Recession, Queen’s Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA
2007
Project for the reutilization of vehicles after the extinction of petrol, Travesía
cuatro gallery, Madrid
Progetto di reutilizzazione dei veicoli obsoleti dopo l’estinzione del petrolio, Project B Contemporary Art, Milano
The Chignahuapan Project, Voges gallery, Frankfurt
2006
Changarrito, MDF gallery, Mexico City
Bureau, Pyner Contreras, London
Wait, Haydeé Rovirosa gallery, NYC
Hotel Roesler #6, Nara Roesler gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Chignahuapan, Skestos Gabriele gallery, Chicago, IL
2005
Moral and civic instruction, Travesía Cuatro gallery, Madrid
PISAR, Ruth Benzacar gallery, Buenos Aires
2004
Greenhouse effect, Art&Idea gallery, Mexico City
2003
Eagle and sun (heads or tails), Polyforum de Arte Siqueiros, Mexico City
2002
Photographs and light installations, Taller de las Artes, Salta, Argentina
Light installation, Boquitas Pintadas, Buenos Aires
2001
Objects of light, Espacio 33y1/3, Buenos Aires
2000
Evento Desentido, artist’s studio, Buenos Aires
Boards, Rozenblum Foundation, Buenos Aires
1999
Relicatógrafos, Apeyron, Córdoba, Argentina
Objects and installation, Goldman Foundation, Córdoba, Argentina
Rastro Muerto, multimedia installation, 10 presentations, Casona Municipal,
Córdoba, Argentina
1998
Boards, Cripta Jesuítica del Noviciado, Viejo Córdoba, Argentina
1997
Paintings, objects, performance, Ecology and young art Cultural Center, Corrientes, Argentina
1996
Light and shadow, sculpture, Yapeyú Hall, City Hall, Bella Vista, Corrientes, Argentina
Group shows
Upcoming
MFAH Benefit Gala Exhibition and Auction, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX – Feb 2011
Mexico: Politics / Poetics, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA – Feb 2011
Nordic Watercolor Museum, Gothenburg, Sweeden – Sep 2011
Paper landscapes, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN – Sep 2012
2010
Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Biennial of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Mano/Mundo/Corazón, Center for Book & Paper Art, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Volver, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, CA
Final Open Studio, URRA Art residences and exchanges, Buenos Aires
Opening exhibition URRA, Del Infinito Arte gallery, Buenos Aires
In Llieu of Unity, Ballroom Marfa, TX
Sinfonía de una decadencia, Centro Cultural Border, Mexico City
Conversations II, Travesía Cuatro gallery, Madrid
2009
PROGRESO!, Centro Cultural España, Guatemala City
Sing of the Times, Monique Meloche gallery, Chicago, IL
Cleve Carney’s Collection, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
Tarde o Temprano, Instituto de Cultura de Zacatecas, Mexico
Partisan, ArtChicago, Chicago, IL
2nd Polygraphic Triennial of San Juan, Latin America and the Caribbean, Puerto Rico
Criteria, A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Heads or tails, Red Galería, Buenos Aires
No rhyme or reason, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008
Viva México!, BWA Awangarda gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
The tree: from the sublime to the social, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
Changarrito: at Salón Jóvenes con FIA, Caracas; Queen’s Nails Annex Gallery, San Francisco, CA; FuseBox Festival, Austin, TX; and Festival Chilango Andaluz, Mexico City
Fine Line, Museo de las Américas, Denver, CO
The lines of the hand, MUAC University Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City
To the infinite and beyond, Centro de las Artes de Sevilla, Spain
Boureau, Pyner Contreras gallery, London
2007
Poetics of the handmade, MOCA, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Eat the Food, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, MOCCA, Toronto
Domestic mail, Harto Espacio, Prague, Check Republic
Viva México!, Zacheta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Poland
Microwave 5, Josee Bienvenu gallery, NYC
Media Asta, Haydeé Rovirosa gallery, NYC
Corrientes paints well, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires
2006
Present Perfect, Volitant Gallery, Austin, TX
Paper cut, Galería Vogues gallery, Frankfurt, GER
Theatrum Mundi, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
Material abuse, Caren Golden Fine Art, NYC
Paper, Skestos Gabriele Gallery, Chicago, IL
Banners, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
Sivam Visual Arts, 2006 Award, Mexico City
2005
Sensexperiment 05, International creation reunion, Lucena, Córdoba, Spain
VII Convocatoria Jóvenes Artistas, Luis Adelantado, Valencia, Spain
Serene obsession, Haim Chanin Fine Arts, NYC
Money, X-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
America Tropical, Institut du Mexique a Paris, Paris
X Salon d’art Bancomer, Institut du Mexique a Paris
Corrientes paints well, Museo de Bellas Artes de Corrientes, Juan Ramón Vidal, Corrientes, Argentina
2004
Weapons and tools, Salón Bancomer, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City
Invasion, ocupation, expansion, Centro Cultural España, Mexico City
Newspapers, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, NYC
Bordermates, Mexico City
Máximo participates with video H, in the show “Everything is going to be fine”, Museum of Contemporary Art Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
Domestic mail, Harto Espacio, Montevideo, Uruguay
2003
Light installation, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires
Art in progression, Teatro San Martín, Buenos Aires
2002
Light installation, Boquitas Pintadas, Buenos Aires
Estudio Abierto San Telmo, Buenos Aires
2001
Three, Sonoridad Amarilla, Buenos Aires
1998
Consulate of Argentina in Encarnación, Paraguay
University Extention, Corrientes, Argentina
1997
Organizes Macro Muestra de Micro formato, Corrientes, Argentina
1996
Café Cultural El Mariscal with José Luis Carbonel, Corrientes, Argentina
2nd Prize sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts Ramón Vidal, Corrientes, Argentina
1994
Cambá-Cuá Park Cultural Center, Corrientes, Argentina
1993
City Hall Fair, El Colorado, Formosa, Argentina
Performance, actions and other installations
2010
Group action “A white sky-blue and flight” with participation of elementary schools of Bella Vista city, Corrientes, Argentina
2002
Action “Mil gracias”, Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires
2000
Installation at Centro Cultural Recoleta, Liliana Vitale concert, Buenos Aires
1999
Window installation “Pantalones de la Mona”, Apeyron Córdoba, Argentina
Window installation “ropa tendida del Bosco”, Apeyron Córdoba, Argentina
Window installation “Bollo de papel”, Apeyron Córdoba, Argentina
Performance “Choreo Verde”, Museum of Modern Art Emilio Caraffa, Córdoba, Argentina
Images Concert, Apeyron, Córdoba, Argentina
1998
Installation “Blue rain”, Galería Extensión Universitaria, Corrientes, Argentina
Body painting, Espacio Los Chanchos, Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina
Body painting, Café Cultural El Mariscal, Corrientes, Argentina
Body painting, Pub cultural Místico, Corrientes, Argentina
International art fairs
SWAB BARCELONA, 2010, with Valle Ortí gallery, Valencia, Spain
ART CHICAGO, 2010 with Skestos Gabriele gallery, Chicago, IL
VOLTA NY, 2010 with Valle Ortí, Valencia, Spain
PULSE Miami, 2009, 2010 with Valle Ortí, Valencia, Spain
ARCO Madrid, 2005-2010, with galleries Travesía Cuatro, Madrid and Art&Idea, Mexico City
MACO Mexico City, 2004-2010, with Travesía Cuatro, Madrid; Art&Idea, Mexico City; Haydeé Rovirosa, NYC; Skestos Gabriele, Chicago; and Valle Ortí, Valencia
NEXT Chicago, 2009, with Valle Ortí, Valencia
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
ArteBA Buenos Aires, 2006-2007, with Terreno Baldío, Mexico City, and Nara Roesler, Sao Paulo
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
Other projects
Upcoming
Vigo Art Residency, Galicia, Spain – Aug 2011
2010
Hyde Park Art Center, Artist residence, Chicago, IL
URRA, Artist residence, Buenos Aires
Project Room in Zona MACO SUR, Mexico City
2007
Artist to artist, Artist residences in Glasgow, Scotland
2006
Dream, piece comissioned by DFMC, Pritzker, Chicago, IL
2004
Changarrito project starts in Mexico City
Conferences and talks
2010
Talk on the exhibition Volver: Mexican Folk Art into Play, Museum of Craf and Folk Art, San Francisco, CA
Artist presentation for URRA Art residences and exchanges, Centro Cultural España, Buenos Aires
Art work in video: 2004-2010, Centro Cultural España, Córdoba, Argentina
2009
Talk at DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Talk at Museum of Fine Arts Ramón Vidal, Corrientes, Argentina
Conversation on The lines of the hand exhibition at MUAC, Mexico City
2008
Contact 1, conversation at Museo de las Américas, Denver, CO
Talk at Monica Giron’s workshop, Buenos Aires
2007
Talk on Poetics of the handmade exhibition at MOCA LA, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Máximo taught Special Projects at the National School of Painting and Engraving,
La Esmeralda, Mexico City
Awards
2010
Premio Tequila Centenario, Zona MACO, Mexico International Art Fair