Minerva Cuevas

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Minerva Cuevas (Mexico City, 1975) is a Mexican conceptual artist. She studied at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas. UNAM (1993-1997). She is known for the social and political research that guide her projects usually developed as site-specific interventions. Her production includes installation, video and photographic works. She is the founder of the Mejor Vida Corp. (1998) and member of Irational.org.

Cuevas was awarded the DAAD grant in Berlin (2005) and was part of the Delfina Studios residency program in London (2001). She lives and works in Mexico City.

[edit] Exhibitions

Biennials

  • The History of a decade that has not yet been named. Lyon Biennial. France. 2007
  • Três Fronteiras Bienal do Mercosul. Porto Alegre, Brazil. 2007
  • How to live together. 27th Bienal de São Paulo Brazil. 2006
  • Belonging. Sharjah Biennial. United Arab Emirates. 2005
  • On Reason and Emotion. Biennale of Sydney. Australia. 2004
  • Poetic Justice. XX Istanbul Biennial. Istanbul. Turkey. 2003
  • Information-Misinformation. 24th Biennial of Graphic Arts. Ljubljana, Slovenia. 2001


Selected solo shows

  • Phenomena. Kunsthalle Basel. Switzerland. 2007
  • Egalité Le Grand Café-Centre d'art Contemporain. Saint-Nazaire, France. 2007
  • Reconstrucción. Casa del Lago. UNAM. Mexico City. 2006
  • The Economy of the Imaginary Luckman Fine Arts Complex. Los Angeles, CA. USA . 2006
  • Not Impressed By Civilization The Banff Centre. Alberta, Canada. 2005
  • On Property Reg Vardy Gallery. Sunderland, United Kingdom. 2005
  • Schwarzfahrer are my heroes DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany. 2004
  • MVC Biotec Secession. Vienna, Austria. 2001
  • Mejor Vida Corp. Museo Rufino Tamayo. Mexico City. 2000


Selected Group shows

  • The Exotic Journey Ends. Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
  • Populism Stedelijk Museum. Amsterdam, Nederlands
  • This Peaceful War. Tramway. Jumex collection at Glasgow International. Glasgow, U.K.
  • Hardcore. Palais de Tokyo. Paris, France.
  • Exchange Rates of Bodies and Values. Kunst Werke. Berlin, Germany
  • Da Adversidae Vivemos. Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Paris, France.
  • Democracy! Royal College of Art. London, UK.
  • Dream Machines. Hayward Gallery, London, UK.

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