Adriana Lara

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Adriana Lara (born in Mexico City in 1978) is a Mexican Conceptual artist whose work includes painting, silkscreening, video art, sculpture and the readymade. A prolific artist, Lara has solo exhibitions most recently at Algus Greenspon, New York; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; Air de Paris, France, and House of Gaga, Mexico City, as well as group exhibitions in galleries and museums internationally, including The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, and Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Lara is a participant in the collaborative curatorial project Perros Negros (Founded together with Fernando Mesta and Agustina Ferreyra) and the music collective Lasser Moderna.[1] Since 2006, she has been editor-in-chief of Pazmaker, an art quarterly published in Mexico City. Lara lives and works in Mexico City, Puerto Rico and New York City.

Lara is currently represented by Algus Greenspon in New York.

Background and Education

Lara was born in Mexico City in 1978 where she studied Photography at La Escuela Activa de Fotographia and later attended some courses in Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

Career

Lara entered the international art scene in the early 2000s after completing a residency at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.[2] A prolific and varied artist, with media ranging from video to astroturf,[3] her work deals with questions concerening the institutional critique and process of selection of artwork, more specifically, how do institutions bestow meaning and value on art.[4][5]

In the New Museum's 'The Generational: Younger Than Jesus' exhibition in 2009, Lara's piece, Installation (banana peel), required a guard to place a fresh peel on the museum ground each morning after eating its contents, and also required constant security for visitors. This work is an example of Lara's explorations of division, disruption and contrast; of the art world in this instance.[6]

In her solo show at Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland in 2012, Symbolic Surface of Revolution, Lara presented a multi-piece installation with a complex array of references from the mathematical to the political. The show's title refers to the mathematical phenomenon of 'surface of revolution,' that is realized in a three-dimensional space when a curve is rotated around a line;[7] Lara furthers this with cylindrical works demonstrating endless surfaces, printed with the image of Photoshop's "canvas," the 'zero' level and numerically-based video in a permanent loop/cycle.[8] The installation also featured multiple white canvases stamped with black horizontal and vertical bars that mimic toppling domino pieces, which play on the other parts of the show's title: symbolism and revolution in a political sense. The 'domino effect,' as used in the Cold War-era to illustrate the way political movements could lead from nation to nation, can be linked to the Arab Spring, as Lara's pieces highlight the symbolism of dominos playing into each other and political events of past and present.[9]

Lara also addresses her cultural heritage through her art, the notion of Mexicanismos can be noted in her exhibition 'Adriana Lara: NY - USA' in late 2012 at Algus Greenspon in New York, where she appropriated images of 1930s Mexican actress Lupe Vélez, who was stereotyped for her accent with the emergence of talkies, and printed them on semi-translucent material only to be further obscured by symbols such an '&' or '!.' In the same year, Lara had created a video piece for Documenta 13, Unpurposely with Purpose, that featured a cartoon animation of a Mexican with a face made up of punctuation.[10]

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2013 : Rien Faire et Laisser Rire, Curated by Bob Nickas, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium.
  • 2013 : Adriana Lara, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, Missouri.
  • 2013 : Adriana Lara, Frieze Art Fair, Frame Section New York, New York.
  • 2012 : NY-USA, Algus Greenspon, New York, New York.
  • 2012 : S.S.O.R., Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
  • 2012 : Scryyns and Interesting Theories, Air de Paris, Paris, France.
  • 2011 : La Pintura (Lasser) Moderna, House of Gaga, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • 2010 : Screens, Frieze Art Fair, Frame Section, London, United Kingdom.
  • 2010 : Salt 1: Adriana Lara, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah.
  • 2009 : Artificial, Artpace, San Antonio, Texas.
  • 2008 : Art Performa, Art Basel Miami, Miami, Florida.
  • 2008 : Cosas, House of Gaga, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • 2007 : 380°, Galeria Comercial, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • 2007 : A Problem Has Occurred, Air de Paris, Paris, France.

Group Exhibitions

  • 2013 : The Picnic, Algus Greenspon, New York, New York.
  • 2013 : Adriana Lara and Torbjørn Rødland, Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
  • 2013 : Out of Memory, Curated by Eleanor Cayre, Marianne Boesky, New York, New York.
  • 2013 : Standard Escape Routes, Standard, Oslo, Norway.
  • 2013 : One After One, Vilma Gold, London, United Kingdom.
  • 2012 : Inside the Banana, Algus Greenspon, New York, New York.
  • 2012 : The Still Life of Vernacular Agents, Kraupa-Tuscany, Berlin.
  • 2012 : Topsy Turvy, De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam.
  • 2012 : This & There, curated by Claude Closky, Fondation Richard, Paris.
  • 2012 : Resisting the Present, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris.
  • 2012 : dOCUMENTA13, Kassel, Germany.
  • 2012 : Perros Negros Presents Perros Negros A Post-Posteriori, Curated by Daniel Baumann, New Jerseyy, Basel.
  • 2011 : Videoshow, House of Gaga, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • 2011 : Modify as Needed, MOCA, Miami, Florida.
  • 2011 : The Art of Climbing Mountains, 303 Gallery, New York, New York.
  • 2011 : How to Work (More For) Less, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
  • 2011 : Collective, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, California.
  • 2011 : What Happened to the Other Dollar?, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • 2011 : How to Work, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
  • 2011 : Nature Morte Vivant, Gallery Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
  • 2011 : Zine Library, Unit B (Gallery), San Antonio, Texas.
  • 2010 : CGEM, Notas sobre la emancipación, Musac, Leon de Castilla, Spain.
  • 2010 : Like a River That Stops Being a River or Like a Tree That is Burning in the Horizon Without Knowing it is Burning, curated by Felipe Mujica, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Germany.
  • 2010 : Laokoon, COCO, Vienna, Austria.
  • 2010 : Flowers, COCO, Vienna, Austria.
  • 2010 : Zine Library, Trouser House, New Orleans Never very far apart, Redcat, Los Angeles, California.
  • 2010 : Never very far apart, Redcat, Los Angeles, California.
  • 2010 : Panamericana, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • 2009 : »Revolver«, COCO, Vienna, Austria.
  • 2009 : The Exhibition Formerly Known as Passengers: Stowaways, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California.
  • 2009 : Triennal Poli-gráfica de San Juan, Adriano Pedrosa, Jens Hoffman, Julieta Gonzalez, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • 2009 : Celebration, Curated by Isabella Bortolozzi & Karl Holmqvist, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany.
  • 2008 : Alexander Wolf (Screening), Kunstverein Münster, Munich, Germany.
  • 2008 : Possession, curated by Montserrat Albores, Petra, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • 2008 : This is Not a Void, Jens Hoffman, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil.
  • 2008 : Galeria Sentimental, Tensta Konstall, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • 2008 : The Unruly History of Readymade, Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico.
  • 2008 : Present?, Blow de la Barra, feMACO, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • 2008 : Circa, Blow de la Barra, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • 2007 : Pawn Shop, E-flux, New York, New York.
  • 2007 : La Otra, Perros Negros, Bogotá, Columbia.
  • 2007 : Comercial, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, New York.
  • 2007 : The Space Between, Drorit Gur-Arie, Petach-Tikva Museum, Petach-Tikva, Israel.
  • 2007 : Una Noche en el Museo o lo Gue Vio Betty Boop, Raimundas Malasauskas, Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (screening).
  • 2007 : CAC TV, Vilnius, Lithuania (screening).
  • 2007 : Pink TV, France (screening).
  • 2006 : Looking To Something To Look At, Frederick Janka, Mambo Jambo Gallery, New York, New York.
  • 2006 : Cuarteto de Fantasía, Mauricio Limón, Museo Experimental «EL ECO», Mexico City, Mexico (screening).
  • 2006 : La Mamain et la Putain, Eva Svennung, Galería Air de Paris, Paris, France.
  • 2006 : Creación en Movimiento, Jóvenes creadores, FONCA, Morelia and Mexico City, Mexico.
  • 2005 : Diseño Muerto, Edgar Orlaineta, GAM, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • 2004 : Nuevos RIcos, Prometeo Associazione Culturale per l'Arte Contemporanea, Lucca Localismos.
  • 2004 : Perros Negros, Mexico City, Mexico.
  • 2003 : GNS, Nicolas Bourriaud, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.
  • 2003 : Incomprehension, Emilie Renard,Jean Luc Vilmouth, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France.
  • 2003 : Instant City, Ma. Ines Rodriguez, Institute de Mexique, Paris, France.
  • 2002 : Arte, Vestido y Sustento, Xavier Rodriguez, Museo Ex-Teresa, Mexico City, Mexico.

Press

References

  1. ↑ Guthrie, Kayla. "Adriana Lara". Art in America. Retrieved 6 June 2013. 
  2. ↑ Basta, Sarina (March–April 2013). "Domino Effect: An insightful overview of Adriana Lara's practice". Flash Art 46: 87. Retrieved 13 June 2013. 
  3. ↑ McGarry, Kevin. "This Year's Frieze New York Artists Are Mad About Plants". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 June 2013. 
  4. ↑ Guthrie, Kayla. "Adriana Lara". Art In America Magazine. Retrieved 13 June 2013. 
  5. ↑ Russeth, Andrew. "'Adriana Lara: NY - USA' at Algus Greenspon". Gallerist NY. Retrieved 13 June 2013. 
  6. ↑ "Reviews". Art Review (62): 29. October 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2013. 
  7. ↑ Schaad, Gabrielle. "Adriana Lara". Frieze Magazine. Retrieved 13 June 2013. 
  8. ↑ Basta, Sarina (March–April 2013). "Domino Effect: An insightful overview of Adriana Lara's practice". Flash Art 46: 89. Retrieved 13 June 2013. 
  9. ↑ Laleg, Dominique (December 2012). "Adriana Lara in de Kunsthalle Basel". Texte zur Kunst. Retrieved 13 June 2013. 
  10. ↑ Basta, Sarina (March–April 2013). "Domino Effect: An insightful overview of Adriana Lara's practice". Flash Art 46: 88. Retrieved 13 June 2013. 
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