Pablo Rasgado’s work transforms ordinary materials from public and institutional spaces into compelling abstract compositions. By reappropriating fragments of painted walls—whether from city streets or temporary museum installations—he captures layers of visual and social history embedded in these surfaces. His approach preserves the essence of a moment, frozen in time, yet recontextualized.

Rasgado’s Unfolded Architecture series, for instance, abstracts specific moments in museum and art history, echoing a conceptual homage to Mexican muralism. Rather than illustrating historical scenes, Rasgado utilizes fragments of everyday walls, rich with contextual layers, to create abstractions that resonate with historical depth. Through this innovative reuse of space’s “background” materials, Rasgado forges a direct connection to Mexico’s artistic past, infusing his work with the physical residue of lived experiences and cultural narratives.

Born 1984, Zapopan, Mexico
Lives and works in Mexico City

Education 
2010
Proyecciones y Superficies Workshop, National Center for the Arts, Mexico City Ejercicio de Correspondencia Workshop, SOMA, Mexico City

2007
Diploma Course in Museology, Centro Cultural Casa Lamm, Mexico City

2003
Diploma Course in Photography, Centro Morelense de las Artes, Mexico

2006
BFA, Autonomous University of the State of Morelos, Mexico

Solo Exhibitions
2022
Time-Based, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach

2021
Timescape, Steve Turner, Los Angeles

2019
When the symbols shatter, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami
Demo.,prefix (demolition)/demonstration, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami
Strata, Formato Comodo, Madrid
Proyecto arquitectónico, Obra en Obra, Condesa, Mexico
“—– (— —– ——- — ——.)”,  Blue Project Foundation, Barcelona
Zona Maco (with Steve Turner), Mexico City

2018
Double Vision/Double Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson

2017
This Too Shall Pass, Steve Turner, Los Angeles

2016
Horizon, Steve Turner, Los Angeles

2015
FIAC OFFICIELLE (with Steve Turner), Paris
Ellipsis, Steve Turner, Los Angeles

2014
Afterlife, Arratia Beer, Berlin

2013
Vanishing Act, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
Ojo por Diente, Galería OMR, Mexico City

2012
Monochromatic Muralism, Arratia Beer, Berlin
Fragmental, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
Victoria Pírrica, ATEA, Mexico City

2011
Arquitectura Desdoblada, The Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City
Wall to Wall, Steve Turner, Los Angeles

2008
Eternity in an empty room, Arcaute Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, Mexico

2005
Baba, Casa Emergente Visual Lab and Gallery, Cuernavaca, Mor. Mexico

2004
Sobre la certeza, Alberca artes Gallery, Mexico

Art Fair Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions
2019
Zona Maco, Mexico City (with Claire Milbrath) (with Steve Turner)

2017
Floorplan, Art Brussels (with Steve Turner)

2016
Sintesia, XIII Bienal de Cuenca, Museo Pumapungo

2015
ARCOmadrid (with Steve Turner)

2014
Art Basel Statements (with Arratia Beer, Berlin)
Solo Projects: Focus Latin America, ARCOmadrid

2013
ARTBO (with Steve Turner, Los Angeles), Bogotá

2012
Art Basel Miami Beach (with Arratia Beer, Berlin)
Paint Study, Zona Maco Sur (with Steve Turner), Mexico City (curated by Patrick Charpenel)

2011
Art Berlin Contemporary (with Arratia Beer, Berlin)

Group Exhibitions
2020
[t, x, y, z], Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami

2019
El Orden Material de las Cosas, Una lectura de la colecció n Femsa, Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey, Mexico
Power of Ten, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
Mini Mono Mental, Chashama, New York
Tiempo Compartido, Lugar de trabajo, Tonala 138, Col, Mexico

2018
O Triângulo Atlântico em Caxias do Sul, Casa da Cultura, Brazil
BioPix, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
11th Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial, Brazil

2017
ArteBA (with Steve Turner), Buenos Aires

2016
Come as you are, Arratia Beer, Berlin
Cuenca Bienal, Ecuador
Seattle Art Fair (with Steve Turner)

2015
Glass House: Intimacy with Buildings, Symposium partner program at the Chicago Architecture Biennial
United States of Latin America, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), Curated by Jens Hoffman and Pablo Leon de la Barra, Detroit
Extraction, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
Space Program, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
Constructs (with Nathan Green and Laura Vandenburgh), Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland (curated by Rachel Adams)

2014
ARTBO (with Steve Turner), Bogotá
Translation Movement, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid
Limited Visibility, CAM, Raleigh, North Carolina
La voluntad de la piedra, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico
Pinta London (with Steve Turner, Los Angeles)

2013
Other People’s Problems: Conflicts and Paradoxes, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
Art Baja Tijuana, Casa GS, Tijuana, Mexico
Noise, Ex Magazzini di San Cassian, Venice
Donde el Lenguaje es el Material, Casa del Lago, Mexico City
When Attitudes Became Form Becomes Attitudes, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit
Lost Line: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Proyecto Basurto, Steve Turner, Mexico City

2012
Los Irrespetuosos, Group Show, Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
When Attitudes Became Form Becomes Attitudes, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
Donde el lenguaje es el material, Group Show, Casa del Lago, Mexico City
Tiempo de Sospecha, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico
Prorroga Recuperada, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
Bienal Tamayo, MACO, Oaxaca, Mexico

2011
Transitio_ MX 04 – Festival of Electronic Arts and Video, Mexico City
Destello, Colección Jumex, Ecatepec de Morelos, Mexico (curated by Osvaldo Sanchez)
Cartography, ICOCULT, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico
Interconnects, Contemporary Art in the FEMSA Collection, Pinacoteca Diego Rivera, Veracruz, Xalapa

2010
This is about…Plataforma arte Contemporaneo, Guadalajara, Mexico (curated by Ruben Mendez)
Cimbra: Formas especulativas y armados metafísicos, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City
Open Day, Stonehouse, Alakuko, Lagos, Nigeria
IX Bienal Monterrey FEMSA, Galería de Arte Moderno y Contemporáne Ángeles, Espinosa Iglesias, Casa de la Cultura de Puebla and San Pedro, Museo de Arte, Puebla, Mexico
Second Comino, Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, (curated by Carlos Palacios, Andre Torreblanca, Gabi Ngocobo)
IX Bienal Monterrey FEMSA, Cecut, Tijuana

2009
IX Bienal Monterrey FEMSA, Centro de las Artes, Parque Fundidora Monterrey, Mexico
Open Art México, Open: International performance art festival, Collaboration with Kelly Kleinschrodt, Beijing
Diorama: la reinvención del paisaje, MUCA Roma Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City (curated by Gonzalo Ortega)
Staybite: Modes of Operation, The University of Texas at Dallas, Visual Arts Building, Dallas (curated by Karla Diaz and Evelyn Serrano)
Needle in a Haystack, Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, Los Angeles (curated by Nate Garcia)

2008
Exchange Rate, Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles
Exchange Rate, Remy’s on Temple, Los Angeles
Preservación de forma y equilibrio #2, Collaboration with Luis Ordoñez, Orizaba 203-2, Mexico

2007
Principio de incertidumbre, Forum universal de las culturas, Centro de las Artes I y II, Parque fundidora Monterrey, Mexico (curated by Fernando Delmar)
Montañas Fototeca de Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico (curated by Patricia Martín)

2006
Ejemplares: Libro Objeto, Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico (curated by Albert Dilger)
Sueño de una Noche de Verano, Collaboration with Luis Ordoñez, Centro Cultural
Muros, Cuernavaca, Mexico (curated by Andrea Torreblanca and Paulina Cornejo)

2005
Preservación de forma y equilibrio, Collaboration with Luis Ordoñez, Casa Emergente, Cuernavaca, Mexico

2004
Lo que no explica la vida lo explica el fuego, Collaboration with Luis Ordoñeze, 21 Gallery, Cuernavaca, Mexico

Residencies and Awards
2019
McColl Center for Art and Innovation, Residency Program, Charlotte
RAIR, Art+Industry Residency Program, Philadelphia
BlueProject Foundation, Barcelona

2018
MOCA Tucson artist in residence, Arizona
Vermont Studio Center, Vermont
MacDowell Collony, New Hampshire

2017
Lugar Comun, Monterrey Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Yaddo, Saratoga Spings, New York

2016
Art OMI, Ghent NY

2015
Fundación Casa Wabi, Oaxaca
Skowhegen, Maine
MacDowell Collony, New Hampshire
Honorific Mention at the Faena Art Prize

2014
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

2013
Artist-in-residence, SE RENTA
International Residency Program, Laboratorio de Agentes del Arte Contemporáneo, Tijuana

2012
Bancomer MACG Program 2012 Fellow Triangle Art Trust Artist’s Workshop, New York

2011
Artist-in-residence, La Chambre Blanche, Québec
International Residency Program at the École Superier d’ Art et Design, Saint Ettienne, France

2010
CCA Lagos – Triangle artist Workshop Nigeria, Center for Contemporary Art Lagos, Stonehouse Alakuko, Lagos, Nigeria
Young Creators Grant, Painting, National Fund for Culture and Arts, Mexico

2009
Honorific Mention at the IX Monterrey Femsa Biennale
1st place, Printed mediums, at the international Journalism Award Can Cun
International Residency Program at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska

2007
Mexican American Fellowship, Mexican American Foundation
Residency Program at the Vermont Studio Center, Jonson, Vermont

2006
Young Creators Grant, New Mediums, National Fund for Culture and Arts, Mexico

2000
“Montalbán y los Zapotecas,” Pasajes de la historia Magazine, special edition, October 2000

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2019
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2008
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2007
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2006
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