May 9 – June 6, 2015
Opening reception: Saturday, May 9, 7–9
Steve Turner is pleased to present Exterminio, a solo exhibition by Oaxaca-based Edgardo Aragón which will feature a 13-minute video and related collage, photograph, drawing and sculpture. They relate to a secret program conducted by the Mexican government in the 1970’s during which corpses of political dissenters were dropped from airplanes into the Pacific Ocean.
Edgardo Aragón was born in Mexico, and his work invites reflection on the history of violence in his homeland. Deeply engaged with political and social histories of Mexico, where he was born and still lives, his video and photography often document performance and sculptural interventions against landscapes that appear at once serene and foreboding. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo (MUAC), Mexico City; MoMA P.S.1, New York; and the Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles.
Born 1985, Oaxaca, Mexico
Lives and works in Oaxaca and Mexico City
Education
2008
Bachelor in Fine Arts, La Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado, Mexico City
2004
High School in Arts and Humanities in CEDART Diego Rivera, Mexico City
Solo Exhibitions
2015
Exterminio, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
2014
Desde Oaxaca, Tabacalera Promoción del Arte Madrid
2013
Tesoro, Laurel Gitlen Gallery, New York
Invasión, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
Zona Maco, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City (Curated by Juan Andrés Gaitán)
2012
La Trampa, Luckman Gallery LAXART, Los Angeles (Curated by Ruth Estévez)
2010
Ley Fuga, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
Efectos de Familia, Hamidrasha Gallery, Tel-Aviv (Curated by Guy Ben-Ner)
2008
Diles que no me maten, Galería de La Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado, Mexico City
Group Exhibitions
2015
Sights and Sounds: Global Film and Video, Jewish Museum, New York
2014
The Execution of Maximilian, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre University of Warwick, London
Inventer le possible: Une Vidéotèque éphémère, Projections & recentres ave Marine Hugonnier et Carlos Motta, Jeu de Paume, Paris
The Act of Seeing with One’s Own Eyes, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
LARA Project Latin America, Lima
2013
The Biennial of Moving Image, Mechelen, Belgium (Curated by Jacob Frabricus Sorensen)
Por amor a la Disidencia, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
Mexico Inside Out: Themes in Art since 1990, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
The Made-up Shrimp hardly enlightens some double Kisses, Laurel Gilten Gallery, New York
Efectos de Familia, Kadis Art Foundation, San Francisco
Official program, Cinéma et Politique, Cinélatino, Toulouse, France
2012
Mitos Oficiales, La Curaduría, Estación, Laboratorio Oaxaca y IAGO, Oaxaca
Por amor a la Disidencia, MUAC, Mexico City
Solo Projects, by Rey Akdogan, Edgardo Aragón, Ilja Karilampi and Caitlin Keogh, MoMA PS1, New York
Ourselves, ACCA— Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
III Moscow International Biennial for Young Art, Moscow
Selección Oficial, FID Marseille, France
La Periferia del Círculo, Espacio Líquido, Gijon, Spain
Resisting the Present: Mexico 200-
2012, Museé d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
2011
Resisting the Present: Mexico 200-
2012, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial), Istanbul (Curated by Adriano Pedrosa y Jens Hoffmann)
Disponible: A kind of Mexican Show, San Francisco Art Institute, Walter and McBean Gallery, San Francisco (Curated by Hou Hanru y Guillermo Santamaria)
Essays on Geopoetics: 9th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil (Curated by José Roca)
COLECTIVA, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles
In Transit, Museé d’Arte Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Viceversa, MUPO, Oaxaca
Between Chaos and Seduction: Mexican Contemporary Art, ROM, Toronto (Curated by Magda Gonzáles Mora)
Universo video: Fleeting Stories, Laboral, Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijon
2010
Disponibile: A kind of Mexican Show, Phase 1, Walter and McBean Galleries San Francisco
Creative Tensions, Ekaterinenburg Branch, Ekaterinenburg, Russia
Selección oficial, FID Marseille, France
Actual Art Program MACG PRIMERA EDICIÓN, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
Injerto/ Ambulante, Gira de documentales, Mexico City
2009
Festival of Contemporary Art, Prague
Beyond Guilt, Tina B Art Festival, Prague (Curated by Doron Rabina)
One Foot Apart, Leme Galería, Sao Paolo (Curated by Ruth Estévez)
Awards
2013
Residency in ISCP- FONCA, New York
Residency in AIR, Antwerp, Belgium
AIMIA-AGO photo prize, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
2011
Jóvenes Creadores FONCA
2009
Programa Arte Actual, Bancomer- MACG
2008
Jóvenes Creadores FONCA
Programa para la producción de Arte y Medios, Centro Multimedia, CENART
