EDUARDO SARABIA
Mexican-American, B.1976
Born in Los Angeles, 1976
Lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico
EDUCATION
BFA from Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 El Toro y Otros Relatos, Museo Universitario del Chopo. Mexico City. Mexico
Intrahistorias, Javier López & Fer Frances Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
2018 Eduardo Sarabia, Relación de un interés- Sinaloa, México. Tommy Simoens,
Antwerp, Belgium.
Eduardo Sarabia, Maureen Pauley, London, United Kingdom.
2017 Drifting on a Dream, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, CA United States
of America
2016 Plumed Serpent and other Parties, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City , Mexico
2015 Ballads, Other Criteria, New York, NY. United States of America
2014 Eduardo Sarabia, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO),
Oax. Mexico
Eduardo Sarabia, Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Jal. Mexico
Moctezuma's Revenge, ASU Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ. USA
2013 TAINTED: Eduardo Sarabia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO.
United States of America
2010 La Gloria del Exceso, Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Eduardo Sarabia, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico
2009 There W ill Be Better Days, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France Tokyo
Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan.
2008 Eduardo Sarabia: History of the World, LA Louver, Los Angeles, CA. United
States of America
2006 Eduardo Sarabia, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY. United States of America
2005 Eduardo Sarabia, 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. United States of America
2004 Eduardo Sarabia, 404 Arte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Encontro Dos Aguas, Denver Art Museum. Denver, USA.
US-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination and Possibility. Lille3000. Lille, France.
2018 GRAND REVERSE. Tommy Simoens, Antwerp, Belgium.
NACIDO EN CASA. DEVENIRES Y PORVENIRES DEL OFICIO DE LA
TAPICERÍA ALTO LISO EN JALISCO, 1968-2018. Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico.
2017 THE U.S. - MEXICO BORDER: PLACE, IMAGINATION, AND POSSIBILITY,
Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA., USA.
SABER ACOMODAR. ARTAND WORKSHOPS OF JALISCO 1915- NOW, MCA
Denver, Colorado, USA.
Chingaderas Sofisticadas, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA., USA.
Vecinos, CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA., USA.
2016 The Natural Order of Things, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
New Territories, The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM. United States of America
2015 Out of the Labyrinth: Contemporary Mexican Ceramics, Norther Clay Center, Minneapolis, MN. United States of America
Campeonato en Guadalajara 2015, Travesía Cuatro, Guadalajara, Jal. Mexico
2014 Testigo del Siglo, Museo de Arte Zapopan (MAZ), Zapopan, Jal. Mexico
New Territories, Museum of Arts and Desing (MAD), New York, NY. United States of America
Bienal Internacional del Arte Contemporáneo, Cartegena de Indias, Colombia
2013 New Blue and White, Museum of Fine Art Boston, MA. United States of America
Turn Off the Sun: Selections from La Colección Jumex, Arizona State Art Museum,
Tempe, AZ. United States of America
2012 Snake Skin Boots, Art Public, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL. United States of America
Asiataco, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany.
Ball of Artists, In collaboration with LAX ART. Los Angeles CA. United States of America
2003 Eduardo Sarabia / Eric Wesley, Sutton Lane, London, United Kindom
Eduardo Sarabia, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY. United States of America
2002 Project Room: Eduardo Sarabia. (Curated by Ciara Ennis). Santa Monica
Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA. United States of America
2001 Eduardo Sarabia, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY. United States of America
2011 Fuerzas básicas, formas del dibujo reciente en Jalisco, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Guadalajara, Mexico.
MAKE Skateboards, organized by Jonathan Lavoie and Scott Ogden, I-20
Gallery, New York, NY. United States of America
Everything Must Go, a project with Ceramica Suro, Guadalajara, Mexico, organized by José Noé Suro and Eduardo Sarabia, Casey Kaplan
Gallery, New York, NY. United States of America
No More Reality, organized by Textfield, Inc., Creatures of Comfort, New York
Greater LA, organized by Eleanor Cayre, Benjamin Godsill, and Joel Mesler, 483
Broadway, New York, United States of America.
2010 A.D.D. Attention Deficit Disorder, curated by Benjamin Godsill, Centro d’Arte
Contemporanea Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary, Trevi, Italy Arena Mexico at Pinta London
2009 Art Nova, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, Florida.
MAX ART FEST, Zagreb, Croatia.
There Are False Problems More Than There Are False Solutions..., curated by Victor
Zamudio-Taylor. La Galería en el Taller Mecánico, Monterrey. Organized in conjunction with Proyectos Monclova, Mexico.
An Expanded Field of Possibilities, Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, Santa Barbara, California
NCA Selection, NCA/Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
2008 Anthology, Otero Plassart, Los Angeles, CA. United States of America
Firulais, Museo de la Ciudad, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Extended Borders: Shifting Cartographies, Puerto Vallarta Arte Contemporáneo, Puerto Vallarta, Nay. Mexico
VOLTA4, Art 39 Basel, Edition presented by Voges + Partner Galerie
2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, United States of America
Phantom Sightings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California (traveling
to Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City, Mexico, Fall
2008; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, MARCO, Mexico, Spring 2009;
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas, Summer/Fall 2009;
Cultural Universitario, Guadalajara, Mexico, Fall 2009/Winter 2010; El
Museo del Barrio and The Americas Society, New York, New York, Spring 2010.)
unitednationsplaza mexico DF, Casa Refugio, Mexico City
2007 PAWNSHOP, e-flux, New York, NY, United States of America
Big Family Business, in conjunction with the 10th Istanbul Biennial, Ataken
Factory, IMC trade center, Istanbul
An Atlas of Events (curated by Debra Singer), Fundação Calouste, Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Trinchera, (curated by Emanuel Tovar), Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico
Rogue Wave ’07, LA Louver, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, 2nd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
2006 Mobile: Suro Collection, TPS [Triangle Project Space], San Antonio, Texas
Masters & Johnson, (curated by Maria Jose Lopez), Charro Negro, Zapopan, Mexico
Great American Nude, (organized by Matt Wardell and Harvey Levine)
Harvey Levine Gallery, Culver City, CA. United States of America
Some Postcards from Mexico, (curated by Carlos Ashida) Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Santiago, Chile
...un minuto por favor, (curated by Lorena Peña and Rubén Méndez), La
Casa Taller Jose Clemente Orozco, Guadalajara, Mexico
Presente Perfecto / Present Perfect (curated by Juan Puntes) Volitant Gallery,
Austin, TX. United States of America
Body and Geography, (curated by Jeanette Zwingenberger) Musee des
Beaux- Arts, Lille, France
(I-20) Art Nova, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL.United States of America
2005 Poles Apart Poles Together. (Curated by Juan Puntes and Doron Polak), 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
4 Dimensional Shit, Bowie Van Valen, Los Angeles, CA. United States of America
Air Container Museo Raul Anguiano (Antiguo Museo de Arte Moderno), Guadalajara, Mexico
Having Differences (curated by Kevin Hanley, Steve Hanson, and Paul
Judelson), I-20 Gallery, New York, NY. United States of America
Art Nova, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL (I-20). (With Marina Kappos and Gonzalo Lebrija)
Working on Paper: From Drawings to Ammo, BANK, Los Angeles, California
2004 Democracy was fun (Curated by Juan Puntes and Raul Zamudio) White Box, New York
Incognito (Curated by Elsa Longhauser), Santa Monica Museum of Art
OIL, Triangle Project Space, San Antonio, Texas
Narcochic Narcochoc. Musee International des Arts Modestes, Paris, France
La relatividad del tiempo y los distintos sistemas de referencia (Curated by Patrick Charpenel)
Oficina para Proyectos d’Arte (OPA), Guadalajara, Mexico
2003 Art Basel Miami Beach (I-20). Miami, Florida
Tekhne: Ancestral Techniques and Contemporary Practices in the SURO workshop of Tlaquepaque, curated by Patrick Charpenel, The Buena Vista Building,
Miami Design Center, Miami, FL
Prague Biennial 1. Curated by Helena Kontova. Prague, Czech Republic
Harlem Postcards II, (Curated by Christine Y. Kim). The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.
Works for Giovanni, China Art Objects, Los Angeles
Liz Craft, Pentti Monkonnen, Eduardo Sarabia and Eric Wesley, Oficina para
Proyectos d’Arte (OPA), Guadalajara, Mexico. Travels to Programa Art Center, Mexico City
Age of Unreason, MOCADC, Washington DC
2002 Scope Video Lounge (Curated section), The Scope Fair, Dylan Hotel, New York
Roots, PAGEA Arte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy
Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Cutting Edge (Curated section), ARCO, Madrid, Spain The Armory Show, New York
2001 I Love New York, I-20 Gallery, New York
Luminous Wonders of the Electronic World, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Liste, Art 32 Basel, Switzerland (China Art Objects)
1999 I Candy, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, California (Curated by John Boskovich)
ART PROJECTS
Mezcal “La Otra”. Guadalajara, Mexico. 2015.
Tequila Sarabia. Guadalajara, Mexico. 2006.
United States Consulate, May 2009, Guadalajara, Mexico
Salon Aleman, Museum of Natural History, Mexico City, Mexico, April 2009.
Election Night at Salon Aleman, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, November 4, 2008.
Salon Aleman, for the 21c Museum’s 3rd Annual Pajama Party, June 2008, Louisville, KY.
Salon Aleman, organized by Eduardo Sarabia in collaboration with unitednationsplaza, Berlin, Germany
PUBLICATIONS
History of the World, Eduardo Sarabia, Essays by Benjamin Godsill and Patrick
Charpenel, published by Other Criteria, 2012
SOLO EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
Eduardo Sarabia, 2014. Essay by Cesar García and interview by Julie Rodrigues
Widholm. Guadalajara, Jalisco. Mexico. Museo Cabañas & Museo de Arte
Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, 2015.
The Gift, written for the 2008 Whitley Biennial by Patrick Charpenel, Christian
Jankowski, Eungie Joo, Maria Manguia, Shamim Momin, Anri Sala, Eduard Sarabia,
Brian Scholis, Christian Silva and John Souza. Edited by Alexandra Garcia Ponce
and Anton Vidokle. Tuner Publishing and Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico,
2008 Eduardo Sarabia Relación de un Interés 2003, Essay by Ciara Ennis and interview by
Christine Y. Kim. New York: I-20 Gallery, 2004
GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
Cornell, Lauren, Massimilliano Gioni and Laura Hoptman, ed. Younger Than Jesus Artist
Directory (New York: New Museum & Phaidon Press, 2009).
Best of New York Art 2009, with text by Xavier Tresaco. Page 266, Theredoom
Publications. New York, New York, 2009
An Expanded Field of Possibilities, essay by Miki Garcia, Santa Barbara Contemporary, Arts Forum (2009).
Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement, Rita Gonzalez, Howard Fox, Chon A.
Noriega (University of California Press: Los Angeles, 2008).
Whitney Biennial 2008, written by Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin, Yale, University Press, New Haven, CT, 2008
We Are Your Future: Special Project 2nd Moscow Bienniale, Moscow, 2007
Presente Perfecto/Perfect Present, essay by Raúl Zamudio, Volitant Gallery, Texas, 2006
Family Stories: Ten stories written and illustrated by ten artists Lectura Books, California, 2006
Art Basel Miami Beach. Basel, Switzerland: Messe Basel, 2005
Gone Fishing (in progress), with Gonzalo Lebrija, 2005
51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 2005
Poles Apart Poles Together. Text by Juna Puntes and Doron Polak, 2005
Narcochic Narcochoc, Musee International des Arts Modestes, Paris, France Prague
Biennial 1, Prague, Czech Republic, 2003