JOSE DÁVILA
Born 1974 in Guadalajara, Mexico
Lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico
Education
| 1993 – 1998 | Architecture School ITESO University, Guadalajara, Mexico |
| 1993 | Sculpture Fine arts Academy of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico |
Solo exhibitions (selected)
| 2025 | Physics of Uncertainty, COMA, Sydney, Australia Las piedras saben dormir (Stones Know How to Sleep), Estación MA, Museo de Arte de Zapopan in Guadalajara, Mexico |
| 2024 | El pasado nunca es el mismo, Fundación Casa Wabi, Oaxaca, Mexico Photographic Memory, Sean Kelly, Los Angeles, USA |
| 2023 |
a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king, josé dávila, Nara Roesler, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| 2022 | The fact of constantly returning to the same point or situation, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen Memory of a Telluric Movement, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland Grava Suelta, OMR, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 2021 | Centro Internazionale di Sculptura, Peccia, Switzerland The Circularity of Desire, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA Las piedras saben esperar, Centro Internazionale di Scultura, Peccia, Switzerland The Fable of the Apple, Base / Progetti, Florence, Italy The Moment of Suspension, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany To Each Era Its Art. To Art, Its Freedom, Central Wharf Park, Massachusetts PRIMITIVE IRRUPTION, MOLL VELL, Palma, Spain |
| 2020 | Pensar como una montaña, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Querétaro, Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico Fuerza Bruta, Forum Cultural Guanajuato, Léon, Mexico To Each Era Its Art. To Art, Its Freedom, Central Wharf Park, Boston, USA Base Progetti per l’arte, Florence, Italy Directional Energies, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, USA El primer fuego, Travesia Cuatro, Guadalajara, Mexico |
| 2019 | Pensar como una montaña, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico The Moment of Suspension, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany Sueño autosuficiente, Museo Universitario del Chompo, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 2018 | Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany Common Currents, Hemisfair Park, San Antonio, Texas, USA A Simple Rule To Remember, Franz Josefs Kai 3, Vienna, Austria Museo del Novecento, Florence, Italy Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain Hotel Demetria, Guadalajara, Mexico The Body is Lost Outside, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen Denmark Mecánica de lo Inestable, OMR, Mexico City, Mexico Newton’s Fault, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
| 2017 | Sense of Place, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) and Getty’s Pacific, Los Angeles, USA |
| Every Blind Wondering Ends in a Circle, Il Salotto, Blue Project Foundation, Barcelona, Spain | |
| The stone that the builder refused, König Galerie, Berlin, Germany | |
| Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK | |
| Neuland: Jose Dávila, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany | |
| 2016 | Jose Dávila: El Objeto y El Entorno, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico |
| Practical Structures, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USA | |
| Stones Don’t Move, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA | |
| The Elephant and the Feather, Marfa Contemporary, Marfa, USA | |
| 2015 | A line is written on every corner, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Actos tectónicos de duda y deseo, Galería Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain | |
| Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil | |
| Jose Dávila, SCAD Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, USA | |
| The contracted Position, Impronta, Guadalajara, Mexico | |
| The Theory of the Addictional Element: Intervención al estudio de Los Carpinteros, Proyecto paralelo a la 12th Bienal de La Habana, La Habana, Cuba | |
| 2014 | Daylight found me with no answer, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK |
| Obra Reciente, Espacio Monitor, Caracas, Venezuela | |
| State of Rest, OMR Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico | |
| The Lightness of Weight, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA | |
| 2013 | Shadow as a rumor, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK |
| This Must Be the Place, Figge von Rosen Gallery, Cologne, Germany | |
| 2012 | Praise to the shadow, MAZ, Zapopan museum of art, Guadalajara, Mexico |
| The play game of possible, Travesía Cuatro Galería, Madrid, Spain | |
| 2011 | Nowhere Can Be Now Here, Figge von Rosen Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
| Only the Shadow Knows, Galleria Gentili, Prato, Italy | |
| Promise of a Better World, Galleria Hotel Demetria, Guadalajara, Mexico | |
| 2010 | Continuous Space V. Jose Dávila, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain |
| Ningun donde puede ser aqui, OMR Galería, Mexico city, Mexico | |
| Your ligth will shine when all else fades, Abarrotera Mexicana, Guadalajara, Mexico | |
| 2009 | 2 + 2 = 5, Travesía Cuatro Galería, Madrid, Spain |
| The Sierpinski Variable, Bloomberg Space, London, UK | |
| 2008 | Art Positions, Art Basel, Miami Beach, Florida, USA |
| Studies for future buildings, Renwick Gallery, New York, USA | |
| 2007 | Hechiso, Valenzuela & Klenner, Bogota, Colombia |
| Space after space, Borgovico 33, Lake Como, Italy | |
| x,y,z, MACO, Mexico city, Mexico | |
| 2006 | José Davila, Galerie Valérie Cueto, Paris, France |
| The Illegal architect, Galeria Studio Dabbeni, Lugano, Italy | |
| The world of yesterday, El Eco Museum, Mexico City, Mexico | |
| 2005 | Never on Sunday, Travesía Cuatro Galería, Madrid, Spain |
| Nomad platform, Casa de América, Madrid, Spain | |
| 2004 | Still standing, Enrique Guerrero Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico |
| Untitled elevation No. 2, Les Halles, ECAV, Valais, Switzerland | |
| 2002 | Erasing Memory, Enrique Guerrero Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 2001 | Temporality is a question of survival, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK |
Group exhibitions (selected)
| 2025 | Faktura / Tektonika, Sean Kelly, New York, USA | |
| 2024 | Moments are Monuments, BY ART MATTERS, Hangzhou, China | |
| Signos y Objetos: Arte Pop de la Colección Guggenheim, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain | ||
| Tácitas del Glitch, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo, CDMX, Mexico | ||
| 30 años de PECDA en Jalisco, Ex Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Mexico | ||
| 2023 | El eco de Picasso, Museo Picasso Málaga, Spain Cerámica Suro: A Story of Collaboration, Production, and Collecting in the Contemporary Arts, Dallas Contemporary, USA El tiempo en las cosas II at Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico The Paradoxes of Internationalism (As Narrated by the Museo Tamayo Collection). Part I, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico |
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| 2022 | Manifesto of Fragility, 16e Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France Something New, Something Old, Something Desired, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany MARMOR, Kunsten, Aalborg, Denmark THE AUTUMN SHOW, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| 2021 | Recover/Uncover, MASA Galeria, Mexico City, Mexico Exceptiones Normales: Arte Contemporáneo en México, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico |
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| 2020 | INSTANTÁNEA, Antigua Fábrica Kodak, Guadalajara, Mexico Momentum, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands NIRIN, 22nd Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia |
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| 2019 | Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico I Would Love Just One Flower, I Don’t Need the Whole Bouquet, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark Walking Through Walls, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany The Sound of Silence (curated by René-Julien Praz), Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, USA Escenario Liquido, 13 Bienal de la Habana, Havana, Cuba Connections to the World, G2 Kunsthalle, Leipzig, Germany Concrete Contemporary: Now is Also a Little of Yesterday and Tomorrow, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland Summer Show, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark Frieze Sculpture, Rockefeller Center, New York, USA Artistes à la Une: Togeth’HER, Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France Zero Point of Orientation. Photography as Orientation in the Room, DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany There Will Never Be a Door. You Are Inside, Sala de arte Santander, Madrid, Spain Negative Space, ZMK Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Germany Latinoámerica en las colecciones CA2M y Fundación ARCO, Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid, Spain |
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| 2018 | Pensamiento Especulativo, Fundación Calosa, Ejido Irapuato, Mexico Sheet Steel, KANAL Centre Pompidou, Brussels, belgium Unstable Stillness, Galerie Perrotin, Hong Kong Saber Acomodar, Instituto Cultural Cabaña, Guadalajara, Mexico Acropolis, Hotel Demetria, Guadalajara, Mexico The Artist is Present, YUZ Museum, Shanghai, China Cycles of Collapsing Progress, BEMA Beirut Museum of Art, Beirut, Lebanon Almost Solid Light: New Work From Mexico, Paul Gasmin Gallery, New York, USA There Is A Lot of Past To Go. Oroi, Artium Basque Museum-center of Contemporary Art, Araba, Spain Latinoamérica: Volver al Futuro, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, Fundarción Rubino, Buenos Aires, Argentina A Balancing Art, Kunsthal KAde, Amersfoort, The Netherlands Common Currents, Hemisfair Park, San Antonio, USA Edifice, Complex, Visionary, Sculpture, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA |
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| 2017 | Monumentos, anti-monumentos y nueva escultura pública, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico The Queen Falls, Galeria OMR, Mexico City, Mexico Philipp von Rosen Galerie, Cologne, Germany JUMP, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark Lecturas de un Territorio Fracturado, Museo Amparo, Pue., Mexico SELECTED, Sean Kelly, New York PERPETUAL CONSTRUCTION: A Dialogue with the House of Jean Prouvé III, CAB Art Center, Brussels, Belgium THE ART SHOW – Art of the new Millennium in Taguchi Art Collection, The Museum of Modern Art Gunma, Gunma, Japan Saber Acomodar. Art and Workshop of Jalisco 1915-Now, The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, USA Latin American Artist in the Marciano Collection, The Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, USA |
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| 2016 | Tribute to Sol Lewitt, The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, HV Den Haag, Netherlands INSIDE OUT, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark Full Moon, Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar, Netherlands ¿CÓMO TE VOY A OLVIDAR? curated by Anissa Touati and Peggy Lebœuf, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France CHER(E)S AMI(E)S: New presentation of the contemporary collections. Tribute to donors, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France |
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| 2015 | Carambolages, Gallerie Vallois, Paris, France | |
| Collección Jumex: Ingirum imus nocte et consumimur igni, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| Diane Van Deren, Galería Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile | ||
| Ejercicios De Traslado: Colecciones 9915, CAA – Centro de Arte Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain | ||
| En Tránsito, Travesía Cuatro, Guadalajara, Mexico | ||
| I was once lonelyness, Blain Southern, Berlin, Germany | ||
| Konkret mehr Rahm!, Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Felix-Nussbaum-Hauses, and the Kulturgeschichtlichen Museums, Osnabrück, Germany | ||
| La Ciudad. Sus Afectos, MUCA Roma, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| Risk, Turner Contemporary, Kent, UK | ||
| Selección = Relación, Espacio Monitor, Caracas, Venezuela | ||
| 2014 | Art & Me, MUDAM – Musee D’art Moderne, Luxembourg | |
| Do Objeto Para o Mundo. Coleção INHOTIM, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil | ||
| El Teatro del Mundo, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| Limited Visibility, Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, Raleigh, USA | ||
| Testigo del siglo, MAZ Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico | ||
| 2013 | Bucareli Act, Bucareli Street 154, Mexico City, Mexico | |
| Exposición Inaugural, Travesia Cuatro, Guadalajara, Mexico | ||
| Infra-Mince, Figge von Rosen Galerie Berlin, Berlin, Germany | ||
| La persistencia de la geometría, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| Now Here is also Nowhere: Part II, Stroum Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA | ||
| Opinione Latina |1, Francesca Minini, Milan, Italy | ||
| Salón Acme, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| Summer Show, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain | ||
| The Parergon and The Gutter, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark | ||
| Trip and Traveling – Introduction, KCCC – Klaipeda Culture Communication Center, Klaip?da, Lithuania | ||
| 2012 | Footnotes on Candida Höfer, OMR, Mexico City, Mexico | |
| Houses, Rolla Foundation, Bruzella, Switzerland | ||
| Misrepresentation Mistake and Non-Disclosure, Rove Gallery, London, UK | ||
| New Meditations, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, Canada | ||
| Rotary Connection, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York City, USA | ||
| Ugly, Dirty and Bad, Espacio M, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| Wir Sind Alle Astronauten – Universum Buckminster Fuller, Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen, Germany | ||
| 2011 | Atardecer ranchero, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain | |
| Customary Beuaty, Mor Charpentier, Paris, France | ||
| En Obras. Coleção Teixeira De Freitas., TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain | ||
| Erschaute bauten, MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria | ||
| Everything Must Go, Casey Kaplan, New York, USA | ||
| Now: Obras de la Colección Jumex, Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico | ||
| The persistence of geometry, Caixa Forum, Madrid, Spain | ||
| The space between now and then, Espacio 52, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| Transurbaniac, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| Wir sind alle astronauten, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany | ||
| 2010 | 30th Anniversary, Display 2, Studio Dabbeni, Lugano, Italy | |
| Constante: La Nueva Babilonia, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico | ||
| Conversations II, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain | ||
| Kirkergaard’s walk, Galeria Marilia Razuk, Sao Paulo, Brazil | ||
| The architecture of Tatiana Bilbao, Mexican cultural institute, San Antonio, Texas, USA | ||
| The white cabinet, Fundación colección JUMEX, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| Transurbaniac, University Art Gallery, UC, San Diego, California, USA | ||
| 2009 | 2nd Poligraphic, Triennial of San Juan, Puerto Rico | |
| Desenhos (Drawings): A – Z, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal | ||
| Getting nowhere, Galeria Gentili, Florence, Italy | ||
| Hecho en casa, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| La nada y el ser, Fundación Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| Panorama. Foreigners everywhere, Museu do Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brazil | ||
| Prethunderdome, White flags project, St. Louis, USA | ||
| This is not an invitation, it’s a presentation, Abarrotera Mexicana, Guadalajara, Mexico | ||
| Where do we go from here?, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA | ||
| Zwischenzonen, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria | ||
| 2008 | An Unruly History of the Readymade, Fundación colección JUMEX, México City, Mexico | |
| Building, dwelling, thinking. Survey of contemporary art & architectura, IVAM – Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain | ||
| Hasta el infinito y mas alla…, CAC, Sevilla, Spain | ||
| Megastructures Reloaded, Mint, Berlin, Germany | ||
| Per adesso noi siamo qua, Villa Romana, Florence, Italy | ||
| Posession, PETRa, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| Whats my name?, HIST, Ghent, Belgium | ||
| 2007 | Conversations, Galería Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain | |
| The hyper-realism of simulation, Estudio J.C. Orozco, Guadalajara, Mexico | ||
| Yaq, La planta, Guadalajara, Mexico | ||
| 2006 | Deshecho, Casa del Lago, Mexico City, Mexico | |
| El mundo de ayer, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| Masters and Johnson, Charro Negro, Guadalajara, Mexico | ||
| Rio Balsas, Mario Pani building, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| The People’s choice, Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy | ||
| 2005 | Acción Directa – Latin American Social Sphere, Prague Biennale 2, Czech Republic | |
| Domicile, Muse d’art moderne, Saint Etienne, France | ||
| Eco. Mexican contemporary art, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain | ||
| Farsites: urban symptoms, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, USA | ||
| Mexico Attacks!, Centro Nacional de la Cultura, San José, USA | ||
| Misunderstandings, GAM, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| 2004 | 24/7 Projects retrospective, The bakery / Annet Gelink, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| Construction por une deconstruction, Galerie Valerie Cueto, Paris, France | ||
| Gridlock: cities, structures, spaces, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand | ||
| Light and atmosphere, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida | ||
| So far so close, America’s Society Art Gallery, New York, USA | ||
| 2003 | Cambio de Valores, Espai de Art contemporani, Castello, Valencia, Spain | |
| In the absence of recombination, Bronx River Art Center, New York, USA | ||
| Jetset, Museum of installation, London, UK | ||
| Mex attacks, Fundazione Prometeo, Lucca, Italy | ||
| Mexico’s contemporary, Allbright College Art Gallery, Pennsylvania, USA | ||
| Piel fria, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| Salón Bancomer, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| The translator notes, Cafe Gallery Projects, London, UK | ||
| 2002 | Anonimous, Centro de arte Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain | |
| Fatamorgana, Zero, Milan, Italy | ||
| Home, Dress and Supplies, Plaza Carlos Pacheco, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| Interplay, The Moore Space, Miami and MA Puerto Rico | ||
| Leisure Theory, Fundación colección JUMEX, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| Mexico City: An Exhibition About the exchange rate of bodies and values, PS1, New York,USA and Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany | ||
| Panorama Emergente, III Iberoamerican Architecture Biennale, Chile | ||
| Puerto Rico Biennale 02, San Juan, Puerto Rico | ||
| Sauvage, La Panadería, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| 2001 | Asamblee, Centre Culturel du Mexique, Paris, France | |
| Recreo, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| The Vanishing City, Programa Art Center, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| Why Cars Don’t Fly Yet?, Centro de las artes, Monterrey, Mexico | ||
| Windows, Project for Centro de Arte.com, Madrid, Spain | ||
| 2000 | 2nd Intl. Sound Art Festival, House-studio Diego Rivera, Mexico City, Mexico | |
| A piece of the action, Galería Emma Molina, Monterrey, Mexico | ||
| Demonstration Room, Apex Art, New York. NICC, Antwerp, Belgium | ||
| Jet Propelled, Museo de las artes, Guadalajara, Mexico | ||
| Open Studio, Braziers workshop, Oxfordshire, UK | ||
| The Ideal House, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela | ||
| 1999 | An object of Morphology, Cineteca del estado, Monterrey, Mexico | |
| Incidental Television, Televicentro, Guadalajara, Mexico | ||
| Look Look…, Espacio 16/16, Guadalajara, Mexico | ||
| Searching for an unconquered place, Museo Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| Un-natural science, Museo Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico | ||
| 1998 | Domestic, Mar Egeo #1237, Guadalajara, Mexico | |
| Incidental Photography, Public Squash Courts, 7, 8 y 9, Guadalajara, Mexico | ||
| Incidental, Torre Guadalajara, Expoarte 98. Guadalajara, Mexico | ||
| 1996 | One hundred years of cinema, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico |
Publications (selected)
| 2015 | Daylight Found Me with No Answer, This Side Up, Madrid, Spain |
| 2014 | Contemporary Art Mexico, Hossein Amirsadeghi, TransGlobe Publishing, London, UK |
| Shooting Space. Architecture in Contemporary Photography, Elias Redstone, Phaidon, London, UK | |
| The Theatre of the World, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico | |
| 2013 | There But Not, powerHouse Books, New York, USA |
| Cutouts, Jose Dávila, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2011 | Now, Fundación/Colección JUMEX, Guadalajara, Mexico |
| Wir sind alle Astronauten, Universum Richard Buckminster Fuller im Spiegel Zeitgenössischer Kunst, edited by Marta Herford, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany | |
| 2010 | Puntos de encontro,“The Museum as Ruin”, Montserrat Albores, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain |
| 2009 | MAMÕYGUARA OPÁ MAMÕ PUPÉ, 31º Panorama de Arte Brasileira, Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 2008 | Direct Architecture, Marco Scotini and Cristián Silva, The End + BV33, Como, Italy |
| Megastructures-Reloaded, Markus Richter, Sabrina van der Lay, Hatje Cantz, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2007 | 100 Latin American Artists, EXIT, Madrid, Spain |
| 2006 | Artes plásticas en Casa de América, Ateneo romano, Madrid, Spain |
| 2005 | II Prague Biennale, Marco Scotini, Prague, Czech Republic |
| Domicile privé/public, Lóránd Heygi, Somogy éditions d’Art, Saint-Etienne, France | |
| Eco, Kevin Power, Osvaldo Sánchez, CONACULTA, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain | |
| 2004 | Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2004-5, Frieze publications, London, UK |
| Installation Art in the New Millennium, Nicolas de Oliveira, Nicola Oxley and Michael Petry, Thames & Hudson, London, UK | |
| 2003 | Cambio de valores, ARCO Collection, EACC, Castello, Spain, Madrid |
| Piel fría, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico | |
| Mexico Attacks!, Teresa Marcri, Associazione Prometeo per L’Arte Contemporanea, Lucca, Italy | |
| Cream 3, Ruben Gallo, Phaidon, London, UK | |
| 2002 | PR02 Bienal de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Interplay, Moore Space, Miami, USA | |
| Mexico City: An Exhibition about the Exchange Rates of Bodies and Values, Klaus Biesenbach, Patricia Martín, MoMA PS1 – Kunstwerke, New York, USA | |
| 2001 | Temporality Is a Question of Survival, Sacha Craddock, Ruben Gallo, Jose Dávila, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK |
Articles
| 2018 | “Perderse para encontrarse”, Ángela Molina, El País, September 18, 2018 |
| 2017 | “Artist Jose Dávila Plans a Portrait of LA by Sending Out Blank Sculptures and Waiting for the Graffiti to Arrive”, Julia Halperin, Artnet, September 14, 2017 |
| “See What the Top 200 Collectors Bought in the Past Year”, ARTnews, September 11, 2017 | |
| “Guadalajara Artist Jose Dávila moves around LA, Hollywood Squares”, Gerardo Lammers, Artillery, September 5, 2017 | |
| “HECHO EN MEXICO, MADE FOR LA”, Michael Slenske, LALA Magazine, Fall issue, 2017 | |
| 2016 | “The Delacroix Masterpiece That Unites Picasso, Lichtenstein and Jose Dávila”, Editorial, Artsy, October 17, 2016 |
| “Danger and Elegance Converge in New Sculptures by Jose Dávila”, Editorial, Artsy, July 28, 2016 | |
| 2015 | “A line is written on every corner – Jose Dávila interview”, Kathrine Borlit, Kopenhagen Magasin, October 9, 2015 |
| “50 Must-See Fall Exhibitions”, Editorial, Artsy, August 25, 2015 | |
| “Diane Van Deren: Artistas mexicanos y chilenos en la GGM”, Artishock, June 17, 2015 | |
| “Ocho artistas chilenos y mexicanos se congregan en Galería Garbriela Mistral”, Diario U Chile, May 25, 2015 | |
| “Mexicano presenta exposición ‘actos tectónicos de duda y deseo’ en España”, La Razón/Notimex, La Razón, May 27, 2015 | |
| “Jose Dávila (MEXICO) Dialogue Between Emptiness and Fullness”, Miguel Miguel, The Latin American Art Journal, April 15, 2015 | |
| “Jose Dávila’s ’Actos tectónicos de duda y deseo’”, Pablo Martinez, Art Agenda, April 13, 2015 | |
| “Jose Dávila primitivismo y modernidad”, Elena Vozmediano, El Cultural, March 2015 | |
| “Space Memory – Jose Dávila”, Francesco Spampinato, VOGUE, March 2015 | |
| “Obra del mexicano Jose Dávila, reconocida en Arco Madrid”, Uknown author, Pulso Diario de San Luis, February 28, 2015 | |
| “Jose Dávila. Dreaming of tension of matter”, José Juan Barba, Metalocus, February 27, 2015 | |
| “Mexicano crea dibujos en el aire con nueva exposición en España”, Unknown author, Notimex México, February 26, 2015 | |
| “Premian reto mexicano a la gravedad”, Luiz Méndez, Reforma, Madrid, February 26, 2015 | |
| “Travesia Cuatro to host Jose Dávila exhibition”, Unknown author, Art Media Agency, February 25, 2015 | |
| “Jose Dávila on the Poetry of Precarious Balances”, Andrew M. Goldstein, Artspace, February 5, 2015 | |
| “Jose Dávila, equilibrio de fuerzas”, Unknown author, hoyesarte.com, February 2015 | |
| “10 Mexican Artist to Watch in 2015”, Rodrigo Campuzano, ARTslant, January 12, 2015 | |
| “El mexicano Jose Dávila gana el Premio de Arte Latinoamericano EFG-ArtNexus”, Unknown author, Arteinformado, January 20, 2015 | |
| 2014 | Untitled, Mousse Publishing, London, October 2014 |
| “Jose Dávila’s Glossy New Sculpture Play With Architectural Forms”, Michael Sienske, Architectural Digest, February 7, 2014 | |
| “Jose Dávila: The Stranger, The Stranger and The Stranger”, Unknown Author, NOWNESS, May 18, 2014 | |
| “Jose Dávila moldea y retrata formas del espacio urbano”, Jessica Morón, El Universal, May 17, 2014 | |
| “Un Diálogo Entre El Arte Y La Arquitectura – Jose Dávila”, Ricardo Porrero, Código, April-May, 2014 | |
| “State of Rest: Galeria OMR in Mexico City presents the work of artist Jose Dávila”, Geovana Ibarra, Artdaily, April 2014 | |
| “Muestran los vínculos de la arquitectura con la teatralidad”, 2014 | |
| 2013 | “Jose Dávila Cuts-out Landmark Architecture and Sculpture”, Nina Azzarello, designboom.com, December 6, 2013 |
| “Jose Dávila”, Max Wigram, Flash Art 292, October 2013 | |
| “There But Not Compiles Jose Dávila’s Architectual Photography”, Michael Slenske, Architectual Digest, October 28, 2013 | |
| “Three Things You Should Know About Jose Dávila”, Artsy Editorial, artsy.net, October 16, 2013 | |
| “Exhibe Colección Femsa acervo contemporáneo en el Tec”, Leonel Rocha, Monterrey, October 4, 2013 | |
| “50 Under 50: The Next Most Collectible Artists, Part 1”, Art+Auction, ART+AUCTION – 2013, June 12, 2013 | |
| “Jose Dávila and Valeska Soares at Max Wigram, London”, Mousse Publishing, May 19, 2013 | |
| “Entrevista a Jose Dàvila”, Luzma Moctezuma, VOGUE, May 2, 2013 | |
| “Jose Dávila”, Greg Linquist, Arte Al Dia – 2013, 2013 | |
| “{condición delartista}”, Alejandro Alvarado, mural CULTURA, 2013 | |
| “CONVERSATIONS Q&A JOSE DÁVILA”, Unknown Author, Ocula, 2013 | |
| 2012 | “Tres miradas que se aceran en el MAZ”, Miriam Pulido, Milenio, February 9, 2012 |
| “Este artista sueña con materiales de construcción”, Elsa Fernández-Santos, El País, No. 12.949, Madrid, December 8, 2012, p. 40 | |
| “Art Public Curator Christine Y. Kim Discusses Taking Art Outdoors at Miami Beach”, Yasmine Mohseni, Blouin Artinfo, November 21, 2012 | |
| “Jose Dávila”, Adriana Herrera, Arte al Dia International, November 5, 2012 | |
| “Museo Reina Sofia adquiere pieza del tapatío José Dávila”, Informador, February 18, 2012 | |
| “Interview with Jose Dávila”, Paulina Ascencio and Mariana Aguirre, Taxi Art Magazine, February 13, 2012 | |
| “Sobre el ayer, el mañana y la luz flotante: El Parkour espiritual de Jose Dávila”, Cristián Silva, Taxi Art Magazine, Installation Issue | |
| 2011 | “Un autodidacta que dedica parte de su tiempo a la lectura e investigación sobre prácticas artísticas”, cream.mx, June 10, 2011 |
| 2009 | “COMMA 03/04: Kose Dávila and Jaime Gili”, e-flux, April 17, 2009 |
| “Minimalisme, Donald Judd et un remixe à la mexicaine”, Neil Wood, Paris, 2009 | |
| 2008 | “9.11.08 – Jose Dávila”, Christopher Chambers, Flash Art Online, 2008 |
| “Master Riff. Jose Dávila’s Architectural Winks”, Pierre Alexandre de Looz, Tokion, New York, Winter 2008, p. 31 | |
| 2006 | “L’architetto illegale”, Marco Scotini, Temporale, No. 62-63, Edizioni Studio Dabbeni, Lugano, 2006 |
| 2004 | “ ‘So Far, So Close’ Review: Litterature and Arts of the Americas”, Baudelio Lara, The Americas Society, Vol. 37, No. 2, November 2004, pp. 290-295 |
| “Jose Dávila”, Paola Santoscoy, Revista Código 06140, No. 22, Mexico City 2004, pp. 42-43 | |
| 2003 | “Mexico’s New Wave”, Malcom Beith, Newsweek International, New York, May 26, 2003, p. 84 |
| “Assael, Caretto, Courbout, Dávila”, Paola Capata, Arte e Critica, No.33, Rome, January, 2003, p. 46 | |
| 2002 | “Jose Dávila”, Francesco Rivero Lake, Art Nexus Magazine, No. 46, October-December, 2002, p.140 |
| 2001 | “Jose Dávila”, Rivista Celeste No. 3, Winter 2001-2002, Mexico City |
| “Jose Dávila”, Mark Currah, Time Out Magazine, No. 1626, London, October 17, 2001, p.62 | |
| “Jose Dávila”, Dan Smith, Art Monthly Magazine, No. 251, November, 2001, p.33 |
Awards, Grants and Residencies
| 2017 | Baltic Artists’ Award |
| 2015 | Residency at Fundación Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido, Mexio |
| 2014 | EFG Bank/Art Nexus Latin America Award |
| 2013 | Hotel El Ganzo, San Jose del Cabo, Baja California Sur, Mexico |
| 2004 | Residency at Ecole cantonal d’art du Valais, Switzerland |
| 2003 | Residency at Kunstwerke, Berlin |
| 2001 | Residency at Camden Arts Centre, supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation |
| 2000 | Residency at Braziers International workshop, Oxfordshire, UK |
| Recipient of the Mexican Arts Council Grant for young artists FONCA |
Public collections
| Allbright Knox Museum, Buffalo, USA | |
| Biedermann Museum, Donaueschingen, Germany The Guggenheim, New York, USA |
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| Centre Pompidou, Paris, France LOS LÍMITES DE LO POSIBLE, Valle de Bravo, Mexico |
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| Collection Deutsche Bank, Germany Stiftung für die Hamburger Kunstsammlung, Hamburg, Germany Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, The Netherlands |
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| Collection FEMSA, Monterrey, Mexico Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, USA |
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| Collection Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil | |
| Comunidad de Madrid, Collection of art, Madrid, Spain | |
| Fundación colección JUMEX, Mexico City, Mexico | |
| La Caixa Foundation, Madrid, Spain | |
| MALBA, Buenos Aires Museum of Latin American Art, Argentina | |
| MUAC, Museum of Contemporary Art Mexico City, Mexico | |
| MUDAM, Museum of modern art, Luxembourg, Luxembourg | |
| Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico Thyssen-Borneszima Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria |
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| Reina Sofía, National Museum of Art, Madrid, Spain | |
| Tate, London, UK Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA The Frank-Suss Collection, UK, US, Hong Kong Pérez Art Museum, Miami, USA |
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| Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany |
