Allora & Calzadilla
Jennifer Allora
(b. 1974, Philadelphia, USA)
Guillermo Calzadilla
(b. 1971, Havana, Cuba)
Education
Jennifer Allora
2001-2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS), Cambridge, MA
1998-1999 Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY
1996 University of Richmond (BA), Richmond, VA
Guillermo Calzadilla
2000-2003 Bard College,(MFA) Anandale-on-Hudson, NY
1996 Escuela de Artes Plásticas (BFA), San Juan, PR
Fellowships & Residences
2008 DAAD Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Berlin, Germany
2006 Couvent des Récollets, Residence des Récollets, Paris
2004 Walker Art Center Artist in Residence Program, Minneapolis
2004 Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, Umbertide, Italy
2004 Headlands Center for the Arts Bridge Residency Program, CA
1998-1999 P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center National Studio Program, NY
2008 Artists-in-Berlin Program, DAAD, Berlin
Awards & Grants
2006 Hugo Boss Prize Shortlist
2006 Nam June Paik Award Shortlist
2004 Gwangju Biennial Prize
2003 Penny McCall Foundation Grant
2002 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
2000-2001 Cintas Fellowship
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 “Compass,” Kurimanzutto, Mexico, DF
“Allora & Calzadilla,” Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
“Number Three: Here And Now”, The Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
2009 “RETHINK Relations,” Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
“Stop, Repair, Prepare”, Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Allora & Calzadilla,” Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
“Allora & Calzadilla: How to Appear Invisible,” Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin
“Allora & Calzadilla”, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
2008 “Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on ‘Ode to Joy’ for a Prepared Piano”, Haus der Kunst, Munich; traveled to Gladstone Gallery, New York (2009)
“Wake Up, Clamor, Sediments, Sentiments”, Kunstverein München, Munich
“Allora & Calzadilla”, Galerie Franco Soffiantino, Turin
“Never Mind That Noise You Heard”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2007 “Sediments, Sentiments (Figures of Speech)”, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
"Whitechapel Laboratory- Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla” Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
“Allora & Calzadilla”, Lisson Gallery, London
“Allora & Calzadilla,” Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich
“Clamor,” Serpentine Gallery, London
“Wake Up,” The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
“Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla,” Whitechapel Laboratory, London
“Unrealizable Goals,” Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan
2006 Clamor, The Moore Space, Miami
Concentrations 50: Allora & Calzadilla, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Combine Platter, Screening event, LA MOCA, Los Angeles
Land Mark, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
(En)tropics, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Allora & Calzadilla, S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
2005 Download, Art Positions: ArtBasel Miami Beach
2004 Unstable Atmospheres. Lisson Gallery, London
Ciclonismo. Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Chalk. 7 th Annual ICA/Vita Brevis Project, Institute of Contemporary Art ( ICA), Boston
Radio Revolt: One Person, One Watt. Artist in Residence Project, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2003 Land Mark. Escuela de Artes Plásticas, San Juan, PR
Puerto Rican Light. Americas Society, New York
2002 Allora & Calzadilla. Institute of Visual Arts (INOVA) at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
2001 Allora & Calzadilla. Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce, PR
2000 Other Worlds. Project Rooms, ARCO, Madrid
1997 Charcoal Dance Floor. Luigi Marrozzini Gallery, San Juan, PR
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 29th São Paulo Biennial, Brazil
“Adaptation: Between Species,” The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
“Nobody's Property: Art, Land, Space, 2000-2010”, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
“Restless Empathy”, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
“Autoconstruccion (self-construction)” an exhinbition by antonio castro, abraham cruzvillegas and antonio fernández ros, Kurimanzutto, Mexico
“Art, Media and Material Witness: Contemporary Art from the Harn Museum of Art, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida
2009 “Number Three: Here and Now,” The Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf
“Free as Air and Water,” Cooper Union Gallery, New York
“Rotating Views #1,” Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
“Un Certain Etat du Monde?” Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
“Private Univeres: Media Works”, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
“Wake Up, Please”, Le Quartier, centre d’art contemporain de Quimper, Quimper, France
“Art TLV 09”, Tel Aviv
2008 “Prospect.1 New Orleans”, curated by Dan Cameron, New Orleans
"Quiet Politics," Zwirner & Wirth, New York
"Perplexed in Public," Lisson Gallery, London
"Peripheral Vision and Collective Body”, MUSEION Museo d’arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bolzano
"After Nature," The New Museum, New York
“Viva la muerte”, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
“Las Implicaciones de la Imagen (The implications of image)”, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte – MUCA, Mexico City
“Field Work – part 1”, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam
OPEN/ INVITED E V+ A 2008” ev+a, Limerick
“Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art”, Barbican, London
“Greenwashing”, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Collection Videos & Films Jean-Conrad& Isabelle
Lemaitre”, Kunsthalle zu Kiel der Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel
2007 For Sale,” Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon
“9th Lyon Biennale “ 00’s THE HISTORY OF A DECADE THAT HAS yet BEEN NAMED, France
“10th International Istanbul Biennial: Not Only Necessary but Possible, Optimism in the Age of Global War” International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul”
“All about Laughter,” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
“Depiction, Perversion, Repulsion, Obsession, Subversion,” Witte de With, Rotterdam
" Video Trajectories: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection and the New Art Trust” MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
“Apocalypse Now”, (Co-curated with Jens Hoffman), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
“Global Multitude in the Rotunda”, APC and Luxembourg 2007, Luxembourg
“6th Mercosur Biennale”, Porto Alegre, Brazil
“Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art”, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn
“Still Life: Art, Ecology & the Politics of Change,” Sharjah Biennial 8, Sharjah
"Otra De Vaqueros," Bâtiment d'art contemporain, Geneva
“Cosmologies,” James Cohan Gallery, Geneva
“Otra De Vaqueros,” Centre d’édition contemporaine, New York
“Après la pluie,” Musée départmental d'art contemporain, Rochechouart, France
“Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art,” Moscow
Valencia Biennial. Valencia, Spain
2006 Empathic, Temple Gallery, Temple University Campus, Philadelphia, PA
Beyond the Museum, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin
Busan Biennale 2006, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea
Ecotopia: The 2 nd ICP Triennal of Photography and Video, International Center for Photography, New York
Une Vision du Monde, La Maison Rouge, Paris
Artificial Light, Anderson Gallery, VCU, Richmond; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Group Therapy, MUSEION, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzana
Nam June Paik Award 2006, Museum of Applied Arts Cologne, Germany
Home of the Free, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago
Territory, Artspeak/Presentation House, Vancouver, Canada
2éme Festival Photo et Vidéo de Biarritz, Biarritz, France
La Force de L’art, Grand Palais, Paris
Wrong, Galerie Klosterfelde , Berlin
Other Than Art, Provisions Library, Washington, D.C.
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2005 Les Visiteurs, Chateau d’Oiron, France
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ralentir Vite. Le Plateau/ FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris
Videographias In(Visibles), Museo Patio Herreriano de Arte Contemporaneo Espanol, Valladolid, Spain
Drivin, Exposition Frac-Collection Aquitaine, Bordeaux
Second Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Loop 05 La 3ème, Barcelona
T – Torinotriennale tremuse: The Pantagruel Syndrome, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudeng
Poesia in Forma di Rosa : Tribute to Pasolini », Videoscreening, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Montefalcone
Beyond Green: Towards a Sustainable Art, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
Uncertain States of America, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Museum Art in Oslo, Norway ; traveled to CCS, Bard College, New York
Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art 2005, Lyon, France
inSITE_05. San Diego, CA and Tijuana, Mexico
The Gesture: A Visual Library in Progress, Macedonian Museum Of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece </</td>
Tropical Abstraction, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam
51st International Art Exhibition. Venice
That From a Long Way off looks Like Flies, Platfotm Garantí Contemporary Arts Center, Istanbul
The Mind is a Horse (Part 2), Bloomberg Space, London
Material Time/Work Time/Life Time. Reykjavik Arts Festival, Reykjavik, Iceland
Land Marks, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Monuments for the USA. CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco
Dedicated to you, but you weren't listening. Power Plant, Toronto
E-Flux Video Rental, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
No Convenient Subway Stops. Art in General, New York
Contemporaneo Liquido. Franco Soffiantino Gallery, Turin, Italy
1 Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art: Dialectics of Hope. Moscow
Utopia Station. World Social Forum, São Paulo
I Love Art Vidéo, Le Forum Itinérant, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg
Irreducible: Contemporary Short Form Video. CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco
2004 Triennal Poli/grafica de San Juan, San Juan, PR
Island Nations. The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Gwangju Biennale 2004: A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water. Gwangju, South Korea
PARA SITES. When Space Comes Into Play. Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Wien, Austria
Dakar Biennial: Le Monde: Dak’Art 2004. Dakar, Senegal
None of the Above. Real Art Ways, Hartford
Son et Lumiere. List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Ailleurs/Ici. Musee D’Art Moderne de La Ville De Paris/Arc Au Couvent Des Cordeliers, Paris
Situations construites, Attitudes, Espace d’art contemporain, Geneva
2003 Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self. International Center of Photography, New York
Common Wealth. Tate Modern, London
Away From Home. The Wexner Center for The Arts, Columbus, OH
How Latitudes Become Forms. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo per L’Arte, Turin, Italy; Contemporary Arts Center, Houston
24/7. Center of Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
Institution2, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland, in collaboration with the Center of Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuania
2002 Interplay. The Moore Building, Miami
Fair. Royal College of Art, London
III Bienal Iberoamericana. Lima, Peru
Bird’s Eye View. The Arch at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
2001 Zoning. The Project, New York
2000 VII Bienal de la Habana. Havana, Cuba
Puerto Rico 00 (Parentesis en la ‘Ciudad’). San Juan, PR
S-Files. El Museo del Barrio, New York
Distinctions. A thesis exhibition at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard
College, NY; Berrie Center for the Arts, Ramapo College, Ramapo, NJ
Puerto Rico Hoy. Instituto de America, Santa Fe, Spain
1999 1999. P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, NY
1998 XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo. São Paulo, Brazil
Caribe: Exclusión, Fragmentación, y Paraiso. MEIAC, Badajoz, Spain; Casa Las Americas, Madrid
