SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Desinformacao Funcional, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo, Brazil Turn Left, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA 2011 Optimismo Radical, NC-Arte, Bogotá, Colombia
2012 Houston International Fine Art, Artered Gallery TX
2010 Lentissimo, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
2009 Cubic Drops, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA Slow Scandal, Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse University, NYAmerican Ream, Warehouse Gallery, Syracuse University, NY
2008 Hipo-Real, Nara Roesler Gallery, Sao Paulo, BrazilSlow Politics, Sicardi Gallery, Houston
2007 By Disappointment Only, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
2006 PROFILES:: THE TED TURNER CATALOG (from CNN to DNA),Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
2005 El Papel del Papel, Centro Colombo Americano, Bogota, Colombia Pages, iSpace, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, Chicago, IL Hotbed e Altre Storie, Vitamin Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy From DNA to CNN, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX The Ted Turner Collection (Report from the Battlefield), JoseeBienvenu Gallery, New York Le deMond Diplomatique, Galerie Frank, Paris Video Box, Centro Cultural Reina Sofia, Montevideo, Uruguay
2004 Micro & Soft on Macintosh Apple, video collaboration with Ken Solomon, Cristinerose/Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York
2003 exPECTACLE, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA Construcciones & Demoliciones, dibujos en español, Centro Cultural deEspaña, Montevideo, Uruguay * Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Buenos Aires, Argentina Constructing and Demolishing, Christinerose/Josee Bienvenu Gallery,New York
2002 São Paulo Biennial, BrazilPreColumbian & PostClintonian, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX Hotbed Line, Gallery Sala Uno, Rome, Italy Portuguese Drawings, Dan Galeria, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2001 Global Myopia, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO BITnik, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco 2000 micro macro mArco (0002-9991: a retrospective) ARCO ProjectRoom, Madrid, Spain Hardware vs. Software, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA The Pencil Monologues, 123 Watts Gallery, New York
1999 From Freezer to Microwave, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
1998 Techtonic, 123 Watts Gallery, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Time Flies, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2010 Works from the Daros Latinamerica Collection, Fundacion Banco Santander, Madrid archiTECHtonica, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado at Boulder Wall Drawing, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 White Noise, DePauw University, Indiana Cutters, Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College, New York & Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ Under the Knife, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY Site Mapping, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Lightness and Roughness of the Line, Nara Roesler, Sao Paulo, Brazil Freehand, Arratia, Beer Gallery, Berlin, Germany Drawn to Detail, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA Uncoordinated, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH Turning Point: The Demise of Modernism and Rebirth of Meaning in American Art, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT
WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, curated by LisaDennison, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY 2007 Rembrandt to Thiebaud: A Decade of Collecting Works on Paper, Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA From a Drawing Standpoint, Leo Fortuna Gallery, Hudson, NY
Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite, Joel and Lila Hartnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, traveling to Bedford Gallery at the Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006: Selections from a Decade of Collecting, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2006 Preview, Hosfelt Gallery, New York Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Paper Trails, Howard House Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA Skirting the Line: Conceptual Drawing, Wheeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN Poetics of the Handmade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Gyroscope, Highlights from the Collection, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC Art Rock, Rockefeller Center Plaza, New York Off/Fora, 29th Pontevedra Biennial, Pontevedra, Spain Estrecho Dudoso, TEORetica, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica
1999-2005
Minimalist Art Now, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI Drawing from the Modern 1975-2005, Museum of Modern Art, NY Video Box (with Ken Solomon), Centro Cultural Reina Sofia,
Montevideo, Uruguay Pages, iSpace, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, Chicago, IL Micro & Soft on Macintosh Apple (with Ken Solomon), Rhode Island
School of Design Museum, Providence, RI Drawing: Six Perspectives, Amelie Wallace Gallery, Old Westbury, NY A Grain of Dust, A Drop of Water, Gwangju Biennale, South Korea San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña,
San Juan, Puerto Rico Troy Story, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco Happy Days are Here Again, David Zwirner Gallery, New York microwwwave, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX Daros Foundation Project 2004, Zurich, Switzerland Inverted World, Artspace, New Haven, CT Newspapers, Cristinerose/Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York IV Bienal del Mercosur, Porto Alegre, Brazil inCUBAdora, VIII Bienal, de la Habana, Havana, Cuba Vision & Revision: Works on Paper from 1960, Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, MA Systems Now, The Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, WI Paper, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA A Fine Line: Artists Who Draw, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA Itinerancia, Itamarati Palace, Brasilia, Brazil 25th São Paolo Biennial, Brazil European and American Selections from the 25th São Paulo Biennial, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Santiago, Chile Yesteryear/Nowadays, Hales Gallery, London, England Accumulation, Clifford Smith Gallery, Boston, MA The Microwave, Cristinerose / Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York By Hand: Pattern, Precision & Repetition in Contemporary Drawing,University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach* III Bienal del Mercosur, Porto Alegre, Brazil Stacks, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA Drawing on Tradition, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA* Extraordinary Realities, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH From the Inside Out: Landscapes Reconsidered, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA Mapping, Territory, Connections, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France Horror Vacuui, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Prints 2000, Fisher Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Introducing...: Drawings by Four Artists, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA Microwave one, 123 Watts Gallery, New York* New Work: Drawing, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco New Space/New Work, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco Summer Voices, Miller & Block Gallery, Boston, MA
MARCO MAGGI SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012 Adatto, Vanessa, Solo Show: Marco Maggi, ArtNexus, Issue #84 March-May 2012.
2009 Zamudio, Raúl, Marco Maggi: Between Drawing and Withdrawing, Artnexus, May, pp 60-64.
2008 Hirszman, Maria. A arte latino-americana em alta, O Estado de Sao Paulo, August 23. MacAdam, Alfred, Marco Maggi, ARTnews. Pedrosa, Adriano, Slow Politics, Exhibition catalogue, Nara Roesler
Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Uruguaio dá volume ao tempo em exposição, Folha de S.Paulo, August
25. Smee, Sebastian. Filling in the blanks, The Boston Globe, September12.
2007 O’Steen, Daniel, X-Acto Science, Art + Auction.
Tiscornia, Ana, Marco Maggi, To Be Looked at Closely, Arte al Dia International.
Yoshpe, Sheila, A Slow Walk with artist Marco Maggi, Roll Magazine. 2006 Baker, Kenneth, Artists reveal slivers of information in SF shows, San
Francisco Chronicle, April 8, 2006, p. E10. Janku, Laura, San Francisco Roundup: A Report on Current Gallery, Museum Shows, Artinfo.com, April 8, 2006. 2005 González, Julieta, San Juan Print Triennial, ArtNexus, No. 56, Volume 3, pp. 70-75. Maggi, Marco. The Ted Turner Collection: Report From the Battlefield
Paper on Uccello), Cabinet, issue 17, Spring, pp. 46-50. Schwendener, Martha. Marco Maggi, “The Ted Turner Collection”, Time Out New York, April 28- May 4. 2004 Baker, Kenneth. Marco Maggi, Artnews, April, pp. 124, 126.
Church, Amanda. ‘Pages’ at Cristinrose/Josee Bienvenu Gallery, Art on Paper, March/April.
Jana, Reena. Paper Cuts, Art on Paper, November/December.
Levin, Kim. Newspapers, The Village Voice, July 21-7. 2003 Baker, Kenneth. Building a Metropolis of Paper, One Page at a Time,
San Francisco Chronicle, September 19, p. D10. Barliant, Claire. The Microwave. Cristinerose/Josée Bienvenu, Art On Paper, Jan/Feb, pp. 76-77. Bing, Alison. Raising Expectations, sfgate.com, ePicks Sept 18-24. Di Maggio, Nelson. Marco Maggi, Revelacion de un Creador,
La Republica, May 19. Haber, Alicia. Un Creador Reflexivo y Sutil, El Pais, May 19. Levin, Kim. Marco Maggi, The Village Voice, May 20. MacAdam, Barbara. Marco Maggi, Artnews, November. MacAdam, Barbara. Marco Maggi, Review, Fall, pp. 72-7. Neves, Manuel. Iluminaciones Blancas, Mas Caras y Caretas, May 13. Nicholas, Matthew Guy. Marco Maggi at Cristinerose/Josee Bienvenu,
Art in America, December. Scott, Andrea. Marco Maggi, Time Out New York, May 15-22. Tiscornia, Ana. Marco Maggi, Artnexus, Sept-Nov. Wasserman, Shara. Report from Italy: Roma Renovatio, Art in America, June, pp. 58-9. Weintraub, Linda. Marco Maggi: Constructing and Demolishing; Manual to Settle Sediments, Art Journal, Fall, cover & back illus., pp. 84-103. Weintraub, Linda. Being Gently Subversive: Marco Maggi, from In the Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Art, Distributed Art Publishers, NY, pp. 270-9.
2002 Amarante, Leonor. Ecos globais, Bravo! March, p. 54.Coelho, Teixeira. Arte na metrópole, Bravo! March, pp. 42-3. Cresci, Simona. Marco Maggi all Salla 1, Time Out Roma, September. Cypriano, Fabio. Maggi faz arte ‘a curta distância’, Folha de S.Paulo,July 20, p. E5. Hirszman, Maria. Um sussurro sobre a falta de sentido do mundo,O Estado de S.Paulo,” July 20, p. D5. Johnson, Ken. The Microwave, The New York Times, October 4. Machado, Alvaro. Marco Maggi, faz arte a curta distancia, Folha de São Paolo, July 20. Pedrosa, Adriano. Marco Maggi at Dan Galeria, Artforum.com, Critic’sPicks, São Paulo. Weintraub, Linda. Unending Beginnings: The Graphic Work of Marco Maggi, Southward Art, issue 8, Sept 02/Feb 03, pp. 46-56. 2001 Caniglia, Julie. Marco Maggi, 123 Watts, Artforum, March, 2001, p.146. Hackman, Kate. A Dynamic Universe, Sprung from One Mind, Kansas City Star, April 29, 2001, p. J5. MacAdam, Barbara A., The Micro Wave, ARTnews, April, 2001, pp.130-3. Scott, Andrea K., Marco Maggi, The New York Times, January 29,
2001. Wolgamott, L. Kent. A Touch of Tech, Lincoln Journal Star, May 20.
2000 Castaño, Adolfo. Las Diez Mejores Artistas en ARCO, ABC Cultural, Madrid, Spain, February 12, 2000. Haber, Alicia, Micro, Macro, Marco, ARCO Noticias, Madrid, Spain, 2000. McQuaid, Cate. Innovative Lines, The Boston Globe, March 11, 2000. McQuaid, Cate. Drawings Trace the Intricate, The Boston Globe, March11, 2000. Scott, Sue. Using Mundane Materials for Minimalist Installations, Downtown Express, December 19 2000 – January 1 2001. --. Lo Ultimo de EEUU, El Pais, Madrid, Spain, February 12, 2000.
1999 --. Culture Hot List, San Francisco Magazine, October 1999, p.42. Baker, Kenneth. Contemporary Works at Hosfelt, San Francisco Chronicle, August 7, 1999, p. D1.Baker, Kenneth. Wide-Ranging Images by 15 Artists at Hosfelt, San Francisco Chronicle, April 10, 1999. Nahas, Dominique. Microwave, one; Art review, New York, October 15, 1999. Porges, Maria. Artforum, December 1999, pp. 152-3. 1998 Camalo, Maria Julia. El Arte de las Sensaciones Tenues, El Pais, Montevideo, Uruguay, January 10, 1998. Jackson, Jeff. Hot List: The Artist, San Francisco Magazine, October. Levin, Kim. Short List, Village Voice, New York, December 15, 1998. Montreuil, Gregory. Marco Maggi, Cover, Vol. 13, December 1998
Born 1957 Montevideo, Uruguay
Education 1998 MFA, State University of New York whose work incorporates common materials such as aluminum foil, graphite, and fabrics to create mixed media, often sculptural pieces
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Daros Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland , El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Modern Art, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
'My textures don't have specific meanings; they work like hangers. They are open texts to open readers.The textures are pre-textuals and textiles. They are not pretexts for aesthetic decorations.Textures and surfaces are previous texts and at the same time : seeds of text or fossil texts waiting for meanings. Depending on the viewer, the textures become science fiction of the past or archaeology of the future, technological or biological.My references are pre-Columbian and post-Clintonian.Our world is full of signs that we cannot understand: new circuits, old alphabets, atoms, dolmens, cells, biologic or urban fabrics, encrypted messages, mutant viruses.
We are condemned to know more and understand less; it's not a contradictory process, it's a semiotic indigestion."
--Marco Maggi