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Pablo Helguera Phelguera@aol.com

Born: Mexico City, Mexico, 1971 Resides: New York City

2002

Galerija P74, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Kunst-Initiative, Radevormwald, Germany

Denkzeichen Alexanderplatz, Berlin

P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center (performance)

IFA Gallery, Bonn (peformance, forthcoming)

2001

INTAR Gallery, New York

Whitebox, New York

University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

University of Montana, Missoula, MT

2000

Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia

Matice Hrvatska Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia

Dominican University, Chicago, Illinois

Ex-Teresa Arte Alternativo, Mexico City, Mexico

Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas (with Vivian Pastuovich)

1999

Galeria Nina Menocal, Mexico City, Mexico

1998

Leonora Vega Gallery, New York

Talleria Espacio Cultural, Mexico City, Mexico

Binomio- public performance, Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, Mexico

1997

The Palace and other Pilsen Stories (playwright and performer); Blue Rider Theater, Chicago, IL

Jurua (playwright and performer); Blue Rider Theater, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

1996

Prospectus Art Gallery, Chicago

1995

The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci- Performance at Blue Rider Theater and

Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

1994

Circorama de la Nostalgia Operistica- Performance at the Chicago Cultural Center , Chicago, IL

Polanco- Performance at the School of Mexico City, Mexico

1993

Babel- Installation and Performance at Gallery 2, Chicago

Empty Days- Performance at School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Museutopia- Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany

Art at the Armory, New York City ( Nina Menocal Gallery)

Politicas de la diferencia. Arte Iberoamericano de Fin de Siglo- Consorcio de

Museos de la Comunidad Valenciana- Traveling show to Centro de Convencoes de Pernambuco, Recife, Brasil; Museo de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Peppermint- Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Fast Forward Miami- (selection curated by Franklin Sirmans)

Casa das Rosas, Sao Paulo, Brazil

The Fact Show- Pittsburg Center for the Arts, Pittsburg, PA

"Hopscotch" Kean University, Union, New Jersey

Mediaterra International Art and Technology Festival- Fournos Center for New Media, Athens, Greece. Traveling exhibition to Lavrion, Greece; Sofia — Plovdiv, Bulgaria; Maribor, Slovenia; Frankfurt, Germany.

The Artist in the Marketplace- Bronx Museum, NY

The Brewster Show, Brewster, NY

Pedagogy- Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL

Interactiva- Museum of Art, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico

Everythingness- installation and performance. Viper Festival, Basel,

Switzerland.

Double Trouble: the Tom Patchett Collection - travelling exhibition, Sala

Amos, Logrono, Spain

Actos de Fe- Traveling exhibition, Museo Diego Rivera, Mexico

Transit- National University of Colombia, Bogota

S-Files, Museo del Barrio, New York, NY

Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL

Overcoat, mobile exhibition curated by Jesee Bercowetz, Los Angeles, Hamburg,

Berlin, New York

Double Trouble: the Tom Patchett Collection - travelling group exhibition,

Auditorio de Galicia, Spain; Iglesia de San Domingo de Bonaval, Santiago de

Compostela, Spain

Bellas Intenciones- Universidad de Cuenca, Spain

Disorienting Signs- group exhibition, Leonora Vega Gallery, New York

SexTablos- Group Exhibition, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago

Performance with Larry Krone- P.S. 122 , New York

Home/Away from Home- Group Exhibition, Kentler Int'l Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY

Chicago Art Exposition (under Nina Menocal Gallery), Chicago, IL

Ciudad- 5 Installations in homage to Octavio Paz. Mexican Fine Arts Center

Museum, Chicago, IL

A la Fabrica- group exhibition in conjunction with Guadalajara Art Fair,

Tlaquepaque Ceramic Factory, Guadalajara, Mexico

Zagreb Youth Salon, Zagreb, Croatia

ElevenEleven- Performance, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago

Not in My Lobby, you Don't- group show, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; public

installation at the Lyric Opera of Chicago

Dance Center of Columbia College -Storytelling performance with David

Rousseve, Chicago, IL

Five Artists, August House, Chicago, IL

El Mexterminator Performance by Guillermo Gomez Pe+_a, Randolph Street

Gallery, Chicago

Tribute , Prospectus Art Gallery, Chicago, IL

Songs of Protest and Struggle- Performance at Chicago Historical Society,

Chicago, IL

The Trickster, Flat Iron Building, Chicago, IL

Vampiras Look Towards You-performance by Encarnacion Teruel, Mercury Theater,

Chicago, IL

Artist in Residence Exhibit , Fine Arts Building, Chicago, IL

Survival:Four Responses- Gallery 2, Chicago, IL

Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL

Italian Cultural Institute, Chicago, IL

Chicago Atheneum, Chicago, IL

Mexican Printmaking Workshop, Chicago, IL

Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico

University of Pachuca, Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico

Near Northwest Arts Council, Chicago, IL

Performance collaborator for Guillermo Gomez-Pena at The Year of the White

Bear project, Field Museum, Chicago, IL

Education:

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA, 1993)

Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona (1991

School of Visual Arts, University of Mexico(1988-89)

Lehmann, Nadja "Zwei Kirchen wandelh sich zu Museutopia", Radevormwald RGA, June 12, 2002

‘A Telenovela Scrapbook", Nyarts magazine, May 2002

Ceballos, Miguel Angel. "urge reinventar los museos". El Universal, April 25, 2002

Helguera, Pablo "An American Berlin Wall". Printed in Parentesis Mazazine (Mexico City), Radionica (Zagreb), others, Fall 2001

Neiya, Naief, "Pablo Helguera" Art Nexus, September 2001.

Elan, Susan. "Show Celebrates Brewster’s History, Culture". The Journal News,

Sunday, July 29, 2001.

McNamer, Megan. "Memory Lane", Missoula Independent, Montana, Nov 15-22, 2001.

Cypriano, Fabio. "A Identidade que nos Separa". Folha de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 2, 2001.

Helguera, Pablo. "Mexico City: Unmasked Contexts". Tema Celeste Magazine, May-June 2001.

Cristancho, Raul. "Pablo Helguera at the University of the Andes", Art Nexus,

June 2000.

Helguera, Pablo. "Imaginary Landscapes". Tema Celeste Magazine, January-February, 2001.

Saenz, Jorge Luis. "Museums: Academic and Dusty Instititutions" Milenio

newspaper, October 20, 2000.

Obejas, Achy, "Performance Festival Reaches End of the Line", Chicago Tribune, 4/13/ 1999

Kartofel, Graciela. "Voiceover". Art Nexus Magazine, May 1999

Norena, Aurora. Pablo Helguera’s Reveses. Exhibition review, October 1999.

Obejas, Achy. "ArtSmart"- Latin Girl magazine, April 1999

Obejas, Achy. "I helped build something"cover of Tempo Section, Chicago

Tribune, September 9, 1998

Williams, Emilio. "Poesia Borracha"- Agencia EFE, Spain, Fall 1998

Camper, Fred. "Postmodern Pitfalls". Chicago Reader, January 15, 1999.

Hayford, Justin. "When Theater People Walked the Earth"-The Reader, February 14, 1997

Jones, Chris. "Pilsen Ghosts Haunt the Stage". Chicago Tribune, February 24, 1997.

Barnidge, Mary Shen. "The Palace". Chicago Reader, March 7, 1997.

Stametz, Bill. "The Palace (and other Pilsen Ghost Stories)" New Art

Examiner, May 1997.

Obejas, Achy. "Jurua Makes Connections Using 2 Art Forms". Chicago Tribune, October 10, 1997.

Hawkins, Margaret. "Helguera Blends History, Pop Culture". Chicago Sun-Times, July 19, 1996.

Williams, Emilio. "The Poetics of the Impossible". Exito Newspaper, July 11, 1996.

Cassidy, Victor. "Three Latino Artists and the Narrative Tradition". Chicago Artist news, October 1996

Noorthoorn, Victoria, "Memory Theater", Exhibition Essay, University of Montana, 2001

Clark, Vicky: "The Fact Show: Conceptual Art Today". Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Sept, 2001

Ellegood, Anne. "Pablo Helguera’s Sublimations" Exhibition essay, Whitebox

Gallery, New York, July 2001.

Sirmans, Franklin. "Everythingness (Unfeeling)" Exhibition essay, INTAR

Gallery, June 2001

Yee, Lidia and Ramoran, Edwin. Exhibition essay, Artist in the Marketplace Twenty-first Annual Exhibition catalogue; The Bronx Museum for the Arts, July 2001

Zamudio Taylor, Victor- Exhibition essay, "Politics of Difference: Iberoamerican Art of the End of the Century" catalogue; Consorcio de Museuos de la Comunidad Valenciana, June 2001.

Cassens, Linda. "Everythingness". Viper Festival Publication, Basel, Switzerland, Oct, 2000.

Ramirez, Yazmin, and Cullen, Deborah: ‘S-Files", Exhibition catalogue, El Museo del Barrio, NY, June 2000.

Vukmir, Janka. 3 Artists. Exhibition essay. Gallery Matice Hrvatske, May 2000

Estep, Jan. Exhibition essay, Disorienting Signs., Leonora Vega Gallery, New York, 1999.

Leon, Dermis. The Back Sides of "Drawbacks". Exhibition Essay. 1999

Elkins, James. "A Real Disquietude"- Exhibition Essay, "Parking Zones", Mexico City, 1998

Loescher, Robert. "Voiceover ". Exhibition Essay, New York, 1998

Escalona, Alejandro. "Muebleria Nostalgica" Exhibition Essay, Chicago, 1997

Barandiaran, Maria Jose- "Nightly Obedience". Exhibition Essay, Chicago, 1996

Organizer, "The Museum as Medium"- two- session symposium at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and at the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City (forthcoming)

Guest Lecturer, Hunter College, New York, NY

Panelist, Apex Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Panelist, College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL

Panelist, "Hopscotch", Kean University, Elizabeth, New Jersey

Visiting Artist, University of Oregon

Visiting Artist, University of Montana

Artist in residence, Artist in the Marketplace program, Bronx Museum, NY

Panelist, Open Source Architecture, Symposium, Eyebeam Atelier, New York

Moderator, conversation with Vito Acconci and Hani Rashid, Guggenheim Museum

Instructor: "Performance Art in the Classroom", Guggenheim Museum, NY

Organizer, "The Artist and the Museum", 4-day symposium, University of the Andes, Bogota

Temporary Instructor, City College of New York — Museum Education Seminar

Panelist, Medi@terra Festival, Athens, Greece

Artist in Residence, Lindsborg Arts Council, Lindsborg, KS

Panelist, Universes-In-Universe, internet art forum org. by the House of World Cultures, Berlin

Panelist: "Floyd Collins". Book presentation with Dianna Frid. Esso Gallery, New York.

Organizer and moderator: "Fiction Inside and Outside of the Museum" panel discussion, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City

Lecturer, Lyceum Series on Cultural Issues, Millkin University, Decatur, IL

Public project coordinator with Ildiko Repasi, "Home/Away from Home". RedHook community, Brooklyn, NY

Co-curator, Disorienting signs, Leonora Vega Gallery, NY

Panelist, Mob Rules- White Columns, NY- discussion published in NY Arts Magazine, 1999

Panelist, Universes-In-Universe, internet art forum org. by the House of World Cultures, Berlin

Curator, Concerning Truth. Multi-space exhibition at Thomas Blackman Associates, University of Illinois at Chicago (Gallery 400 ), School of the Art Institute of Chicago ( 1926 N. Halsted Space ), Chicago

Curator, Take one, Put one, Take them All, Prospectus Gallery, Chicago

Visiting Artist, Raymer Society, Lindsborg, Kansas

Lecturer, Contemporary Mexican Artists. Art Institute of Chicago. (July 1998)

Organizer, Homage to Octavio Paz- Reading at Harold Washington Public Library

Panelist, Mexico Ahora Exhibition. Chicago Cultural Center (July 1998)

Panelist, Hyde Park Art Center Arts Forum.

Panelist, Illinois Arts Council Arts in Education Residency Program

Graduate Critique Panelist, University of Illinois at Chicago

Graduate Critique Panelist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Guest Artist/Speaker, Chicago Arts Program.

Participant, panel discussion, Mexico City/ Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City

Moderator, panel discussion: Mexico City/Chicago: Where is the Art Coming From? Chicago Cult. Ctr.

Instructor, Artistas de España y Latinoamérica: Tapiz del Siglo Veinte. (6 wk. seminar)

Cervantes Inst., Chicago

Coordinator, Stan Douglas Artist-In Residence Project, MCA, Chicago

Organizer, lecture series with: Marjorie Perloff, Dore Ashton, Rosalind Krauss, Andy Goldsworthy, Chuck Close, Stan Douglas, Roberta Smith, Teodoro González de León, others.

Host, cable access cultural programs, BCAT, Brooklyn, NY.

Panelist, Illinois Arts Council -Multidisciplinary Arts Grant

Visiting Artist, University of Illinois at Chicago. Collaboration with Experimental Sound Studio and Centro Guadalupano

Judge, All City Art Exhibit (Chicago Public Schools)

Visiting Artist, Storytelling workshops and performance, sponsored by the Dance Center of Columbia College, Horner Park

Instructor, Art as Performance- Teacher Workshop, Museum of Contemporary Art.

Coordinator, Art in Chicago Symposium; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Day-long event including Leon Golub, Buzz Spector, Stuart Dybek and Ana Castillo, others.

Moderator, Talk with British performance artist Bobby Baker, Atheneum Theater, organized by Performing Arts Chicago.

Lecturer, Arts Education and Contemporary Art- Lecture at the Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL - Coordinator, Willie Cole Artist-In-Residence Project, MCA, Chicago- Exhibitions Committee Member, Randolph Street Gallery (1997-98)- Organized lecture series with: Lorna Simpson, Chantal Akerman, Lawrence Weschler, Richard Misrach, Leon Golub, Peter Selz, others.- Performance Committee member, Randolph Street Gallery (1996-97)

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