ADRIÁN S. BARÁ
Adrian S. Bará’s (b.1982) practice, at its core, explores the body and its relation to space and modern architecture, as well as its representation at the intersection between sculpture, installation, painting, and video. The artist’s training as a filmmaker drives his narrative—pulling in from daily materials and positions to construct ‘sculpted situations’ that are meant to be activated by viewers as they project their own accounts into the objects that invite them to do so. Bará´s artwork often functions as archival traces of personal events—as stories that are meant to be intervened, challenged, and transformed through acts of looking.
Bará has held solo and two-person exhibitions including the ongoing project and exhibition Estructuras de la Razón, Páramo, Guadalajara, México (2019) and ArtCenter / South Florida in Miami, USA (2017); Adrián S. Bará and Florian Schmidt, Johannes Vogt, New York, USA (2017); Aesthetics of a Collapsed System, Casa Pedregal, Mexico City (2016); Le Palais, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico (2015). Selected group exhibitions include Almost Solid Light: New Work from Mexico, Paul Kasmin, NY, USA (2018); Tinnitus y Fosfenos, Zapopan Art Museum, Zapopan, Mexico (2014); and Everything Must Go, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, USA (2011).
In 2019, Bará was an artist-in-residence at PIVÔ Research, São Paulo, Brazil, and in 2016 at the International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York, USA.
The artist work as director of photography for films includes The Weekend Sailor (2016), Madrid International Film Festival award for best cinematography, and The Solitude of Memory (2014), included in Le Festival de Cannes 2015, and winner of the Jury Award for Documentary Short at the Slamdance Film Festival.
Work by the artist is held in private collections worldwide, including the Space Collection, Irvine, California, USA; Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy; Isabel and Agustín Coppel Collection, Mexico, and Diéresis Collection, Guadalajara, Mexico.
EDUCATION
2002 – 2006
B.A., Motion Picture Arts and Cinematography in Film and Video, Capilano University, North Vancouver, Canada
CURRENT AND UPCOMING
Group exhibition
El castillo de los ladrillos rotos, guadalajara90210, Mexico City, Mexico
Fall 2019
Casa de Luz, curated by Camila Bechelany, São Paulo, Brazil
Fall 2019
Art residency
Casa Nano, Fundación Casa Wabi, Japan
January – February 2020
Lacasapark art residency, New York, USA
Spring 2020
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Estructuras de la razón, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico
2018
Adrián S. Bará and Torbjørn Kvasbø, Stereo Exchange, Copenhagen, Denmark
Memorias del mundo, Site Specific Intervention, Tetetlán, Casa Prieto, Mexico City
2017-2018
Estructuras de la razón, curated by Rachael Rakes, ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami, USA
2017
Estructuras de la razón, MAW, New York, USA
Adrián S. Bará and Florian Schmidt, Johannes Vogt, New York, USA
Si, No, Si, No, Si, curated by Omar Lopez Chahoud, Site 57 gallery, New York, USA
2016
Gallery Weekend Mexico City, Páramo, Mexico City
A Portrait of Sovereignty, Solivagant Contemporary Art Projects, New York, USA
2015
Le Palais, Páramo, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Transposición, FIFI projects gallery, San Pedro GG, Nuevo León, Mexico
2014
American Cinema, Travesía cuatro gallery, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
2013
En las profundidades de la naturaleza, la razón debe inclinarse, FIFI projects gallery, Mexico City
2012
Rock and Roll, Casa Vecina, Mexico City
Mondrian, Abstract Skating, T0, T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, curated by Antoine Thélamon, Sala Juárez, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
2010
Proyecto Muro, curated by Abraham Cruzvillegas, Sala Juárez, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Casa de Luz, curated by Camila Bechelany, São Paulo, Brazil
2019
El castillo de los ladrillos rotos, guadalajara90210, Mexico City, Mexico
2018
Prima Materia, LACASAPARK, curated by Viridiana Mayagoitia, Gardiner, New York, USA
Almost Solid Light: New Work from Mexico, organized by Mario Navarro, Paul Kasmin, NY, USA
Border (Untitled), Cody Gallery, Marymount University, VA, USA
The Sun Shits a Dying Light, Which We Eat to Stay Alive, Mexico City
2017
You Are Here, Peana Projects, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Anónimo, curated by Humberto Moro, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA
Proyectos LA, curated by Luisa Teixeira de Freitas & Claudia Segura, Los Angeles, CA, USA
127, Páramo|127, New York, USA
2016
Body-Nature, Cal State University, Fullerton Begovich Gallery, Irvin, CA, USA
Barn Show, Johannes Vogt gallery, New York, USA
Divagation, Y gallery, New York, USA
Reconstrucción, curated by Abraham Cruzvillegas, Museo de Arte de Zapopan (MAZ), Jalisco, Mexico
2015
Paradise Syndrome, Peana Projects, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Under Construction, Páramo, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
A false horizon: art from Latin America, Peana projects, New York, USA
2014
Leviatán, Art Museum Raúl Anguiano (MURA), Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Continually revealing multiple routes of entry and exit, FIFI projects gallery, San Pedro GG, Nuevo León, Mexico
Abstraction in Action, ARCO Madrid, Sayago & Pardon Collection, Madrid, Spain
2013
Tinnitus y Fosfenos, Museo de Arte de Zapopan (MAZ), Jalisco, Mexico
Natures mortes, FIFI projects gallery, San Pedro GG, Nuevo Léon, Mexico
Sin necesidad de profecías, Diéresis, Guadalajara, Jalisco
2012
Paradise is an Island so is Hell, Careyes art gallery, Careyes, Jalisco, Mexico
2011
Everything Must Go, curated by José Noe Suro and Eduardo Sarabia, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, USA
ART RESIDENCIES AND ART GRANTS
2019
Art residency CASA WABI, Oaxaca, Mexico
Art residency PIVÔ, São Paulo, Brazil
2017
QueensSpace, New York, USA
2016
International Studio & Curatorial program ISCP, New York, USA
Programa de Estímulos a Jóvenes Creadores, FONCA, Mexico
2012
Casa Vecina, Estudio Extendido, Centro Histórico Foundation, Mexico City
COLLECTIONS
Space Collection, Irvine, California, USA
Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy
Suro Collection, Guadalajara, Mexico
Diéresis Collection, Guadalajara, Mexico
Gaia Collection, Mexico
Isabel and Agustín Coppel Collection, Mexico
FILM PROJECTS AND FILM FESTIVALS SCREENINGS
2016
The Weekend Sailor (Cinematographer), documentary by Bernardo Arsuaga. Nice International Film Festival, France. Nominee for best cinematography.
2015
The Solitude of Memory (Cinematographer), documentary by Juan Pablo Gonzalez, Semaine de la Critique at the Festival de Cannes, France; Morelia International Film Festival, Mexico; Official Selection Full Frame Documentary Film Festival (Mirroring Mexico), North Carolina.
2014
The Solitude of Memory (Cinematographer), World Premiere at Amsterdam International Documentary Festival, Netherlands; Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland. Marea (Cinematographer), film by Amaury Vergara, FICUNAM Film Festival, Mexico City; International Festival of New Latin American Cinema, Havana, Cuba.
2012
A Game of Chess (Cinematographer), film by Marcel Dzama, Cinematographer, David Zwirner gallery, New York, USA.
AWARDS
2016
Mejor Cinematografía en Documental, Madrid IFF, The Weekend Sailor, Madrid, España.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2018
Rakes, Rachael. Estructuras de la razón: Interview with Adrián S. Bará. Miami Rail, January 8, 2018.
González Rosas, Blanca. Tetetlán, un lugar fascinante. Proceso, March 19, 2018.
2017
La fenomenología del arte. La Tempestad, November 21, 2017.
Celaya, Víctor. El estado de indeterminación de Adrián Bará. Hotbook, 2017
Reconstrucción, un proyecto de Abraham Cruzvillegas, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, MAZ (catalogue).
2016
Arte mexicano figura en Art Basel. El Universal, November 29, 2016.
Creatividad sin límite en #CDMX. Vogue México, September 2016.
Bará, Adrián S. Aesthetics of a Collapsed System de Adrián Bará para Código. Código, April-May 2016.
2015
Phaidon Contemporary Artist Series Editor Michele Robecchi´s Picks from NADA Miami Beach 2015. Artspace, December 4, 2015.
Spirou, Kiriakus. Paradise Found: Latin American and Spanish Art takes over Abandoned Marble Factory in Brooklyn. Yatzer, October 2015.
Introspección e interacción: Una decena de obras presentan la visión de realidad y ficción del autor en la exposición Le palais. Ocio, August 2015.
Adrián S. Bará at Páramo. Art Viewer, August 10, 2015.
Minero, María. Ficciones de la Realidad. Primera Fila, 2015.
Gil, Rubén. Le Palais, estancia entre la ficción y la realidad. La Jornada Jalisco, July 31, 2015.
Colavita, Julia. 8 Must-See Works at Zona MACO. Artsy, January 30, 2015.
2013
Guía rápida para el amante de arte. Chilango, April 11, 2013.
2012
Cañas Retana, Giselle. Convierten al “skateboarding” en una expresión artística. Milenio, December 13, 2012.
Ragasol, Tania. Rock and Roll: Adrián S. Bará. Casa Vecina: Estudio Extendido, México, 2012.
2011
Cotter, Holland. Everything Must Go. The New York Times, July 14, 2011.
2009
Acerca de la pérdida de los recuerdos. El Informador, May 2009.
