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Adrián S. Bará – Biography
Adrián S. Bará
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, CanadaCURRENT 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 2020SOLO 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, MexicoGROUP 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, USAART 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 CityCOLLECTIONS
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, MexicoFILM 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.Tuan Andrew Nguyen – Biography
Tuan Andrew Nguyen
TUAN ANDREW NGUYEN
Tuan Andrew Nguyen (b. 1976) was born in Saigon, and currently lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Andrew Nguyen is a multimedia artist who explores identity, memory, and history and their complex interrelationship within the context of exile and cultural estrangement. He earned a BFA from the University of California, Irvine, in 1999, and received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2004. He co-founded Sàn Art, an artist-run exhibition space in Ho Chi Minh City (est. 2007) and is a founding member of the artist collective The Propeller Group (est. 2006). The group appropriates marketing and advertising strategies to investigate power structures and economic systems, and often focuses their work on Vietnam and the rapid rise of capitalism in this formally Communist country.
EDUCATION
2004
Master of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA
1999
Bachelor of Arts, University of California, Irvine, USA
CURRENT AND UPCOMING
Group exhibition
SOFT POWER, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
October 26, 2019 – February 17, 2020
Temporal Topography: MAIIAM’s New Acquisitions; from 2010 to Present, curated by Kittima Chareeprasit, Maiiam Contemporary Arts Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand
March 30, 2019 – March 30, 2020
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Tuan Andrew Nguyen: Letters from Saigon to Saigon, Asia Society, New York, USA
My Ailing Beliefs Can Cure Your Wretched Desires, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
Tuan Andrew Nguyen: The Island, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, USA
2017
Empty Forest, The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The Island, Páramo, Guadalajara, Mexico
2008
Quiet Shiny Words, Gallery Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
2004
While Dodging Fake Bullets in the Dark, Voz Alta Projects, San Diego, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
SOFT POWER, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Where The Sea Remembers, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, USA
Temporal Topography: MAIIAM’s New Acquisitions; from 2010 to Present, curated by Kittima Chareeprasit, Maiiam Contemporary Arts Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Journey Beyond the Arrow, curated by Zoe Butt, Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates
2018
Believe, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
Detour: Lived Worlds, Art021 contemporary art fair, Shanghai, China
Thailand Biennale, Krabi, Thailand
2017
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
127, Páramo | 127, New York, USA
The Propeller Group, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA
2016
The Propeller Group, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA
The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music, James Cohan, New York, USA
2015
Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg, Sweden
All the World’s Futures, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
After Utopia, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Fairy Tales, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
44th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2014
Prospect.3: Notes for Now, New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans, USA
SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2014: Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Unlearn, Tradition (un) Realized, Arko Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
Residual: Disrupted Choreographies, Carre d’Art, Nimes, France
Transmission, Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand
2013
In Between, Beit HaGafen – Arab Jewish Culture Center, Haifa, Israel
Home Away, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, USA
ASEAN Media Arts Festival, traveling exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
Unknown Forces, MSGSÜ Tophane-i Amire Culture and Arts Center, Istanbul, Turkey
Cities of Ancient Futures, Changwon Asian Art Festival, Changwon, South Korea
No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA; Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Hong Kong
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions: Public Diary, Tokyo, Japan
Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2012
Impakt Festival 2012: No More Westerns!, Utrecht, Netherlands
7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
The Unseen, 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Six Lines of Flight, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Made in L.A., Los Angeles Biennial, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
The Ungovernables, New Museum, New York, USA
Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
2011
Video, An Art, A History, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2010
Night Festival, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore
Art Paris + Guests, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Projects 93, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Against Easy Listening, 1A Space, Hong Kong
8th Shanghai Biennale, in collaboration with Superflex, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Kuandu Biennale, in collaboration with Superflex, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Porcelain / Mánh Ghép Cuôc Đòi, in collaboration with Superflex, Sàn Art, Ho Chi City Minh, Vietnam
Project 35, Independent Curators International, New York, USA
FAX, Para Site, Hong Kong
2009
Lim Dim, curated by Tran Luong, Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway Palais Project, Vienna, Austria
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
What’s the Big Idea?, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
2008
Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix, Arko Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
2nd Singapore Biennale, Singapore
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
The Farmers and The Helicopters, Freer / Sackler, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA
2007
Requiem for a Wall, Galerie Quynh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
The History of a Decade That Has Not Yet Been Named, Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France
Vietnamese International Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA
Depiction Perversion Repulsion Obsession Subversion, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Arts, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2006
5th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
26th Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival, Honolulu, USA
Imaginary Country, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Diaspora, Esplanade Concert Hall, Singapore
2005
Bangkok Democrazy, 4th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
US ASEAN Film Festival, Falls Church, USA
American Film Market, Santa Monica, USA
18th Annual Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore
Short Shorts Film Festival Asia, Tokyo, Japan
2004
Under the Couch Film/Video Festival, Los Angeles, USA
In Place of Place, One Night Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
e-flux video rental project, e-flux, New York, USA
There’s No Place Like Place, One Night Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Supersonic, The Windtunnel, Pasadena, USA
Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival, Director’s Guild of America, Los Angeles, USA
2003
Vietnamese International Film Festival, University of California, Irvine, USA
MINE, Lombard Freid, New York, USA
re: fresh; re-thinking the relationship between hip hop and art, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, USA
COLLABORATIONS AND OTHER PROJECTS
2007
Co-founder Sàn Art, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (Board Member, 2009–2016)
2006
Established the artistic collective The Propeller Group
CONFERENCES, LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS
2018
Not Seeing is Believing, Visiting Artist Lectures, University of Oregon School of Art + Design, Oregon, USA
2014
Creative Time Summit, Stockholm, Sweden
2013
MFA Lecture Series, USC Roski School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
No Country: Regarding South and Southeast Asia, symposium, co-presented by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Queens Museum, New York, USA
2012
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions: Public Diary, Tokyo, Japan
Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
PUBLIC INTEREST: Projects & Prototypes, LACE and Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, USA
Art Matters grantee panel discussion, Los Angeles, USA
2008
transPOP: Korea Vietnam Remix panelist, Seoul, South Korea
2007
Claire Trevor School of Art, University of California, Irvine, USA
California Institute of the Arts visiting artist, Valencia, USA
2006
White Cube Black Box, guest speaker, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, USA, and Paris, France
The Burger Collection, Hong Kong
Asia Society, New York, USA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019
Chiang Mai’s contemporary art museum tells its tale, The Nation, Thailand Portal, April 1, 2019.
Bailey, Stephanie. Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber, OCULA Magazine online, March 15, 2019.
2018
Binlot, Ann. The long, layered narrative of the Pacific Rim, Document Journal, November 9, 2018.
Axworthy, Nicol. Art Exhibit Examines Vietnam’s Treatment Of Animals. VegNews, July 5, 2018.
Tsui, Enid. Vietnamese artist’s Hong Kong exhibition on endangered species gives this meat-loving city something to think about. South China Morning Post, July 02, 2018.
Rose, Frank. Is It an Art Collective or a Vietnamese Ad Agency? Yes and Yes. New York Times, February 23, 2018.
Fiss, Karen. The Propeller Group: We Are Restless, But We Will Not Rest (Even After Death). Art Practical, February 13, 2018.
Ha Thuc, Caroline. Tuan Andrew Nguyen: Animal Tales and the State of War. COBO social, January 26, 2018.
Thao Nguyen, Vuong. Empty Forest: Dissecting the Fraught Relationship Between Man and Animal. January 22, 2018.
2017
Luong, Ruben. The Progressive Director. Art Asia Pacific, May/Jun 2017.
Farago, Jason. A User’s Guide to the Whitney Biennial. The New York Times, March 8, 2017: (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/arts/design/a-users-guide-to-the-whitney-biennial.html?_ r=0)
2013
In Between. Exh. cat. Beit HaGafen – Arab Jewish Culture Center, Haifa, Israel
Viveros-Faune, Christian. The Propeller Group Take on the Art World’s Celebrity Fixation. The Village Voice, September 25, 2013: (http://www.villagevoice.com/2013-09-25/art/no-country-for-poor-men)
Cities of Ancient Futures. Exh. cat. Changwon Asian Art Festival, Changwon, South Korea
Mehta, Diane. The Propeller Group. Bomb Magazine online, February 21, 2013: (http://bomb site.com/issues/1000/articles/7073)
Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions: Public Diary. Exh. cat. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2012
7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7). Exh. cat. Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
The Unseen: 4th Guangzhou Triennial. Exh. cat. Guangzhou, China
Knight, Christopher. Art review: The Hammer biennial ‘Made in L.A. 2012’ succeeds. Los Angeles Times, June 8, 2012: (articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/08/entertainment/la-et-hammer-biennial-review-20120609/2)
Made in L.A. 2012. Exh. cat. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Salz, Jerry. Big-Government Conservatives. New York, February 24, 2012: (http://nymag.com/ arts/art/reviews/ungovernables-new-museum-saltz)
Nguyen, Mic. For The Propeller Group, Talking about Art Is an Art. Hyphen, March 30, 2012: (http://hyphenmagazine.com/blog/2012/3/30/propeller-group-talking-about-art-art)
Joo, Eugenie. The Ungovernables: The 2012 New Museum Triennial. Exh. cat. New Museum, New York, USA
2011
Video, an Art, a History: 1965–2010. A Selection from the Centre Pompidou and Singapore Art Museum Collections. Exh. cat. Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Negotiating Home, History and Nation: Two decades of Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia 1911–2011. Exh. cat. Singapore Art Museum, Singapore.
2010
FAX: The Hong Kong Works, Para Site, Hong Kong.
Butt, Zoe. The Pilgrimage of Inspiration – Artists as Engineers in Vietnam: The Propeller Group Interview with Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Phu Nam Thuc Ha, and Matt Lucero. Independent Curators International: Dispatch, May 13, 2010: (http://curatorsintl.org/images/assets/propeller.pdf).
Giao, Vu Thi Quynh. Vietnam the World Tour: The Propeller Group, diacritics, October 9, 2010: (http://diacritics.org/?p=1127).
2008
ArtAsiaPacific Almanac 2008. Vol. 3, New York, USA
2007
Lyon Biennial. Exh.cat. Lyon, France
