2009
Individual:
Committed Explanations in Geography. Cooper Union, NY
Destino Manifiesto (performance) Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
(forthcoming)
2008
Individual:
The School of Panamerican Unrest.; Stanley Picker Gallery,
London, Casa del Lago, Mexico City
The Seven Bridges of Königsberg. Forever and Today, NYC
Collective:
The Lining of Forgetting, Weatherspoon Art Museum, NC
Aves en la Luna. Casa del Lago, Mexico City
Properly Past, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The World as a Stage (performance) ICA Boston
Re-Education performance festival, HAU, Berlin
The Art World, Galerie Feinkost, Berlin
Luz y Fuerza del Centro, Galeria Charro Negro, Guadalajara
Die Lucky Bush, MUKHA Contemporary Art Museum, Antwerp Belgium
Entree, New York City
2007
Individual:
Peformance at the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
The Witches of Tepoztlan (and other unpublished operass). Galeria Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City
Panamerican Suite. Moti Hasson Gallery, NY
Watervliet. Public Art Comminsion at Albany International Airport, in collaboration with the Shaker Heritage Society, Albany.
A Dictionary of Foreign Time. Window installation at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York, NY
Collective:
Generation 1.5. Queens Museum
Escultura Social, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Artist in Residence Exhibition, Center for Book Arts, New York
[silence], Gigantic Art Space, New York
Armory Art Fair, New York (with Enrique Guerrero Gallery)
Cart (Ajena),Centro de Cooperacion Española, Cartagena, Colombia
The Pablo Helguera Singing Telegram Show, The Kitchen High-line festival, NY
San Francisco World’s Fair, California College of Arts, San Francisco, CA
2006
Individual:
The School of Panamerican Unrest. Travelling public art project presented at: Ellis Island, New York; The University of Alaska, Anchorage; Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver; PICA/PNCA, Portland; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; University of Arizona Museum at Tempe, AZ; The Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco; LAXART, Los Angeles; Centro Estatal de las Artes, Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico; Universidad del Estado de Mexico, Toluca; Casa del Lago/Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City; Universidad de las Americas, Puebla; Centro de Artes Visuales, Mérida, Yucatán, México; Centro Cultural de España, Guatemala City, Guatemala; Universidad Matías Delgado, San Salvador, El Salvador; Mujeres para las Artes “Leticia de Oyuela”, Tegucigalpa, Honduras; TeoRética/Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica; La Casona, Panama City, Panamá; Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia; Periférico Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela; Centro de Arte del Cabildo, Asunción, Paraguay; Fundación Start, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
Collective:
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
London Orbital, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London
Miami Basel Art Fair ( with Enrique Guerrero Gallery)
Doubtful Strait. TeoRética, San Jose, Costa Rica
2005
Individual:
Swan Song, Julia Friedman Gallery, New York
Collective:
Wanderlust. Julia Friedman Gallery, New York
Performa 05, (New York Performance Biennial), New York
The Foreign Legion (Lower Manhattan Cultural Council/Gigantic Art Space) performance
Dark Places. Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA
National Center for the Arts, Mexico City
Espejos. Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington DC
2004
Individual:
HDLU/PM Contemporary Arts Center, Zagreb, Croatia
Royal College of Art/ Laurence O’Hana Gallery, London
Museum of Contemporary Art , Chicago (performance)
Collective:
Printmaking Triennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico
PR04, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Database Imaginary, Banff Center, Alberta, Canada
BAK Museum, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Jamaica Flux, Jamaica, Queens, NY
Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago IL
Open 2004, Zurich, Switzerland
2003
Individual:
Museum of Modern Art, New York at Gramercy Theater (performance)
Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (performance)
Collective:
8th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
Fuera de Campo. Ex-Teresa Performance Festival, Mexico City
Playing with Stereotypes. Hertforshire University, Hertforshire, England
Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
Voces y Visiones, Museo del Barrio, New York
2002
Individual:
Galerija P74, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Kunst-Initiative, Radevormwald, Germany
Denkzeichen Alexanderplatz, Berlin
P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center (performance)
IFA Gallerie, Bonn (performance)
2002
Collective:
Museutopia- Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany
Outside/Inside, Tzilage Gallery, St. Petersburg, Florida
Brasicanos e Mexileiros, Casa das Rosas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Art at the Armory, New York City ( Nina Menocal Gallery)
Tokio Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, Tokio, Japan
2001
Individual:
INTAR Gallery, New York
Whitebox, New York
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
University of Montana, Missoula, MT
Collective:
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
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
The Artist in the Marketplace- Bronx Museum, NY
2000
Individual:
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)
Collective:
Viper Festival, Basel, Switzerland.
Transit- National University of Colombia, Bogota
S-Files, Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
1999
Individual:
Galeria Nina Menocal, Mexico City, Mexico
Collective:
Bellas Intenciones- Universidad de Cuenca, Spain
Disorienting Signs- group exhibition, Leonora Vega Gallery, New York
1998
Individual:
Leonora Vega Gallery, New York
Talleria Espacio Cultural, Mexico City, Mexico
Collective:
Ciudad- 5 Installations in homage to Octavio Paz. Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Chicago
To the Factory. Tlaquepaque Ceramic Factory, Guadalajara, Mexico
Zagreb Youth Salon, Zagreb, Croatia
Selected Bibliography
Spence, Rebecca- Mr. Manner’s Guide to Dubiously Correct Behavior. ArtNews, June 2006
Melia, Michael- Roving Project Going from Alaska to Argentina. Associated Press, May 19, 2006; published by the Chicago Tribune, June 2006
Smith, Roberta: Performa Festival Review, New York Times, October 2006
Parrott, Maria: Art on the Road. F Newsmagazine, September 2006
Aguilar, Andrea- El arte del culebrón arrasa por Centroeuropa. El País, Madrid, Aug. 24, 2004
Rattemeyer, Christian. VIII Havana Biennial. Artforum, February, 2004
Susan Snodgrass- Pablo Helguera at Julia Friedman. Review, Art in America, May 2004
Freeman, Tomy- Pablo Helguera. Art Us, issue 2, april-may 2004
Yood, James. Pablo Helguera, Parallel Lives. Review, Tema Celeste, Spring 2004
Ewing John. Pablo Helguera at MoMA. Art Nexus, March 2004
Elkins, James. Visual Studies: A Skeptical Introduction, pp. 107-109. Routledge, 2003
Montano, Erika: Proponen Artistas Independientes Remedios … La Jornada, July 13, 2003
Schneider, Peter. “Schule des Friedens”. Zuritipp, Zurich, Switzerland, May 16, 2003
Fuentes Feo, Javier. Memorising, Teaching, Cataloguing, Filtering, (some dilemmas involving museums) ARCOnoticias, Madrid, Summer 2003
Cufer, Eda. Instituto de la Telenovela- Tema Celeste Review, Fall 2002
Instituto de la Telenovela – Art Nexus Newsletter, July 2002
Banuelos, Sigfrido. “Museos” Noroeste Newspaper, Culiacan, Sinaloa, May 6, 2002
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
Exhibition Essays
Julia, Carmen, ed. Los del Este/Eastenders: A modest proposal- RCA, 2004
Rieger, Thomas. “Galerie des Alephs”. Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, 2002
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
Selected Collections
Museo del Barrio, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC
Tom Patchett Collection, Los Angeles
Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany
Grant Panels/ Jurorships
Juror, Costa Rica Biennial, San Jose, 2005
Panelist, New York State Council for the Arts, 2003-04
Juror, Mohawk-Hudson regional, 2004
Juror, Guatemala Biennial, 2004
Juror, National Contemporary Arts Competition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Puerto Rico, 2002
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
Panelist, Illinois Arts Council -Multidisciplinary Arts Grant
Miscellaneous Distinctions/ Awards
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, 2008
Creative Capital Foundation Grant, 2006
Wheeler Foundation Grant, 2006
Creative Capital Foundation Grant, 2005
Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Mexico, Jovenes Creadores Grant (2004-05)
EFA Studio subsidized membership, 2000-present
Rockefeller Foundation/Fideicomiso para la Cultura Mexico/USA- 2000
Rockefeller Foundation/Fideicomiso para la Cultura Mexico/USA- 1999
Zagreb Youth Salon Award- Zagreb, Croatia, 1999
Included in the Illinois Arts Council Artstour Roster for Performing Arts (declined)
Member, Chicago Art Critics Association (1998)
City of Chicago, Community Arts Program Grant
