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AMALIA PICA
1978, Neuquen Capital, Argentina.
Lives and works in London.
Education
2019 Royal Academy of Art, London, UK
2005 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL.
2002-2003 Instituto Universitario Nacional del Arte, Buenos Aires, AR.
1997-2001 Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes P.P. (I.U.N.A.), Buenos Aires, AR.
Selected solo exhibitions
2020 Round table (and other forms), Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, CH
2019 Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, ES
2019 Private & Confidential, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
2018 please open hurry, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, AU
2018 Cc Foundation, Shanghai, CH
2017 please open hurry, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU
2017 The Power Plant, Toronto, CA
2017 NC Arte, Bogota, CO
2017 Instituto de Vision, Bogota, CO (two-person with Otto Berchem)
2016 Katachrese, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, DE
2016 Blow the Whistle, Beat the Drum, Mark Foxx, Los Angeles, US
2015 PORTLLIGAT, El Nuevo Museo de Arts Contemporaneo, Cludad de Guatemala, GT
2015 Instituto de Vision, Bogota, CO
2015 Amalia Pica, Koenig Galerie, Berlin, DE
2014 Switchboard, MOSTYN, Llandudno, Wales, UK.
2014 One Thing After Another, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL.
2014 One Thing After Another, La Criée, Rennes, FR.
2014 A ∩ B ∩ C (Line), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL.
2013 What Colour is the Horse? Museo Nacional De Bellas Artes, Neuquen, AR
2013 Memorial for intersections, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, PT
2013 A ∩ B ∩ C (Line), Herald ST, London, UK
2013 Low Visibility, Johann Konig, Berlin, DE
2013 A ∩ B ∩ C , Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, MX
2013 Amalia Pica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA.
2013 MIT List Visual Arts Centre, Cambridge, MA, USA.
2012 Amalia Pica, Basis, Frankfurt, DL.
2012 Art Basel Statements, Galerie Diana Stigter
2012 Amalia Pica, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK.
2012 Amalia Pica, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK.
2012 Amalia Pica and Karsten Födinger, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, CH
2011 ‘I am Tower of Hamlets, as I am in Towers of Hamlets, just like a lot of other people are’, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK.
2011 ‘Endymion’s Journey’, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
2011 ‘Umma Projects’, University of Michigan Museum of Art, USA.
2011 Skor Inkijk, Amsterdam, NL.
2010 ‘Alongside' (with Leonor Antunes), Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, USA.
2010 ‘babble, blabber, chatter, gibber, jabber, patter, prattle, rattle, yammer, yada yada yada', Malmo Konsthall, SE.
2010 ‘babble, blabber, chatter, gibber, jabber, patter, prattle, rattle, yammer, yada yada yada', Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL.
2010 ‘Alon Levin presents Arte Shows: Amalia Pica’, Klemms, Berlin, DE.
2009 'Some of that colour', Onomatopee, Eindhoven, NL.
2009 'On Education', Project Space Galerie Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, DK.
2008 ‘Sorry for the metaphor’, Artis, Den Bosch, NL.
2007 ’Grayscale’, BijlmAIR, Amsterdam, NL.
2006 ‘Si no estas tu’, PlayStation of Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL.
2003 ‘Final Insomne’, INTER / medio, Cordoba, AR.
2002 ‘Colectivo-Colectiva’ in collaboration with Martin Cordiano, Lorraine Green y Tomas Espina, Arguibel Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, AR.
Selected group exhibitions
2020 FRAC Lorraine, Metz, FR
2019 Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
2019 Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg, AT
2019 Moon Golem, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, CH
2019 Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Buenos Aires, AR
2019 A∩B∩C∩A∩B∩C, a reading, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2019 Borderilne, Talbot Rice Gallery, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
2018 Darbyshire, Gander, Pica, Starling, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2018 Stories of Almost Everyone, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
2017 Soundtracks, SFMOMA, San Francisco, US
2017 A Gesture Towards Transformation, Tenderpixel, London, UK
2017 Double Edge, Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, UK
2017 Amalia Pica and Otto Berchem, Instituto de Vision, Bogotá, CO
2017 Dark Matter, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio, US
2017 The Shyness of the Crowns, 49 NORD 6, Metz, FR
2017 Curators’ Series #10. Greater than the Sum, Lisbon, PR
2017 The String Traveller, S.M.A.K, Ghent, BE
2017 Asamble (performance), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
2017 CONDO, Herald St, London, UK
2017 EAT SLEEP WORK REPEAT, Travelling Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2017 Nieuw Amsterdams Peil: Where do we go from here?, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Drawing Biennial 2017, The Drawing Room, London, UK
2017 Murmur, NetwerkCenter for Contemporary Art, Aalst, BE
2017 La timidité des cimes, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, FR
2017 MAZ–Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan, MX
2016 The Space Between, MASS MoCA, Massachusetts, US
2016 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, KR
2016 One, No One and One Hundred Thousand, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AT
2016 Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, South London Gallery, London, UK (Guggenheim touring)
2016 Manifesta 11, Zurich, CH
2016 Strangers (performance), Switch House, Tate Modern, London, UK
2016 Informed Matter, curated by Rosario Güiraldes, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, New York, US
2016 XVI Biennale Donna I SILENCIO VIVO. Artiste dall’America Latina, GAMC, Ferrara, IT
2016 El que camina al la do, curated by Ana Luiza Teixeira and Claudia Segura Campins, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, ES
2016 Spielerei, SCHUNCK, NL
2015 Un Nouveau festival / Expanding the Field of Play, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
2015 Asamble, performance on Plaza de los dos Congresos, BP.15 Performance Biennale, Buenos Aires, AR
2015 Epur Si Mouve: Art and Technology, a Shared Sphere, MUDAM Luxembourg, LU
2015 San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial, Intituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, San Juan, PR
2015 Pipe Dream, WUK / Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, AT.
2015 Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
2015 Do it, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL
2015 Adventures of the Black Square, Whitechapel Gallery, London, GB
2015 Display Show, curated by Celine Condorelli, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, GB, touring to Stroom den Haag, NL
2015 Vienna Biennale, MAK – Osterreichisches Museum fur angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartkunst, Vienna, AT
2015 Frieze Projects 2015: Tribute to Flux-Labyrinth (1976/2015), Frieze, New York, US
2015 Beauty Codes, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, IT
2015 Repetition and Difference, The Jewish Museum, New York, US
2014 BEYON THE PROCESS – Werke aus der SAMMLUNG LENIKUS im Kunstraum Innsbruck, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
2014 From Speaker to Receiver - Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
2014 Histories: Works From The Serralves Collection - Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto
2014 Do it Moscow - Garage Center for Contemporary Culture - GCCC, Moscow
2014 Call me on Sunday - Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
2013 Emmy Moore's Journal, Salts, Basel, Switzerland
2013 The Future Generation Art Prize@Venice 2013, Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Venice, Italy
2013 Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, USA
2013 P&Co., Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles
2013 When Attitude Became form Became Attitudes,CCA Wattis, San Francisco, USA
2013 When Attitude Became form Became Attitudes, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, USA
2013 Ruins in Reverse, Tate Modern project Space, London, UK
2013 Ruins in Reverse, Museo De Arte De Lima, PE
2013 Version Control, Arnolfini, Bristol, GB
2012 Silence, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, USA.
2012 Material Information, Permanenten Vestlandske Kunstindustrimuseum, Bergen, NO.
2012 New Works, Herald Street, London UK`
2012 Silence, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, USA.
2012 Common Ground, Public Art Fund, New York, USA.
2012 Ritual without Myth, Royal College of Art, London, UK.
2012 On Geometry and Speculation, Marrakech Biennale, MA.
2012 The Ungovernables, The New Museum, New York, USA.
2012 ‘Au loin, une ile!’, Fondation Ricard, Paris, FR.
2011 ’Au loin, une ile!’, FRAC Bordeaux, FR.
2011 ‘Coup d’eclat’, Fort du Bruissin, Francheville, FR.
2011 ‘Distant Star’, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA.
2011 ‘Estrella Distante’, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, MX.
2011 ‘CIFO Grants and Commissions Program’, Cisneros Fontanais Art Foundation, Miami, USA.
2011 ’ILLUMInations’, Venice Biennale, Venice, IT.
2011 ’Wallpaperism’, Motel Campio, Geneva, CH.
2011 ’WELTRAUM/SPACE: ABOUT A DREAM’ Kunsthalle Wien, Aut.
2010 ’To the highest mountain’, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, DK.
2010 'With words like smoke', Chelsea Project Space, London UK.
2010 ‘Buen viaje’ for ‘Hey, we are closed’, Hayward Gallery, London, UK.
2010 Aichi Triennial 2010, Aichi Prefectural Museum, Nagoya, JP.
2010 ’The Chained Lady, the Microscope and the Southern Fish', SoFA Gallery, Christchurch, NZ.
2010 Figures don’t lie but liars can figure’ for ‘Serpentine Map Marathon’ (performance in collaboration with Mariana Castillo Debal), Serpentine Gallery, London, UK.
2009 'Every version belongs to the myth'’, Project Arts Center, Dublin, IR.
2009 'Pete and repeate', 176 Zabludowicz Collection project space, London, UK.
2009 'Manifestacion Internacional de performance', CEIA, Belo Horizonte, BR.
2009 'Deceitful moon', Hayward Gallery project space, London, UK.
2009 'Amalia Pica & Felix Gmelin', Vilma Gold Gallery, London, UK.
2009 ‘Street of Sculptures’, Open Source, Public Realm, Amsterdam, NL.
2008 ‘Word Event’, Kunsthalle Basel, CH.
2008 ‘Nothing of North’, curated by Alexandra Saheb Gallery, Berlin, DE.
2008 ‘Robinson Crusoe’, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, ES.
2008 ’Certamen Explum’, Puerto Lumbreras, Murcia, ES.
2007 ’Drawing typologies’ Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL.
2007 ’Border Jam’ Museo Municipal Juan Manuel Blanes, Montevideo, UR.
2007 ‘I know the world 2’, Spawasser Hq, Berlin, DE.
2007 ‘100 x winter’, Museum De Paviljoens, Almere, NL.
2006 ‘Lichtjaren. Gouda bij kunstlicht’, SKOR, Gouda (public realm), Gouda, NL.
2006 ‘We all laughed at Christopher Columbus’, Platform Garanti, Istanbul, TR.
2006 ‘We all laughed at Christopher Columbus’, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL.
2006 ‘International 2006’, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK.
2006 ‘In order of appearance’, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, IS.
2005 ‘Open Ateliers 2005’, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL.
2005 Utrechtse Voormalige, ‘Poetics of a place’, Utrecht, NL.
2004 ‘Open Ateliers 2005’, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL.
2004 ‘Who if not we…? Cordially Invited, episode 3’, BAK, Utrecht, NL.
Residencies and workshops
2012 Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, US
2011 Uqbar Foundation at Casa Vecina, Mexico City, MX
2010 Residency at Markus Lennikus, Baeurmarkt 9, Vienna, Austria
2009 CEIA, Performance workshop, Belo Horizonte, BR.
2007 BijlmAIR, Centrum Beeldende Kunst Zuidoost (CBK Zuidoost) and Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA), NL.
2004-2005 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL.
2002 TRAMA Artists cooperation and confrontation program San Miguel de Tucuman, AR, bursary; Workshop on artistic cooperation and contexts of creation, AR
Awards
2012 Shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize
2011 Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists.
2011 Art Rotterdam, Illy Prize.
Fellowships/stipends
2011 Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation’s Grants and Commissions Program, USA.
2005 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, NL.
2004 UNESCO-Aschberg 2004 Bursaries for Artists program Fundacion Antorchas, AR.
2004 Bursaries for Artists programme Fundación Antorchas (AR)