José Antonio Vega Macotela

Mexico City, Mexico, 1980. Works and lives in Paris and Mexico City.

Education + Residencies:

2015 ACC- Rijksakademie residence program, Gwangju Korea

2014 Le Pavillon, Palais du Tokio, Paris, France

2012 Intermedia Artist in Residence, Parsons School of Art Media and Technology, New York, United States.

2011-2012 Rijksakademie Van beeldende kunsten. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2003-2008 Multimedia studio with José Miguel González Casanova. Mexico City, Mexico.

2000-2004 Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (National School of Fine Arts). Undergraduate studies in Visual Arts.

Mexico City, Mexico.

Solo + Group exhibitions:

2017 We the people are the work, Peninsula Arts at Plymouth University. documenta 14, Kassel, Germany.

The chisel and the sinkhole, Art Basel Statments, Basel, Switzerland

2016 Muestra de los trabajos producidos en el marco del Programa de Apoyo a la producción e Investigación en Arte y Medios, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City Amsterdam Weekend Rijksakademie van beldende Kunsten / ACC Gwangju. Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Gwangju, South Korea.

2015 Asimettrical Warfare, Witte de With Contemporary Art Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands It’s money Jim but not as you know it, Mario Marouner Gallery, Viena, Austria “Deseos y Necesidades. Nuevas incorporaciones a la Colección MACBA”, MACBA Barcelona, Spain There is only one catch and is catch 22, Y Gallery, New York City Pheidippidics – Studies on Exhaustion, LABOR, Mexico City. Theorem. You Simply Destroy the Image I Always Had of Myself, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, United States. Other ways other means, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, United States Sin oficio ni Beneficio, Galeria la moderna 12 Bienal de la Habana.

2018 Stories of Almost Everyone, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, United States.

2014 Prospect 3 Biennial, New Orleans, USA 100 ans plus tard, Palais du Tokyo, Paris, France Unsettled Landscapes, SITE Santa Fe International Biennial, Santa Fe, United States Ilusión Óptica, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City Re:visited, Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia

2013 Cacao, Museo Universitario del Chopo. Mexico City, Mexico. Istambul Biennial, Istambul, Turkey. Tana Berlin, Agoraphobia Time Divisa, Rubin Center, El Paso, Texas, United States México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990, The Modern, Fort Worth, Texas, United States. La empresa soy yo, Casa del Lago, Ciudad de Mexico Liste 18, The Young Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland. Time / resistance, Israeli Center for Digital Art Tel Aviv, Israel.

More Love: Art Politics and Sharing Ackland Art Museum, North Carolina University, US. Opinione Latina, Francesca Minini Gallery Milan, Italy Transitios, Artpace San Antonio TX, US. Unsaid/unspoken Cisneros Foundation Miami, US

2012 Open Studio, Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten. Amsterdam, Netherlands. Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan: América Latina y el Caríbe. San Juan, Puerto Rico. Manifesta 9. Genk, Belgium. Whispering, Steve Turener Contemporary, Los Angeles, United States The Ungovernables The New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York, United States. MAY YOUR WISH COME TRUE..., Gonzales Hulshof Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. La hora y los sitios, Museum of Contemporary Art Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico. Unsaid/Spoken, Selections from the Ella Fontanals–Cisneros and CIFO Collections, Miami, Florida, United States. ACIREMA, Curated by: Cesar Garcia, Honor Fraser, Culver City, United States. Backspace: Antonio Vega Macotela, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

2011 X Bienal de Cuenca. Cuenca, Ecuador. Open Studio, Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten. Amsterdam, Netherlands. Informality: Art, economics, precarity, Stedelijk Museum Bureau.Amsterdam, Netherlands. On Not To, Galeria Fernando Santos, Oporto, Portugal. Sexta Bienal de Guttenburg, Sweden. Viewpoint:2011 CIFO Grants & Commissions Program Exhibition, Cisneros Fontanals, Art Foundation. Miami, United States. Silent Song, Calit2 University of California San Diego Gallery. San

Diego, United States. Modelling Standard, Joan Pratts, Barcelona, Spain.

2010 29 Biennial San Paulo, San Paulo, Brasil. Biennial of Young Art in Moscow, Moscow, Russia.

2009 Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico. Bolso Negro, Casa Vecina, Mexico City, Mexico. Presuntos culpables, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico.

2008 Time Divisa, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros. Mexico City, Mexico. Sinergia, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico. Imágenes multimedia de un mundo complejo. Simultaneous exhibotion in Granada, Spain Buenos Aires, Argentina; La Habana, Cuba and Mexico City, Mexico.

2007 MACO 07 Galería Lart23tres, Mexico City, Mexico. Seleccionado Estacionarte 2007, Mexico City, Mexico.

2005 Instalación “sin nombre”. Faro de Oriente, Mexico City, Mexico. Poco a poquito, Interventión on the Philadephia Products factory.Mexico City, Mexico.

2004 Momentito. Series of interventions in University City, Mexico City, Mexico.Poesía visual, Galerías 2 y 3. Mexico City, Mexico.

2003 Bienal Nacional de Arte Universitario (National Biennial of College Art), Mexico City, Mexico.

Bienal Nacional de Tercera Dimensión (National Biennial of Three Dimentions), Mexico City, Mexico.

Collections:

Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo MUAC (Mexico)Museo Amparo (Mexico)Colección AXA (Mexico-France)Dillon Cohen (NY, New York)Antonie Kioes Bertherat (Suitzerland)Juan Yarur (Fundación AMA, Chile)