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MARCOS RAMIREZ “ERRE”
Born 1961, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico Lives and works in Tijuana, Mexico
EDUCATION
1982 Degree in Law, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana, Mexico.
AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
2011 Lifetime Art Achievement Award, Art Moves Festival, Torun, Poland.
2010 Rasmussen Foundation Residence Grant, Native Art Center, Fairbanks, Alaska.
2009 Fellowship of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, Fonca. Mexico.
2008 Art Pace. International Artist in Residency Program, San Antonio, TX.
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA.
2007 The United States Artist Gund Fellowship Award.
The San Diego Art Prize, San Diego, CA.
Sao Paulo-Valencia Biennial, Encuentro entre dos mares/Encounter between two seas, Valencia, Spain.
II Moscow Biennial, Special Project: We are your future. Moscow, Russia.
2006 Grant from the American Foundation Center for the artist-run space “Estacion Tijuana”.
2005 Grant from the Leonard Nimoy Foundation for “The Prejudice Project”.
2004 Poly/Graphic San Juan Triennial, Latin America and the Caribbean, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
2003 Public Art Project, Pump Station # 4. San Diego CA.
2000 VII Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
1997 inSITE '97, San Diego, CA and Tijuana, Mexico.
VI Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.
Man of the year in Culture, Semanario Zeta, Tijuana, Mexico.
Honorable Mention, Salon Internacional de Estandartes, ES 96, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico.
1995 Grant award, Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y Las Artes (FOECA), Mexico.
1994 Second Prize in Sculpture, IX Biennial of Baja California, Mexico.
InSITE 94, San Diego, CA and Tijuana, Mexico.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
2013 Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming, Spring)
2012 Balada para Melisa y Bob - o de las diferentes formas de vivir la frontera (Ballad for Melisa and Bob - or, the different ways to live on the border) An intervention at Casa Azul, Frida Kahlo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
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Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, co-curated by Director Hugh Davies and Associate Curator Jill Dawsey, November 29, 2012 - June 1, 2013
ZERO1 Biennial, MACLA, San Jose, CA
2011 La Reconstruccion de los Hechos (A Reconstruction of Events), 20-Year Retrospective, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico.
How Many Revolutions? LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA.
2009 The Body of Crime/El Cuerpo del Delito, Universidad Autonoma de Guanajuato, Mexico.
2008 The Body of Crime/ El Cuerpo del Delito, Art Pace, San Antonio, TX.
2007 Los 4 Pilotos del Apocalipsis, The Suburban. Chicago, IL.
Eye charts. The Front, Alternative space for Art and Architecture, San Ysidro, CA.
Stop, Yield, Merge, San Diego Art Prize, L Street Gallery, San Diego, CA.
Postcards from the Edge/ Postales desde el Filo, Athenaeum of Music and Arts Library, La Jolla,CA.
2006 Postcards from the Edge/ Postales desde el Filo, Galeria EDS, Mexico City, Mexico.
2005 To whom it may concern/War notes, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX.
2004 The Multiplication of Bread, La Mesa College, San Diego, CA.
2003 La multiplicacion de los panes/Jardin de Angeles, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2002 Garden of Angels, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
The multiplication of bread, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
2000 Gold for Mirrors, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Aging Myths. Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
1999 Play Station, INOVA, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
Love as First Language, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA.
1996 187 Pairs of hands, Iturralde Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
187 Pairs of hands, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico.
1993 Cuando las ideas se escapan, El Lugar del Juglar, Tijuana, Mexico.
Platicando de bulto, Galeria del Mar, Rosarito, Mexico.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico (forthcoming)
Today Art Museum, Beijing, China, curated by Gerardo Mosquera (forthcoming) Valencia, Spain (forthcoming)
2012 Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Pulse Miami, Miami Beach, FL (forthcoming) Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, Houston Fine Arts Fair, Houston, TX
2012 Biennial Art Auction, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2011 Crissis. Arte y confrontacion en America Latina. Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, México City, Mexico.
Art Moves 2011, Turun Poland.
2010 Lonarte 2010 Arte Social, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal.
Art Moves 2010, Billboards Art Festival. Turun, Poland.
Beyond Borders – Mexican Public Art, Skissernas Museum. Lund, Sweden.
Revolucion Es. Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Instalación en espacio publico,
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2009 El Resplando, Video installation, Salon Los Angeles, Ciudad de Mexico.
The Body of Crime. Video: The Black Suburban. NIMK Netherlands Institut Voor Media Kunst, Holland.
Animal Art, New Children’s Museum, San Diego, CA.
2008 Human/Nature, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; Berkley Art Museum. Berkley, CA.
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art. Newport Beach, CA / Estacion Tijuana, Tijuana Mexico.
Proyecto Civico, “ El Cubo” del Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico.
Puerto Vallarta Arte Contemporaneo O8. Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
2007 Sao Paulo/Valencia Biennial. Valencia, Spain.
Moscow Biennial: We are your future. Special project. Moscow, Russia.
Strange New World. Art and Design from Tijuana, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA.
Revision de Artistas, EDS Gallery, Mexico Df. April.
2006 Nuevo Arte: Mexican Museum of San Francisco, White Box, New York; Houston: New World Museum; LACE, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.
TRANSactions. Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Strange New World. Art and Design from Tijuana, Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington DC.
and Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA.
Group Show. Iturralde Gallery. Los Angeles CA.
2005 ECO: Arte Contemporaneo Mexican,. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. Spain.
ARCO. Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo. Project Room. Los 4 Pilotos del Apocalipsis.
2004 Salon Bancomer, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico.
Trienal Poligrafica de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Baja To Vancouver, West Coast and Contemporary Ar,. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA;
CCAC,Wattis, Institute for Contemporary Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada;
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Blood Lines and Connections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO.
Promocion Popula,. Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile. Chile
La Multiplicacion de los Panes/Jardin De Los Angeles, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Away from Home, Wexner Center for the Arts. Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio.
2003 Mexico Illuminated, Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, PA.
Here/There, Flux Gallery, San Diego, CA.
Group Show. Iturralde Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA.
Territorios X, Foro Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo. Leon Gto, Mexico.
2002 Mixed Feelings: Art and Culture in the Post Border Metropolis, USC Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles CA.
Generos En Transito, Centro Cultural Mexicano. Paris, France.
© Copyright, Centro Cultural Tijuana. Tijuana, Mexico.
ART BASEL Miami Beach, International Art Fair, Miami, Florida.
2001 Politica de la Diferencia: Arte Iberoamericano de fin de Siglo. Pinacoteca, Recife, Brasil; MALBA, Museo Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Lateral Thinking, Art of the 1990`S. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA.
Interestate Five: Five Decades of Contemporary Art in California, San Diego Museum of Art, San
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2000 5 Continentes y Una Ciudad. Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
VII Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba.
Group Show, Iturralde Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
2000 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
6 Degrees of Inspiration, The Virginia Center for Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA.
Bienal Internacional de Estandartes, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, B.C. Mex.
Made in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA MCA Art Auction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
1999 Group Show. Iturralde Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Selections of the Permanent Collection - Works From The 90's, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA.
The Comeback Highway / El Camino de Regreso, Ruta DF.-Tijuas, Zocalo Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico D.F.
Group Show, Iturralde Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
1997 InSITE '97, (San Diego-Tijuana), Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico Fronteras Cruzadas, Centro Cultural Tijuana. Tijuana, Mexico.
Monterey Biennial. Stripes and Fence Forever/Homage to Jasper Johns, Museo de Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
Se Instala La Muerte III, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Aguascalientes, Mexico.
VI Havana Biennial, 187 Pairs of Hands, Casa de Mexico, Havana, Cuba.
1996 Salon Internacional de Estandartes, ES 96, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana BC. Mexico.
1995 V Bienal Del Noroeste, Museo de Arte Contemporneo de Sinaloa, Culiacan Sinaloa, Mexico.
X Biennial of Baja California, Installation. Biblioteca Central de Mexicali and Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico.
Nube Madre, Esquina de Bodegas, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico.
All Americans, Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA.
Tiempo, Sculpture/Art object, Intersection Gallery, San Diego, CA and Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico.
XV Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven, Pinacoteca de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Nuevo Leøn, Mexico; Casa de la Cultura de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes; Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico.
1994 inSITE ' 94. Installation, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico.
XIV Encuentro Nacional de Arte Joven, Pinacoteca de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico; Casa de La Cultura de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes; Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico.
2 en 1 - Binational Exhibition, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana B.C. Casa de la Cultura de Mexicali, Mexico.
Artistas de Tijuana, Intersection Gallery, San Diego, CA.
Heroes and Sheroes. Intersection Gallery, San Diego, CA.
IX Biennial of Baja California, Biblioteca Central de Mexicali and Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico.
U.B.A. - United by the Arts, Robert Freeman Gallery, Escondido CA.
TEACHING
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2007 Visiting Artist program, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL.
2006 Visiting Artist program, California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, CA.
2005 Visiting Artist program, University of California, San Diego, CA.
LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
2011 Arte Instalacion, Una mirada desde dentro. Museo Amparo , Puebla, Mexico.
Procesos Creativos. NOMA. Tijuans, Mexico.
2010 Life, Art and Politics. Presentation , Native Arts Center, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK.
Life, Art and Politics. New School of Architecture, San Diego, CA.
Together or Apart. Art Moves festival, Turun, Poland.
Works. Presentation on a Foster home. Turun ,Poland.
2009 Works. Presentation in the lecture series Tijuanalogies, in Woodbury University. San Diego, CA.
2008 Engaging Publics: Arts, Reversals, Interventions. CCCB, Center for Contemporary Culture.
Barcelona, Spain.
Art and Activism Panel. CAB8 Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA.
Projects. Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX.
Artist Talk. Proyecto Civico, in conjunction with CB08 , sala de usos multiples CECUT, Tijuana, Mexico.
2007 Art and Politics Lecture Series Visiting Artists Program . School of the Chicago Art Institute, Çhicago. IL.
A+D Lecture Series. Marcos Ramirez ERRE. Lecture. Columbia College Chicago. IL.
Works. Art projects Presentation. Art School of University of San Diego. San Diego CA.
Projectos. Congreso regional de Arte y Diseño “Esquina Norte”. Tijuana ,BC.
Eat the Market. LACMA.Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Curated By Sam Durant. Presentation about the artist run space Estacion Tijuana.
Lecture series. Artist talk. Works and Ideas. MFA Rosky School of Fine Arts University of Southern California., Los Angeles, CA. USA.
Lecture. Desde la frontera: Una revision de trabajos producidos en el filo. Free school of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
2006 From Century 21 to. To whom it may concern/War notes. University of California Irvine, Irvine CA.
WORKS. Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA.
WORKS. San Diego State University, San Diego, CA.
From Century 21 to. To whom it may concern/War notes. Cal Institute for Arts, Valencia, CA.
2005 To whom it may concern/War notes. Opening night lecture. Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, University of Texas at el Paso , El Paso, TX.
Projects. Presentation of previous and ongoing works. La Mesa, Community College, San Diego CA.
Projects. Presentation of previous and ongoing works. University of Texas at El Paso. El Paso, TX.
Studio visits. Graduate Visual Arts program. California Institute for Arts, Valencia, CA.
2004 Symposium. Art in Southern California. From the 90s to now. Southern Consortium of Art Schools and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
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Projects. Presentation of previous and ongoing works. La Mesa Community College, San Diego CA.
Projects. Presentation of previous and ongoing works. Art department of the San Diego State University. CA.
Projects. Presentation of previous and ongoing works. Visiting class of the Graduate Visual Arts program . California Institute for Arts, Valencia, CA.
NAFTA Forum. Presentation of work related to Baja to Vancouver exhibition.
2003 Panel Discussion. Points of Departure. "Away from Home ", Wexner Center for the Arts.
Columbus, OH.
Exhibition lecture, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
Installation in conjunction with Art at the Border, College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
Tijuana, Norte o Sur? Puerta o Ventana? College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities. Clemson University, Clemson, S.C.
California College of Arts and Crafts, Lecture Series, San Francisco CA.
2000 Vernacular Art of the San Diego/Tijuana Border, The Center for Latinoamerican Studies and the Latinoamerican Student Organization, San Diego, CA.
Lectures Series 2001, Woodbury School of Architecture, San Diego, CA.
Vii Encuentro Regional de Arquitectura, Asociacion de Colegios de Arquitectos de Baja California, Mexico.
Odysseys, American Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Midway Regional Conference, Georgia Tech University, Atlanta, GA.
Juror. Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Biennial 2000 Exhibition. Newport News, VA.
1999 La-La Latinoamerica-Los Angeles, Southern California Institute of Architecture Lectures series, Los Angeles, CA.
Seminario de Arquitectura Fronteriza, Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Campus Mexicali, Mexico.
Jurors Lecture. Mariners Museum, Newport News, Va.
1998 La-La Latinoamerica-Los Angeles, Southern California Institute of Architecture Lectures series, Los Angeles. CA.
1997 La-La Latinoamerica-Los Angeles, Southern California Institute of Architecture Lectures series, Los Angeles, CA.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Museo Carrillo Gil, San Ángel, Mexico JUMEX Collection, Mexico City, Mexico Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA Skissernas Museum, Lund, Sweden
Rubin Center, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX
