Silvia
Gruner
1959 Born in Mexico
City
Fine Arts Degree from Betzalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem
Israel
Masters in Fine Art, from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston Massachusetts
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2001 Nado Vigilado, video installation, project for Hotel Habita,
Mexico City
Away From You, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Away From You, installation and video, project for Hotel Deseo, Playa
del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico
2000 Circuito Interior (retrospective exhibition), Museo de Arte Carrillo
Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
1998 500 kilos de impotencia (o posibilidad). Installation, Torre
de los Vientos, Mexico City, Mexico
Collares, Fotoseptiembre, Centro Morelense de las Artes, Morelos,
Mexico
Silvia Gruner: Project for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Pan American
Series, San Diego, California
1997 Collares, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico
Detalles Arquitectónicos, Galería Arte Contemporáneo,
Mexico City Mexico
1996 Cubiertos, XXIV Festival Cervantino, Alhondiga de Granaditas,
Guanajuato, Mexico
1994 Azote – a, Installation, Temistocles 44, Mexico City, Mexico
Reliquias, Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana de Buenos
Aires, Argentina
Inventario, Video installation, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
1993 La expulsión del paraíso, Ex-Convento de Tepoztlan,
Morelos, Mexico
Los justificaciones del placer, Galeria Nina Menocal, Mexico City,
Mexico
1992 Destierro, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico
City, Mexico
Destierro, Itzamatitlan, Morelos, Mexico
Fetiches domésticos, Itzamatitlan, Morelos, Mexico
1991 De las formas ancestrales o uno comiendose su propia cola, Curare,
Mexico City, Mexico
1990 Silvia Gruner, Instalaciones, Dibujos, Video, Museo del Chopo,
Mexico City, Mexico
1987 El Callejón del Beso, Boston, Massachusetts
1986 Conversaciones con un loto azul, Thompson Gallery, Massachusetts
College of Arts, Boston Massachusetts
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2002 The road to Aztlan, art from a mythic homeland, The Alburquerque
Museum. USA.
The X Files, La Panaderia. Mexico City
ABCDF, Palabras de ciudad. Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes. Mexico
City.
Sala de Recuperacion, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City.
Tiempo, Piedra y Barro. Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes. MUCA.
Mexico City.
Axis Mexico: common objects and cosmopolitan actions. San Diego Museum
of Art, San Diego CA.
Time Capsule: Postmodern Archaeologhy, Art in General, New York USA.
Insomniacs have the last laugh, Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Berlin,
Germany.
2001 Muestra de Video Mexicano, Touluse, Montpellier y Barcelona
Re-Hacer, Selection of works from the JUMEX collection, Ex-Teresa
Arte Actual, Mexico City
Ubicaciones, Arte Contemporáneo de Mexico, MUCA, UNAM, Mexico
City
Drama Queens, Women Behind the Camera, Guggenheim Film Series, Guggenheim
Museum, New York, NY
The Gelman Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA,
Dallas Art Museum, Dallas, TX, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Art Line, Borken, Germany
The Road to Aztlan, Art from a Mythic Homeland, Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, The Austin Museum of Art, Austin,
TX, The Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Phoenix Triennial, Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ
Video Café, Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY
2000 Cinco Continentes y Una Ciudad, Museo de la Ciudad de México,
Mexico City
El Enigma de los Cotidiano, Casa de América, Madrid, Spain
InSITE 2000, San Diego, CA – Tijuana, Mexico
Kwanju Biennale 2000, Kwangju, Korea
1999 Yo y mi circunstancia, Museo de Bellas Artes, Montreal, Canada
Performed Sculpture: Food, Rare Art Projects, New York, NY
Talleres: Art from Guadalajara Workshops, Track 16 Gallery, Santa
Monica
Sous la grisalle de Mexico, Espace dArt Yvonamor Palix, Paris, France
1998 En Crudo, Museo Nacional De Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
Collares, Fotoseptiembre International 98, Instituto Morelense de
las Artes, Cuernavaca, Mexico
El Cuerpo Aludido, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
En crudo, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
Desde el cuerpo: Alegorías de lo femenino, Museo de Bellas
Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
1998-97 Escultura Itinerante, Museo Regional de Guadalajara y 10 sitios
mas, Mexico
1997 Así está la cosa, Instalación y Arte objeto
en Latinoamérica, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo,
Mexico City, Mexico
Life’s Little Necessities, 2nd Johannesburg Biennial, Cape Town,
South Africa
Cercanías Distantes, Un diálogo entre artistas chicanos,
irlandeses y mexicanos, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
The Conceptual Trend: Six Artists, Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
México Hoy, Punto de partida, Ohio Arts Councils Riffe Gallery,
Ohio
1996 Distant Relations, an exhibition of contemporary Irish, Mexican
and Chicano Art, Camden Arts Center, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ireland
and Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA
Tendencies, New Art from Mexico City, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver,
Canada
Video Faz, Art+Idea, Mexico City and Museo Regional de Guadalajara,
Jalisco, Mexico
10th Biennale of Sidney, Sidney, Australia
Vivir es dejar huella, Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara,
Jalisco, Mexico
1994 Distant Relations, an exhibition of contemporary Irish, Mexican
and Chicano Art, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
El nacimiento de Venus, TRIANGULAR, Guatemala, Mexico and Switzerland
Tendencies, New Art from Mexico City, San Francisco Art Institute,
CA
1994 La Mitad del camino, InSITE 94, border Tijuana-San Diego and
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Las Nuevas Majas, Ottis Parsons Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993 Hedendaagse Mexicaanse Kunstenaars Europalia 93 Mexico, Museum
Dhondt Dhaenens-Deurle, Belgium
Objeto-Sujeto, XXI Festival Cervantino, Guanajuato y Museo de Monterrey,
Monterrey, Mexico
Otras gráficas, Museo Carrillo Gil, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico
Lesa Natura, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Confrontaciones, Casa de América, Madrid Spain
1992 Aktuellekunst aus Mexico, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt,
Germany
Entretrópicos, Museo Sofía Imber, Caracas, Venezuela
1991 El corazón sangrante/The Bleeding Heart, Institute of
Contemporary Art,
Boston, Massachusetts
La ilusión perenne de un principio vulnerable: otro arte mexicano,
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Art from Mexico City, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas
Personal Profecies, Miami Dade Community College, Miami, FL
Todo sereno… 7 jóvenes artistas hijos de la ciudad, Galería
del IFAL, Mexico Ciy, Mexico
1990 New Directions, La Raza Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The face of the Pyramid, The Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Tercera Bienal de la Habana, La Habana, Cuba
Arte=Vida, Installation, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City,
Mexico
De la estructuración plástica en serie, Centro Cultural
Santo Domingo, Mexico City, Mexico
A propósito, 14 obras en torno a Joseph Beuys, Ex-Convento
del Desierto de los Leones, Mexico City, Mexico
1986 La Isla de Pandora, Thompson Gallery, Boston, MA
Safari, Thompson Gallery, Boston, MA
Textos con lagartijas, North Hall Gallery, Boston, MA
FILM AND VIDEO
2001 Nado Vigilado, video wall for four monitors, installation in-situ,
Hotel Habita, Mexico City
Away From You, video installation, variable dimensions , Iturralde
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Table Garden, video installation, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles,
CA
2000 Videos para Circuito Interior, Exposición retrospectiva,
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Lazy Susan, Video, 3:40 min.
Canal, Video Installation for 2 projectors
Eclipse, Video Installation for 2 projectors
Deco México, Video Installation for 2 projectors
El Hombre Que Amo / La Mujer Que Espera, Video Installation for 2
projectors
1999 Atravesar las grandes aguas, !ventura!, video-installation for
8 projectors
Tregua, 15 min. video
1998 500 kilos de impotencia (o posibilidad), Video Loop, 10 min.
Luna, video, 6 min.
1996 In situ, video, 18 min.
1995 El Nacimiento de Venus, Video Loop, 15 min. videotapes for TRIANGULAR
in Guatemala, Mexico and Switzerland
1994 Inventario, Video Installation, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City,
Mexico
1990 Yo soy esa simetría, Video, 14 min.
1989 El Vuelo, Video, 18 min.
1988 Rito de Iniciación, (Magdalena Campos, Silvia Gruner y
Neil Leonard), Film, Super-8, 12 min.
Cada cosa toma su tiempo, Film, Super-8, 3 min.
Pregunta, Film, Super-8, 6 min.
1987 Canción Gitana, Film, Super-8, 3 min.
El Parque, Video, 3min.
Sin Título, Video, 3 min.
Sin Título, Film, Super-8, 6 min.
1986 El Pecado Original/Reproducción, Film, Super-8, 5 min.
Desnudo desciende, Film, Super-8, 3 min.
Desnudo con alcatraces, Film, Super-8, 3 min.
Arena, Film, Super-8, 6 min.These shorts and videos have been presented
at:Rencontres, Toulouse, France, 2001
Barcelona Art Report 2001, Barcelona, Spain
Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2001
Queens Museum, New York, 2001
Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, 2001
Casa de América, Madrid, Spain, 2000
Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2000
Kwangju Biennale 2000, Kwangju, Korea, 2000
Museo de Bellas Artes, Montreal, Canada, 1999
Rare Art Projects, New York, NY, 1999
Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 1999
Insync. Anthology film archives, New York, NY, 1998
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA, 1998
Festival Internacional de Cortometraje, Mexico City, MX, 1998
Art & Idea, Mexico City, MX, 1996
Museo Regional de Guadalajara, Jalisco, MX, 1996
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 1996
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1996
Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, 1997
The San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA, 1988, 1990
The Collective for Living Cinema, New York, NY, 1988
Film Society, Massachusetts College of Art, Massachusetts, 1987, 1988,
1990
Centro Wilfredo Lam, La Habana, Cuba 1988
Centro Cultural Santo Domingo, Mexico City, MX, 1989
Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, MX, 1990
Miami Dade Community College, Miami, FL, 1991
Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, MX, 1991
Galería Nina Menocal, Mexico City, MX, 1993
Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, MX, 1993, 1994
PERFORMANCES
1991 Yo soy esa simetría, San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco,
CA and Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, MX
1990 El Vuelo, Museo del Chopo, Mexico City, MX
1988 Vía o de paso, Mobius, Boston, MA
1987 Serenata, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1986 Serán abejas, avispas o luciérnagas ?, Massachusetts
College of Art, Boston, MA
RECOGNITIONS
2002-2005 Sistema Nacional de Creadores, FONCA, Mexico
1999-2000 Rockefeller Mac Arthur Film, Video, Multimedia Fellowship,
USA
1999-2002 Sistema Nacional de Creadores, FONCA, Mexico
1993-1994 Apoyo del FONCA para Proyectos Especiales y Coinversiones
Culturales, Mexico
1990-91 Beca del FONCA para Jóvenes Creadores, Mexico
1986 MFA with honors, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
