Darío Escobar

Darío Escobar (born 1971, Guatemala City) is a Guatemalan conceptual artist.
His work is characterized by the investigation of formal and conceptual aspects of objects and their function in visual arts.

2016

• "Dario Escobar: Composições", Casa Triângulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

2015

• "En otro orden", the 9.99 gallery, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

2014

• Unions & Intersections, Nils Stærk Gallery, Copenhaguen, Denmark.
• Broken circle, CAFAM Museum, Los Angeles, California

2013

• Pintura abstracta No. 7 / Abstract Painting No. 7, González & González, Santiago de Chile.
• Untitled, kamel mennour Galerie, Paris.
• Dario Escobar / Blacksmith Paintings, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York.
• Dario Escobar / Línea & Espacio, ArteCentro, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala.

2012

• Dario Escobar (MAC) Museo de arte Contemporáneo de Santiago, Santiago, Chile.
• Dario Escobar: Singular Plural. SCAD Savannah - SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
• Dario Escobar: Singular Plural. SCAD Atlanta - Gallery 1600, Atlanta, Georgia
• Dario Escobar / trabajo reciente Baró Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil.

2011

• Dario Escobar / Revisión Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno Carlos Mérida, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

2010

• Side and Back, kamel mennour, Paris
• Anverso y Reverso, González y González, Santiago, Chile.

2008

• Playoffs, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, New York.

2007

• La Línea Interrumpida, (CCM ) Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
• Dario Escobar/Project room, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, Nueva York.

2006

• Objetos en Transito, Sala Gasco, Santiago, Chile.

2005

• Serpentario, (CCEG ) Centro Cultural de España Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala.

2004

• Out! Galería Jacobo Karpio, Miami, Florida.

2003

• Espacios provisionales (MADC) Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, SanJosé, Costa Rica.
• Visual Entertainments, Museo de Arte Moderno de Mérida, Mérida, Mexico.

2001

• Dario Escobar, Trabajo reciente. Galería Jocobo Karpio, San José, Costa Rica.

2000

• Dario Escobar: Selección, II National Biennial of Lima, Peru.

2016

• "FOOT FORAINE”, Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France.
• “GAME ON!” (CMA) Children's Museum of the Arts, New York.
• "Colección MAC. Obras Latinoamericanas”, Museo de arte Contemporáneo de Santiago, Santiago de Chile, Chile.

2015

• "...Pero no soy fotógrafo” The 9.99 Gallery, Guatemala.
• “10ª Bienal do Mercosul" Porto Alegre, Brazil.
• “Gold", Neuberger Museum of Art Purchase College, Purchase, New York.
• “Coleccion Daros Latinamerica”, Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires.
• “Líneas de la Mano”,Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX''
• 5 - RPM (Revoluciones por minuto)”, the 9.99 gallery, Guatemala city, Guatemala.
• Beleza?”, Centro Cultural São Paulo, Brazil.

2014

• Largo x Ancho x Alto / Height x Width x Depth”, the 9.99 gallery, Guatemala city, Guatemala.
• El día que nos hicimos contemporáneos" (MADC) Museo de arte y diseño, San José, Costa Rica.
• Gold”, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida
• Fútbol: the beautiful game”, (LACMA) Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California.
• Deslize", Openning of (MAR) Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro.

2013

• Confusion in the vault", Museo Jumex, México D.F.
• Inaugural Exhibition”, the Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio.
• California-Pacific Triennial”, (OCMA) Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California / (CCC) Coastline Community College Art Gallery, Newport Beach, California.
• y... ¿entonces? / and... so?”, the 9.99, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
• The Collaborative: Question in the line” (MOLAA) Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California.

2012

• Futbol. Arte y pasión”, (MARCO) Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, México.
• The Island / A game of life”, Gallery One, Manarat al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi.
• Play with me”, (MOLAA) Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California.

2011

• Now (Selected works from the Jumex Collection, Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico.
• Video otra vez, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Fortaleza, Fortaleza, Brazil.
• Proyecto ideal, Centro Cultural de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
• From the Recent Past: New Acquisitions, (MOCA) The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California.

2010

• Chapter II: Ruido, 9.99/proyecto, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
• Proyecto Ideal, (MAC ) Museo de arte Contemporáneo de Santiago, Santiago, Chile.
• Optimismo Radical, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, New York.
• XVII Bienal de Guatemala, (CCM ) Centro Cultural Metropolitano, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
• Efecto Drácula, Museo Universitario del CHOPO, Mexico City, Mexico.
• Social Affects: A selection from the permanent Collection of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin America Studies/ Harvard University. Boston Center for the arts/ Mills Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
• Four Views from the Permanent Collection exhibition (MOLAA) Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California.

2009

• Los impoliticos, (PAN ) Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy.
• 10 Springs in the fall, kamel mennour, Paris.
• Périfériks, (CAN) Centre d’art Neuchâtel, Nuchâtel, Suiza.
• Mundus Novus: 53 Bienal Internacional de Venecia, Artiglerie dell’Arsenale, Venice, Italy.
• 0.3333333333333333…, 9.99/proyecto, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
• La nada y el ser, Septima interpretación de La Colección Jumex, La Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico City, Mexico.
• Video otra vez, Metales Pesados, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
• Performing Localities, (INIVA ) Institute of International Visual Arts, London, England.
• X Bienal de La Habana, Fortaleza de San Carlos de la Cabaña, Havana, Cuba.

2008

• La invención de lo cotidiano, (MUNAL) Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico.
• Object of Value, (MAC -MAM) Miami Art Central, Miami, Florida.
• Playtime, Bétonsalon/ Centre d’art et de recherche, Paris, France.
• World Histories, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa.
• Visions From Abroad, Flushing Town Hall, New York, New York.
• Elefante negro, Museo Diego Rivera, Mexico City, Mexico.

2007

• Fortunate Object, (CIFO ) Cisneros Fontanalls Art Foundations, Miami, Florida.
• Silence & Echo, Arena 1, Santa Monica, California.
• The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia.
• Poetics of the Handmade The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, California.

2006

• El esquiador en el fondo del pozo, Quinta interpretación de La Colección Jumex, La Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico City, Mexico.
• Stil Biuti, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland.
• The Beautiful Game: Contemporary Art and Fútbol, (BAM) Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York.
• Constant Disturbance, The Spanish Cultural Center, Miami, Florida.

2005

• The Hours. Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America, Dublin Museum, Ireland, United Kingdom.
• Living for the city Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, New York / (CIEL) CentreInternational d’Expositions de Larouche, Toronto, Canada.

2004

• Newspapers, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, New York.

2003

• Intangible, (MADC) Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica.
• LA Freeways: Latin America, (MOCA) The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California / America’s Society, New York, New York (2004).
• RAIN Project, Pabellón Cuba, Havana, Cuba.
• Stretch, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada.
• TransEAT , Food Culture Museum, Miami, Florida.
• VIII Bienal de la Habana, Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba.

2002

• ART itsmo, (MADC) Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica.
• Contaminados, (MADC) Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica.
• Del centro a la isla, Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba.
• Intimate/Universal, Ateneo de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela.
• Mesoamérica: Oscilaciones y Artificios, (CAAM) Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Canary Islands, Spain.
• Zones in Tension, de GANG Gallery, Harlem, the Netherlands.

2001

• Continuous Connection, Felissimo Project, New York, New York.
• Short Stories, La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy.
• Spaces/Bodies/Identities, Centro Cultural de España, San José, Costa Rica.
• 13 Hours, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela.
• I Tirana Biennial, National Gallery & Chinese Pavilion, Tirana, Albania.
• IV Caribbean Biennial, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
• Barro de América IV Biennial, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofía Imber, Caracas, Venezuela.

2000

• 2eme. Biennale du Design 2000, Ecole des Beaux Arts de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France.
• L’ art dans le monde, Pont Alexandre III, Paris, France.

1999

• Guatemalan Art, Sala Oficial Juan Ismael del Cabildo de Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain.
• II Iberoamerican Biennial of Lima, Lima, Peru.

1998

• Fotojornada’98, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno Carlos Mérida, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
• Without Title, Plaza G&T; Guatemala City, Guatemala.
• I Central American Biennale, Centro Cultural Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemala City, Guatemala / (DUMA) Duke University Museum of Art, North Carolina.
• VI International Art Biennale of Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador.

1997

• La Joven Estampa, Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba.

• Dario Escobar Lecture: The Experience of the Object. Events Space, SCAD Atlanta, Georgia. February, 2012
• Uno a Uno: Darío Escobar y José Falconí. [One on One: Darío Escobar and José Falconí] Auditorium AFP Integra at the Museum of Art of Lima MALI. Lima, Peru. May 2011
• Artist on Their Art Series: Darío Escobar. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) Harvard University. November, 2010
• Mirar de Nuevo: El objeto reconsiderado. [Look again: the reconsidered object] National School of Fine Arts (ENAP), Guatemala, Guatemala. April 2010.
• Work and recent projects panel with Sara Reisman, Americas Society / Pinta New York. November, 2009.
• Darío Escobar: Cátedra y crítica magistral. [Darío Escobar: magisterial class and critic] New Amphitheater of the Hospital de la Concepción building, School of Fine Arts. Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. November, 2003.