IVáN NAVARRO
Artist Bio
Iván Navarro
B I O G R A P H Y
1972
Born in Santiago, Chile
1995
BFA, PUC University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S
2009
"DIE," Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
"Nowhere Man," Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
"Nowhere Man," Contemporary Art Center Towner, UK
"Threshold," Chilean Pavilion, Arsenal, 53rd Venice Biennale
2008
"Homeless Lamp, the Juice Sucker," Fabric Work Shop & Museum,
Philadelphia, PA
"Antifurniture," Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
"Backstage, Speed of Light," Greenaway Gallery - Adelaide Bank Festival of
Arts, Adelaide, Australia
"No Man's Land," Koppelman Gallery, Tufts University Gallery, Medford,
MA
2007
"¿Dónde Están?" Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile
"Propuesta de Monumento," Victor Jara Galeria Moro, Santiago, Chile
"Centro Cultural Matucana 100," Santiago, Chile
"Centro Cultural Recoleta," Buenos Aires, Argentina
"Large Wall Hole (project room)," Jersey City Museum, NJ
2006
"Concentration Camp," Roebling Hall, NY
"PACHAMAMA," Galeria Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile
"Unosunove Arte Contemporanea," Rome, Italy
"No soy de aqui, no soy de alla," Union Gallery, London
2005
"Spy Glass," Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
Jersey City Museum (project room), New Jersey
"Shortcuts," Art Rock, Rockefeller Plaza (project room), New York
2004
"Juice Sucker," CSPS Legion Arts, Iowa
"Monuments for D. Flavin," Roebling Hall, Brooklyn
2002
"Blade Runner," Gasworks Studios, London
2001
"Big Bang," Galería Animal, Santiago, Chile
G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S
2009
"In the Between," Tabanlioglu Architects, Istanbul, Turkey
"Cross Roads," Mac Art Gallery, Istanbul
"Home Sweet Hogar," Allende Arts Festival, Artscape Wychwood
Barns, Toronto, Canada
"Pete and Repeat - Works from the Zabludowicz Collection," Projectspace
176, London (England)
"El Terremoto de Chile," Trienal de Chile 2009, Museo de Arte Chileno
Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile
"Tina B," The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
"Los Desaparecidos," North Dakota Museum of Art traveled to Weisman
Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN (October 2009 - January 2010)
2008
"NY / LA," Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney, Australia
"A Political Exhibition," Tirana Institute for Contemporary Art, Tirana,
Alabania
"Informed by Function," Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, USA
"Ellos me Miran Sala Gasco," Santiago, Chile
2007
"Transcultura," Centro Cultural de España, San Salvador, El Salvador
"Body Screens," Museo de la Ciudad, Querétaro, Mexico
"Reality Undone," University of Essex Gallery, Essex, UK
"Intelligent Design," Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
"Refract, Reflect, Project:Light Works from the Collection," Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
"Petrolina," Moscow Museum of Modern Art at Petrovka and "We are your
future," Art Center Winzavod. Special projects for 2 Moscow Biennale of
Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
"Written with Light," Bloomberg, New York, USA
2006
"Arquivar Tormentas, " Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de
Compostela, Spain
"Good Company, Flashlight," Bath Street Gallery, Aukland, New Zealand
"Multiplication," Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago, Chile
"Trace," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2005
"Next Wave Festival," Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY
"Ars Lucis. Light as an art medium," ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art,
Karlsruhe, Germany
"Poles apart / Poles together," 51st Venice Biennale's Parallel Project, Venice,
Italy
"Prague Biennale 2. Accion Directa." Karlin Hall, Prague, Czech Republic
"The Disappered," North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
"Transformer," Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile
2004
Produciendo Realidad, arte e resistenza latinoamericana," Prometeo
Associazione, Lucca, Italy
"Terrorvision," Exit Art, New York, NY
"Cile-Italia," Instituto Italo Latino American, Rome, Italy
"Futuribles," Roebling Hall in ARCO, Madrid, Spain
2003
"Brewster 2003," Brewster, New York, NY
"BQE," White Box, New York, NY
"Frankenstein (or, it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye)," Tanya
Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
2002
"Viology, Violence of Culture & Culture of Violence," Galería de la Raza, San
Francisco, CA
2001
International Open Studio Exhibition, Art/OMI, New York, NY
"The place without limit, contemporary art from Chile," (traveling exhibition):
Museo de Arte Moderno de Guadalajara, Mexico; Museo Rubén Blades,
Montevideo, Uruguay; Museo del Barro, Asunción, Paraguay
B I B L I O G R A P H Y
2008
Julianne Pierce. "Iván Navarro" Speed of Light" (exh bro). Adelaide Bank
Festival of Arts, Adelaide, Australia
Schlegel, Amy Ingrid. "No Man's Land" (exh bro). Tufts University Art
Gallery, Medford, MA
Bozicnik, Nina. "Piercing the Facade: Iván Navarro and the Aesthetic of Social
Illumination" (exh bro).Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA
2007
Renske Janssen and Nicolaus Schafhausen. "Changing Roles Artists' personal
viewsand wishes," Witte de With Center for Conemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2006
Ravenal, John. "Artificial Light" (exh cat). VCUarts Anderson Gallery,
VMFA, Richmond, VA and MOCA Miami, FL
2005
Sorokina, Elena. "Crude Oil Paintings" (exh cat). Elena Sorikina and Studio
Radia, New York, NY
2004
Scotini, Marco. "Produciendo Realidad, arte e resistenza latinoamericana" (exh cat). Prometeo
Associazione, Lucca, Italy
2002
Dittborn, Eugenio, "Where is Santiago, Chile?" (exh cat) Fantasmatic, National Art Gallery,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2001
Viveros, Christian. "Big Bang" (exh cat). Galería Animal, Santiago, Chile
2000
Mellado, Justo. "Between Eruption and the Object's Withdrawal" (exh cat) Magnetica.
Fundación Telefónica, Santiago, Chile
G R A N T S A N D A W A R D S
2007
Fondart, Grant Ministry of Culture, Santiago, Chile
2006
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, New York, USA
2005
Summer Camp
2002
Gasworks, Residency Gasworks cultural exchange programme, London
Fondart, Grant Ministry of Education, Santiago, Chile
2001
Art Omi International Artists' Colony, Ghent, New York
Fondart, Grant Ministry of Education, Santiago, Chile
1999
Fondart, Grant Ministry of Education, Santiago, Chile
S E L E C T E D P U B L I C & P R I V A T E C O L L E C T I O N S
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
LVMH Collection, Paris, France
Saatchi Collection, London, UK
Martin Z. Margulies Warehouse, Miami, FL
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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