Miguel Ventura



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Born in 1954 in San Antonio/Texas. Lives in Mexico City.
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1999
”The New Fuck Me Little Daddy House”, Flatland Gallery, Impakt Festival, Utrecht/NL

1995
”New Work”, Momenta Art, New York

1991
”Recent Works”, Galería Arte contemporáneo, Mexico City

1990
”New Monuments to the Enemies Within”, Galería Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City



SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2000
”Plastic Monuments”, SUPT, Montevideo/Uruguay

1999
”Contact”, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
”Me and my Circumstance”, Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal/CA
”Five Continents and One City”, Museo de la Ciudad, Mexico City
”International Biennial of Photography”, Museo de la Imagen, Mexico City
”Drawings”, Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico City

1998
”Cambio”, curated by Kenny Schachter, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City
”Theater of Cruelty”, Cristenrose Gallery, New York
”Your Utopia”, Momenta Art, New York

1997
”Cambio”, curated by Kenny Schachter, New York

1996
”Domestic Partnerships: New Impulses in Decorative Arts from the Americas”, Art in General, New York

1995
”It’s My Life, I’m Going to Change the World”, Acme Gallery, Los Angeles
”Other Rooms”, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York

1994
”I, Myself & Me”, Interart Center, New York
”Edge of the Toon”, Cavin-Morris, New York
”Yes I Am, No I’m Not”, Momenta Art, New York
”Splat Figures”, White Columns, New York

1992
”Muestra de Grabado Internacional”, Curitibá, Paraná/Brazil


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
1999
Yehya, Naief, ”Contacto, reflexiones sobre el punto de encuentro entre la realidad y la hiperrealidad”, El Financiero, Jan. 30, 1999, Mexico City

1998
Yehya, Naief, ”Miguel Ventura”, Poliester #23, Mexico City
Yehya, Naief, ”Cambio”, ArtNexus, May 1998, Miami/Fl

1996
Tejada, Roberto, ”Miguel Ventura”, Sulfur, Spring (Eastern) 1996, Michigan University/MI

1995
Calvin Reid, ”Miguel Ventura and Jody Culkin, Momenta Art”, Art in America, Nov. 1995, New York City, N.Y.
Princenthal, Nancy, ”Artist’s Book Beat”, The Print Collector’s Newsletter, vol. XXVI, no. 3, July-Aug. 1995, New York City, N.Y.

1992
”¡Cuidado! Gente Trabajando: Miguel Ventura”, Poliester, Spring 1992, Mexico City

1991
Yehya, Naief, ”Pleasure, Pain, Downpour”, introductory text in catalogue of ”Recent Works” exhibition, Galería Arte Contemporáneo, Nov. 1991, Mexico City



WORKS IN PRINT
”Die Notizbücher der Mademoiselle Heidi Schreber” (The Notebooks of Mademoiselle Heidi Schreber), edition in Spanish, English, German, Chinese, Arabic, Swahili (with translations into Spanish and English), 176 pp., NILC (The New Interterritorial Language Committee), Mexico City 1995

Artist’s Limited Edition of Multiples: ”Yes I Am, No I’m Not”, Momenta Art, New York, 1993

”Cat Club Memoirs”, trilingual edition by Miguel Ventura (English, Spanish, German), 16 pp., Mexico City 1991