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Vargas-Suarez Universal
Celestial mechanics I
2004 oil on parabolic antenna; 30x31x35 inches.
Born in Mexico City, 1972, raised near NASA in Houston,
lives in New York, and works anywhere.
EDUCATION
1991-1996
The University of Texas at Austin, Astronomy and Art History
1999-2000
Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
Mini-Med School program
New York University, New York
AWARDS & HONORS
2000
Artists' Studio Benefit Tour, Art in General, New York
1999
A.I.M. Prog ram, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Bronx
1997
Young Artist Award, Bank of America/Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin
SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2008
Virus Maximus, Jacob Karpio Galeria, San Jose de Costa Rica
2007
Next Green Sphere, g-module, Paris
Space Station: San Sebastian, Galeria Carlos Irizarry, San Juan de Puerto Rico
2006
A New Kind of Science, Karpio-Facchini Gallery, Miami
Virus Americanus, Jacob Karpio Galeria, San Jose de Costa Rica
2005
Space Station: Tenochtitlan, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico D.F. (cat.)
2004
Wall Drawing Commission & Study Drawings, LibertyHealth Foundation, Jersey City
Event Horizon, g-module, Paris
2003
American Virus, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City
Outer (negative) Space, Galeria Ramis Barquet, Monterrey
Art Unknown, Proyectos Individuales, Thomas Erben Gallery, ARCO '03, Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo, Parque Ferial Juan Carlos I, Madrid (catalogue)
Proper Motion (Pictures), The Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers, NY
Audio-Drawings & New Works on Paper, Galeria Carlos Irizarry, San Juan
2002
Stardust, new wall drawings Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
Space Stations and Blueprints, g-module, Paris
Vargas-Suarez Universal: Space Stations, Lobby Gallery, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, Organized by d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn
2000
The Fourth Annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival Installations, Vargas-Suarez Universal, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York City Transit, York St. Subway Station, Brooklyn
Domestic Model of a Worm Hole, P.S. 122 Gallery, New York (outdoor project), organized by Archibald Arts, New York
American Virus 288 Elizabeth St., New York
1998
Trahare Naturalis & Virus 76 Varick , New York
A Brief Documentation of Black Holes & Blue Holes Holland Tunnel Art Projects, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Unknown (Sex Drive) Studio Obsolete, Queens
Texas Landscape Atelier von David Medalla, Berliner Kunstlerprograam des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienst (DAAD), Berlin
1995
Vargas-Suarez Universal Apple Computer Corp., Austin
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Claiming Space: Mexican-Americans in U.S. Cities, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) (cat.)
Walls and Gateways, Existentie vzw, Ghent, Belgium (cat.)
S.O.S. 4.8 Sustainable Art Actions, Centro de Congresos Victor Villegas, Murcia, Spain (cat.)
ggg.g-salon, g-module, Paris
Put Your Flag Where Your Mouth Is, St. Paul's Hall, St. Paul's Steiner School, London
2007
The Expanded Painting Show, M*A*S*H*, Cottelston Advisors, Miami
Oliver Lutz, Vargas-Suarez Universal, Space Other, Boston
Brave New World, Solar, East Hampton, NY (cat.)
Suncom Art Nites, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan
Per Square Foot, Dieu Donne Papermill Inc., New York (cat.)
della Pittura Digitalis: On Painting and the Digital Moment, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin
Double-edged Abstraction, g-module, Paris
2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art: Special Projects: We Are Your Future, Winzavod Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow (cat.)
Artists Books: Transgression/Excess, Space Other, Boston
III Certamen Internacional De Pintura De Castellón, Fundacion Astroc, Madrid (cat.)
Mixed Signals, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York
2006
III Certamen Internacional De Pintura De Castellón, El Museo de Bellas Artes de Castellón, Spain (cat.)
Good Morning City Noise!!! Sound Art Project,Galeri Soemardja, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
Radicales Libres, GE Galeria, Monterrey, Mexico (cat.)
What War?, White Box, New York
Show Off, g-module, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris (cat.)
Year _06, g-module, Mary Ward House, London
Dieu Donné, Papermill Inc., New York (cat.)
Pure Form, Solar, East Hampton, NY
The Sun in Uranus, Offspace Projects, London
States of Anxiety, Punto Gris CIRCA 06, San Juan de Puerto Rico
Group Exhibition, d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn
2005
My Mother the Nazi the:artists:network, New York
Future Quake g-module, FIAC, Paris (cat.)
Barrocos & Neobarrocos (El Infierno de la Belleza) DA2 (Domus Artium 2002), Fundacion Salamanca Ciudad de Cultura, Palacio de Abrantes, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain (cat.)
The Line Between Life and Death, Karpio-Facchini Gallery, Miami
Out of Bounds Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY (cat.)
Happy Bithday To Me, g-module, Paris
Jacob Karpio Galeria, ARCO ’05, Madrid (cat.)
2004
Art Basel Miami Beach: The International Art Show Jacob Karpio Galeria, Miami Beach (cat.)
31 Edition Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain g-module, Paris expo-Porte de Versailles, Paris (cat.)
Eigth Annual d.u.m.b.o. Art Under the Bridge Festival, Music: Experimental and Avant Garde Sound, The Soundbox, organized by d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn
a small look at GIGANTICISM Gigantic Art Space, New York (cat.)
Topologies Solar, East Hampton, NY
Small Drawings by Big People Galeria Carlos Irizarry, San Juan de Puerto Rico
Mexico Arte Contemporaneo Jacob Karpio Galeria, Expo Reforma, Mexico D.F. (cat.)
Momenta Art Benefit White Columns, New York
Cartografia Americana Solar, East Hampton, NY
The Armory Show: The International Fair of New Art Jacob Karpio Galeria, New York
Voces y Visiones:Highlights from El Museo del Barrio’s Permanent Collection, Parrish Art Museum, South Hampton, NY
Art Rotterdam, g-module, Wilhelminakade, Rotterdam
2003
NADA Art Fair g-module, The Lincoln, Miami Beach
Voces y Visiones: Highlights from El Museo del Barrio’s Permanent Collection, El Museo del Barrio, New York (cat.)
White Box Benefit James Cohan Gallery, New York
Mexico Iluminated, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania (cat.)
Il Palazzo delle Liberta, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena (cat.)
Ready for War University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal
ARCO '03, Galeria Ramis Barquet, Madrid
7 Walls 8 Views, Arena, New York
Art Rotterdam 2003, g-module, Wilhelminakade, Rotterdam
2002
Secret, Gulbenkian Galleries, Royal College of Art, London
Scratch, Arena, New York
Save Our Senate The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee benefit, Exit Art, New York
Candela Art + Music Festival, Galeria Carlos Irizarry, San Juan
Ballpoint Inklings, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington
Deja Vu, g-module, Paris
Recent Multiples Projects x 5-Inbox Vol. V 10038, Organization of Independent Artists, New York
Speaking Truths- Inbox Vol. V 10038, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis
A Special Place, Arena, Brooklyn
2001
FFWD >> Miami Contemporary Art: Fair, Arena, Hotel Nash, Miami Beach
Drawings (selected) g-module, Paris
Emerging, Archibald Arts, New York
Crossing the Line Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, New York (catalogue, CD)
Sthlm Art Fair ARENA@FEED, Sollentunamassan AB, Stockholm
Think...1.2.3.Think: Rupert Goldsworthy, Jocelyn Taylor, Vargas-Suarez Universal
im niL, Greenpoint, Brooklyn (essay by Erik Bakke)
Refraction Arts Installation Project, The Blue Theater, Austin
2000
London Biennale 2000, London (catalogue)
Dona Nelson, Andreij Monastyrskij, Vargas-Suarez Universal, Tom Wood
Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
Meat Market Art Fair ARENA@FEED, New York
Good Business is the Best Art
Twenty Years of the Artist in the Marketplace Program
Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Bronx
S-Files:The Selected Files
El Museo del Barrio, New York (catalogue)
Lineage d.u.m.b.o. arts center (dac), Brooklyn
organized with CrossPathCulture
Erratic Errand Archibald Arts, New York
Line Arena@Feed, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
1999
Artist in the Marketplace: Nineteenth Annual Exhibition
Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Bronx, (catalogue)
Linea Nigra-Drawing the Line Star 67, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Autokinetik LL Gallery, The Limelight, New York
A room with a view Sixth @ Prince Fine Arts, New York
1998
Fresh Blood:13 Young Artists Archibald Arts, New York
Ruido (Noise): A Multi-Media Exhibition of Sound Based Art
Taller Boricua Gallery, Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, New York
The Calculus of Transfiguration: Meaning, Form, and Process in Late 20th Century Art
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn
Apocalypse Now: Neo-Decadent Works HereArt, New York
1997
Young Latino Artists II Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin
Aberrations ACA Gallery, Austin
Selected Collections
Ainsworth Collection, Sydney, Australia
Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
Boelsche Collection, Austin
Brooklyn Museum of Art Library, New York
Comunidad Autonoma de la Region de Murcia (CARM), Spain
DA2 (Domus Artium 2002), Fundacion Salamanca Ciudad de Cultura, Salamanca, Spain
El Museo del Barrio, New York (commission)
LibertyHealth Foundation, Jersey City (commission)
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City
Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
Queens Museum of Art, New York
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Winzavod Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow, Russian Federation
Born in Mexico City, 1972, raised near NASA in Houston,
lives in New York, and works anywhere.
EDUCATION
1991-1996
The University of Texas at Austin, Astronomy and Art History
1999-2000
Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
Mini-Med School program
New York University, New York
AWARDS & HONORS
2000
Artists' Studio Benefit Tour, Art in General, New York
1999
A.I.M. Prog ram, Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Bronx
1997
Young Artist Award, Bank of America/Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin
SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2008
Virus Maximus, Jacob Karpio Galeria, San Jose de Costa Rica
2007
Next Green Sphere, g-module, Paris
Space Station: San Sebastian, Galeria Carlos Irizarry, San Juan de Puerto Rico
2006
A New Kind of Science, Karpio-Facchini Gallery, Miami
Virus Americanus, Jacob Karpio Galeria, San Jose de Costa Rica
2005
Space Station: Tenochtitlan, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico D.F. (cat.)
2004
Wall Drawing Commission & Study Drawings, LibertyHealth Foundation, Jersey City
Event Horizon, g-module, Paris
2003
American Virus, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City
Outer (negative) Space, Galeria Ramis Barquet, Monterrey
Art Unknown, Proyectos Individuales, Thomas Erben Gallery, ARCO '03, Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo, Parque Ferial Juan Carlos I, Madrid (catalogue)
Proper Motion (Pictures), The Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers, NY
Audio-Drawings & New Works on Paper, Galeria Carlos Irizarry, San Juan
2002
Stardust, new wall drawings Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
Space Stations and Blueprints, g-module, Paris
Vargas-Suarez Universal: Space Stations, Lobby Gallery, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, Organized by d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn
2000
The Fourth Annual D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival Installations, Vargas-Suarez Universal, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York City Transit, York St. Subway Station, Brooklyn
Domestic Model of a Worm Hole, P.S. 122 Gallery, New York (outdoor project), organized by Archibald Arts, New York
American Virus 288 Elizabeth St., New York
1998
Trahare Naturalis & Virus 76 Varick , New York
A Brief Documentation of Black Holes & Blue Holes Holland Tunnel Art Projects, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Unknown (Sex Drive) Studio Obsolete, Queens
Texas Landscape Atelier von David Medalla, Berliner Kunstlerprograam des Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienst (DAAD), Berlin
1995
Vargas-Suarez Universal Apple Computer Corp., Austin
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Claiming Space: Mexican-Americans in U.S. Cities, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) (cat.)
Walls and Gateways, Existentie vzw, Ghent, Belgium (cat.)
S.O.S. 4.8 Sustainable Art Actions, Centro de Congresos Victor Villegas, Murcia, Spain (cat.)
ggg.g-salon, g-module, Paris
Put Your Flag Where Your Mouth Is, St. Paul's Hall, St. Paul's Steiner School, London
2007
The Expanded Painting Show, M*A*S*H*, Cottelston Advisors, Miami
Oliver Lutz, Vargas-Suarez Universal, Space Other, Boston
Brave New World, Solar, East Hampton, NY (cat.)
Suncom Art Nites, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan
Per Square Foot, Dieu Donne Papermill Inc., New York (cat.)
della Pittura Digitalis: On Painting and the Digital Moment, Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin
Double-edged Abstraction, g-module, Paris
2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art: Special Projects: We Are Your Future, Winzavod Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow (cat.)
Artists Books: Transgression/Excess, Space Other, Boston
III Certamen Internacional De Pintura De Castellón, Fundacion Astroc, Madrid (cat.)
Mixed Signals, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York
2006
III Certamen Internacional De Pintura De Castellón, El Museo de Bellas Artes de Castellón, Spain (cat.)
Good Morning City Noise!!! Sound Art Project,Galeri Soemardja, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
Radicales Libres, GE Galeria, Monterrey, Mexico (cat.)
What War?, White Box, New York
Show Off, g-module, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris (cat.)
Year _06, g-module, Mary Ward House, London
Dieu Donné, Papermill Inc., New York (cat.)
Pure Form, Solar, East Hampton, NY
The Sun in Uranus, Offspace Projects, London
States of Anxiety, Punto Gris CIRCA 06, San Juan de Puerto Rico
Group Exhibition, d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn
2005
My Mother the Nazi the:artists:network, New York
Future Quake g-module, FIAC, Paris (cat.)
Barrocos & Neobarrocos (El Infierno de la Belleza) DA2 (Domus Artium 2002), Fundacion Salamanca Ciudad de Cultura, Palacio de Abrantes, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain (cat.)
The Line Between Life and Death, Karpio-Facchini Gallery, Miami
Out of Bounds Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY (cat.)
Happy Bithday To Me, g-module, Paris
Jacob Karpio Galeria, ARCO ’05, Madrid (cat.)
2004
Art Basel Miami Beach: The International Art Show Jacob Karpio Galeria, Miami Beach (cat.)
31 Edition Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain g-module, Paris expo-Porte de Versailles, Paris (cat.)
Eigth Annual d.u.m.b.o. Art Under the Bridge Festival, Music: Experimental and Avant Garde Sound, The Soundbox, organized by d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn
a small look at GIGANTICISM Gigantic Art Space, New York (cat.)
Topologies Solar, East Hampton, NY
Small Drawings by Big People Galeria Carlos Irizarry, San Juan de Puerto Rico
Mexico Arte Contemporaneo Jacob Karpio Galeria, Expo Reforma, Mexico D.F. (cat.)
Momenta Art Benefit White Columns, New York
Cartografia Americana Solar, East Hampton, NY
The Armory Show: The International Fair of New Art Jacob Karpio Galeria, New York
Voces y Visiones:Highlights from El Museo del Barrio’s Permanent Collection, Parrish Art Museum, South Hampton, NY
Art Rotterdam, g-module, Wilhelminakade, Rotterdam
2003
NADA Art Fair g-module, The Lincoln, Miami Beach
Voces y Visiones: Highlights from El Museo del Barrio’s Permanent Collection, El Museo del Barrio, New York (cat.)
White Box Benefit James Cohan Gallery, New York
Mexico Iluminated, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania (cat.)
Il Palazzo delle Liberta, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena (cat.)
Ready for War University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal
ARCO '03, Galeria Ramis Barquet, Madrid
7 Walls 8 Views, Arena, New York
Art Rotterdam 2003, g-module, Wilhelminakade, Rotterdam
2002
Secret, Gulbenkian Galleries, Royal College of Art, London
Scratch, Arena, New York
Save Our Senate The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee benefit, Exit Art, New York
Candela Art + Music Festival, Galeria Carlos Irizarry, San Juan
Ballpoint Inklings, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington
Deja Vu, g-module, Paris
Recent Multiples Projects x 5-Inbox Vol. V 10038, Organization of Independent Artists, New York
Speaking Truths- Inbox Vol. V 10038, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis
A Special Place, Arena, Brooklyn
2001
FFWD >> Miami Contemporary Art: Fair, Arena, Hotel Nash, Miami Beach
Drawings (selected) g-module, Paris
Emerging, Archibald Arts, New York
Crossing the Line Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, New York (catalogue, CD)
Sthlm Art Fair ARENA@FEED, Sollentunamassan AB, Stockholm
Think...1.2.3.Think: Rupert Goldsworthy, Jocelyn Taylor, Vargas-Suarez Universal
im niL, Greenpoint, Brooklyn (essay by Erik Bakke)
Refraction Arts Installation Project, The Blue Theater, Austin
2000
London Biennale 2000, London (catalogue)
Dona Nelson, Andreij Monastyrskij, Vargas-Suarez Universal, Tom Wood
Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
Meat Market Art Fair ARENA@FEED, New York
Good Business is the Best Art
Twenty Years of the Artist in the Marketplace Program
Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Bronx
S-Files:The Selected Files
El Museo del Barrio, New York (catalogue)
Lineage d.u.m.b.o. arts center (dac), Brooklyn
organized with CrossPathCulture
Erratic Errand Archibald Arts, New York
Line Arena@Feed, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
1999
Artist in the Marketplace: Nineteenth Annual Exhibition
Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Bronx, (catalogue)
Linea Nigra-Drawing the Line Star 67, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Autokinetik LL Gallery, The Limelight, New York
A room with a view Sixth @ Prince Fine Arts, New York
1998
Fresh Blood:13 Young Artists Archibald Arts, New York
Ruido (Noise): A Multi-Media Exhibition of Sound Based Art
Taller Boricua Gallery, Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, New York
The Calculus of Transfiguration: Meaning, Form, and Process in Late 20th Century Art
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn
Apocalypse Now: Neo-Decadent Works HereArt, New York
1997
Young Latino Artists II Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin
Aberrations ACA Gallery, Austin
Selected Collections
Ainsworth Collection, Sydney, Australia
Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
Boelsche Collection, Austin
Brooklyn Museum of Art Library, New York
Comunidad Autonoma de la Region de Murcia (CARM), Spain
DA2 (Domus Artium 2002), Fundacion Salamanca Ciudad de Cultura, Salamanca, Spain
El Museo del Barrio, New York (commission)
LibertyHealth Foundation, Jersey City (commission)
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City
Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
Queens Museum of Art, New York
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Winzavod Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow, Russian Federation
