CARLOS GARAICOA Havana, Cuba, 1967. Lives and works in Madrid and Habana

Studies at Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana, 1989-1994

SOLO SHOWS

2012 Sweet and Safe, Happening, proyecto especial de Kreëmart para CIFO, Miami, USA

Revuelta, batalla, cambio / Revolt, battle, change, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brasil

A Sword and a Rose. Institute of Contemporary Art Sofia, Bulgaria

Carlos Garaicoa: Photography as Intervention, PhotoEspaña 12, Museo Colecciones ICO,

Madrid

A City View From the Table of my House, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland

A City View From the Table of my House, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Haus Salve Hospes,

Germany

2011 Photo-Topographies / Foto-Topografías, curated by Anna Kafetsi, National Museum of

Contemporary (EMST), Athens

Making Amends, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, Nueva

York

Fin de silencio, Centre d´Art La Panera, Lleida, Barcelona

Party, Not Tea Party!, galería elba benítez, Madrid

Noticias Recientes, Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos

2010 Fin de Silencio, Matadero Madrid, Madrid

Lo viejo y lo nuevo/Das Alte und das Neue, Galería Barbara Gross, Munich, Germany

Carlos Garaicoa: La enmienda que hay en mi (Making Amends), Contemporary Art

Museum, University of South Florida, EEUU

Bienes Mostrencos / Lands in Abeyance, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (MAMM),

Ciudad del Río, Colombia

Overlapping, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Exposición individual, La Caja Negra, Madrid

Proyecto Frágil / Project Fragile, MARZ Galeria, Lisbon

The old and the new, Galería Bárbara Gross, Munich, Germany

2009 El punto, la línea y el plano, East Central Galleries, London

Carlos Garaicoa. Triunfo, Duda y Celebración, Galería Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

Cómo hacerse millonario a través del Junk Mail , Galería Luisa Strina, Sao Pablo, Brazil

Carlos Garaicoa. La enmienda que hay en mí. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Habana

El Observatorio, Castleford and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK

ARCO 2009. Foro de Expertos

2008 Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Obra permanente, Campus de la UPV, Valencia,

Spain

 

Revolución o Rizoma, Galleria Continua, Beijing, Chine

La Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2007 Capablanca’s Real Passion. Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA.

Encuentro entre dos mares, Valencia, Spain

Urban Interventions, Luxemburgo

Commitment, Mechelen

Turbulence, III Auckland Triennial

Latin Kings Music Vol I - V, Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid

2006 The drawing, the writing, the abstraction (with Ezequiel Suárez), Lombard-Freid Projects,

New York

Yo no quiero ver más a mis vecinos. Castello di Ama, Gaiole in Chianti, Italy

Capablanca’s real passion, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Das Gast (videos 1996-2006), Fribourg Kuntshalle

Overlapping, Liverpool Biennale, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, U.K.

Postcapital, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain

2005 Things that happen when life goes very wrong. Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

Because every city has the right to be called Utopia. Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno

Carlos Garaicoa. Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Yorkshire, USA.

Carta a los censores. XXXIX International Contemporary Art Prize, Montecarlo

Vamos fazer barullo agora, porra! (con Ezequiel Suárez), Galería Habana, Habana

El mapa del viajero. Luisa Strina Gallery, Sao Paulo

Capablanca’s real passion, M.O.C.A (Pacific Design Center) Los Angeles, USA.

Self-flagellation, survival, insubordination, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, USA

2004 La misura de quasi tutte le cose, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy

2003 Carlos Garaicoa, Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid

Lecciones de Historia. Casa de América, Madrid

De la serie Nuevas Arquitecturas. Centro Wifredo Lam, Habana

Autoflagelación, Supervivencia, Insubordinación. Sala Montcada, Fundació “La Caixa”,

Barcelona, Spain

Carta a los censores (Piccollo Teatro dell´anarchia) Volume!, Rome

La habitación de mi negatividad. Galería La Casona, VII Bienal de Habana

Letter to the censors. Artist Statements. Art Miami-Basel (Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New

York)

2002 Now let’s play to disappear. Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

Ni Christ, ni Marx, ni Bakounine. Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Pari

2001 Art & Public, Ginebra

The last 10 days of the market. Aarhus Festival. Galeri Image

Because every city has the right to be called Utopia. Lombard-Freid Gallery, New York

 

2000 Nouvelles Architectures. Farideh Cadot Gallery, París

Recuadros (con Federico Herrero). Jacobo Karpio Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica

Carlos Garaicoa: La ruina; la Utopía (obras 1990-2000). Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango,

Banc de La República, Bogotá; Bronx Museum of the Arts, Nueva York; Alejandro Otero

Museum, Caracas

1999 Mi primer y último homenaje a la arquitectura (y al Marqués de Sade). Galería Habana,

Habana

Paisaje. Ars TeorÉTICA, San Jose, Costa Rica

Survia. Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales. Primer Salón de Fotografía, Habana

1998 Principio y fin de las fascinación. Centro Wilfredo Lam. Habana

1996 El voluble rostro de la realidad. Fundación Ludwig de Cuba, Centro de Desarrollo de las

Artes Visuales, Habana

Cuando el deseo se parece a nada. Art in General, New York

Habana: un estudio. Carla Stellweg Gallery, New York

1995 El espacio decapitado, Centre PasquArt, Bienne, Switzerland

GROUP SHOWS

2012 Kochi-Muziris Biennale, I Curada por Bose Krishnamachari & Riyas Komu, India

Take, Take, Take…?, 1st Bennin Biennial, Bennin Republic

The Stumbling Present: Ruins in Contemporary Art, Art, Design & Architecture Museum

UC Santa Barbara, curated by Elyse A. Gonzales

Ahora juguemos a desaparecer (II) / Now let’s play to disappear (II), Fundaçao Inhotim.

Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Echigo Tsumari Art Triennal, Echigo Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art,

Kinare, Japan

All our relations, 18ª Bienal de Sydney, Sydney

Caribbean: crossroads of the world, El Museo del Barrio, Queens Museum of Art y The

Studio Museum in Harlem, Nueva York

Revolution not televised/ revolución no televisada, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Nueva

York

11ª Bienal de la Habana, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wilfredo Lam, La Habana

Yo Are Now Entering __________, comisariada por Miguel Amado, Center for

Contemporary Art Derry-Londonerry, Ireland

Who More Sci-Fi than us, comisariada por Nancy Hoffman, Kunsthall Kade Amersfoort,

Zonnehof, Países Bajos

Ciudades Invisibles, MASS MOCA, North Adams, USA Lugares en pérdida, Centro Huarte

de Arte Contemporáneo, Huarte, España

Caminar la línea, Galería Max Estrella, Madrid

 

Sin solución, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

Nuevas obras en la colección / New Artworks in the Collection, Centre Pompidou, Paris

2011 Beijing on line inlive 10 hands 100 fingers, Galleria Continua Beijing, Beijing, China

Under construction. Art and Architecture at the Colecçao Teixeira de Freitas curated by

Adriano Pedrosa,Tenerife Espacio de las Artes TEA, Tenerife, España

The future lasts forever, Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle, Sweden

Entre-abierto: Aperturas, Conexiones y Derivas en el Arte Actual, XI Bienal de Cuenca-

Ecuador

Terrible beauty: art crisis change and the office of non-compliance, Dublin Contemporary

Art, Dublin

Coup d’èclat, Fort du Bruissin - centre d’art contemporain Francheville (Grand Lyon),

Lyon, Francia

Reegress Progress, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

Penelop´es Labour. Weaving words and images, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Isola di San

Giorgio Maiore, Venezia, Italy

Vulnerable lands, Hangar Biocca Foundation, Milan, Italy

Risk Zones, Museum of World Culture, Switzerland

2010 The Draughtsman´s Contract (El contrato del dibujante), curated by Carlos Garaicoa, Carlos

Garaicoa Open Studio 5.0, Madrid

See Seaton, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA), Amsterdam

Haunted: contemporary phtography/video/performance, Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Bilbao, España

Vanishing Points. Possible Architecture, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia

1st Nanjing Contemporary Art Biennal, Jiangsu Provincial Art Museum, China

Rehearsal / Ensayo, 8th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Midnight in the city, curated by José Miguel C. Cortés, Centre d´art La Panera, Lleida, Spain

Transparency – Art for energy, Museo d´Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina (M.A.D.R.E.),

Napoli, Italy

Journey to Italy, Palazzo Fabroni Arti Visive Contemporanee, Pistoia, Italy

Facing the son, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna

First and last, Notes on the monument, galería Luisa Strina, São Paulo

Stressisimo, Galería Habana, Ciudad Habana

Ideal Project, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Santiago de Chile

Falemos de casas / Let´s talk about houses, Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Lisbon

Há sempre um corpo de mar para um homem navegar / There is always a cup of sea to

sail in, 29th Biennial of Sâo Paulo, Sâo Paulo

Ver para Creer, XVII Arte Paiz Biennial, Guatemala

Isole mai trovate/Islands Never Found, Palazzo Ducale, Appartamento del Doge, Génova,

 

Sinergias: Arte Latinoamericano actual en España, Museo Extremeño de Arte

Contemporáneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain

Without mask. Contemporary Afro Cuban Art, Johannesbourg Art Gallery, Johannesburg,

South Africa

Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made alter 1960 from the MFAH Collection. Still

on View, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, EEUU

(FIART), travelling exhibiton (MEIAC, MACUF)

Ut(r)opicos. Centroamérica y el Caribe. XXXI Bienal de Pontevedra, Museo de Pontevedra,

Pontevedra, España

Modelos para armar. Pensar Latinoamerica desde la colección del MUSAC, Museo de

Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain

Like Tears in Rain, curated by Luiza Teixeira de Freitas, Palácio das Artes, Porto, Lisbon

Sobrestructuras, OTR.Espacio de Arte, Madrid

Memoria Technica. Examining the Tension between Aesthetics and the Representattion of

the Self, East Central Galleries, London, UK

Pieza Única. Arte cubano contemporáneo. Sede del Principado de Asturias, Madrid

Malas Calles, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia, Spain

Atopia, Centre de Cultura Contemporánia de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Contemplating Void: Interventions at Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim, New York

I shot the sheriff (Héroes y villanos), Carlos Garaicoa Open Studio 4.0, Madrid

2009 El patio de mi casa, Arte Contemporáneo en Patios de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain

Colateral, 10 Bienal de Habana, Habana

53rd International Art Exhibition. Making Worlds. La Biennale di Venezia, Venice

Art Kabinet, Art Basel Miami Beach, Galleria Continua, USA.

Sphères 2009, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin, Paris, France.

El patio de mi casa /The sky within my house, Universidad de Filosofía y Letras, Cordoba,

Spain.

Panorama de arte Brazileira, Museo de Arte Moderno, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Irreversible (Doble cara de la colección Sánchez Ubiría), Pazo da Cultura de Pontevedra,

Spain.

ARTTLV_09, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.

Mundus Novus, Arte Contemporáneo Latinoamericano, 53 Venice Biennial, ILLA Pavillion,

Artigliere dell’Arsenale, Italy.

Fragile. Terres d’empathie, Musée Art Moderne Saint-Etienne Metropole, France.

Cartografías Disidentes, Biblioteca Nacional José Martí, Havana, Cuba; Oi Futuro, Rio de

Janeiro, Brazil; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas, Venezuela; Centro de Formación

de la Cooperación Española, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, Centro Cultural de Sao

Paulo (2008) Brazil; SEACEX, Spain (2008); Centro Cultural de Sao Paulo, Brazil (2008).

 

Videos Abierto, Murcia, Spain.

2008 FIAC, Paris

Feria DIVA Digital & Video Art Fair. Video Art, Digital Photography and New Media, Paris

Cartografías Disidentes (itinerancia),Centro Cultural de São Paulo, Brazil

Farewell to Post-Colonialism, Third Guangzhou Triennial, 2008, Guangdong Museum of

art, Chine

Frieze, Regent's Park, London

Articulações, curaduría de Nuno Faria en Faro, Portugal

Lança Cuba, Gentil Carioca, Río de Janeiro, Brazil

Construir, habitar, pensar. Perspectivas Del arte y La arquitectura Contemporánea, IVAM,

Valencia, Spain

Blown Away Exhibition Fact Sheet, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead

Pavilion,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ilinois, EE.UU.

Feria Armory Show, New York.

El Cazador, EX Box, ARCO, Madrid

Cartografías disidentes, SEACEX, Spain. Travelling around Santiago de Chile,

Madrid, Sao Pablo, Barcelona, Mexico DF, Caracas...

Fate Presto, espacio de Chiesa dell'Addolorata (Complejo Monumental de Santa Sofia y

Salerno), Nápoles, Italia

¡Cuba! Art an History from 1868 to Today, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal,

Toronto, Canada

Surrounded By Water. Contemporary cuban art, Galería de Arte de la Universidad de

Boston, EE.UU.

The Sneeze 80 artists x 80 seconds 106 minutes, Durban Art Gallery, South Africa

2007 Killing Time, An exhibition of Cuban artists from the 1980s to the present, Exit Art, Nueva

York

Emergenze, Hangar Bicocca y sede del periódico Il Sole 24 H, Milán, Italy

Commitment, Mechelen, Bélgica

Turbulence, Auckland Triennale, New Zeland.

2005 Estrecho Dudoso, San José, Costa Rica

De repente livros, A Gentil Carioca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Arte de Cuba, itinerante: Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Curitiba

Overlapping, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool Biennial–International Festival of C4. Centro

Cultura Contemporaneo Caldogno, Vicenza, Italy

Echigo-Tsumari Triennale, Nigata, Japan

Metropolitanscapes, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy

Less. Strategie alternative dell’abitare, PAC, Milán, Italy

Other than Art, G Fine Art, Washington D.C

 

Contemporary Art, Liverpool, U.K.

Nuit Blanche, Paris

Ideal City-Invicible Cities, Zamonsc, Poland

Off the Shelf: New Forms in Contemporary Artist's Books, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art

Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

2005 New Photography, M.O.M.A, New York

Inverting the Map: Latin American Art from the Tate Collection, TATE, Liverpool

M City, Kunsthaus Graz, Viena

III Bienal Tirana

Farsite, Insite Tijuana, Tijuana-San Diego

51st Bienal de Venice, Arsenale

Art Unlimited. Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Dialectics of Hope, I Moscow Biennial

7th Bienal Internacional de Sharjah

2004 Transmigraciones, Trienal Poli/Gráfica, San Juan

Future Cities. Art Gallery of Hamilton

We come in peace… Histories of the Americas, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal

Architecture. Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA.

Image Smugglers, XXVI Sao Paulo Biennale, Parque Ibirapuera, Brazil

A Taste of the Pain of Others. Contemporary video works from Latin America. L.A

Freewaves, EE.UU.

2003 Time capsule. Art in General, New York

Dream Space / Entre sueños. Deutsche Bank Lobby Gallery, New York

Salon des Refuses, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice

Modern Islands, Public Project, Dresden

2001 Copyright. Centro Cultural de España, Habana

Artists Imagine Architecture, I.C.A., Boston, EE.UU

Reality’s Desire. Generación de la Imagen 8, Milán, Italy

Documenta 11, Platform 5, Kassel, Germany

De ponta cabeca, I Biena de Fortaleza, Brazil

2001 Demonstration Room (Casa ideal). Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas; Apex Gallery,

Nueva York; NICC, Amberes

Shifting Tides. L.A County Museum, California; Grey Art Gallery, New York; Museum of

Contemporary Photography, Chicago

Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem

VI Bienal de Habana, Centro Wilfredo Lam, Habana

Mega Wave, I Yokohama Triennial

2000 Mirror's Edge, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; Castello Di Rivoli, Turin, Italy;

 

Tranway, Glasgow, U.K.

From the negative: conceptual photography from Cuba, Parts Gallery, Minneapolis; North

Dakota Museum, Dakota, U.S.A.

Más allá del Documento, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid

Waterfront project, Helsingor, Denmarck

Fotolatina, Contemporary Art Museum, Guadalajara, México

Project: Window onto Venus, VII Biennale of Havana, Havana

Cream 2, 10 curators, 100 artists. Exhibition Catalog, Phaidon Press, London

1999 Los mapas del deseo. Kunsthalle Viena, Austria; Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria; Nicolaj

Contemporary Art Center, Copenhague

Venus’s Window. Civic Centre “La Grancia”, Zerynthia, Associacione per l’arte

Contemporanea, Toscaza, Italy

Mirror Edge, Biltdmusee Umea

1998 La casa vista desde la mesa de casa. Centro Wifredo Lam, Habana.

Fragmentos a su imán. Casa de las Américas, Habana.

Isla Oscura: New Photography from Cuba. Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona

Beach, U.S.A.

Comme peut on être cubain?. Maison de L’Amérique, Paris

1997 Utopian territories: new cuban art. Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery y Contemporary Art

Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

El individuo y su memoria, VI Bienal de Habana, Habana.

97 Kwangjú Biennale (Space/Fire). Kwangjú, South Corea

1995 Africus’95. I Bienal Internacional de Johannesburgo

Una de cada clase. Centro Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museología,

Fundación Ludwig de Cuba, Habana.

Cuba: la isla posible. Centro de Cultura Contemporánea, Barcelona

1994 The new generation. The Menill Colection, Fotofest, Houston, U.S.A.

PRIZES AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2012 Tequila Centenario Award, Zona Maco Contemporary Art Fair, Mexico

2008 Premio de adquisición de la obra: Yo no quiero ver más a mis vecinos, LOOP, Barcelona,

Spain

2007 Selected Young Global Leader 2007 by the Wold Economic Forum

2005 XXXIX International Contemporary Art Price, Montecarlo

Katherine S. Marmor Award, Los Angeles M.O.C.A

Monaco International Contemporary Art Price, Monaco

1999 Artist in residency project. Parts Gallery. Minneapolis, Minnesota

1998 Artist in residence project, at the Mario Abreu Museum, Maracay

 

Artist in residency project. Yaddo Corporation, N.Y New York

1997 Artist in residence project, Civitella Ranieri Center, Umbertide

1996 Artist in residence project, Art in General, New York

1995 Artist in residence project, City of Biel-Bienne, Pro Helvetia and the Canton of Berne,

Berna

1993 Artist in residence project, City of Du ̈sseldorf and the Paul Pozzoza Museum, Du ̈sseldorf

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Inhotim, Belo-Horizonte, Brasil

Tate Modern, London

Museum of Modern Art, New York

LACMA, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Museo Nacional de Arte Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid

National Museum of Fine Arts, Cuba

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, U.S.A.

The Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, New York

Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida, U.S.A.

Metropolitan Savings Bank, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.

Lehigh University Gallery Bethlehem, U.S.A.

Centre PasquArt, Biel-Bienne, Switzerland

Arte Viva, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris

SMAK Museum, Gante, Belgium

Guggenheim Museum, New York, U.S.A.

Art Gallery of Notario,Toronto, Canada