Darío Escobar



Darío Escobar (born 1971, Guatemala City) is a Guatemalan artist.

His work is characterized by the investigation of formal and conceptual aspects of objects and their function in visual arts.

Select one-person exhibitions
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, Copenhagen, 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, New 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, San José, 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.

Select group exhibitions
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, Brazi l.
 * “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, Brazi l.
 * 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, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
 * 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
 * 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.

Lectures

 * 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.