Bio
Born in Lima, 1980. Lives and works between Lima and Mexico City.
CONTACT
EDUCATION
2003 -2004
- MA Fine Arts, Byam Shaw School of Art at Central Saint Martins, London, UK
2001 – 2002
- Post-Graduate Course Fine Arts, Byam Shaw School of Art, London, UK
1997 – 2001
- BA Fine Arts, Catholic University of Peru, Lima, Peru
RESIDENCIES
2012
- LARA (Latin American Roaming Art) project, Asiaciti Trust, Honda, Colombia
2016
- FLAAC, Workplace for visual artists, Genk, Belgium
- 30 Ateliers internationaux residency, Frac de Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, Nantes, France
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015
- Smoke Architecture, 80m2 Livia Benavides, Lima, Peru
- Solo Project LISTE – Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
- Toma de tierra, Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain
- Solo Project PARC, Lima, Peru
2014
- Los Suelos, MATE – Mario Testino Museum, Lima, Peru
- Solo Project ARTBO, Bogotá, Colombia
2013
- Los Suelos, Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain
- Solo Project Pinta, Pinta Art Fair, London, UK
2012
- Vamos Festival, MIMA – Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK
- Paisaje Antrópico, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK
2011
- El Porvenir, Mimmo Scognamiglio, Milan, Italy
- Solo project Frame – Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
2010
- The Followers, Civic Room, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
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- Why are we afraid of sunsets? Gdansk City Gallery, Gdansk, Poland
- Notes from a metis worker’s notebook from the future, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, Nantes, France
- Divagation, Y Gallery, New York, USA
- 62nd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
- Territorio, povoaçao, C. LAB Mercosul, Sao Paulo, Brasil
- Histories of a Vanishing Present: A Prologue, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, USA
2015
- A Sense of Place, featuring the collection of Jorge Pérez, Mana Contemporary, Miami, USA
- Intervenciones, Proyecto AMIL, Lima, Perú
- United States of Latin America, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), Detroit, USA
- 10th Mercosul Biennial Messages from a New America, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- MDE15, Local Stories, Global practices, Museum of Antioquia, Medellin, Colombia
- Adquisiciones y donaciones 2012-2014, Museum of Art Lima MALI, Lima, Peru
- Balance sheets, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2014
- Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
- Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (BIM), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Bienal de Cartagena de Indias, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
- The Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum (CAFAM) Biennial, Beijing, China
- Ir para Volver, 12 Bienal de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
2013
- ICASTICA 2013 – International Biennale of Art, Arezzo, Italy
- Paraíso en Blanco, 80m2 Livia Benavides, Lima, Perú
- LARA (Latin American Roaming Art) project. NC Arte, Bogotá, Colombia
2012
- Remesas: Flujos Simbólicos / movilidades de capital, El Centro Fundación Telefónica, Lima, Perú.
- The Curator’s Egg. Altera Pars, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
2011
- No Color in Your Cheeks Unless the Wind Lashes Your Face, Online Exhibition, curated by Timothée Chaillou
- Newspeak: British Art Now, The Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
- What?, Galleria Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Milan, Italy
2010
- Identity Theft, Mimmo Scognamiglio, Milan, Italy
- Newspeak: British Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2009
- Plus, Volume Projects, London, UK
- Tail Devourer, Bash Studios, London, UK
2008
- Culture Clash, Working Rooms, London, UK
2007
- The Gunslinger and Other True Stories, AA Galleries, Berlin, Germany
- Weimar, Cordy House, London, UK
- The Princess and the Absent Fan, V22, London, UK
- W. S. Bartlett: A Retrospective, W.S. Bartlett, London, UK
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016
- Artnexus #100, Ana Folguera, March 2016
2015
- El cultural, “La tierra y el rayo”, Elena Vozmediano, December 2015
- Luces, El Comercio, “Humo y ladrillos”, April 2015
- Arte al día, “Modernidades Periféricas”, Max Hernández Calvo, issue # 149
- L’Officiel México, Arde Latinoamérica, edited by Pablo León de la Barra, February 2015
2014
- Harper’s Bazar Art, November 2014, pp. 19–23
- Colección Hochschild, Lima, Perú, ed. by Alessandra de Osma and Isabel Miró Quesada
- Ir para Volver, 12 Bienal de Cuenca, Fundación Municipal Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador.
- Somos Magazine Perú, June 2014, pp. 82
- El Comercio – Luces, “Propuesta para tejer tradición y modernidad”, June 2014
- BIACI Bienal de Cartagena de Indias, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
2013
- “Harper’s Bazaar: Agenda”, Harper’s Bazaar, October 2013 Dolores Galindo, “El arte latinoamericano se pasea por la capital británica”
- El Iberico, Pinta Art Fair special issue, 30th May 2013, pp. 15–16
2012
- Pablo Leon de la Barra, “Ximena Garrido-Lecca at MIMA”, Centre for the Aesthetic Revolution, June 2012
- Margherita Dessanay, “Postcards from a Transitional Space”, Elephant Magazine, issue #10, Spring
- Sanctuary: Britain’s Artists and their Studios, ed. by Amirsadeghi, H., Thames&Hudson, London
- Hobson’s Choice: Ximena Garrido-Lecca at Max Wigram Gallery, Contemporary Art Society
- Dolores Galindo, El Ibérico, Contraste y simbolismo en reconocimiento a otras culturas, 17th April 2012
2011
- Rachel Spence, Online interview “Ximena Garrido-Lecca prepares for Frieze”, http://arts-extra.ft.com/videos
- Uscha Pohl, “The Progressive Walls. Ximena Garrido-Lecca”, VERY Magazine, issue n. 16
- Pablo Leon de la Barra, Centre for Aesthetic Revolution, 14th January 2011
- Fahrenheitº Contemporary Arts Magazine (published during Zona Maco, Mexico)
- Tuesday Gutierrez, Interview with Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Momardi Blog, 1st June 2011
- Ode to These, Blog, January 2011
- The One Show, BBC ONE, 26th January 2011
2010
- Joaquin Rabago, El País, Una pared de nichos en nueva exposición de Saatchi, 26th October 2010
- James Lindley and Olivia Nairn, murmurart.com, Newspeak part II at The Saatchi Gallery, 25th November 2010
- Helen Sumpter, British Art Now, Time Out online, 5th November 2010
- The Telegraph, The British Art Show, Nottingham/ Newspeak II, Saatchi Gallery (review) 1st November 2010
- Channel 4 News, Art Wars, 29th October 2010
- Rachel Campell-Jonston, The Times Playlist, Newspeak: British Art Now Part II. 23rd-29th October 2010
- Page 21 Artnet, 8th October 2010
- Christina Sanders, thefourohfive.com Art Guide, 9th May 2010
- Artnet, 14th April 2010