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  • i: Moris (Israel Meza Moreno)
  • l:
    Born in Mexico City, 1978
    BFA National School of Painting, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts, La Esmeralda, National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA), Mexico City
    Lives and works in Mexico City

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012

Los Buitres ya dan Vueltas, Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City

2011

Cuando el león mata, el chacal se beneficia, I-20 Gallery, New York

Estás vivo porque no te maté, Arroniz Arte Contemporáneo, Solo Projects, Focus Latinoamérica, ARCO, Madrid

2010

Speranza, Colectivo viernes, El 52, OMR Gallery, Mexico City

Mi casa es tu casa, VIA – Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), MOCA Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA.

2009

Trolebus Galeria, Mexico City, Mexico

2008

Un animal pierde la vida porque otro tiene hambre (An animal dies because another is hungry), Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico.

2007

Nido de malvivientes (Delinquent’s Nest), Trolebús Galería, Mexico City, Mexico.

Todos tenemos sucios los zapatos (We all have dirty shoes), Project Room, kbk Arte Contemporáneo, ARCO, Madrid, Spain

2006

Puesto casa carro (Stand, House, Cart), 9th Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba (Cat.)

2005

Urgencia Urbana (Urban Urgency), KBK Arte Contemporáneo Mexico City, Mexico

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012

30th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil

Museo Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico

2011

México: Politica y Poética, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, travelilng to Nordiska Avvarellmuséet, Skärhamn (Cat.)

2010

Living in Evolution, Busan Biennale 2010 (Cat.)

Viva la Revolución: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA. (Cat.)

PortugalArte10, Lisbon, Portugal

Arena Mexico at Pinta London

Educando el saber, MUSAC, León, Spain

Dracula Effect: Art / Youth Cultures / Fetishism Youth, curated by Victor Zamudio-Taylor, Museo Universitario el Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico

Where Do We Go From Here?, Works from the Jumex Collection, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH. (Cat)

2009

Where Do We Go From Here?: Works from the Jumex Collection, The Bass Museum, Miami, FL

Zwischen Zonen: La Coleccion Jumex Mexiko, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria (Cat.)

2008

Las líneas de la mano (The Lines of the Hand), Inaugural Exhibition Program, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City

Schweiz Über Alles, La Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico City

Fortunate Objects: Selections from The Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Miami, FL.

2007

International Triennial of Architecture, Lisbon, Portugal.

2006

Esquiador en el fondo de un pozo (Skier at the Bottom of the Well), La Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico City (Cat.)

Regreso de Heterotopías (Return of Heterotopias), Puebla, Mexico.

Ceguera (Blindness), Museum of Contemporary Art, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Light/Art: Mystic Crystal Revelation, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA.

Los Angeles-Mexico City, Jumex Collection @ Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico.

Passion/Provocation: photographs & Video from the Teófilo Cohen Collection, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico.

2005

Youth Salon, FIA 05, Caracas, Venezuela

ART FAIRS

2011

I-20 Gallery, Zona Maco, Mexico City

I-20 Gallery, The Armory Show, New York

Arroniz Arte Contempráneo, Solo Project, Focus Latinoamérica, ARCO, Madrid

2010

Arroniz Arte Contemporáneo, ArtBo Bogotá

I-20 Gallery, Zona Maco

Arroniz Arte Acontemporáneo, Chaco, Santiago

2009

I-20 Gallery, ART LA

I-20 Gallery, & kbk, ARCO, Madrid

I-20 Gallery, & kbk, Femaco, Mexico City

I-20 Gallery, Art Basel Miami Beach,

2008

kbk, FIAC, Paris

kbk, Femaco, Mexico City

2007

kbk, FIA, Caracas

kbk, MACO, Mexico City

kbk, FIAC, Paris

kbk, Art Nova, Art Basel Miami Beach

2006

kbk, Art Positions, Art Basel Miami Beach

2005

kbk Artissima, Torino

GRANTS/AWARDS

2008

Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO Grants & Commissions Programs Awards), Miami, FL.

2005

SIVAM Visual Arts, Acquisition Prize, Mexico City, Mexico.

ARTICLES/REVIEWS

2010

“‘Moris’ Israel Meza Moreno”, Ustedes Nosotros: Jóvenes Artistas Iberoamericanos, Luisa Fuentes Gaza, O.E.I. & Fundación Carlina: Madrid

“‘Moris’ Israel Meza Moreno”, Bid_10 Código DF, Código 06140 : México D.F.

Buckley, Annie. “Moris: The Geffen Contemporary at The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.”  Artforum.com: Critic’s Picks (April 9, 2010) <http://www.artforum.com/picks/section=la#picks25271>.

2009

Taylor, Victor-Zamudio. “An Animal Dies because another is Hungry”, Atlantica (Spring 2009).

Cornell, Lauren, Massimilliano Gioni and Laura Hoptman, ed. Younger Than Jesus Artist Directory (New York: New Museum & Phaidon Press, 2009).

2008

Taylor, Jessica Berlanga. “Moris, El Eco Experimental Museum”, Artforum (December 2008).

2006

Puesto casa carro (Stand, House, Cart), 9th Havana Biennale, Havana, Cuba.

Esquiador en el fondo de un pozo (Skier at the Bottom of the Well), Jumex Collection, Ecatepec, Mexico City.

2005

Gomez, Edward. “Hip home for art in Mexico City,” The New York Times (April 27, 2005).

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Americas Collection, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona

Colección Bergé, Madrid

FEMSA Collection, Monterrey

La Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico City

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City

Juan Beckmann, Mexico City

Ellla Cisneros Fontanals Collection, (CIFO), Miami

David Chipperfield, London

Pepe Cobo, Madrid

Teófilo Cohen Collection, Mexico City

Isabel and Agustin Coppel Collection (IACC), Culiacan

Cesar Gaviria, Bogota

Nanette Gehrig, Monte Carlo

Boris Hirmas, Mexico City

David Johnson, Los Angeles

Patricia Keever, Paris

Miguel Ortiz Monasterio

Celia Sredni Birbragher Collection, Bogota

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