SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
Possibility of Disaster, Centro de las Artes, Monterrey
Who knows where the time goes, Faggionato, London, UK
Misrepresentation Mistake and non Disclosure, 33-34 Hoxton Square, London, UK
2012
R75/ Toaster, Moscow Photobienniale, – Le Grand Manège, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
La vida no vale nada, Travesía Cuatro, Madrid
Trou Noir, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris
2011
Deriva Especular, curated by Victor Palacios, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico, D.F., Mexico
2010
La Gloria del Exceso, Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
The Distance Between You and Me, I-20 Gallery, New York
Travesia Quatro, Madrid, Spain at Pinta London
Via, curated by Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), public video screening, Los Angeles, CA.
2009
Art Basel Miami Beach – Art Projects, Miami Beach, FL
Creative Time Presents Emerging Artists: Bestué-Vives, Martha Colburn, and Gonzalo Lebrija, Creative Time at 44 1/2, Times Square, New York, New York. Oct 1 – 31, 2009
Breve historia del tiempo (Brief History of Time), Galerie van der Mieden, Antwerpen, Belgium
The Distance Between You and Me, I-20 at Mesler & Hug, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Entre la vida y la muerte, Galeria Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain
R75/5 Toaster, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris, France
2007
El Mundo De Ayer (collaboration with Jose Dávila), VOLTA sculpture projects, Basel Switzerland
The Damage is Done, I-20 Gallery, New York
La Nuit Étoilée, Laurent Godin, Paris, France
Columba Livia, Pilar Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
2006
Art Nova, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, Florida (I-20). (With Marina Kappos and Eduardo Sarabia)
R75/5 Toaster, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City.
Simulacro (collaboration with Jose Dávila), Casa Taller José Clemente Orozco, Guadalajara, Mexico
El Mundo De Ayer (collaboration with Jose Dávila), Museo experimental Eco, Mexico City
2005
Gonzalo Lebrija, Pynercontreras Gallery, London, UK
Playing High, LABF15 Gallery, Lyon, France
Heroes of War, Veterans Museum and Memorial Center, San Diego, CA
2003
Lights On, I-20 Gallery, New York
2002
15753 Kms., Arena México Arte Contemporáneo, Guadalajara, Mexico
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014
Motopoétique, MAC Lyon, France
2013
Arte Video Night, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
13th Instanbul Biennal, Istanbul, Turkey
GRIT: Contemporary Mexican Video Art, Goleb, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012
Misrepresentation, Mistake and Non-Disclosure, curated by Marina Kurikhina, Rove Gallery, London
Resisting the Present, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Audience As Subject, Part 2: Extra Large, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2011
The Distance Between You and Me: 3 Artists from Vancouver, Los Angeles and Guadalajara, curated by Bruce Grenville, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Paperwork, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris, France
Resisting the Present, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
Atardecer Ranchero, Travesía Cuatro, Madrid
Nunca más, nunca menos, Museo Memoria y Tolerancia, Mexico City
Transurbaniac, MUAC, Mexico City, Mexico
2010
all we ever wanted was everything, curated by Galería Perdida, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York
Somewhere in the Corner, La Central, Bogota, Colombia
Bas Jan Ader: Suspended Between Laughter and Tears, curated by Pilar Tomkins Rivas, Pitzer Art Galleries, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
Energy Effects, MCA Denver
Art and Artifacts from the Landscape of Gloriuos Excess, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Conversations II, in collaboration with John Baldessari, Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain
The Distance Between You and Me, Los Angeles Nomadic Division LAND, Los Angeles, USA
Arena Mexico at Pinta London
Armory Show, Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris
2009
Les enfants terribles, Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Art Nova, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, Florida
Nothingness and Being, curated by Shamim M. Momin, La Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Hecho en Casa, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
First Look, curated by Simon Watson and Craig Hensala, House of Campari, Los Angeles.
Videonale 12, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
2008
The Future is but the Obsolete in Reverse, Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany
2007
Viva Mexico!, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Trinchera, (curated by Emanuel Tovar), Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico
Jacarta Institute of Art, Jacarta, Indonesia
Art and Science, Monterrey, Mexico
Proyecto Liga, Guadalajara, Mexico
Casa Museo Luis Barragan, Mexico City, Mexico
Conversations, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid Spain
2006
Some Postcards from Mexico, (curated by Carlos Ashida) Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Santiago, Chili
Pasion/Provocation: fotografia & video en la coleccion Teofilo Cohen (curated by Victor Zamudio-Taylor) Centro de la Imagen
Un minuto por favor, La Casa Taller Jose Clemente Orozco, Guadalajara, Mexico
Spanish as a global language, Instituto Cervantes, New York
El Desollado, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Business Class, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de la Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile
2005
Come Closer, Künstlerhaus Bethanien Gmbh, Berlin, Germany. Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy. Centro Historico, Mexico City, Mexico. Espace Piano Nobile, Geneva, Switzerland, 2006.
La Imagen y lo Invisible, Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid, Spain
Soft Machos, Pilar Parra & Romero Galería de Arte, Madrid, Spain
Eco, Mexico, Museo de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
INSITE, San Diego, EU
2004
So Far So Close, The Americas Society, New York, NY
La Colmena, Colección Jumex, Curada por Guillermo Santamarina, Mexico City, Mexico
Oil, Triangle Project Space, San Antonio, TX
Peau Froide, Institut du Mexique, Paris, France
2003
Paris Photo, Carroussel du Louvre, Paris, France
Arena Mexico, Ramis Barquet Gallery, New York, NY
L’Artiste Portatif, Instituto de México en Paris, France
Clusterfuck, Latch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Wasla International Artist Workshop, Sinai, Egypt
Jet Set, Museum of installation, London, UK
Piel Fria, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
2002
Zebra Crossing, Haus der Kulturen der Welt GmbH, Berlin, Germany
Axis Mexico (Common Objects and Cosmopolitan Actions), San Diego Art Museum, San Diego, CA
National Grant by FONCA (Fondo Nacional paras la Culturas y las Artes), Mexico
7 Dilemas, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Intangible, Casa Clavijero, Guadalajara, Mexico
Thinking Local, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX
La Panaderia, The Americas Society, New York, NY
Sauvage, La Panadería, Mexico City, Mexico
Leisure Theory, Colección Jumex, Curator: Dan Cameron, Mexico
2001
01-800-TV-MEX, IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden
Braziers International Artist Workshop, Oxfordshire, UK
Recreo, Galería Enrique Guerrero, Mexico City, Mexico
Sonido Blanco/Ruido Blanco, Programa Art Center, Mexico City, Mexico
Minutos Chionos, 291 Gallery, Hachney, London, England
2000
Demonstration Room/Ideal House, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela and Apex art, New York, USA and Antwerpen, Belgium
Exposición colectiva “Propulsión a chorro” Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico
America Foto Latino, Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico
Fraccionamiento del Terreno/A Piece of the Action, Galería Emma Molina, Monterrey, Mexico
National Grant by FONCA (Fondo Nacional paras la Culturas y las Artes) Mexico
ArtFrankfurt 2000, Frankfurt, Germany
1999
Un día después, (One day after), Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico
Television Incidental, Televisa Guadalajara, Channel 4, Guadalajara, Mexico
International Biennal of Photography, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico
En Busca de Un Lugar No Conquistado, (On the search for a place not conquered yet), Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico
Look Look, Espacio 16/16, Guadalajara, Mexico
1998
Incidental, Condominio Guadalajara, Mexico
Squash Tapatio, Grupo incidental, Guadalajara, Mexico
Fotografía Incidental, Grupo Incidental, Guadalajara, Mexico
Doméstica, Grupo Incidental, Guadalajara, Mexico
1997
Exposicion de Zanahorias, NAP, Guadalajara, Mexico
Obra Al Piso, Galería Vallarta, Guadalajara, Mexico
Mercurio, Comunicacion y Dinero, Galería Vallarta, Guadalajara, Mexico
SELECTED REVIEWS
2011
Lozano, Ernesto. “En El Museo de Arte Moderno: Gonzalo Lebrija en un Paseo de Deriva Epecular.” La Razón (April 3, 2011): 30.
Ibrahim, Athina. “As Time Goes By Gonzalo Lebrija.” Whiteboard Journal (January 29, 2011) http://whiteboardjournal.com/news/art-design/as-time-goes-by-gonzalo-lebrija.html.
2010
Magner, Erin, “Top Ten,” Angeleno (February 2010): 24-25.
2009
de la Torre, Blanca. “Gonzalo Lebrija,” arte al dia International (no. 127): 103-104.
2007
Retana, Fernanda Reyes. “Gonzalo Lebrija: el artista como director.” Arte Al Limit (September 2007): 98-102.
Villasmil, Alejandra. “Gonzalo Lebrija,” Arte Aldia, (August – September 2007): 120.
Baker, R.C. “Best in Show: Gonzalo Lebrija,” The Village Voice (May 20 – June 5, 2007), 55.
Vicente, Anne-Lou, “Expos-Critiques,” Paris Art (May 24, 2007) http://www.paris-art.com/exposition-critique/exposition/4096/galerie-laurent-godingonzalo-lebrija-la-nuit-etoilee.html
“Gonzalo Lebrija, The Damage is Done,” Time Out, New York (May 24-30, 2007) 94.
Jiménez, Carlos, “El video es mayor edad,” El Pais (April 30, 2007) www.elpais.com/articulo/arte/video/mayor/edad/elpepuculbab/20050430elpb
“Modern Art with a Tryst,” Gotham (March, 2007) 228.
2006
D’Arcy, David. “Miami Dispatch” GreenCine Daily (December 14, 2006) http://daily.greencine.com/archives/002891.html
Burnham, Clint. “Territory,” cmagazine.91 (Autumn 2006) 46-47.
Zamudio, Raul. “Cesar Cervantes” Contemporary (May, 2006) issue no. 80. 41.
Vega, Rebeca Pérez. “De “cementerio de derrotas” a Ferrari: Una alegoria reune a 25 artistas” Público Milenio Cultura (April 7, 2006)
2005
Lebrija, Gonzalo and Eduardo Sarabia, “Gone Fishing” Texfield III (Fall/Winter, 2005) page 1, 30-31.
Pincus, Robert L. “Core values” SignOnSanDiego.com (September 8, 2005) http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050908/news_lzlw08art.html
Arriola, Magali. “Conversations: Gonzalo Lebrija, artist and co-director of OPA” LatinArt.com (July 15, 2005) http://www.latinart.com/aiview.cfm?id=342
“Playing High/Gonzalo Lebrija” Millenaire3.com (May 10, 2005) www.millenaire3.com/Agenda_m_tropole.109+M5a461880fc1.98.html?&tx_ressm
Loría, Vivianne. “Desvear lo invisible. Videocreación contempránea.” Lapiz, vol. 24, no. 214 (June 2005): 95.
Angeline, John. “So Far, So Close.” Art Nexus, no. 56 (Apr-June 2005): 172-3.
2004
Silva, Cristián. “Gonzalo Lebrija and Cristián Silva: A Dialogue.” Review 69, Vol. 37, No. 2 (November 2004): 246-252
Lara, Baudelio. “So Far, So Close.” Review 69, Vol. 37, No. 2 (November 2004) pp. 290 – 295
Wolff, Elaine. “Pomp Up the Volume.” San Antonio Currrent, (December 2, 2004)
Johnson, Ken. “Art Listings” New York Times, (November 19, 2004).
2003
Herbert, Martin. “Jet Set.” Time Out London, No. 1703 (April 9-16 2003), p. 50
Corréard, Stephane. “Les Futures Stars.” Beaux Arts Magazine, No. 234 (November, 2003), pp.138 – 139
de Lambarre, Francois. “Paris Photo.” Match, No. 2843 (2003), p. 40.
Cowgill, Erin. “Paris Photo 2003,” Artnet Magazine.
Léon de la Barra, Pablo. “The Guad Squad.” Wall Paper, (October 2003) pp. 80 – 81.
Chattopadhyay, Collette. “Axis Mexico: Common Objects & Cosmopolitan Actions.” Art Nexus, no. 48 (Apr-June 2003): 146-7.
Ramadan, Dina. “Remote Connection: Wasla contemporary art workshop.” NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art, no. 18 (Spring-Summer 2003): 103.
2002
Kelly, Bill. “Axis Mexico.” NY Arts, (2003).
Klaasmeyer, Kelly “Crazy World.” Houston Press, (August 1, 2002).
2001
O’Reilly, Sally. “Braziers International Artists’ Workshop.” Frieze, Tenth Aniversary Issue (November – December 2001) pp. 113, 132.
2008
Gonzalo Lebrija: R75/5 Toaster. Galerie Laurent Godin (Paris: Onestar Press, 2008).
2007
Madrid, Spain. 100 Latin American Artists, Exit Publications, 2007. Edited by Rosa Olivares.
2006
[Situational] Public>Publico [situacional], 2006. Edited by Osvalso Sanchez and Donna Conwell
2005
Madrid, Spain. Sala Alcala 31, La Imágen y lo Invisible, 2005. Edited by Juan Carlos Rego and Victoria Combalia.
Madrid, Spain. Museo Reina Sofía, Eco, Arte Contemporaneo Mexicano, 2005. Edited by Osvaldo Sanchez and Kevin Powell.
2004
New York. Americas Society. So Far so Close, 2004. Edited by Gabriela Rangel.
2003
Mexico City, Mexico. Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil. Piel Fría, 2003. Edited by Carlos Ashida.
Paris, France. Instituto de México á Paris. L’Artiste Portatif, 2003. Edited by Daniela Franco.
Sinai, Egypt. Wasla Workshop 2003 Sinai, Edited by Mai Abu Eldahab.
2002
Berlin, Germany. Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Zebra Crossing, 2002. Edited by Magalí Arriola.
San Diego, California. San Diego Art Museum. Axis Mexico (Common Objects and Cosmopolitan Actions), 2002. Edited by Betty Sue.
2001
Guadalajara, Mexico. Museo de las Artes, América Foto Latino, 2001. Edited by Carlos Ashida and Enrrique Arce.
1999
México City, Mexico. Centro de la Imagen. 9 International Photography Biennale: Bif Frontera, 1999. Edited by Guillermo Santamarina.
AWARDS
1999-2000
Scholarship for alternative media, FONCA, National Fund for Culture and Arts, México (Title: Zebra Crossing Subtitle: Contemporary Art from Mexico)
1997
Prize for the best video, VII. Muestra de Video ITESO, Guadalajara, Mexico
Place best documentary film with the VIII. International Filmfestival in Lima, Peru