1963 Born in Havana, Cuba
Lives and works in Los Angeles
BFA Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
University of Illinois at Chicago
Solo Exhibitions (*indicates publication)
2006 Gió Marconi, Milan
2006 Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2005 Haunch of Venison, Juerg Judin Gallery, Zurich
2005 Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
2005 Las Vegas, neugerriemschneider, Berlin
2004 Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2004 1301 PE Gallery, Los Angeles
2004 Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona *
2003 Jorge Pardo, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
2003 Prototype, Dia Art Foundation, New York
2003 Jorge Pardo, Haunch of Venison, London *
2003 Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
2003 Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
2003 Gio Marconi, Milan
2002 Le Consortium, Dijon
2002 Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle
2002 China Art Objects, Los Angeles
2002 1301PE Gallery, Los Angeles
2002 Neugerriemschneider, Berlin
2002 Taka Iishi, Tokyo
2002 Gio Marconi, Milan
2002 PKMGALLERY, Seoul
2002 Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
2001 Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
2001 Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
2001 Montblanc Kulturstiftung, Hamburg
2001 Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2000 Dia Art Foundation, New York
2000 Kunsthalle Basel *
2000 Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid
2000 Brian Butler, 1301 PE Los Angeles
1999 The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia
1999 Royal Festival Hall, London *
1999 Neugerriemschneider, Berlin
1999 Swish I'm a Fish, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach *
1999 Brian Butler, Los Angeles
1998 Jorge Pardo. 4166 Sea View Lane, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles *
1998 Ghislaine Hussenot & Phillipe Rizzo, Brussels
1998 Patrick Painter, Santa Monica
1998 Baby Blue, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
1998 Wool, Cotton, Latex, Wax & Steel, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
1998 Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Villa Franck, Ludwigsburg
1997 Lighthouse, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
1997 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago *
1997 Garnish and Landscape, Gesellschaft fuer Gegenwartskunst, Augsburg, withTobias Rehberger *
1996 It Hangs Out There, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
1996 Neugerriemschneider, Berlin
1995 Thomas Soloman's Garage, Los Angele
1995 Hawaii, (with Pae White, Mitchell Kane, & Mythter), Friedrich Petzel
1995 Gallery New York
1995 Borgmann Capitain Gallery, Cologne Germany
1994 Zeichnungen, neugerriemschneider, Berlin
1994 Friedrich Petzel / Nina Borgmann:One Component of the Work Is That the
1994 Show Will Have Many Titles, One of Them Being: MoCA.Three Prints
1994 Per Second, New York
1993 Person's Weekend Museum, Tokyo(cat.)
1993 Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles
1992 Terrain Gallery, San Francisco
1991 Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica
1990 Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles
1990 Petersburg Gallery, New York City
1988 Bliss Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2005 POPulence, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston
2005 Hans Christian Anderson Group Show, Arhos, Denmark
2005 Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
2005 Ways of Living, Kettles Yard, Cambridge
2005 Think Blue, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
2005 Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
2005 Fairy Tales Forever, AroS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Arhus
2005 View Eight: A Few Domestic Objects Interrogate a Few Works of Art, curated by Bruce Ferguson,
2005 Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2005 Design ≠ Art, Museum of Design, Atlanta; Aspen Art Museum
2004 26th Bienal de São Paulo, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
2004 Trans/Migrations: Graphics as Contemporary Art, San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
2004 Nothing Compared to This, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
2004 Off the Wall, Bruce Museum, Greenwich
2004 North Fork/Sourth Fork: East End Art Now, Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton
2004 Design ≠ Art, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York
2004 Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
2004 100 Artists See God, curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, Independent Curators
2004 International, The Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna; Institute of
2004 Contemporary Arts, London; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach; Albright College
2004 Freedman Art Gallery, Reading, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville
2003 Jessica Stockholder: "Table Top Sculpture", Gorney, Bravin + Lee, New York
2003 Gio Marconi, Milan
2003 I Moderni/The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli
2003 On The Wall, The RISD Museum, Providence
2003 It Happened Tomorrow, Lyon Biennale
2003 Flower Power, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille
2002 Jorge Pardo & Philippe Parreno, 1301PE, Los Angeles
2002 touch, Relational Art from the 1990s to Now, San Francisco Art Institute
2002 Refraction, Jorge Pardo and Gerhard Richter, Dia Center for the Arts
2002 No Return: Sammlung Haubrok, Städtiches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
2002 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool *
2002 Culture meets culture, Busan Biennale, Busan
2001 Active Ingredients, Copia, American Center for Food Wine & the Arts, Napa
2001 Reverb, Jorge Pardo and Gilberto Zorio, Dia Center for the Arts, New York
2001 Beautiful Productions, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2001 Comfort, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, curated by Kristin Chambers
2001 Public Offerings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2001 KolnSkulpture3, Skulptutenpark Köln, curated by Dr. Michael Stoffel
2001 In Between: Art and Architecture, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
2001 The Beauty of Intimacy, Lens and Paper, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
2001 Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism, SITE Santa Fe Forth International Biennal, Santa Fe
2001 Collaborations with Parkett, 1984 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2000 Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2000 1989, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, curated by Ilene Kurtz, David Kiehl & Patrick Moore
2000 Talleres: Art from the Guadalajara Workshops, Mexican Cultural Institute
2000 Threads of Dissent, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia
2000 Against Design, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, curated by Steven Beyer
2000 Traveled to Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary At, San Diego
2000 Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
2000 Double Space, Apex Art Curatorial Program, New York, curated by A.S. Bessa
2000 Objecthood 00, Rethymnon Centre for Contemporary Art, Rethymnon
2000 Strange Paradise, Casino Luxembourg
2000 Quoitidiana, Castello di Rivoli, Torino
2000 Rags to Riches, Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels, curated by Petra Bungert and Alexandra Dimentieva
2000 What If, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, curated by Maria Lind and Liam Gillick.
2000 Quiet Life, Blickle Stiftung
2000 Fast Forward, Kunstverein Hamburg
2000 Strange Paradise, Casino Luxembourg
1999 Threads of Dissent, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
1999 Objecthood 00, Hellenic American Union, Athens
1999 Comfort Zone: Furniture by Artists, The Public Art Fund, Paine Webber Art Gallery. Curated by Amy Wolf. *
1999 Jorge Pardo and Bob Weber, China Art Objects, Los Angeles
1999 Drawn by…, Metro Pictures, New York
1999 Talleres: Art From Guadalajara Workshops, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, curated by Carlos Ashida.
1999 DConstructivism: life back in to art, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Center
1999 Wonder world – notes for a solid collection, Newsantandrea, Savona
1999 Konstruktionszeichnungen, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
1998 Light X Eight: The Hanukkah Project, Jewish Museum, New York
1998 Richard Hawkins and Jorge Pardo, Brent Petersen Gallery, Los Angeles
1998 Chaos, Control, Chaos, Control. You Like? You Like, Elias Fine Art, Boston, curated by Anne Lemieux.
1998 Artranspennine, Atelier van Lieshout and Francois Quardon, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds. Curated by Penelope Curtis, with Langlands and Bell *
1998 Dad´s Art, neugerriemschneider, Berlin
1998 ___, 1994untitled,1994(meettim&burkhard)brançusi,1997, Grazer Kunstverein
1998 Fast Forward archives, Kunstverein, Hamburg
1998 Fast Forward / Body Check, Kunstverein, Hamburg
1998 Works for the Ideal Home, Art Metropole, Toronto
1998 Scratches on the surface of things, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Marienhof - Konzepte der Kunst, Rathaus, Munich
1998 Kunst für Bundestagsneubauten, Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin
1998 Jason Meadows and Jorge Pardo, Brent Petersen Gallery, Los Angeles
1998 Mai '98, Kunsthalle Köln, Cologne *
1998 Minis, Midis & Maxis, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz
1997 Angel Hair EX. LA., Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig
1997 Check in, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
1997 Hospital, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
1997 Kunst..Arbeit, Aus der Sammlung SudWest LB, Stuttgart, Germany *
1997 KolnSkulptur 1, Kunsthalle Köln, Cologne *
1997 Kevin Appel, Francis Cape and Jorge Pardo, Janice Guy, New York. , curated by Margaret Murray
1997 Assuming Positions, Institute of Contemporary Art, London *
1997 Home Sweet Home, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg *
1997 Rooms With a View. Environments for Videos, Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York, curated by Nancy Spector. Included Vito Acconci, Angela Bulloch, and Dan Graham.
1997 Laying Low: Postminimalism/Scatter Art, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway *
1997 Bastards of Modernity, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
1997 Skulptur. Projekte in Münster 1997, Muester
1997 Cruising L.A., Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid *
1996 True Bliss, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions *
1996 Just Past: Contemporary and Permanent Collection 1975-1996, MoCA Los Angeles
1996 Richard Telles Gallery, Los Angeles. With Jim Iserman.
1996 Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
1996 Ab Fab, Feature Inc, New York
1996 Blum & Poe, Santa Monica
1996 Defining the 90's, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami *
1996 Projekte/Projects: Art at the New Trade Fair of Leipzig, Leipzig
1996 Multiple Pleasure, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
1996 Dark Memories Hovering, Marc Fox Gallery, Santa Monica
1996 Traffic, CAPC Musee d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux *
1996 Le labyrinthe moral, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Dijon
1996 nach Weimar, Kunstsammlung zu Weimar, Weimar *
1996 Wunderbar, Kunstverein, Hamburg *
1996 Faustrecht der Freiheit, Sammlung Volkmann, Kunstsammlung Gera
1996 Alle Neune, ACC Galerie, Weimar
1996 Groupshow, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
1996 Ranch, Peter Strauss Ranch, Santa Monica
1996 Jim Iserman and Jorge Pardo, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
1996 Affairs, Institut für Gegenwartskunst, Wien
1996 Der Umbau Raum, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart
1996 Legende I, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde
1996 Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
1996 Ab Fab, Feature Inc., New York
1995 Affairs, Institut fuer Gegenwartskunst, Wien
1995 Hawaii, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, with Pae White, Mitchell Kane and Mythter.
1995 Alles was modern ist, Galerie Baerbel Graesslin, Frankfurt
1995 Dark Memories Hovering Below the Transparent Screen of the Present Will Project Images of Reality in Sharp Silhouette, to Create the Pleasurable Effect of a Double World, Marc Foxx, Santa Monica
1995 Le Consortium, Dijon
1995 Das Ende der Avantgarde - Kunst als Dienstleistung, Sammlung, Sch?mann, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany (cat.)
1995 Saturday Night Fever, Tom Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, (curated by Michael Cohen)
1994 Interdisciplinary, Woodbury University, Burbank
1994 Temporary tTranslation(s) - Kunst der Gegenwart und Fotografie
1994 Sammlung Sch?mann, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany (cat.)
1994 Neue M?el f? die Villa, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany
1994 Lost Paradise, Kunstraum Wien, Vienna, Austria
1994 Pure Beauty: Some Recent Work From Los Angeles, American Center, Paris (curated by Ann Goldstein), travels to Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1994 Backstage, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
1994 Untitled Groupshow, Metro Pictures, New York.
1994 Love in the Ruins, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach
1994 Breakdown , MOCA ,San Diego, CA
1994 Museum auf Zeit, slide projections at Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
1993 Backstage, Kunstverein Hamburg
1993 Pardo- Segar- Rirkit Tiravanija- Tobier, 1301 Gallery, Santa Monica
1993 Displace Michael Cohen Gallery, New York City
1993 Summer Group Exhibition, Anderson O'Day Gallery, London
1993 11- Artists organized by Tim Neuger, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1993 6- Artists organized by Tim Neuger, Galerie Max Hetzler
1992 Gallery Artists Group Show, Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles
1992 Tele Mundo, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco
1992 Very, Very, Very.... Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica
1992 5 Artists Summer Show, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco
1992 Mars Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1992 Object/objet (with Stephen Berens, Elizabeth Bryant, Anne Walsh) El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA
1992 California: North and South , Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, CO
1992 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA(cat.)
1991 Phenon/Phenotype: A Group Therapy, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco
1991 L.A. Times, curated by Jackie Christ, Boise Museum of Modern Art, Boise, ID
1991 Facing the Finish, curated by John Caldwell and Robert Riley, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1991 Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
1991 Omnia ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, curated by Peter Wright, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA
1991 Improvements on the Ordinary, curated by Dan Peterman, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990 Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica, CA
1990 New Sculpture (with Craig Watson), Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 H20 , curated by Thomas Solomon, Beverly Hills, CA
1987 Graduate Group Show, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Public Collections
Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Holland
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent
Selected Public Projects and Commissions
Untitled, Guajataca, 2005
Untitled, Lever House, 2004
Oliver, Braunschweig Parcours, 2004
Penelope, Liverpool, 2004
Untitled, Ständehaus Düsseldorf Museum K 20/21, 2003
Delegates Dining Room, German Parliament, Paul-Löbe-Haus, Berlin, 2003
Historic Turbine-Hall of the Stadtwerke Düsseldorf, 2003
Kitchen at Copia: The American Center for Food, Wine and the Arts, Napa, 2001
Dormitory, Krabbesholm, Hojskole, Skive, 2001
Bar, Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, 2001
Dormitory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 2001
Lamps, Sotheby's, New York, 2001
Project, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, 2000
Autobahn-Raststatte, Pratteln, 2000
Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, 1999
4166 Sea View Lane, Los Angeles, 1998
Pier, Muenster, 1997
Tomatensuppe, Cologne, 1997
Lighthouse, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, 1997
Clock, clock, clock, clock, clock (you have to say it fast), Stuttgart, 1997
Reading Room, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, 1996
East Meets West Restaurant, The Leipzig Expo Center, Leipzig, 1996
Grants/Awards
Smithsonian American Art Museum Lucelia Award
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation