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