BIOGRAPHY

Carmen Argote
Born: Guadalajara, Mexico, 1981
Resides: Los Angeles, California
Education: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2009); University of California, Los Angeles (M.F.A., 2007; B.A., 2004)

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 “Me At Market,” Visual Arts Center, University of Texas, Austin.

2019 “As Above, So Below,” New Museum, New York.
  “Nutrition for a Better Life (Compre Chatarra),” Ballon Rouge Collective, Istanbul, Turkey.
  “Manéjese Con Cuidado,” PAOS/ Casa Taller José Clemente Orozco, Guadalajara, Mexico.

2018 “Warm Is a Black,” Ballon Rouge Collective, New York.
  “Deterioro y Poder” (two person exhibition), Instituto de Visión, Bogotá, Colombia.
  “The artist, having used all her money to make her work, lives in the mother mold of her sculpture,” Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles.
  “If only it were that easy...,” 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica.

2017 “Pyramids,” Panel LA, Los Angeles.

2016 “Alex’s Room,” Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles; Mansión Magnolia, Shulamit Nazarian, Venice, California.

2015 “A Vast Furniture,” MAK Center and High Desert Test Sites, Los Angeles; 29 Palms, California.

2014 “My Father’s Side of Home,” Human Resources, Los Angeles.

2010 “720 Sq. Ft. Household Mutations,” g727, Los Angeles.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 “Searching the Sky for Rain,” SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York.
  “Paroxysm of Sublime,” Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles.

2018 “Made in L.A. 2018,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

2017 “Tierra.Sangre.Oro,” Ballroom Marfa, Texas.
  “Home—So Different, So Appealing,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
  “Building As Ever, Pacific Triennial,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 

2020  Gutiérrez, Laura G. “Resonating Drips in Carmen Argote’s Pockets,” Visual Arts Center, University of Texas, Austin (January 24).

Duron, Maximiliano. “Economics of Art and Avocados: Carmen Argote Transplants the World to the New Museum in NY,” Artnews (January 3).

2019 Loiseau, Benoit. “For Carmen Argote, Avocados Are a Paint and a Powerful Metaphor,” Frieze (October 21).