Rafa Esparza

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I Have Never Been Here Before, 2015. Photograph of performance for Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, California

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Tierra. Sangre. Oro, 2017. Installation view at Ballroom Marfa, Texas. Mixed media, dimensions variable

BIOGRAPHY

Born: Los Angeles, California, 1981

Resides: Los Angeles, California

Education: University of California, Los Angeles (B.F.A., 2011)

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

 

2017

“For You and the Sky,” Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara.

“Tierra. Sangre. Oro.,” Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas.

 

2016

“IN,” Club Pro, Los Angeles.

 

2015

“I Have Never Been Here Before,” Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.

“Con/Safos,” Bowtie Project, Los Angeles.

 

2014

“Building: A Simulacrum of Power,” Bowtie Parcel, Los Angeles.

 

2013

“They Spent Their Time Doing Nothing. They Let Intimacy Fuse Them,” Vincent Price Art Museum, East Los Angeles.

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

2018

“Pasado Mañana,” Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles (January 20–March 3).

 

2017

“Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly,” Bemis Center, Omaha, Nebraska.

“Figure Ground: Beyond the White Field for the Whitney Biennial,” New York.

“Reconstitution,” LAXARTS, Los Angeles.

“Made in LA: a, the, tho, only. Los Angeles Biennial,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

 

2015

“Con/Safos,” Bowtie Project, Los Angeles.

“After Victor Papanek. The Future Is Not What It Used to Be,” The Armory, Pasadena.

“Group Hug,” Cathy Cooper Art Studio, Los Angeles.

“Machine Project Field Guide to the Gamble House,” Gamble House, Los Angeles.

 

2013

“MexiCali Biennial 2013. Cannibalism in the New World,” Vincent Price Art Museum, East Los Angeles.

“Native Strategies 3. Rituals and Congregations,” Human Re-Sources/Solano Tunnel, Los Angeles.

“Perform Chinatown,” Chinatown, Los Angeles.

“Confusion Is Sex 3,” Sepulveda Basin, Los Angeles.

“This Is What I Want Performance Festival,” SOMArts, San Francisco.

 

Selected Performances

 

2018

“Cumbre: Look as Far as You Can See in Every Direction—North and South, East and West,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

“Corpo Ranfla,” Elysian Park and Mayan Theater, Los Angeles.

“A Body Reclined,” USC Graduate Studios, Los Angeles.

 

2017

“Sincerely Yours,” Los Angeles River, Los Angeles.

 

2016

“Mas Gestos y Mas Caras,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

“Red Summer,” Elysian Park, Los Angeles.

 

2015

“Dedicaciones a Mexico y Los 43,” Esrtitorio de Procesos, Mexicali, Baja California.

“Bust,” Twin Towers Correctional Facility, Los Angeles.

“The Mexika Eagle. Space Navigation No0. Xinampa [Floating Garden],” Getty Center, Los Angeles.

 

2014

“East Los Sauna,” El Gallo Bakery parking lot, East Los Angeles.

 

2013

“Fuck Your Ancestors,” Vincent Price Art Museum (and vicinity), East Los Angeles.

“No Water Under the Bridge,” Underneath Viaduct on Fourth and Lorena Street, Boyle Heights, California.

“El Hoyo,” Human Resources, Los Angeles.

 

2012

“El Cuate, Notes on Paz,” La Cita, Los Angeles.

“Still,” Elysian Park, Los Angeles.


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