Iván Navarro / Documentazione





Biography / Biografia

1972 Born in / Nació en Santiago, Chile.

Lives and works in / Vive y trabaja en New York, USA.


Education / Educación

1991-1995 BFA, PUC of Chile, Santiago, Chile.


Grants and Residencies / Becas y Residencias

2007 Fondart, Grant Ministry of Culture. Santiago, Chile.

2006 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. New York, USA.

2005 A.S.A.P / Kamp Kippy. Maine, USA.

2002 Gasworks, Residency Gasworks Cultural Exchange Program. London, UK.
2002 Fondart, Grant Ministry of Education. Santiago, Chile.

2001 Art/OMI, International Artists’ Residency. New York, USA.
2001 Fondart, Grant Ministry of Education. Santiago, Chile.

1999 Fondart, Grant Ministry of Education. Santiago, Chile.


Solo Exhibitions / Exhibiciones Individuales

2009 Threshold, 53rd Biennale di Venezia, Chilean Pavilion. Venice, Italy.
Nowhere Man, Towner. Eastbourne, UK.

2008 Homeless Lamp, The Juice Sucker, Fabric Work Shop & Museum. Philadelphia, USA.
Antifurniture, Galerie Daniel Templon. Paris, France.
Backstage, Greenaway Gallery - Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts. Adelaide, Australia.
No Man’s Land, Koppelman Gallery, Tufts University Art Gallery. Massachusetts, USA.

2007 ¿Dónde Están?, Centro Cultural Matucana 100. Santiago, Chile.
Propuesta de Monumento para Victor Jara, Galería Moro. Santiago, Chile.
Large Wall Hole (project wall), Jersey City Museum. New Jersey, USA.

2006 Concentration Camp, Roebling Hall. New York, USA.
Iván Navarro, Unosunove Arte Contemporanea. Rome, Italy.
Pachamama, Galería Metropolitana. Santiago, Chile.
I Am Not From Here, I Am Not From There, Union Gallery. London, UK.

2005 Spyglass, Galerie Daniel Templon. Paris, France.
Shortcuts, Art Rock, Rockefeller Plaza. New York, USA.

2004 Monuments for D. Flavin, Roebling Hall. New York, USA.
Juice Sucker, CSPS Legion Arts. Iowa, USA.

2002 Blade Runner, Gasworks Studios. London, UK.

2001 Big Bang, Galería Animal. Santiago, Chile.

1996 Camping Day, PUC. Santiago, Chile.


Collaborations / Colaboraciones

2009 Parsing Spirituality (Courtney Smith and Iván Navarro), Affirmation Arts. New York, USA.

2008 Remake (Courtney Smith and Iván Navarro), G Fine Arts. Washington DC, USA.
Artist as Publisher (Hueso Records), The Center for Book Arts. New York, USA.

2007 Homemade (Instituto Divorciado), De Warande Cultural Center. Turnhout, Belgium.
País de Poetas: Contemporary Art from Santiago to Brooklyn (Courtney Smith and Ivan Navarro), Rotunda Gallery. Brooklyn, USA.

2006 Busan Biennale (Mario Navarro and Iván Navarro), Busan Museum of Modern Art. Busan, South Korea.
Contra-Golpe (Instituto Divorciado), Karl Marx alle 87. Berlin, Germany.
Studio Visit (Courtney Smith and Iván Navarro), Exit Art. New York, USA.
City Scapes (Mario Navarro and Iván Navarro), Centro Cultural Matucana 100 in ARCO. Madrid, Spain.

2004 Illegal Carnival, 173 North 7th Street, Williamsburg. New York, USA.

1999 2007 (Mario Navarro and Iván Navarro), Galería Posada del Corregidor. Santiago, Chile.

1996 Las Cosas y sus Atributos (Mario Navarro and Iván Navarro), Galería Gabriela Mistral. Santiago, Chile.



Group Exhibitions (Selection) / Exhibiciones Colectivas (Selección)

2009 PAPART. Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Bienal de Canarias. Tenerife, Spain.

2008 A Political Exhibition, Tirana Institute for Contemporary Art. Tirana, Albania.
Informed by Function, Lehman College Art Gallery. New York, USA.

2007 Aquí y Ahora: Transcultura, Centro Cultural de España. San Salvador, El Salvador
When We Build, Let Us Think That We Build Forever, BALTIC The Centre for Contemporary Art. Gateshead, England.
Daniel López Show, White Box. New York, USA.
Refract, Reflect, Project: Light Works from The Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Washington DC, USA.
Petrolina, Moscow Museum of Modern Art at Petrovka and We are your future, Art Center Winzavod. Special projects for the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Moscow, Russia.

2006 Multiplication, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo. Santiago, Chile.
Artificial Light, (traveling exhibition): VCU Anderson Gallery. Richmond, USA; MOCA at Goldman Warehouse. Miami, USA; Trace, The Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria. New York, USA.

Arquivar Tormentas, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea. Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Don Quijote, Witte de Witt. Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Other than Art, G Fine Arts. Washington DC, USA

2005 Poles Apart / Poles Together, White Box and the International Artists Museum for the 51st Venice Biennale. Venice, Italy
Next Next Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music. New York, USA
Sept. 11 1973, Orchard. New York, USA

2005-2009 The Disappeared (traveling exhibition): North Dakota Museum of Art. Grand Forks, USA;
Centro Cultural Recoleta. Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales. Montevideo, Uruguay; El Museo del Barrio. New York, USA; Museo de Arte de San Marco. Lima, Perú; SITE Santa Fe. New Mexico, USA; Centro Cultural Matucana 100. Santiago, Chile; Museo de Arte Moderno. Bogotá, Colombia; Art Museum of the Americas. OAS. Washington DC, USA; University of Wyoming Art Museum. Wyoming, USA; Weisman Museum of Art. Mineapolis, USA;.

2005 Acción Directa: Latin American Social Sphere, Prague Biennale 2. Prague, Czech Republic
Transformer, Centro Cultural Matucana 100. Santiago, Chile.

2004 Produciendo Realidad, Arte e Resistenza Latinoamericana, Prometeo Associazione. Lucca, Italy.
Terrorvision, Exit Art. New York, USA.

2003 Brewster 2003, Brewster. New York, USA.
BQE, White Box. New York, USA.
Ricos y Famosos, Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende. Santiago, Chile.
Frankenstein (or, it’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery. New York, USA.

2002 Overt Operation, Joseph Helman Gallery. New York, USA.
Viology, Violence of Culture & Culture of Violence, Galería de la Raza. San Francisco, USA.

2001-2000 The Place Without Limit, Contemporary Art From Chile (traveling exhibition): Museo de Arte Moderno de Guadalajara. Guadalajara, Mexico; Museo Nacional de Arte. Lima, Perú; Museo Rubén Blades. Montevideo, Uruguay; Museo del Barro. Asunción, Paraguay.

2000 Magnética, Fundación Telefónica. Santiago, Chile.

1999-2000 Chile – Austria (traveling exhibition): Landesgalerie-Oberoesterreich. Linz, Austria;
Kärntner Landesgalerie. Innsbruck, Austria; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Santiago, Chile.

1999 The Selected Files, El Museo del Barrio. New York, USA.
Doméstico, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Valdivia. Valdivia, Chile.

1997 Arte Jóven en Chile (1986-1996), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Santiago, Chile.
Bibliography / Bibliografía

Catalogues and Books (Selection) / Catálogos y Libros (Selección)


2009
Arévalo, Antonio. “The Threshold of Iván Navarro” (monograph) Iván Navarro, Threshold. Edit. Charta. Milan Italy / New York, USA.

Ellegood, Anne. “Resisting Flags” (monograph) Iván Navarro, Threshold. Edit. Charta, Milan Italy / New York, USA.

Kitamura, Katie. “Nowhere Man” (monograph) Iván Navarro, Nowhere Man. Edit. Towner. Eastbourne, UK.

Mellado, Justo Pastor and Navarro, Ivan. “Politics of Provisions” (monograph) Iván Navarro, Threshold. Edit. Charta. Milan, Italy / New York, USA.

2008
Bozicnik, Nina. “Piercing the Facade: Iván Navarro and the Aesthetic of Social Illumination” (exh bro) No Man’s Land. Edit. Tufts University Art Gallery. Massachusetts, USA.

Julianne Pierce. “Iván Navarro” (exh bro) Speed of Light. Edit. Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts. Adelaide, Australia.

López Chaoud, Omar. (exh cat) Artist as Publisher. Edit. Center for Book Arts. New York City, USA

Schlegel, Amy Ingrid. (exh bro) No Man’s Land. Edit. Tufts University Art Gallery. Massachusetts, USA.

2007

Gaillemin, Jean Luis. ”Style et Ornaments” (exh cat) Design Contra Design. Edit. Galerie Nationales du Grand Palais. Paris, France.

Navarro, Iván. (exh cat) We Are The Future. Edit. Especial Project 2 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Moscow, Russia.

Ravenal, John. “Bright Lights, Bad Dreams” (monograph) Iván Navarro. Edit. Communic’Art. Paris, France.

Renske Janssen and Nicolaus Schafhausen. Changing Roles Artists’ personal views and wishes. Edit. Witte de With. Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

2006

Dittborn, Eugenio. (Fragmento de La Feliz del Edén) (exh cat) Multiplication. Edit MAC. Santiago, Chile.

Fuenmayor, Jesús. Arte da America do soul. Ponto de Viragem 1989. Colecçao de Arte
Contemporanea Publico Serralves. Edit. Museo Serralves. Porto, Portugal.

Galerie Daniel Templon 40 ans. Edit. Communic’Art. Paris, France.

González, Ana and Oliveira, Manuel. (exh cat) Arquivar Tormentas. Edit. Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea. Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Machuca, Guillermo. “Art & Context: Three Decades of Aesthetic Production in Chile” Copiar el Eden: Copying Eden. Edit. Puro Chile and Gerardo Mosquera. Santiago, Chile.

Momim, Shamin & Weinberg, Adam. The Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria. Edit. The Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, USA.

Mosquera, Gerardo. Copiar el Eden: Copyin Eden. Edit. Puro Chile and Gerardo Mosquera. Santiago, Chile.

Nicolaus Schafhausen and Sophie von Olfers. (exh cat) Don Quijote. Edit. Witte de With. Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Ravenal, John. (exh cat) Artificial Light. Edit. VCUarts Anderson Gallery, VMFA, Richmond, and MOCA, Miami, USA.

Reuter, Laurel. (exh cat) The Disappeared. Edit. Charta. Milan, Italy / New York USA.

2005
Díaz, Juan Pablo. “El paraíso, el deshecho: Paisaje en homenaje a Ana Ríos” (exh cat) Transformer. Edit. Mario Navarro. Santiago, Chile.

Navarro, Mario. “Transformer” (exh cat) Transformer. Edit. Mario Navarro. Santiago Chile.

Scotini, Marco. “Acción Directa: Latin American Social Sphere” (exh cat) Prague Biennale 2.
Edit. Giancarlo Politi. Milan, Italy.

Sorokina, Elena. (exh cat) Crude Oil Paintings. Edit. Elena Sorikina and Studio Radia. New York, USA

2004
Arévalo, Antonio. (exh cat) Produciendo Realidad, Arte e Resistenza Latinoamericana. Edit. Prometeo Associazione. Lucca, Italy.

Navarro, Mario. “Documento Desclasificado” (exh cat) Produciendo Realidad, Arte e Resistenza Latinoamericana. Edit. Prometeo Associazione. Lucca, Italy

Scotini, Marco. (exh cat) Produciendo Realidad, Arte e Resistenza Latinoamericana.
Edit. Prometeo Associazione. Lucca, Italy.

2002

Dittborn, Eugenio. “Where is Santiago, Chile?” (exh cat) Fantasmatic. Edit. National Art Gallery. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

2001

Viveros, Christian. (exh cat) Big Bang. Edit. Galería Animal. Santiago, Chile.

2000

Mellado, Justo. “Entre erupción y retención objetual” (exh cat) Magnética. Edit. Fundación Telefónica. Santiago, Chile.




1999

Navarro, Mario and Navarro, Iván, “2007” (exh cat) 2007. Edit. Galería Posada del Corregidor. Santiago, Chile.

1997

Fernández, Felipe. “Navarro Navarro 2007”. Memoria Galería Posada del Corregidor. Edit. Galería Posada del Corregidor. Santiago, Chile.

Machuca, Guillermo. (exh cat) Arte Joven en Chile (1986-1996). Edit. MNBA. Santiago, Chile.


Reviews and Articles (Selection) / Críticas y Artículos (Selección)

2008
Dawson, Jessica. “Would You Care for Cream? Sugar? Symbolism?”. Washington Post. December 14

Atwood, Roger. “Iván Navarro & Courtney Smith”. ARTnews. November.

Wennerstrom, Nord. “Iván Navarro & Courtney Smith at G Fine Arts Gallery”. Artforum. October.

Wright, Jeffrey. “Informed by Function”. Artnexus. September.

Dawson, Jessica. “G Fine Art”. Washington Post. June 20.

Boutet, Violaine. “Antifurniture”. Art Review. May.

Samson. Anna. “Please Be Seated”. DAM Magazine. April.

2007
Egan, Maura. “Shock Tactics”. The New York Times Magazine. November 4.

Wei, Lilly. “Light Fantastic”. Art in America. September.

Sheets, Hilarie M. “Waves of Light”. ArtNews. March.

Banai, Nuit. “Iván Navarro at Roebling Hall”. Modern Painters. March.

Villasmil, Alejandra. “Iván Navarro at Roebling Hall”. Arte al Día. 118.

Smith, Roberta. “Iván Navarro at Roebling Hall”. The New York Times. January 5.

Herzberg, Julia. “To Be No More and To Be Forever”. Arte al Día. 119.

2006
Johnson, Ken. “Trace”. The New York Times. August 18.

Flores, Tatiana. “Ivan Navarro at Union Gallery”. ArtNexus. 62.

2005
Velez, Pedro. “The Façade and the Rhetoric of Iván Navarro’s Sculptures”. Arte al Día. June.

Manacorda, Francesco. “Entropology: Monuments to Closed Systems”. Flash Art. March.

Collins, Glenn. “Unkown Artists Find a Public Stage”. The New York Times. March 5.

Harris, Jane. “Getting Personal, Political, and Very Idiosyncratic at Exit Art”. Village Voice. May 12.

Colin, Juan Pablo. “Electroshck”. Arte al Límite. November.

Smith, Roberta. September 11, 1973. The New York Times. October 20.

Sanders, Mark. “Light Fantastic”. Another Magazine. Autumn Issue.

Yehja, Naief. “Terrorvision”. Artnexus. 55.

2004
Smith, Roberta. “Emerging Talent, and Plenty of It”. The New York Times. March 12.

Arévalo, Antonio. “Produciendo Realidad”. Nuevo Diseño. September.

Harris, Jane. “Bush League”. Time Out New York. August 26.

Johnson, Ken. “Iván Navarro at Roebling Hall”. The New York Times. June 11.

Herzberg, Julia P. “Iván Navarro at Roebling Hall”. ArtNexus. 54.

2003
Schwendener, Martha. “Frankenstein (or, it’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye)”.
TimeOut New York. August 14.

Smith, Roberta. “A Grand Finale of Group Show Fireworks”. The New York Times. July 18.

Johnson, Ken. “Overt Operation”. The New York Times. January 10.

2002
Rojas, Carolina. “Chilean Artist Challenges The Death Penalty in the US”. Las Ultimas Noticias. December 10.

2001
Sánchez, Margarita. “Escape From Social Utopia, New Art From Argentina and Chile”. Third Text. 55.

2000
Mena, Catalina. “Chili neo object”. Beaux Arts Magazine. September.

1997
Mena, Catalina. “Arte Joven en Chile (1986-1996)”. ArtNexus. March.
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