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Abraham Cruzvillegas

Abraham Cruzvillegas

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  • Selected Works
  • Exhibitions
  • About
    View works. Abraham Cruzvillegas, Long time postponed blind self portrait, munching a bite of the thick part of the chicharrón after dipping...
    Long time postponed blind self portrait, munching a bite of the thick part of the chicharrón after dipping it in a morita chili pepper sauce, and drinking a Cayaco beer directly from the bottle, listening to 'Boogie Oogie Oogie', by A Taste of Honey, read, 2025
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    Abraham Cruzvillegas (born in Mexico City in 1968) is an artist whose wider ranging oeuvre includes sculptures, paintings, drawings, installations, and videos. Cruzvillegas himself has adopted the term autoconstrucctión to describe his own artistic practice. Autoconstrucctión is a term used to describe the process of people improvising self-constructed homes built from found and recycled materials. In 2019, he was pedagogical curator of the 14th Media Arts Biennial Chile in Santiago de Chile (2019). In 2012, he was awarded the 5th Yanghyun Prize in Korea and the Prix Altadis d’arts plastiques, France–Spain in 2006. He was artist in residence of the DAAD Artist Residency program in Berlin (2010), the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco (2009), the Cove Park Artist Residency of Scotland (2008), the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. (2008), the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbria in Italy (2007), and at Atelier Calder in Saché in France (2005). He participated in many important international exhibitions including Honolulu Biennial (2019), Sydney Biennial (2018), Havana Biennial (2009; 2015), dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, (2012), 9th Shanghai Biennale (2012), 12th International Istanbul Biennial (2011), 6th Seoul International Media Art Biennale (2010), and the 54th Venice Biennale (2003). His work is included in the public collections of The Jewish Museum in New York, MoMA, the Walker Art Center, the de Young Museum and the Kadist Foundation in San Francisco, MOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection, the Tate, Kunsthaus Zürich, the Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Centre Pompidou, Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, MUAC, Museo Jumex, and Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City.

     

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  • Selected works
    • Abraham Cruzvillegas Unbetiteltes Tautologisches Selbstportrait, 2021 acrylic wall paint (34 colors) cardboard boxes
      Abraham Cruzvillegas
      Unbetiteltes Tautologisches Selbstportrait, 2021
      acrylic wall paint (34 colors) cardboard boxes
    • Abraham Cruzvillegas An exhausted but happy blind self portrait reading 'A life', a Piet Mondrian biography by Hans Janssen, while listening to 'Feeling Good' by the enormous Nina Simone, having a little strawberry KitKat bar and having the fourth espresso of the morning, try, 2024 Blue acrylic paint on newspaper clippings, cardboard, photographs, drawings, postcards, envelopes, tickets, vouchers, letters, drawings, posters, flyers, cards, recipes, napkins and steel pins on wall Variable dimensions (installation of 85 pieces) Installed Approx.: 160 x 200 cm
      Abraham Cruzvillegas
      An exhausted but happy blind self portrait reading 'A life', a Piet Mondrian biography by Hans Janssen, while listening to 'Feeling Good' by the enormous Nina Simone, having a little strawberry KitKat bar and having the fourth espresso of the morning, try, 2024
      Blue acrylic paint on newspaper clippings, cardboard, photographs, drawings, postcards, envelopes, tickets, vouchers, letters, drawings, posters, flyers, cards, recipes, napkins and steel pins on wall
      Variable dimensions (installation of 85 pieces)
      Installed Approx.: 160 x 200 cm
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    • Abraham Cruzvillegas Autorretrato oponible actual 57, 2024 aniline pigment, graphite on paper paper size: 41.5 x 29.5 cm / 16 3/8 x 11 5/8 in framed dimensions: 52 x 39.7 cm / 20 1/2 x 15 5/8 in
      Abraham Cruzvillegas
      Autorretrato oponible actual 57, 2024
      aniline pigment, graphite on paper
      paper size:
      41.5 x 29.5 cm / 16 3/8 x 11 5/8 in
      framed dimensions:
      52 x 39.7 cm / 20 1/2 x 15 5/8 in
      Inquire
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    • Abraham Cruzvillegas Autorretrato oponible actual 58, 2024 aniline pigment, graphite on paper paper size: 41.5 x 29.5 cm / 16 3/8 x 11 5/8 in framed dimensions: 52 x 39.7 cm / 20 1/2 x 15 5/8 in
      Abraham Cruzvillegas
      Autorretrato oponible actual 58, 2024
      aniline pigment, graphite on paper
      paper size:
      41.5 x 29.5 cm / 16 3/8 x 11 5/8 in
      framed dimensions:
      52 x 39.7 cm / 20 1/2 x 15 5/8 in
      Inquire
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    • Abraham Cruzvillegas Autorretrato oponible actual 60, 2024 aniline pigment, ink on paper 76.4 x 55.6 cm / 30 1/8 x 21 7/8 in framed dimensions: 87 x 66.5 cm / 34 1/4 x 26 1/8 in
      Abraham Cruzvillegas
      Autorretrato oponible actual 60, 2024
      aniline pigment, ink on paper
      76.4 x 55.6 cm / 30 1/8 x 21 7/8 in
      framed dimensions:
      87 x 66.5 cm / 34 1/4 x 26 1/8 in
      Inquire
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  • Exhibitions in the gallery
    • Abraham Cruzvillegas

      Abraham Cruzvillegas

      Splitogetherness: another groove 28 June TO 30 August 2025
      Opening on Friday, 27 June 2025, at 7 PM Galerie Thomas Schulte presents Splitogetherness: another...
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    • UNBETITELTES TAUTOLOGISCHES SELBSTPORTRAIT

      UNBETITELTES TAUTOLOGISCHES SELBSTPORTRAIT

      ABRAHAM CRUZVILLEGAS 15 September TO 13 November 2021 CHARLOTTENSTRASSE
      Galerie Thomas Schulte is very pleased that Abraham Cruzvillegas has accepted the invitation to realize...
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