Abraham Cruzvillegas

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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