Gabriel Kuri

b. 1970, Mexico

Mexican conceptual artist and photographer, active in Brussels

Gabriel Kuri (b. 1970, Mexico) studied at Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas U.N.A.M. México, Mexico City, and Goldsmiths College of Art, London. Kuri has exhibited internationally, with recent solo exhibitions including spending static to save gas, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2020); sorted, resorted, WIELS, Brussels (2019); spending static to save gas, Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square, Oakville, Canada (2018); Afterthought Is Never Binary, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2017); Product Testing Unit, Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil, Switzerland (2016); with personal thanks to their contractual thingness, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2014); Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (2012); Before Contingency After the Fact, South London Gallery, London (2011); nobody needs to know the price of your saab, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2011); travelling from Blaffer Art Museum, Houston University, Houston (2010); join the dots and make a point, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg (2010); and Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld (2010); and soft information in your hard facts, Museion – Museo de Arte Moderna, Bolzano (2010). Recent group exhibitions include INFORMATION (Today), Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2021); Al filo de la navaja, Museo Jumex, Mexico City (2020); Emissaries for things abandoned by Gods, Estancia Femsa, Casa Luis Barragán, Mexico City (2019); Converter, Kunstmuseum St Gallen, St Gallen (2018); ISelf Collection: The Upset Bucket, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2017); DESERT X, Palm Springs and Coachella Valley (CA), USA; Portrait De L’artiste En Alter, FRAC – Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France (2016); ICH, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt (2016); Over you / you, 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts Ljubljana, Ljubljana (2015).

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