Gabriel Mestre Arrioja
STUDIO & CURATORIAL
Curriculum Vitae
GABRIEL MESTRE ARRIOJA
Artist and Independent Curator
Mexico City, 1974.
Lives and works in Mexico City.
Professional
2017 – present – CRIMEX Curators Residency Program (Founder and Director).
2016 – present – Surplus International Art Space (Founder and Director).
2012 – 2015 Surplus Culture Art Gallery (Director, Curator and Owner).
2002 – 2012 ARTENACIÓN, Contemporary Art Agency (Founder, Director and Curator).
2000 – 2002 AT SYBER Digital Arts, Music & Visual Culture Magazine, Editorial Mina (Associated Editor).
1998 – 2007 Anthropological Research Institute of the National University – UNAM (Author-Researcher-Writer).
1996 – 1998 Dolores Olmedo Museum (Assistant Researcher and Curator).
Grants, Awards, Scholarships and Professional Programs
2021 – Buckminster Fuller Institute – (Scholarship) Trimtab Space Camp, United States.
2019 – Warsaw Gallery Weekend, International Visitors Program, Poland.
2019 – Polish Sculpture Center (Artist’s Residency), Orońsko, Poland.
2019 – Nordic Kultur Fund (Exhibitions Abroad Grant), Denmark.
2018 – Adam Mickiewcz Institute, International Visitors Program, Wro and Warsaw, Poland.
2018 – IASPIS, Expert Program, Norrbotten and Stockholm, Sweden.
2018 – OCA Norway- International Visitors Program, Tromsø, Karasjok and Oslo, Norway.
2018 – FRAME Finland- International Visitors Program, Inari and Helsinki, Finland.
2018 – Oslo Open Art, Profesional Program, Norway.
2017 – Icelandic Art Center, Talk Series Program, Iceland.
2016 – ARTISSIMA, VIP Program, Turino, Italy.
2016 – Danish Art Foundation, International Research Program, Denmark.
2016 – CCA Estonia, International Research Program, Tallinn, Estonia.
2016 – Art Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjia,VIP Program & Global Forum, United Arab Emirates.
2016 – Kochi-Muziris Biennale (Residency at Pepper’s House), India.
2015 – ARTBO- VIP Program, Bogotá, Colombia.
2013 – CAC Vilnius, International Research Program, Lithuania.
2012 – Ocesa (Experimental Musical Research Grant), Mexico.
2010 – Jumex Foundation / Collection, (Support Exhibitions), Mexico.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
(2012-PRESENT)
SOLO SHOWS
Mar 2024 – «Some Sun is Coming Soon,»
Espacio México, Montreal.
FEB 2024 – «Chromatic Psyops,»
Consulat Génerál du Mexique, Montreal.
DIC 2023 – «Pareidolias Étnicas,»
Museo Morelense de Arte Contemporáneo, Juan Soriano, Cuernavaca.
OCT 2023 – «Some Sun is Coming Soon,» Artwks.co_Space, Mexico City.
SEP 2023 – «Two Films & Three Magical Passes»,
Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich. Curated by Susanne G.Seiler & Salome Holh.
ABR 2023 – “Pandèmic Cinèma Windows,” Artwks.co, Mexico City.
OCT 2022 – Pareidolias Étnicas,
Museo de la Cancillería, Mexico City.
Curated by Jorge Reynoso Pohlenz.
GROUP SHOWS
Mar 2024 – «FLUID KARMA»,
Sapling Gallery at Richard Neutra’s Bonnet House, Los Angeles. Curated by Ché Zara Blomfield.
MAR 2022 – “Abstract Massive”,
Adrián Álamo, Manolo Garibay, Cecilias Rodarte, Antonio Charlez Nogera, Pablo Castillo y Adriana Kozub.
Pirámide Tepoztlan.
MAR 2021 – “FINDINGS”,
Gerda Hansberg, Juan Pérez, César Mendoza, Adrian Alamo, Gabriel Mestre Arrioja.
Galería Yacarandá Bonsái, Tepoztlan.
DIC 2020 – Hundred Heroines Film Festival, Reality Check Program, London, Curated by Lisl Ponger.
OCT 2020 – 7th Mediations Biennale Polska,
Warsaw, Horizont’s Events, curated by Jacek Sosnowski y Thomas Wenland.
FEB 2020 – “Vandalismo Psíquico”,
Oscar Ratto, Enrique Cantú, Lucero Milchorena, Omar Rodríguez Graham, Polo Castellanos, Jon Stahn, Rafael Uriegas, Gabriel Mestre Arrioja, Pasagüero, Mexico City. Curated by Erick Diego.
FEB 2019 – “Earth Body”
Anne Graff, Nikolina Stälborn, Maria Hellander, Pablo Castillo, Hesselholm & Mejvang, Abraham Gómez, Pepe Mogt y Gabriel Mestre, Museo de Geología – UNAM, Mexico City. Curated by Gabriel Mestre Arrioja & Jonatan Habib Engvist.
NOV 2017 – “Knock on Wood”,
Álvaro Verduzco, Abraham Gómez, Gabriel Mestre, Cisco Jimenez, Néstor Quiñones, Brynjar Helgason, Curver Thorodssen, Marek Wolfrid.
Ekkisens, Reykjavik.
Curated by Gabriel Mestre Arrioja.
FEB 2015 – “Ontological Drama nr3”,
DEAR, Raúl Góngora, Luz María Sánchez, Kurt Hollander, Jurgis Paškevičius, Alexander Krone, Styrmir Örn Guðmundsson, Brynjar Helgasson y Rogelio Sosa. Galería Cultura Surplus, Mexico City.
Curated by Gabriel Mestre Arrioja.
2012 – “MULTITUDE EXHIBITION”
Ricardo Alzati, Marcela Armas, Katya Brailovski, Bellas Artes Domésticas, Ana Roldán, Francisco Fernández Taka, Edgar Orlaineta, Claudia Pérez Pavón y Pilar Villela. Örebro Konsthall, Lynköping Konsthall y Nörrtalje Konsthall, Sweden. Curated by Gabriel Mestre Arrioja, Måds Nilson & Christer Fallman.
Related Institutions
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico (SRE)
Foundation / Collection Jumex
UNAM Anthropological Research Institute
National Museum of San Carlos – INBA
Danish Arts Foundation
Embassy of Denmark in Mexico
Royal House of Denmark
Swedish Arts Council
IASPIS
Örebro Konsthall
Norrtälje Konsthall
Passagen Linköpings Konsthall
Havremagasinet – Boden Konstall
IFA – Germany
Goethe Institute
Austrian Cultural Forum
Ministry of Culture of Austria
Embassy of Austria in Mexico
Center for Contemporary Art (CAC) Vilnius, Lithuania
CCA Estonia
Icelandic Art Center
Art Museum of Reykjavik City
Icelandic Academy of Art
OCA Norway
Oslo Open Art
FRAME Finland
Kyoto Art Center
Yokohama Art Center-Tokio
Umeda Sky Building-Osaka
Tromsø Art Academy
Polish Sculture Center – Orońsko
7th Mediations Biennale, Poland
Hundred Heroines Film Festival, London
Mexican Cultural Center in Santa Ana, California
Buckminster Fuller Institute, New York
Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India
Art Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Guideca Art District, Venice
Museo de la Cancillería, México City
Consulat Général du Mexique, Montreal
BOOKS
2008 – VALADEZ AR, – MESTRE AG, “Xoloitzcuintle, del Enigma al Siglo XXI”, México ISBN 978-970- 95499-0-4, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas – UNAM, ARTENACIÓN.
1999 – VALADEZ AR, – MESTRE AG, “La Historia del Xoloitzcuintle en México ”, México ISBN 968-36- 6002-9, Museo Dolores Olmedo P. IIA -UNAM, Cámara de Diputados.
Filmes
2020 – Hunting One’s Self, Mexico.
2014 – MARKET, Mexico.
2004 – The Pitbull Project, Mexico.
WRITINGS
MESTRE A G. Enemigos del arte: el espacio del museo. REVISTA ARQUINE 2015; # 78: 113-116.
MESTRE A G. Anclas de la ciudad, REVISTA ARQUINE 2015; # 75: 22-25.
VALADEZ A R, MESTRE A G. Nuestro Conocimiento sobre el Xoloitzcuintle: Un balance entre ciencia y tradición. AMMVEPE 2009; 20 (3): 64-72.
VALADEZ A R, MESTRE A G. El perro pelón, la realidad contra el mito y la fantasía. AMMVEPE 1998; 9 (1): 21-26.
BLANCO A CH, GÖTZ G, MESTRE G, RODRÍGUEZ B, VALADEZ A R. El Xoloitzcuintle Prehispánico y el Estándar Actual de la Raza. AMMVEPE 2008; 19 (5): 131-138.