Iván Argote was born in Bogota in 1983. He lives and works between Paris and New York, and graduated from the Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2009.
Read MoreRecent exhibitions include: “Sin heroísmos, por favor” (solo), CA2M, Madrid (2012); Art Brussels (solo), Perrotin booth (2012); Girarse, Joan Miró Fundation, Barcelona; The Dialectic City, Laboratorio de Artes Binarios, Puerto Rico (2011); Caliente, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, 2011 (solo show); A brake to dance, Galerie Valenzuela & Klenner, Bogota, Colombia, 2009; Zapping Unit, MAC/VAL Museum of Contemporary Art of Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France, 2009. He’s preparing upcoming exhibitions, including: 30th Sao Paulo Biennale (Sep 2012); La Estrategia, Palais de Tokyo (Dec 2012). Iván Argote’s practice deals with social, political and art historical fields through mediums as varied as video, photography, sculpture and painting. Being simultaneously the director and main actor in his work, Iván interrogates with humour the views and perspectives imposed by our social positions, the status of an artwork and the notion of interactivity, which he addresses through a fictionalisation of the everyday.
