NAOMI RINCÓN GALLARDO
Born in 1979, Naomi Rincón Gallardo is a visual artist and researcher currently living and working between Mexico City and Oaxaca. From a decolonial-cuir perspective, her research-driven critical-mythical dreamlike world-makings address the creation of counterworlds in neo-colonial settings. In her work she integrates her interests in theatre games, popular music, Mesoamerican cosmologies, speculative fiction, vernacular festivities and crafts, decolonial feminisms and queer of colour critique. She completed the PhD in Practice Program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She is currently a beneficiary of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, FONCA (2019–2022), Mexico.
Solo exhibitions include: Una trilogía de cuevas (A Trilogy of Caves), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico (2020); May your thunder break the sky, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria (2020); Heavy Blood, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico (2019); Opossum Resilience, Parallel Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico (2019).
Group exhibitions include: Venice Biennale (2022); São Paulo Biennial (2021); Berlin Biennale (2020); Stone Telling, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Vienna, Austria (2019); FEMSA Biennial: We Have Never Been Contemporary, Zacatecas, Mexico (2018); Prometheus: Four Artists From Mexico Revisit Orozco, Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, Claremont, U.S. (2017); Odarodle: An imaginary their_story of naturepeoples, 1535–2017, Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany (2017); Nicaragua Biennial, Managua, Nicaragua (2016).
Performative screenings include: En Cuatro Patas, Pacific Standard Time Festival: LA/LA, The Broad, L.A., U.S. (2018); The Formaldehyde Trip, Performance in Progress, SFMOMA, San Francisco, U.S. (2016).
Text courtesy TKG+ Projects, Taipei
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