John Espinosa
Born in Bogota, Colombia
Lives in Los Angeles, California
Education:
MFA: 2001 Yale University School of Art, Sculpture [New Haven]
BFA: 1998 New World School of the Arts [Miami, Florida]
One Person Exhibitions:
2008 Dead Reckoning Sandroni Rey (Project space), Los Angeles
2007 Odd Sympathy Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles
2006 John Espinosa Fredric Snitzer, Miami
2004 Standing Still While We Move Across Land Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
2003 Stump Hallucination Rare, NY
2001 Saving the World [video project space] Sara Meltzer, NY
1999 Fantastic Adventures Fredric Snitzer, Miami
Group Exhibitions:
2010
You can heal your life Circus LA (curated by Emma Gray)
2009
Xtra Xtra (group project organized by Jed Caesar) China Art Objects LA
Group Show Circus LA
2008
Human Resources The Company LA
Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition Sandroni Rey LA
Zero Zone Tracy Williams Ltd. NY [cur: David Hunt]
Manmade Claremont University, Claremont [cur: Daneva Dansby]
Pivot Points II: New Mythologies Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami [cur: Bonnie Clearwater]
LatinoLatino, Palazzo della Vicaria, Italy [cur: Raffaella Guidobono]
2007
Confluence: a collaboration (with Jiae Hwang) Fredric Snitzer, Miami
M*A*S*H The Helena New York [cur: Omar Lopez Chahoud]
2006
The Aleph Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles [cur: Nu Nguyen]
2005
All the Pretty Corpses Renaissance Society at UNC Chicago [cur: Hamza Walker]
MOCA and Miami Museum of Contemporary Art [cur: Bonnie Clearwater]
NWSA Alumni New World School of Arts, Miami [cur: Natalia Bennedetti]
Little Odysseys Marianne Boesky, New York [cur: Nicelle Beauchene]
O’ The Games We Play Fredric Snitzer, Miami [cur: Tyler Emerson]
2004
Incantations Metro Pictures, NY [cur: N Beauchene/ K Henricksen]
Miami Nice Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris [cur: George Lindemann]
Anacapa: The changing landscape Nathan Larramendy, Ojai
Axxxpresssunizm [cur: John Russell]
Vilma Gold, London
Alice Day, Brussels
2003
Animal Magnetism The Exploratorium, SF [cur: Pam Winfrey]
Deserted High Desert Test Sites II Joshua Tree [cur: Martha Otero]
Draw! Draw! Draw! Fredric Snitzer, Miami
Florida Focus Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Key Largo [cur: Denise Gerson]
Between Art and Life Miami Art Museum [cur: Peter Boswell]
Paradise City SaltWorks, Atlanta
2002
Champion Zinc, Stockholm [cur: Sheldon Lapierre]
Interplay [cur: Patrick Charpanel/ Silvia Karman-Cubina]
San Juan Museum of Art
The Moore Space, Miami
Out of the ground into the sky/Out of the sky into the ground [cur: Jeff Kopp / David Kordansky]
Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles
Pond, San Francisco
Altoids Curiously Strong Collection
New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA
Southern Exposure, SF
2001
NeverNever Land [cur: Omar Lopez-Chahoud]
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampa
Florida Atlantic University South Florida
It doesn’t matter if it’s true as long as they believe it [cur: William Cordova]
NFA Space, Chicago
Humid The Moore Space, Miami Design District [cur: Dominic Malon]
MFA Thesis, Yale University School of Art Gallery, New Haven
Globe>Miami<Island Bass Museum, Miami [cur: Robert Chambers]
The Miami Connection Bluestar Artspace, San Antonio [cur: Nate Cassie]
Wattage and Friendship Muller/DeChiara, Berlin [cur: David Hunt]
2000
Publikulture Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art [cur: Ginger Gregg]
Travels in Hyperreality MOCA, Miami [cur: Bonnie Clearwater]
Young Miami Wooster Projects, NY
Whipper Snapper Kavi Gupta (Vedanta), Chicago
Mount Miami Tel Aviv Artist Studios, Tel Aviv [cur: Tami Kats-Freiman]
Fx Audiello Fine Art, New York, NY
Departing Perspectives Espirito Santo Building Miami [cur: Fred Snitzer]
Sarasota Biennial Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota [cur: Mark Ormond]
1999
Present/Absent [cur: Pablo Calvacanti]
Imperial Palace, Rio de Janeiro
Miami International Airport Gallery, Miami
Hot Spots: LA, Houston and Miami [cur: Goran Tomcic]
Weatherspoon Gallery at UNC
Pittsburgh Center for Fine Arts, Pittsburgh
1998
2x2 Ground Level, Miami Beach
1997
Invasion of Privacy Ground Level, Miami Beach
Museum Collections:
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York [Altoids Collection]
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY [Special Collections: Mulhall Library]
Miami Art Museum, Miami
Awards:
2007 Los Angeles County Durfee Foundation ARC Grant
2003 Los Angeles County Durfee Foundation ARC Grant
1998 Nations Bank Visual Arts Endowment
1995 to 1997 Frances Wolfson Scholarship Award
Catalogues/Brochures:
MOCA and Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami [Bonnie Clearwater]
Interplay The Moore Space, Miami [Silvia Karman Cubina and Patrick Charpanel]
Wattage and Friendship Muller DeChiara, Berlin [David Hunt]
Travels in Hyperreality MOCA, Miami [Bonnie Clearwater and Gean Moreno]
Young Miami Wooster Projects, NY [Amy Cappellazzo]
The Present Absent Miami International Airport [Kate Rawlinson]
Mt. Miami Tel Aviv Artist Studios, Tel Aviv [Tami Katz-Freiman]
Invasion of Privacy South Florida Art Center, Miami [Caren Rabbino]
Humid The Moore Space, Miami [Dominic Malon ]
Hot Spots Weatherspoon Gallery at UNC [Goran Tomcic]
Manmade Claremont Graduate University [Daneva Dansby]
Press:
Artillery You can heal your life Eve Wood [March/April 2010]
LA Weekly You can heal your life David Cotner [January 6, 2010]
Fabrik The Company [December 2008]
The New Yorker Zero Zone [August 2008]
ArtScene LA John Espinosa: Odd Sympathy [September 2007]
Saatchi Online Top 10 shows in LA Emma Gray [September 2007]
Conde Nast Insiders Guide to LA [September 2007]
Artnet LA Confidential Emma Gray [June 22, 2006]
Art US Renaissance Society Michelle Grabner [March/April 2006]
New York Times Art in Review Roberta Smith [August 19, 2005]
New Yorker Little Odysseys at Marianne Boesky [August 15, 2005]
TimeOut Chicago Annette Ferrara [Dec 8-14, 2005]
Contemporary Art Gean Moreno [January 2005]
Miami Herald Carlos Suarez de Jesus [Dec 24, 2004]
S FL. News and Views The Good Life Michael Sasser [Dec 3, 2004]
Miami Herald Anne Tschida [Nov 28, 2004]
Miami New Times Game in Lights Chris DeAngelis [Nov 25, 2004]
New York Times Art in Review Ken Johnson [July 16, 2004]
Village Voice Voice Choices [July 14, 2004]
Miami Herald Between Art and Life Manuel Alvarez Bravo [Feb 1, 2004]
Arte al Dia Milagros Bello [December 2003]
Miami Herald Made in Miami Elisa Turner [Aug 10, 2003]
Creative Loafing Atlanta Felicia Feaster [May 14, 2003]
Street The whole world in their hands Damarys Ocaña [Feb 21, 2003]
Sculpture Magazine Anne Barclay Morgan [January 2002]
Street Mint Condition Damarys Ocaña [June 1, 2002]
Rocket Journal of Arts Out of the Box Paul Parcellin [April 2002]
Boston Herald Curious and Strong Mary Sherman [March 26, 2002]
Art Papers NeverNeverland Gene Moreno [May/June 2001]
Art Papers Humid Damarys Ocaña [April 2001]
New Times Room for Living Alfredo Triff [April 10, 2001]
FGA #7 Miami Artist at NFA Space Pedro Velez [April 5, 2001]
Miami Herald Publikulture Elisa Turner [March 11, 2001]
New Yorker Altoids Collection [Feb 18, 2001]
Art and Auction Miami Heat Elisa Turner [January 2001]
New Times - Palm Beach Hyperreal Life Michael Mills [January 11, 2001]
NewTimes The Hyperreality of it all Alfredo Triff [January 4, 2001]
Miami Herald For the sake of artifice Elisa Turner [Dec 20, 2000]
St. Petersburg Times Art of the state Mary Ann Marger [Sep 3, 2000]
Chicago Sun Times Margaret Hawkins [Aug 11, 2000]
NY Arts Young Miami Gary Turner [July/August 2000]
New Yorker Boys will be boys [May 20 -27, 2000]
Jerusalem Post New Art in Miamiland Angela Levine [April 28, 2000]
Art in America Report from Miami Roni Feinstein [November 1999]
Art Papers Fantastic Adventures Gean Moreno [Sep/Oct 1999]
Jornal do Brazil Tudo em seu lugar Denise Schiettine [Sept 9, 1999]
Pittsburgh Post Graham Shearing [July 22, 1999]
Miami Herald Surreal exhibit Elisa Turner [June 20, 1999]
Winston Salem Journal Hot Spot Tom Patterson [April 18, 1999]
Miami Herald 2x2 Elisa Turner [Sept 18, 1998]
New Times Night and Day [Aug 20, 1998]
Miami Herald Cultural Boost for S.Florida Gail Meadows [Jan 4, 1998]
Miami Herald Watching out for todays watchers. Elisa Turner [Aug 8, 1997]
Born in Bogota, Colombia
Lives in Los Angeles, California
Education:
MFA: 2001 Yale University School of Art, Sculpture [New Haven]
BFA: 1998 New World School of the Arts [Miami, Florida]
One Person Exhibitions:
2008 Dead Reckoning Sandroni Rey (Project space), Los Angeles
2007 Odd Sympathy Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles
2006 John Espinosa Fredric Snitzer, Miami
2004 Standing Still While We Move Across Land Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
2003 Stump Hallucination Rare, NY
2001 Saving the World [video project space] Sara Meltzer, NY
1999 Fantastic Adventures Fredric Snitzer, Miami
Group Exhibitions:
2010
You can heal your life Circus LA (curated by Emma Gray)
2009
Xtra Xtra (group project organized by Jed Caesar) China Art Objects LA
Group Show Circus LA
2008
Human Resources The Company LA
Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition Sandroni Rey LA
Zero Zone Tracy Williams Ltd. NY [cur: David Hunt]
Manmade Claremont University, Claremont [cur: Daneva Dansby]
Pivot Points II: New Mythologies Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami [cur: Bonnie Clearwater]
LatinoLatino, Palazzo della Vicaria, Italy [cur: Raffaella Guidobono]
2007
Confluence: a collaboration (with Jiae Hwang) Fredric Snitzer, Miami
M*A*S*H The Helena New York [cur: Omar Lopez Chahoud]
2006
The Aleph Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles [cur: Nu Nguyen]
2005
All the Pretty Corpses Renaissance Society at UNC Chicago [cur: Hamza Walker]
MOCA and Miami Museum of Contemporary Art [cur: Bonnie Clearwater]
NWSA Alumni New World School of Arts, Miami [cur: Natalia Bennedetti]
Little Odysseys Marianne Boesky, New York [cur: Nicelle Beauchene]
O’ The Games We Play Fredric Snitzer, Miami [cur: Tyler Emerson]
2004
Incantations Metro Pictures, NY [cur: N Beauchene/ K Henricksen]
Miami Nice Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris [cur: George Lindemann]
Anacapa: The changing landscape Nathan Larramendy, Ojai
Axxxpresssunizm [cur: John Russell]
Vilma Gold, London
Alice Day, Brussels
2003
Animal Magnetism The Exploratorium, SF [cur: Pam Winfrey]
Deserted High Desert Test Sites II Joshua Tree [cur: Martha Otero]
Draw! Draw! Draw! Fredric Snitzer, Miami
Florida Focus Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Key Largo [cur: Denise Gerson]
Between Art and Life Miami Art Museum [cur: Peter Boswell]
Paradise City SaltWorks, Atlanta
2002
Champion Zinc, Stockholm [cur: Sheldon Lapierre]
Interplay [cur: Patrick Charpanel/ Silvia Karman-Cubina]
San Juan Museum of Art
The Moore Space, Miami
Out of the ground into the sky/Out of the sky into the ground [cur: Jeff Kopp / David Kordansky]
Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles
Pond, San Francisco
Altoids Curiously Strong Collection
New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA
Southern Exposure, SF
2001
NeverNever Land [cur: Omar Lopez-Chahoud]
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampa
Florida Atlantic University South Florida
It doesn’t matter if it’s true as long as they believe it [cur: William Cordova]
NFA Space, Chicago
Humid The Moore Space, Miami Design District [cur: Dominic Malon]
MFA Thesis, Yale University School of Art Gallery, New Haven
Globe>Miami<Island Bass Museum, Miami [cur: Robert Chambers]
The Miami Connection Bluestar Artspace, San Antonio [cur: Nate Cassie]
Wattage and Friendship Muller/DeChiara, Berlin [cur: David Hunt]
2000
Publikulture Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art [cur: Ginger Gregg]
Travels in Hyperreality MOCA, Miami [cur: Bonnie Clearwater]
Young Miami Wooster Projects, NY
Whipper Snapper Kavi Gupta (Vedanta), Chicago
Mount Miami Tel Aviv Artist Studios, Tel Aviv [cur: Tami Kats-Freiman]
Fx Audiello Fine Art, New York, NY
Departing Perspectives Espirito Santo Building Miami [cur: Fred Snitzer]
Sarasota Biennial Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota [cur: Mark Ormond]
1999
Present/Absent [cur: Pablo Calvacanti]
Imperial Palace, Rio de Janeiro
Miami International Airport Gallery, Miami
Hot Spots: LA, Houston and Miami [cur: Goran Tomcic]
Weatherspoon Gallery at UNC
Pittsburgh Center for Fine Arts, Pittsburgh
1998
2x2 Ground Level, Miami Beach
1997
Invasion of Privacy Ground Level, Miami Beach
Museum Collections:
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York [Altoids Collection]
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY [Special Collections: Mulhall Library]
Miami Art Museum, Miami
Awards:
2007 Los Angeles County Durfee Foundation ARC Grant
2003 Los Angeles County Durfee Foundation ARC Grant
1998 Nations Bank Visual Arts Endowment
1995 to 1997 Frances Wolfson Scholarship Award
Catalogues/Brochures:
MOCA and Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami [Bonnie Clearwater]
Interplay The Moore Space, Miami [Silvia Karman Cubina and Patrick Charpanel]
Wattage and Friendship Muller DeChiara, Berlin [David Hunt]
Travels in Hyperreality MOCA, Miami [Bonnie Clearwater and Gean Moreno]
Young Miami Wooster Projects, NY [Amy Cappellazzo]
The Present Absent Miami International Airport [Kate Rawlinson]
Mt. Miami Tel Aviv Artist Studios, Tel Aviv [Tami Katz-Freiman]
Invasion of Privacy South Florida Art Center, Miami [Caren Rabbino]
Humid The Moore Space, Miami [Dominic Malon ]
Hot Spots Weatherspoon Gallery at UNC [Goran Tomcic]
Manmade Claremont Graduate University [Daneva Dansby]
Press:
Artillery You can heal your life Eve Wood [March/April 2010]
LA Weekly You can heal your life David Cotner [January 6, 2010]
Fabrik The Company [December 2008]
The New Yorker Zero Zone [August 2008]
ArtScene LA John Espinosa: Odd Sympathy [September 2007]
Saatchi Online Top 10 shows in LA Emma Gray [September 2007]
Conde Nast Insiders Guide to LA [September 2007]
Artnet LA Confidential Emma Gray [June 22, 2006]
Art US Renaissance Society Michelle Grabner [March/April 2006]
New York Times Art in Review Roberta Smith [August 19, 2005]
New Yorker Little Odysseys at Marianne Boesky [August 15, 2005]
TimeOut Chicago Annette Ferrara [Dec 8-14, 2005]
Contemporary Art Gean Moreno [January 2005]
Miami Herald Carlos Suarez de Jesus [Dec 24, 2004]
S FL. News and Views The Good Life Michael Sasser [Dec 3, 2004]
Miami Herald Anne Tschida [Nov 28, 2004]
Miami New Times Game in Lights Chris DeAngelis [Nov 25, 2004]
New York Times Art in Review Ken Johnson [July 16, 2004]
Village Voice Voice Choices [July 14, 2004]
Miami Herald Between Art and Life Manuel Alvarez Bravo [Feb 1, 2004]
Arte al Dia Milagros Bello [December 2003]
Miami Herald Made in Miami Elisa Turner [Aug 10, 2003]
Creative Loafing Atlanta Felicia Feaster [May 14, 2003]
Street The whole world in their hands Damarys Ocaña [Feb 21, 2003]
Sculpture Magazine Anne Barclay Morgan [January 2002]
Street Mint Condition Damarys Ocaña [June 1, 2002]
Rocket Journal of Arts Out of the Box Paul Parcellin [April 2002]
Boston Herald Curious and Strong Mary Sherman [March 26, 2002]
Art Papers NeverNeverland Gene Moreno [May/June 2001]
Art Papers Humid Damarys Ocaña [April 2001]
New Times Room for Living Alfredo Triff [April 10, 2001]
FGA #7 Miami Artist at NFA Space Pedro Velez [April 5, 2001]
Miami Herald Publikulture Elisa Turner [March 11, 2001]
New Yorker Altoids Collection [Feb 18, 2001]
Art and Auction Miami Heat Elisa Turner [January 2001]
New Times - Palm Beach Hyperreal Life Michael Mills [January 11, 2001]
NewTimes The Hyperreality of it all Alfredo Triff [January 4, 2001]
Miami Herald For the sake of artifice Elisa Turner [Dec 20, 2000]
St. Petersburg Times Art of the state Mary Ann Marger [Sep 3, 2000]
Chicago Sun Times Margaret Hawkins [Aug 11, 2000]
NY Arts Young Miami Gary Turner [July/August 2000]
New Yorker Boys will be boys [May 20 -27, 2000]
Jerusalem Post New Art in Miamiland Angela Levine [April 28, 2000]
Art in America Report from Miami Roni Feinstein [November 1999]
Art Papers Fantastic Adventures Gean Moreno [Sep/Oct 1999]
Jornal do Brazil Tudo em seu lugar Denise Schiettine [Sept 9, 1999]
Pittsburgh Post Graham Shearing [July 22, 1999]
Miami Herald Surreal exhibit Elisa Turner [June 20, 1999]
Winston Salem Journal Hot Spot Tom Patterson [April 18, 1999]
Miami Herald 2x2 Elisa Turner [Sept 18, 1998]
New Times Night and Day [Aug 20, 1998]
Miami Herald Cultural Boost for S.Florida Gail Meadows [Jan 4, 1998]
Miami Herald Watching out for todays watchers. Elisa Turner [Aug 8, 1997]
