Hector Zamora

Education
2000
– Postgraduate Course in Lightweight Structures (structural geometry), UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico (non-enrolled).
1994-1998
– Bachelors Degree in Graphic Design, UAM – X, Mexico City, Mexico.

Solo Exhibitions
2016
– Fundación Rac, Pontevedra, Spain
2015
– Palais de Tokyo – SAM Art projects, Paris, France
– FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France
– Intervention – workshop, Ecole D’Architecture de Nantes, France.
– Kreëmart, Paris, France.
– “Casa Wabi”, Residence program, Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico.
– “Ensayo sobre lo fluido (An essay on flow)”, 12a Bienal de La Habana, Habana, Cuba.
2014
– “Héctor Zamora[documentary videos]” Kunststation Delden/ Het-Loket, Delden, Holland.
2013
– “Protogeometries”, Essay on the Anexact, Labor gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
– “Panglossian Paradigm”, Redcat, Los Angeles, USA.
– “Potencialidades”, Melanie Rio Gallery, Nantes, France.
2012
– “Muegano”, Commissioned by SCAPE Public Art, Christchurch, New Zealand.
– “Architecture + Art”, SMoCA, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.
– “Inconstancia Material”, Luciana Brito gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2011
– “Wasser, Schiene, Straße, Luft” [“Water, rail, road , air”], Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen, Germany.
– “Zeppelin Schärme”, Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen, Germany.
– “White Noise”, Bethells beach – Shed 6 – Elam project-space B431, Auckland Festival, Auckland, New Zealand
– “Offered paradises”, Museo El Eco, México City, Mexico
2010
– “Credibility Crisis”, Project room, Miami Basel, Miami, USA.
– “Cerâmica 6”, Vermelho Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil.
2009
– “NSEONENOSESO”, FEMACO project room, Mexico City, Mexico.
2008
– “De Belg wordt geboren met een baksteen in de maag” [“The Belgian is born with a brick in the stomach”], FLACC, Genk, Belgium.
2007
– “Specular Reflections”, Cerca Series, MCASD, San Diego, USA.
2006
– “Divisiones”, Hotel Condesa DF, Mexico City, Mexico.
2005
– “Líneas de suspensión, ensayo sobre geometría funicular”, Enrique Guerrero Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.
– “Unidad habitacional”, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain.
2004
– “Paracaidista”, Av. Revolución 1608 bis, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico.
2003
– “PNEU”, Garash Gallery, México City, Mexico.
2000
– “a=360º r/R”, Arte in Situ “La Torre de los Vientos”, Mexico City, Mexico.

Group Exhibitions
2015
– “The Third Entity”, Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts, Kurashiki, Japan.
– “Another Part of the new world”, Collection of the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M) of the Regional Government of Madrid and ARCO Collection, Madrid.
– The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia.
– “Between Dissent and Discipline: Art and Public Space”, Film Program, Inter Arts Center Malmö, Malmö, Sweden.
2014
– “13”, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo la Conservera, Ceutí, Spain.
– “Feito por Brasileiros”, Cidade Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Alimentário”, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
– “PER/FROM”, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain.
– “Re-outilne”, Beit HaGefen – a Jewish-Arab Culture Center, Haifa, Israel.
– “We have never participated”, The 8TH Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, Shenzhen, China.
– “Buildering: Misbehaving the City”, Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary, Cincinnati, USA.
2013
– “Mom, Am I Barbarian?”, 13th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey.
– “Blind Field”, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, USA.
2012 – 2013
– “BMW Guggenheim Lab Mumbai”, Guggenheim Foundation, Mumbai, India
2012
– “Gilvan Samico, Paulo Monteiro, Hector Zamora e Eduardo Verderame”, Centro Universitario Maria Antonia, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
– “En Suspensión”, Espai d’Art Contemporari de Castello, Castello, Spain.
– “Centro Abierto”, MALI Museum, Lima, Peru.
– “Resisting the Present”, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, France.
– “About Change”, The World Bank Group, Washington, USA.
2011
– “Performance & Arquitectura, Tabacalera, Madrid, Spain.
– 32o Parorama da Arte Brasileira, Modern Art Museum, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Resisting the Present”, Amparo Museum, Puebla, Mexico.
– “A Terrible Beauty is Born”, 11th Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France.
– “Ustedes Nosotros”, Centro Cultural de Esapaña, Managua, Nicaragua.
– “Disponible”, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA.
– “FGAP@Venice”, Official Collateral Event, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
– “Wasser, Schiene, Strasse, Luft”, Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen, Germany
– “Future Generation Art Prize Exhibition”, Ukraine Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
– “Porque sim”, Millan Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Ustedes Nosotros”, Centro Cultural de España en Guatemala, Guatemala.
– “Suspended Sculptures”, EX3 Contemporary Art Centre, Florence, Italy.
2010
– “The diversity of all and everything possible”, 12th International Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt
– “Disponible”, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA.
– Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine.
– “Margem”, Itaú Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
– “Touched”, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK.
– “A Contemplação do Mundo”, Paralela Exhibition, São Paulo, Brazil.
– “Art and Cities”, Aichi Triennial, Nagoya, Japan.
– “Constante”, La Nueva Babilônia, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico.
– “Mientras sea posible”, Casa de America, Madrid, Spain.
2009
– “LABOR”, Gallery Inaugural Show, Mexico City Mexico.
– Lugares Comunes, Bogota, Colombia.
– “Making Worlds”, 53ª International Exhibition Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.
– “PH Neutro”, Vermelho Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2008
– II Trienal Poli/Gráfica de San Juan: América Latina y el Caribe, Puerto Rico.
– “Quase Líquido”, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil.
2007
– “Viva Mexico”, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland.
– “Positions in Context”, CIFO, grants program 2007 exhibition, Miami, USA.
– Encuentro Internacional Medellín 2007 (MDE07), Medellin, Colombia.
2006
– 27th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
– Busan Biennale 2006, Pusan, South Korea.
– “Sueño de una noche de verano”, Muros Museum, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
– Novena Bienal de la Habana, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba.
– “Frontera. Esbozo para la creación de una sociedad del futuro”, Lacandon Mountain National Park, Guatemala.
– “Desecho”, Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola, Mexico City, Mexico.
2005
– “Dialogues”, Indian International Center, New Delhi, India.
– “Farsites / sitios distantes”, San Diego Museum of Art, Insite05, San Diego, USA.
– “Eco: arte contemporáneo mexicano”, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain.
2003
– “Festival Flama”, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
– “Fission/fusion”, Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington, USA.
2002
– “Item”, Centro Cultural España, Mexico City, Mexico.
2001
– “Con Fulgente Hado”, outdoor program by X – Teresa Museum, Mexico City, Mexico.
1999
– II Bienal de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.

Participations:
2014
– “Seminário Cidade”, Arte e Arquitetura, Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2011
– “Easy Listening Talk”, Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, New Zealand.
– Artists Lecture Program, Museo Experimental EL ECO, Mexico City, Mexico
2009
– Mexican artist lectures program, Museum of Modern Art (MAM), Mexico City, Mexico.
2007
– Lecture at FLACC, Genk, Belgium.
– Conference at 7º Bienal internacional de Arquitetura, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
– “La casa del encuentro lectures program (MDE07)”, Medellín, Colombia.
– TNT Cerca Lectures program, MCASD, San Diego CA, US.
2006
– “IV Foro de expertos en arte contemporáneo”, conference, ARCO 06, Madrid, Spain.
2005
– Mexican contemporary art at the Kültur Büro Barcelona”, lecture, Barcelona, Spain.

Other activities
2001 – 2005
– LSD’s Director– Studio dedicated to develop lightweight structures for architecture, Mexico City, Mexico.

Architecture
2008
– “Cícera”, House remodeling project Minas Gerais 364, São Paulo, Brazil.
2007
– “Traction – Flexion”, Lightweight shadow structures, Commission project for the artist Gabriel Orozco, Roca Blanca, Oaxaca, Mexico.
2005
– “Starry night”, Lightweight shadow structures, Commission project for Punta Cancun Apartments, Punta Cancun, Mexico.
2004
– “Waves”, Lightweight shadow structures, Commission project for private house, Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico.
– “Nestle booth”, Inflatable penetrable structure, Commission project for Nestle, Monterrey, Mexico.
2002
– “Masaryk 275”, Lightweight shadow structure, Commission project for business building, Mexico City, Mexico.
2001
– “Swimming pool bar”, Lightweight shadow structure, Commission project for private house, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.

Grants
2011
– Graham Foundation, Architecture + Art: H.ctor Zamora Solo Exhibition fall 2012, SMoCA, Scottsdale, USA.
2010
– Programa Brasil Arte Contemporânea, Sao Paulo Bienal Foundation, International Exhibition award, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2009
– Gran Centenario Emerging Artist Award, Cuervo Foundation, FEMACO, Mexico City, Mexico.
– The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture (GCCC Moscow) sponsorship for the 53rd Biennale di Venezia project.
2007
– The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc.
2006
– CIFO Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation
– Jumex Collection Foundation
2003
– BBVA Bancomer Foundation

Collections
Public
– Frac pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France.
– Hirshhorn collection, Washington, United States.
Private
– Zeppelin Museum Collection, Friedrichshafen, Germany.
– Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey Arter, Istanbul Turkey.
– Chartwell Collection, Auckland, New Zealand.
– Jumex Collection Foundation, Mexico City.
– AXA Collection, Mexico City.

Books
– Inconstancia Material – Hector Zamora, Luciana Brito, 2012.
– Paracaidista, av. Revolucion 1608 bis / intervencion de Hector Zamora, 2007.