Awards and Grants

2006

Hugo Boss Prize Shortlist

Nam June Paik Award Shortlist

2004

Gwangju Biennale Prize, Gwangju, Korea

2003

Penny McCall Foundation Grant, New York

2002

Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, New Orleans, Louisiana

Education

Jennifer Allora

2001-2003

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MS), Cambridge, MA

2000-2003

Bard College,(MFA) Anandale-on-Hudson, NY

1998-1999

Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY

1996

University of Richmond (BA), Richmond, VA

Escuela de Artes Plásticas (BFA), San Juan, PR

Guillermo Calzadilla

Residencies and Fellowships

2008

DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Austauschdienst, Berlin

2006

Couvent des Récollets, Residence des Récollets, Paris

2004

Walker Art Center Artist in Residence Program, Minneapolis

Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, Umbertide, Italy

Headlands Center for the Arts Bridge Residency Program, Sausalito, California

2000-2001

Cintas Fellowship

1998-1999

P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Center National Studio Program, New York

Solo Exhibitions

2013

“Fault Lines” Palazzo Cusani, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan

“Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla,” Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

2012

“Body in Flight (Delta),” and “Vieques Series,” Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis

2011

“Vieques Videos 2003-2011,” Lisson Gallery, London

“GLORIA,” U.S. Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

“A Man Screaming is not a Dancing Bear,” Weatherspoon Art Museum,  Greensboro, North Carolina

2010

“Compass,” Kurimanzutto, Mexico City

“Allora & Calzadilla,” Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

“Number Three: Here And Now,” The Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany 

2009

“RETHINK Relations,” Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

“Stop, Repair, Prepare,” Gladstone Gallery, New York

“Allora & Calzadilla,” Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany

“Allora & Calzadilla: How to Appear Invisible,” Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin

“Allora & Calzadilla,” National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo

2008

“Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on ‘Ode to Joy’ for a Prepared Piano,” Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany [traveled to: Gladstone Gallery, New York (2009), Museum of

Modern Art, New York (2010), Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (2011)]

“Wake Up, Clamor, Sediments, Sentiments,” Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany

“Allora & Calzadilla,” Galerie Franco Soffiantino, Turin, Italy

“Never Mind That Noise You Heard,” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

2007

“Sediments, Sentiments (Figures of Speech),” San Francisco Art Institute,

San Francisco, California

“Whitechapel Laboratory: Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla,” Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

“Allora & Calzadilla,” Lisson Gallery, London

“Allora & Calzadilla,” Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

“Clamor,” Serpentine Gallery, London

“Wake Up,” The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago

“Unrealizable Goals,” Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan

2006

“Clamor,” The Moore Space, Miami

“Concentrations 50: Allora & Calzadilla,” Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas

“Combine Platter,” Screening event, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

“Land Mark,” Palais de Tokyo, Paris

“(En)tropics,” Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

“Allora & Calzadilla,” Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium

2005

“Download,” Art Positions: ArtBasel Miami Beach, Miami 

2004

“Unstable Atmospheres,” Lisson Gallery, London                

”Ciclonismo,” Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

“Chalk,” 7th Annual ICA/Vita Brevis Project, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

“Radio Revolt: One Person, One Watt,” Artist in Residence Project, Walker Art

Center, Minneapolis

2003

“Land Mark,” Escuela de Artes Plásticas, San Juan

“Puerto Rican Light,” Americas Society, New York

2002

“Allora & Calzadilla,” Institute of Visual Arts at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

2001

“Allora & Calzadilla,” Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce, Puerto Rico

2000

“Other Worlds,” Project Rooms, ARCOmadrid, Madrid

Group Exhibitions

2013

“Performance Now,” H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas [travels to Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Connectitcut; Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, (2014); Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, (2014)]

“30th Biennial of Graphic Arts,” Ljubljana, Slovenia

“Being an Island,” daadgalerie, Berlin

“Animate/Inanimate,” TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, Australia

“DLA Piper Series: Constellations,” Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom

“Far from the Madding Crowd,” Bonnefanten Hedge House, Wijlre, Netherlands

“Arca lui Noe / Noah’s Ark / L’arche de Noé,” Fabrica de Pensule / The Paintbrush Factory, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

“If you were to live here… The 5th Auckland Triennial,” Auckland, New Zealand

“13 Rooms,” Kaldor Public Art Projects, Sydney

“I’m dreaming about a reality,” La Douane - Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

“When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes: A Restoration / A Remake / A Rejuvenation / A Rebellion,” CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California

“More Love: Art, Politics, and Sharing since the 1990s,” Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [travels to: Cheekwood, Nashville (2014)]

"The Past is Present," Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit

“NeMe 9th Mercosul Biennial,” Porto Alegre, Brazil

2012

“KADIST: Pathways into a Collection,” Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China

“Documenta 13,” Kassel, Germany

“DOGMA,” Metro Pictures, New York

“Fourth Plinth: Contemporary Monument,” ICA, London

“Life in your head,” CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California [traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (2013)]

2011

“Living as Form,” Creative Time, New York  

“11 Rooms,” Manchester International Festival, Manchester, England

“El Grito,” Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Leon, Spain

2010

“4th Plinth Commission,” The 2010 shortlist exhibition, The Foyer, St Martin-in-the-Field, Trafalgar Square, London

29th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo

“Adaptation: Between Species,” The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada

“Nobody's Property: Art, Land, Space, 2000-2010,” Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey 

“Restless Empathy,” Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado

“Autoconstruccion (self-construction),” Kurimanzutto, Mexico City

“Art, Media and Material Witness: Contemporary Art from the Harn Museum of Art,” 

Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

2009

“Number Three: Here and Now,” The Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany

“Free as Air and Water,” Cooper Union Gallery, New York

“Rotating Views #1,” Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo

“Un Certain Etat du Monde?,” Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow

“Private Univeres: Media Works,” Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas

“Wake Up, Please,” Le Quartier, Centre d’art contemporain de Quimper, Quimper, France

“Art TLV 09,” Tel Aviv, Israel 

2008

“Prospect.1 New Orleans,” New Orleans, Louisiana

"Quiet Politics," Zwirner & Wirth, New York

"Perplexed in Public," Lisson Gallery, London

“Peripheral Vision and Collective Body,” Museo d’arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy

"After Nature," New Museum, New York

“Viva la muerte,” Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

“Las Implicaciones de la Imagen (The implications of image),” Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City

“Field Work – part 1,” Smart Project Space, Amsterdam

“OPEN/INVITED E V+ A 2008,” eva International Biennial of Visual Art, Limerick City, Ireland

“Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art,” Barbican, London

“Greenwashing,” Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

“Collection Videos & Films Jean-Conrad & Isabelle Lemaitre,” Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

2007

“For Sale,” Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon

“00’s THE HISTORY OF A DECADE THAT HAS yet BEEN NAMED,” 9th Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France

“Only Necessary but Possible, Optimism in the Age of Global War,” 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul

“All about Laughter,” Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

“Depiction, Perversion, Repulsion, Obsession, Subversion,” Witte de With, Rotterdam, Holland

"Video Trajectories: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection and the New Art Trust,” List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts

“Apocalypse Now,” CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California

“Global Multitude,” Rotunda 1, Luxembourg

6th Mercosul Biennale, Porto Alegre, Brazil

“Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art,” Brooklyn Museum, New York

“Still Life: Art, Ecology & the Politics of Change,” 8th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

"Otra De Vaqueros," Bâtiment d'art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

“Cosmologies,” James Cohan, New York

“Otra De Vaqueros,” Centre d’édition contemporaine, New York

“Après la pluie,” Musée départmental d'art contemporain, Rochechouart, France

2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow

3rd Valencia Biennial, Valencia, Spain

2006

“Empathic,” Temple Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia

“Beyond the Museum,” Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin

Busan Biennale 2006, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea

“Ecotopia: The 2nd ICP Triennial of Photography and Video,” International Center for Photography, New York

International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Amsterdam

“Une Vision du Monde,” La Maison Rouge, Paris

“Artificial Light,” Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia [traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami]

“Report (Not Announcement),” Basis voor Actuele Kunst, Utrecht, The Netherlands

“Group Therapy,” Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy

Nam June Paik Award 2006, Museum of Applied Arts, Cologne, Germany

“Home of the Free,” Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago

1st Canary Islands Biennial, The Canary Islands

“Estrecho Dudoso,” San Jose, Costa Rica

“Zone of Risk – Transition,” 3rd Bishkek International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Kyrgyzstan

“Territory,” Artspeak/Presentation House, Vancouver, British Columbia

2éme Festival Photo et Vidéo de Biarritz, Biarritz, France

“La Force de L’art,” Grand Palais, Paris

“Wrong,” Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin

“Other Than Art,” Provisions Library, Washington, D.C.

“Day for Night,” Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 

2005

“Beyond Green: Towards a Sustainable Art,” David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago [traveled to nine U.S. Museums in 2006 and 2007]

“Les Visiteurs,” Chateau d’Oiron, Oiron, France

International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Amsterdam

“Ralentir Vite,” Le Plateau/FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris

“Videographias In(Visibles),” Museo Patio Herreriano de Arte Contemporaneo

Espanol, Valladolid, Spain

“Drivin,” Exposition Frac-Collection Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France

2nd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Loop 05 La 3ème, Barcelona, Spain

“T – Torinotriennale tremuse: The Pantagruel Syndrome,” Castello di Rivoli Museo

d’Arte Contemporanea, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

“Poesia in Forma di Rosa: Tribute to Pasolini,” Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monfalcone, Italy

“Uncertain States of America,” Astrup Fearnley Museum of Museum Art, Oslo [traveled to: Bard Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, Anandale-on-Hudson, New York]

Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France

“inSITE­_05,” San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico

“The Gesture: A Visual Library in Progress,” Macedonian Museum Of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

“Tropical Abstraction,” Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam

51st International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy

“That From a Long Way off Looks Like Flies,” Platform Garantí Contemporary Arts
Center, Istanbul

“The Mind is a Horse (Part 2),” Bloomberg Space, London

“Material Time/Work Time/Life Time,” Reykjavik Arts Festival, Reykjavik

“Land Marks,” Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

“Monuments for the USA,” CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco

“Dedicated to you, but you weren't listening,” Power Plant, Toronto, Canada

“e-Flux Video Rental,” KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

“No Convenient Subway Stops,” Art in General, New York

“Contemporaneo Liquido,” Franco Soffiantino Gallery, Turin, Italy

1st Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art “Dialectics of Hope,” Moscow

“Utopia Station,” World Social Forum, São Paulo, Brazil

“I Love Art Vidéo,” Le Forum Itinérant, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de

Strasbourg, Germany

“Irreducible: Contemporary Short Form Video,” CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco

2004

Triennal Poli/grafica de San Juan, San Juan

“Island Nations,” Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence

“Gwangju Biennale: A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water,” Gwangju, Korea

“PARA SITES. When Space Comes Into Play,” Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung

Ludwig Wien, Vienna

Dakar Biennial: Le Monde: Dak’Art 2004, Dakar, Senegal

“None of the Above,” Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut

“Son et Lumiere,” List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts

“Ailleurs/Ici” Musee D’Art Moderne de La Ville De Paris, Arc Au Couvent Des

Cordeliers, Paris

“Situations construites,” Attitudes, Espace d’art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

2003

“Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self,” International Center of

Photography, New York

“Common Wealth,” Tate Modern, London

“Away From Home,” Wexner Center for The Arts, Columbus

“How Latitudes Become Forms,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis [traveled to: Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Contemporary Arts Center, Houston, Texas]

“24/7,” Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, Vilnius

“Institution2,” Kiasma, Helsinki, in collaboration with Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, Vilnius

2002

“Interplay,” The Moore Building, Miami

“Fair,” Royal College of Art, London

Ibero-American Biennial, Lima

“Bird’s Eye View,” The Arch at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York

2001

“Zoning,” The Project, New York

2000

7th Havana Biennial, Havana  

“Puerto Rico 00 (Parentesis en la ‘Ciudad’),” San Juan

“S-Files,” El Museo del Barrio, New York

“Distinctions,” Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, New York [traveled to: Berrie Center for the Arts, Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey]

“Puerto Rico Hoy,” Instituto de America, Santa Fe

1999

“1999,” P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York

1998

24th Sao Paulo Biennial, São Paulo [language]

“Caribe: Exclusión, Fragmentación, y Paraiso,” Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain [traveled to: Casa Las Americas, Madrid]

Jennifer Allora 

(b. 1974, Philadelphia, USA)      

Guillermo Calzadilla 

(b. 1971, Havana, Cuba)