CARLOS ROLÓN/DZINE

 

EDUCATION

1989

Briefly studied at Columbia College, Chicago

2011

Kraus Visiting Professor of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS

2014

New Work, Walter Otero Contemporary, San Juan

Trophy Room, COLLABORATIONS, Art Cologne Invitational, Salon 94 and Galerie Henrik Springmann, Cologne, Germany

Thinking of Forever, Leeahn Gallery, Seoul

Dzine: Born Carlos Rolón, 1970, Paul Kasmin Gallery and Salon 94, New York

2013

Victory, Public Functionary, MinneapolisVictory, The Dallas Contemporary, Dallas

2012

Imperial Nail Salon, Galerie Henrik Springmann, Berlin

Phenomenon, Deptford X, London (Curated by Hew Locke and Indra Khanna)

La Pelanda – Centro Di Produzione Culturale, Installation and performance, Rome

2011

Imperial Nail Salon, Salon 94, New York

Get Nailed at the New Museum, performance, installation, New Museum, New York

Zeniths and Daytons, Galerie Zidoun, Luxembourg

2010

Voodoo, Leo Koenig Projekte, New York

Voodoo, Krinzinger Projekte, ViennaPosse, Flint Institute of Arts (fleckenstein video gallery), Michigan

2009

Bass Museum of Art, MiamiLove & Loyalty, Leeahn Gallery, Daegu, Korea

2008

The Beautiful Struggle, Deitch Projects, New York

Emily Murphy Contemporary, Madrid, Spain

Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois

2007

Contemporary Arts Society, RomeMuseum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands

2006

Stealing Dreams, SCAI The Bathhouse/Shiraishi Contemporary, Tokyo

Somewhere over the Rainbow, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago

Museo del Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan (catalogue.)

Just Kidding, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom

2005

Punk Funk, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (catalogue)

2004

Staring at the Sun, moniquemeloche, Chicago

Gangster Boogie, Palais de Tokyo, ParisIllinois State Museum Gallery, Chicago (Traveled to University of Missouri – Gallery 210, St. Louis & Illinois State Museum, Lockport, Illinois )

Equal Gallery, Osaka, Japan (catalogue.)

Beautiful Things, SCAI The Bathhouse/Shiraishi Contemporary, Tokyo

Project Invitational, ARCO ‘04-International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid

2003

Alley Oop, Institute of Visual Art Center (inova), MilwaukeeTokyo Boogie, University of Alabama Visual Arts Gallery, Birmingham Alabama

2002

Beat Junkie, Chop Shop, moniquemeloche gallery, ChicagoSampler, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS/PROJECTS

2014

Booster – Art Sound Machine, MARTA Herford, Herford, Germany

Tradiciones, Rockford Art Museum, Illinois

2013

The concept of Baroque in Contemporary Art, Galerie Henrik Springmann, Berlin (curated by Dr. Sabine Maria Schmidt)

In God We Trust, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw

Homebodies, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Vial, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan

On Painting, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

2012

IN/SITU, EXPO CHICAGO, ChicagoThe Haberdashery, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, New York

Interconnections, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan

2011

Experience Pommery #9 (La Fabrique sonore), curated by Claire Staebler and Charles Carcopino, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France

Write Now: Artists and Letterforms, Chicago Cultural Center

Commercial Break, curated by Neville Wakefield, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture and POST, 54th Venice Biennale, Italy

Geared: The Culture of Bicycles, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Idaho

VOCES Y VISIONES: Signs, Systems and the City in El Museo del Barrio’s Permanent Collection, El Museo del Barrio, New York

2010

Legal Tender, Martha Otero Gallery, Los Angeles

Living in Evolution, Busan Biennale, curated by Takashi Azumaya, Busan

Viva La Revolucion: A Dialogue with the Urban Landscape, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

(I Can) Feel the Pulse, MAMA, Rotterdam

2009

Stages, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris(Traveled to Deitch Projects, New York, and O.H.W.O.W, Miami)

2008

Not So Minimal, Collection Vanmoerkerke, Oostende, Belgium

2007

Barrio Dreams, Deitch Projects, Art Basel Miami Beach 2007, Miami, FL

A Poem about an Inland Sea, Ukrainian Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale

Carribean Encounters, Brooklyn Museum, New York

Simply Beautiful, LABoral, Gijon, SpainGenerations U(s)A, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev

Public Image, Painting the City, Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, Netherlands

2006

Spank the Monkey, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom

New Territories: On Youth Culture, Carla Arocha and Dzine, ARCO ’06, Madrid, Spain

Observatori, Museo de la Ciencias Principe Felipe, Valencia

2005

Lost in Music, Nerman Museum of Art/JCCC, Overland Park, Kansas

2004

None of the Above: Contemporary Work by Puerto Rican Artists, Real Art Ways, Hartford (traveled to Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan)

Stop & Stor: new painters, LUXE Gallery, New York

2003

Painting by Design, Wayne State University Gallery, Detroit

Sk8 on the Wall, Parco Gallery, Tokyo

 

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Instituto Buena Bista, Curacao Centre For Contemporary Art, Netherlands Antilles

Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom

City of Chicago Sister Cities Program, The National Museum, Nairobi, Kenya

 

GRANTS/AWARDS

Joan Mitchell Painting and Sculpture Award

National Endowment for the Arts

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Bass Museum of Art, Miami

Brooklyn Museum, NY

City of Chicago Public Art Collection, Illinois

Collection Vanmoerkerke, Oostende, Belgium

Museo del Barrio, New York

Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan

Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

Nerman Museum of Art, Kansas City

Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev

Yuz Art Foundation, Shanghai