MICHAEL LINARES
ARTWORK
Yet Untitled, 2012
Acrylic on Canvas
96"x72"
ARTIST BIO
Senseless Drawings, 2013
portable easel, drawing pad, sharpie, mini, helium,
balloon
dimensions variable
Negro, Amarillo, Rojo, Azul, 2013
acrylic on canvas
10x10 inches ea.
RESOURCES
Michael D. Linares
Born in Puerto Rico, 1979
1999 – 2005B.F.A., Escuela de Artes Plásticas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2010 – 2011
Beta-Local, Independent Studies, San Juan, Puerto Rico
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013
Walter Otero Gallery, San Juan PR
Ltd Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Mural Comission, Bass Museum, Miami, FL
2011
Michael Linares, Chemi's Room, San Juan P.R.
2010
Useless, curated by Pablo Leon de la Barra, PINTA Art Fair London U.K.
Solo Projects 2010, curated by Juan de Nieves, ARCO, Madrid, Spain
2009
Found & Lost, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
2007
Eight, ocho, bizcocho, cake, Galería Comercial, San Juan, PR
Lawrimore Loves Painting, Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA
2006
Tu y Yo en una Isla para Dos sentados mirando el Sol..., Galería Comercial,
San Juan, PR
2005
Un, Galería Comercial, San Juan, PR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
UPCOMING
2013
Galería Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan PR
PAST
2012
Gala, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, P.R.
La Sonora, Trienal Poligráfica de Puerto Rico, San Juan P.R.
The Way In, curated by Io Carrion, Popular Center Building, San Juan P.R.
Post-Panamax, Diablo Rosso, Panamá City, Panamá
Exhibition, De la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL
2011
Painting Expanded, curated by Marysol Nieves, Espacio 1414, San Juan, P.R.
PARAÍSO, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA
San Gerónimo 31, San Gerónimo 31, Colonia Centro, Mexico D.F.
Exhibición Re- Inauguración, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce P.R.
2010
Exhibition, De la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL
7x7, Galería S. XXI, Bogotá, Colombia
Michael D. Linares, Galería Altamira, Asturias, Spain
Ultrapuñeta, Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Mobile Spaces, Univesity of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
2009
Geografía Humana, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
2008
En sus marcas... , Curated by Rebeca Noriega, Instituto de Cultura de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
Walter Otero Gallery, Circa Art Fair, San Juan, PR
2007
Galería Comercial, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
BioKunst, Antwerp, Belgium
COMERCIAL, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
Crimes of Omission, ICA, University of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Galería Comercial, ArtLA, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Public Sculpture Art Project (with Galería Comercial), Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
Lisa Kirks Greatest Hits, The Wayward Cannon, London, U.K. Galería Comercial, MACO, Mexico DF, Mexico. The Galleries Show (with Galería Comercial), Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium The S-Files II, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR The Lovers, CANADA Gallery, New York, NY The Peace Tower, participation as part on Mark di Suvero & Rikrit Tiravanijaʼs project, Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
2005 Ninjas killed my family, need money for Kung-Fu lessons, Galería Comercial, San Juan, PR
Galería Comercial), NADA, Miami, FL The S-Files, Museo del Barrio, New York, NY Tropical Table Party, curated by María Inés Rodríguez, Centro dʼ Art Santa Mónica, Barcelona, Spain
2004 Galería Comercial, Stray Show, Chicago, IL Group Show, Galería Sin Título, San Juan, PR
Javier Cambre, José Campeche, Michael Linares & Francisco Torres, Galería Comercial, San Juan, PR
2003 Muestra Ecléctica, Museo de Arte de Caguas, Caguas, PR 2002 Exhibición Pequeño Formato, Galería Punto Gris, San Juan, PR 2001 Entre Hoy y Mañana, Galería Punto Gris, San Juan, PR
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2013 "Contemporary Avant-Gardes", Phaidon.
2011 Ursula Dávila, "Puerto Rico Art Scene: Not Only Reggeaton Gets Your Heartbeat Racing!,
Sharon Mizota, "Art Review: Paraíso at Ltd Los Angeles", Los Angeles Times, 2011
2010 Adriana Herrera Téllez, "Panorama of Emerging Latin American Art", Arte al Día, 2010 Luis Feas Costillas, “Apuntes de Un ARCO Polémico”, La Voz de Asturias, 2010. Marion Maneker, “ Free Beer at ARCO”, Art Market Monitor, 2010. Michael D. Linares: Oasis”, Vernissage TV, 2010. Paloma Torres Pérez Soler, “Arco 2010”, ABC, Madrid, Spain, 2010.
2009 Suzie Walshe, “Visual Mind Games”, New York Arts Magazine, New York, NY,
Marisol Nieves, “Michael Linares, Found & Lost”, Arte al Día, Arte al Día Internacional, 2009. Lauren Cornell, Masimiliano Gioni, Laura Hoptman, “Younger than Jesus: Artist Directory”, Phaidon & The New Museum, New York, NY, 2009.
2007 Manuel Álvarez Lezama, “Installations move front and center in local museums”, The San Juan Star, September 2, 2007.
R.C. Baker, “ Michael D. Linares “, The Village Voice, New York, July 17, 2007. Holland Cotter, "Art in Review: Comercial " The New York Times, July 6, 2007. "The L Picks" The L Magazine, July 11-17, 2007. Walter Robinson, “Weekend Update”, Artnet, July 9, 2007.
“Out of Many, One”, New York Magazine, June 18, 2007. Manuel Álvarez Lezama, “Michael Linares: Representante de una nueva generación de artistas puertorriqueños”, Art Premium, Vol. 4, num. 19, 2007. Manuel Álvarez Lezama, “Linares exhibit full of interesting surprises, as usual”, The San Juan Star, March 26, 2007.
2006 Daniel Chang, “ New Programs scracth beneath Basels surface”, Miami Herald, December 6, 2006.
Raisa Clavijo, “ Art Basel Miami Beach 06”, Primera Hora, jueves, 14 de diciembre de 2006. Adriana Herrera, “ Art Basel Miami beach: tres dias de paroxismo”, El Nuevo Herald, December 6, 2006. Elaine Delgado, “Puerto Rico 2005”, El Nuevo Día, January 3, 2006.
2005 Joao Ribas, “10 Artists to watch”, Art & Auction, May 2005. Walter Robinson “Miami Heat”, artnet.com, December 4, 2005. “El Museo Mounts 4th Bienal”, artnet.com, September 20, 2005. Joel Weinstein, “(More Sexy Beast )”, Rotund World, 4th Edition. Larissa Vázquez Zapata, “S-Files”, El Nuevo Día, October 2005. GPB (Art Newspaper), March 2005. Elvis Fuentes, “El amor es una carga pesada”, El Nuevo Día, February 23, 2005.
