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Born: 1957, Seattle, WA, USA
Lives in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Education
1986 BFA Arizona
State University,
summa cum laude
Selected
Group Exhibitions
2025 "Winter Group Exhibition," Galería Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2024 "Archivo Jalisciense de Video, Vol. 1," Salón Acme, Museo de Zapópan, MAZ, Zapópan, Mexico
2024 "Perhaps Sunny Days," Podo Museum, Jeju,Korea
2023 "P/P: Collective Practices in Contemporary Graphics," OPC, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2023 "Dádiva Divisa," Galería Quetzali, Oaxaca, Mexico
2023 "Tierra Pródiga: 200 años de pintura en Jalisco, Ex Convento, Guadalajara, Mexico
2023 "Línea en el agua:Díaz Corona Zenteno Collection, Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico
2023 "Chaos Theory," Chambre, 78 Jane St. New York, NY
2023 "The Waiting Room: Small paintings by 27 artists," 57W57Arts, NYC, New York
2022 "XIX Bienal de Pintura Rufino Tamayo," Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
2022 "ARTivisim," Art Focus Latinoamérica - Galería Quetzali, Mexico; Rofa Projects, USA; Pabellón 4, Argentina
2022 "Zona Maco Contemporary Art Fair," Art Focus Latinoamérica, Mexico City, Mexico
2021
"Bienal de Sur: Pueblos en Resistencia," Caracas, Venezuela
2021
"Oneness -Togetherness," Building Bridges Art Exchange, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2020
"Humaninty First ," Performance with Colectiva Hilos, Ex Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Mexico
2020 "Tierras Prometidas," Centro Cultural Ex Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Mexico
2020 "Darkest Before Dawn: art in a time of uncertainty," Ethan Cohen Kube, Beacon, NY
2020 "XIX Bienal de Pintura Rufino Tamayo," Museum of Contemporary Art, Oaxaca, Mexico
2020 "Power Play: Invisible LInes," The Arts House, Singapore
2020 "Solid Fiction," Kunstverein Emsdetten, Galerie Münsterland, Emsdetten, Germany
2020 "Inmanente: disoluciones en el paisaje," Oficina de Proyectos Culuturales, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2019 "Thingness: Group Show," Ro2 Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA
2019 "III Bienal del Sur," Museo de Arte Moderno Jesús Soto, Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela
2019 "Tierras Prometidas," Oficina de Proyectos Culturales, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2019 "La Red," installation, Biblioteca de Los Mangos, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2019 "LA Art Show," Building Bridges Art Exchange, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2018 "Pinta Miami," art fair, Building Bridges Art Exchange, Miami, FL, USA
2018 "Panorámica: Paisaje artistico de Puerto Vallarta," Ex Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Mexico,
2018 "Geographies of the Invisible Line," Building Bridges Art Exchange, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2018 "Usted está aquí: Cartografías de un Destino," Oficina de Proyectos Culturales, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2018 " Auckland Art Fair," Interlude Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2018 Web launch for the Errata Project, Oficina de Proyectos Culturales, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2017 “Language
and Disorder lll,” Interlude Gallery, Sydney,
Australia
2017 “Sydney Contemporary,” Interlude Gallery, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
2017 “Crónica de un Instante,” Museo de Las Artes,
MUSA, Guadalajara, México
2017 “Fissures in the Tropics,” Galería Jesús
Gallardo, Instituto Cultural de León, Mexico
2017
“KlosterSommerAusstellung,” Monastery Ruins, Rüeggisberg, Bern, Switzerland
2017 “Colección Pueblo de Jalisco,” Instituto Cultural
Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico
2017 “IF”
Public installation for the Martha and David
Haynes Garden,
OPC, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2017 “Art
and Money,” Harry Wood Gallery, ASU Campus, Tempe, AZ, USA
2017 “Fisuras en el trópico: Prácticas artísticas de
los 90’s en el Occidente,” OPC, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2016 “You
are Here: Urban Aproximations,” OPC, Puerto
Vallarta, Mexico
2016
“Introductions,” Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn,
USA
2015 “Unity,” Galería Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta,
Mexico
2014 “Entre la Permanencia y lo Transitorio,” Museo de
las Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico
2014 “Confrontaciones y Analogías,” MACT, Tamaulipas,
Matamoros, Mexico
2014
“Heavenly Bodies,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art,
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
2013 “Idle
Hands,” Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa
Fe, NM, USA
2012 “Sem Limites,” Centro Cultural Palacio de Egipto,
Oeiras-Lisboa, Portugal
2012 “CloseUpVallarta,” International Festival of
Video Creation, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2012 “War and Peace,” Galería Nina Menocal, Mexico
City, Mexico
2011 “Now or Never,” vacant lot, Puerto Vallarta,
Mexico
2011 “Fuerzas Básicas,” Museo de la Ciudad,
Guadalajara, Mexico
2011
“Topo/Graphy,” Edward Cella Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, USA
2011 “Rojo,” Galeria Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta,
Mexico
2011 “10
X10: Urban Caligraphy,” Bus Stop Ad Board in Mexico City, Mexico
2011 “AZ:
site specific installation,” Monastery Ruins, Rueggisberg, Switzerland
2010 “Luis
Gonzales Palma and Davis Birks,” Galeria Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2009 “Chance: Cuestiones del Azar,” Von Rohr Gallery,
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2008 “Like a Dog Coming Out of A Reservoir,” Charro Negro
Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico
2008 “Orozco Desde el Siglo XXl,” Instituto Cultural
Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico
2008 “Firulias,” Museo de la Ciudad, Guadalajara,
Mexico
2008 “Bundang Memorial Park:
site specific work,” Seoul,
Korea
2008 “Light”, Galería Nina Menocal, Mexico City,
Mexico
2008 “KlosterSkulpturenAustelung,” Rüeggisberg,
Switzerland
2008 “Femaco,” Galeria Nina Menocal, Charro Negro,
Mexico City, Mexico
2008 “PVAC: Puerto Vallarta Arte Contemporáneo,”
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2007
“Picture Stories: The Art of Europe and the Americas,”
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, USA
2006 “Artistas Citados,” Galería Nina Menocal, Mexico
City, Mexico
2006 “Scope
Art Fair,” Charro Negro Gallery, Miami,
USA
2006
“Explorations,” Edward Cella Art+Architecture, Santa Barbara, USA
2005 “Retrospektiv,”
Galerie/Atelier Tom Blaess, Bern,
Switzerland
2005
“Mexican Report,” Meridian Int. Center, Washington
D.C., USA
2005 “Vibra
Óptica,” Galerie Kritika, Prague,
Czech Republic
2004
“Mexican Report,” Blue Star Contemporary
Art Center,
San Antonio, TX, USA
2004 “Vibra Óptica,” National Museum
of Fine Arts, Bucharest, Romania
2003 “Prodigios del Grafito,” Museo Raúl Anguiano,
Guadalajara, Mexico
2003 “Panorama: La Pintura en Jalisco,” Instituto
Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico
2003 “Not for Sale in Mexico,” Exconvento del Carmen,
Guadalajara, Mexico
2003 “A Piedra y Fuego,” Instituto Cultural Cabañas,
Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
2002 “Vibra Óptica,” Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten,
Graz, Austria
2002 “Bajo el Mismo Techo,” Galería de Arte
Contemporáneo y Diseño, Puebla, Mexico
2002
“Muestra 001,” Monterrey, N.L., Mexico
2001
Instituto Potosino de Bellas Artes,
San Luis Potosí, Mexico
2001 Casa de
La Cultura de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
2000 “Pintura en Jalisco: 1950 – 2000,” Instituto
Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico
2000 Museo
de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca,
Oaxaca, Mexico
2000 Salón de Octubre: Premio OmniLife”, Guadalajara,
Mexico
2000 “X Bienal de Pinura,” Museo de Arte Contemporáneo
Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
1999 “Accrochage,” Galerie Rahn, Zürich, Switzerland
1999 “IV Bienal de Monterrey,” Museo de Monterrey,
Monterrey, Mexico
1999 University of Winnepeg,
Winnepeg, Canada
1999 “Kunst
98,” Zürich, Switzerland
1998 Galerie
Rahn, Zürich, Switzerland
1998 Galerie
A-16, Zürich, Switzerland
1998 “Salón Bancomer,” Mexico City, Mexico
1997 “Kunst 97,” Zürich, Switzerland
1997 “Premio MARCO 96,” Museo de Arte Contemporáneo,
Monterrey, Mexico
1996 “Carlos
Vidal und Davis Birks,” Galerie Rahn, Zürich,
Switzerland
1996 “Unidos Contra el Sida”, Museo Universitario del
Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
1995
Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles,
USA
1995 “Colección Permanente,” Museo de Las Artes, U de
G, Guadalajara, Mexico
1994 “Encuentro InterAmericano,” Museo de Las Artes, U
de G, Guadalajara, Mexico
1993 “Second Cities,”
Diverse Works Artspace, Houston,
USA
1992 Hudson
River Museum, New York, NY, USA
1992 Lowe
Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
1989 Galería Expositum, Mexico
City, Mexico
1988 “VIII Bienal de San Juan de Grabado,” San Juan,
Puerto Rico
1987 Scott Alan Gallery, New
York, NY, USA
Selected Solo Projects and
Exhibitions
2025 " Reconstructed Landscapes: inorganic anatomies," Al Filo del Agua, La Cruz de Huanacaxtle, Mexico
2025 "La bruma de las Aves al amanecer," book release, Garobo Editions, cover image, Guadalajara, Mexico
2025 "Reconstructed Landscape 39, 2022," Acquisition, Minart Museum, Guadalajara, Mexico
2024 Renovation of "Kunst/Logik," street sign intervention, Zürich, Switzerland
2024 "The Reconstructed Landscape," YAM Gallery, San Miguel Allende, Mexico
2024 "Eden: Ensayos Improbables," Sala Silenciosa, Guadalajara, Mexico
2023 "Die Signale: 20th Anniversary, Monastery Ruins at Rueggisberg, Switzerland
2023 "Rendezvous: this land is my land," LA Art Show - DiverseArtLA, LA Convention Center, CA
2022 "Davis Birks: Re-Construcción de la Memoria," Museo de las Artes, U de G, Guadalajara, Mexico
2022 "Davis BIrks: Sin Regreso al Jardín," Projecto Incidente, Guadalajara, Mexico
2021 "Errata Project," Oficina de Proyectos Culturales, OPC, Puerto Vallarta,
Mexico
2021 "Paradise Lost," Performance, Galería Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2021 "A Walk in the park: Reconstructed Landscapes," Galería Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2021
"Relatos de Aquí: siete perspectivas Vallartenses," Curator, OPCd, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2019 "Así son las cosas," Galería Omar Alonzo, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2019 "Ayotzinapa/Presente," Web Launch
2019 "La Red," Biblioteca de Los Mangos, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2018 "Uprooted," performance, Pershing Square, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2017 “IF,”
public art installation, Oficina de Proyectos Culturales, OPC, Puerto
Vallarta, Mexico
2014 “Paradise in Process,” Oficina de Proyectos Culturales, OPC, Puerto Vallarta,
Mexico
2013 “Artificial Turf,” Galería Omar Alonso, Puerto
Vallarta, Mexico
2012 “DeTuR,” Galería Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta,
Mexico
2009 “Extracciones,” Galería Nina Menocal, Mexico
City, Mexico
2008 “Around,” ExConvento del Carmen, Guadalajara,
Mexico
2007
“Strata,” Edward Cella Art+Architecture,
CA, USA
2006 “Push n Shove,” T. Fuller, Puerto Vallarta,
Mexico
2003 “Davis Birks,” Haus der Kunst, Guadalajara,
Mexico
2003 “Die Signale,” Klosterruine Rüeggisberg,
Switzerland
2002 “Distribución de Cargas,” Galería Nina Menocal,
Mexico City, Mexico
2002 “Himnos Hallados,” Exconvento del Carmen,
Guadalajara, Mexico
2002 “Now,” Galería Fuller, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco,
Mexico
2001 “Davis Birks,” Haus der Kunst, Guadalajara,
México
2001 “Scrabble,” Galería Fuller, Puerto Vallarta,
Jalisco, Mexico
2000 “Inside-Out,” Colegio de Arquitectos,
Guadalajara, Mexico
1999 “ZimmerAxx,” Oberbutschel, Bern, Switzerland
1998 “Alimentando la Obsesión,” Museo de Las Artes,
Guadalajara, Mexico
1997 “Juegos del Poder,” Exconvento Del Carmen,
Guadalajara, Mexico
1996 “Motivos Confesados,” Galería Oscar Roman, Mexico
City, Mexico
1994 “Al Borde Visceral,” Museo De La Ciudad,
Guadalajara, Mexico
1993 “Conversaciones en el Sigo 21,” Galería Jorge
Alvarez, Guadalajara, Mexico
1992 “Davis Birks,” Lowe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1987 “Davis Birks,” Galería de Arte Moderno,
Guadalajara, Mexico
Cultural Activities: groups/lectures/panels/events
2024 Juror: "VII Bienal de Pintura José Atanasio Monroy 2024," Guadalajara, Mexico
2024 Press Conference: "Exhibition: Perhaps Sunny Days," Podo Museum, Jeju, Korea
2024 Artist Talk: "Eden: Ensayos Improbables," Sala Silenciosa, Guadalajara, Mexico
2023 Juror: "Salón del XXIII Estatal de la Acuarela," Morelia, Mexico
2022 Artist Talk: "Reconstruction of Memory," Museo de las Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico
2021
Radio Program: "Errata Project," Parafarseando - Radio
Universidad, host: Rebeca Santiago Jiménez, with Marcela de Niz
and Lupita Basulto, Centro Universitario de la Costa, CUC, Puerto Vallata, Mexico
2021
Web discussion: "La Identidad Como Representación Simbólica," Bienal del Sur: Pueblos en Resistencia, Caracas, Venezuela
2021
Web discussion: "Felicidad: Arte, Consumismo y Sociedad," Bienal del Sur: Pueblos en Resistencia, Caracas, Venezuela
2021
Curator talk: "Relatos de Aquí: siete perspectivas
Vallartenses," Oficina de Proyectos Culturales, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2020
Collaboration: "Humanity First," Performance with Colectiva
Hilos, Centro Cultural Ex Convento de Carmen, Guadalajara, Mexico
2019 Web Launch: "Ayotzinapa," online, social interactive project
2018 Residency: Building Bridges Art Exchange, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2017 Artist
Talk: “Behind the Scenes: the development of contemporary art in Guadalajara,” OPC, Puerto
Vallarta, Mexico
2017
Advisory Board: Instituto Vallartense de Cultura
2016 Conference:
26th International Sculpture Conference: Sculpture in Context: Tradition and
Innovation: A discussion regarding the
co-produced workshop “Transitable:
The Search for Meaningful Meaning”, Claudia Rodríguez, Pittsburgh, PA
2016 Portfolio Review: "Visionado
de portafolios de artistas visuales 2016," Dirección de Cultura de
Zapópan, Zapópan
2016 Artist Talk: Contemporary Archaeology: Untold
Stories, Oficina de Proyectos Culturales, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2016 Board Member: Universidad de
Guadalajara Centro Universitario de la Costa Consulting Committee for Visual
Art Degrees
2016
Co-Producer for workshop: “Transitable: The Search for Meaningful Meaning," Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Mexico
2015 Workshop panel: Foro Cultural, Puerto Vallarta
2015 Docent
Lecture: “Analysis of Blackboard No. 10 and the work of Davis Birks," Mary
Winder, Santa Barbara Museum
of Art, CA
2015 Artist Lecture: “Cucaracha y Fuego: Punto de
Partido,” Centro Universitario de la Costa, Puerto, Puerto Vallarta
2015 Co-Producer: “Changarito: 10 años,” OPC, Puerto
Vallarta, Mexico
2014 Producer: “Paradise in Process,” Oficina de
Proyectos Culturales, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2014 Founding member: Oficina de Proyectos Culturales,
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2011
Planning Committee: exhibition “Now or Never,” Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2008-2015
Board Member: “ProMuseo” for the
implementation of cultural projects in Puerto
Vallarta
2008 Planning Committee: “PV Arte Contemporáneo,”
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
2007 Artist
Talk: “A Discussion on Selected Works” with Rafael Parea, University
of California, Santa Barbara
2004 Juror:
Artist Grants program, Secretary of Culture, State of Jalisco, Mexico
2003 Artist Lecture: “Conferencias Encuentros
Creativos: Tendencias desde los 60,”
Instituto Cultural, Cabañas, Guadalajra, Mexico
1998
Panelist: “The Value of the Contemporary Art Program at El Museo de Las Artes,”
Guadalajara, Mexico
1993 Artist
Talk: “Fruitful Friction,” Arizona State University,
Tempe, AZ
Awards and Fellowships
2021 Grant "Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte de México, SNCA", FONCA, México
2006
Fellowship: Vermont
Studio Center
Residency
2001 “Omnilife Gran Premio” for sculpture,
Guadalajara, Mexico
Publications
2025 "La bruma de las Aves al amanecer," Cecilia Fernández, Garobo Editions, cover, Guadalajara, Mexico
2024 Catalog: "Perhaps Sunny Days," Podo Museum, Seung Won Min,
INDIEPUB, August 2024, curatorial text by art critic Nayun Lee
2024 Review: "Perhaps Sunny Days," Yonhap News Agency, March 19, 2024
2022 Catalog: "Davis Birks: Re-construcción de
la memoria," Museo de las Artes, June 10, 2022, curatorial text by
Laura Ayala Castellanos
2021 Review: "La OPC exhibe Relatos de aquí: Siete
perspectivas vallartenses," Milenio, April 7, 2021, Enrique Vásquez
2020 Review: "Davis Birks representa al arte rebelde de
EEUU en la III Bienal de Sur," Bienal de Sur, January 24, 2020, Rosa
Raydan
2020 Review: "Dallas' Ro2 offers poignant, heart-stopping
work in group show "Thingness," Dallas Art Beat, January 6, 2020,
Cristee Cook
2017 Zine: Davis Birks and the Power
of Place, Interlude Gallery, design: Small Tasks, September 2017, Kate O’Boyle
2017
Catalog: Art + Money, exhibition, Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State
2015 Contemporary
Art in Mexico:
Gallery, Museums and Alternative Spaces (site specific image from the
exhibition "Davis Birks:
Paradise in
Process," Oficina de Proyectos Culturales, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 2014
2014
Catalog: “Heavenly Bodies,” the Santa Barbara
Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
2012 “The
Ought to Be and Unavoidable Reality,” Arte Al Límite, January-February, 2012,
María Fernanda Reyes Retana
2011 “Davis
Birks,” Arte al Día, February-March: 2008, Edwin Treitler
2008 “Puerto Vallarta is Not
Just for Tourists, it’s for Artists Too,” LA Times, June 4, 2008, Reed Johnson
2003 “Davis Birks at Nina
Menocal-Mexico City,”
Art in America,
November 2003, John Villani
1998 Catalog: “Alimentando la Obsesión,” Museo de las
Artes, Guadalajara
1994 “Un Artista Postmoderno en Guadalajra: Davis
Birks,” El Proceso, May 5, 1994, Raquel Tibol
Teaching Experience
2014-2017 public tours: exhibitions at “Oficina de
Proyectos Culturales,” Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
1992-1998
workshops: painting, drawing and contemporary art, Guadalajara, Mexico
COLLECTIONS
Podo Museum, Jeju, Korea
Instituto
Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara,
Mexico
Minart Museum, Guadalajara, Mexico
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Museum of Latin American
Art, Long Beach, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Guadalajara, Mexico
Museo de Arte Contémporaneo Alfredo Zalce, Michoacán,
Mexico
Casa de la Culutura Alfonso Michel, Colima, Mexico
Instituto de Cultura, Morelos, Mexico
Secretaria de Cultura del Distrito Federal, Mexico
Pinoteca Diego Rivera, Veracruz, Mexico
Casa de la Cultura de Baja California Sur, Mexico
Dimitris
Gigourtakis Collection, Athens
Karen and
Robert Duncan Collection, USA
Kathy and
Marc LeBaron Collection, USA
Suro Collection, Guadalajara, Mexico
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