André Magaña

b. Lagunitas, CA, USA, 1992
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA

André Magaña’s work considers the use of materials, images, and signs used in the generation of capital under major global enterprises. He is interested in the technical, utilitarian, and operational aspects of production, maintenance, and growth of the post digital industrial economy. Magaña foregrounds his subjects’ inextricable relationship to capital and post colonial geopolitics, exposing highly specific systems as corollaries for far reaching power dynamics. He often creates work in dialogue with his own wage labor by utilizing or referencing economies of material which are embedded into his activities as a worker.

Magaña's first solo exhibition with the gallery, Riquísimo, was in February 2023. He has had solo exhibitions with Veronica (Portland, OR, USA); King's Leap (New York City, NY, USA); Prairie (Chicago, IL, USA); Amor Tlalpan (Mexico City), and more. He has been included in group and two-person exhibitions at Magenta Plains (New York City, NY, USA); PUBLIC (London, UK); American Medium (New York City, NY, USA); in lieu (Los Angeles, CA, USA); Alyssa Davis (New York City, NY, USA), and more. He has been included in institutional exhibitions at Sculpture Center (Brooklyn, NY, USA) and the Zilkha Museum at Wesleyan University (Middleton, CT, USA).

He has been profiled in the Art and America New Talent Issue, Cultured, Artforum, LatinX Journal, ARTNews, The Brooklyn Rail, and more.

CIRRICULUM VITAE.    SELECT PRESS.

Education

2013 BFA Pacific Northwest College of Art Portland, Oregon

Select Solo Exhibitions

2023 transversal, Veronica, Seattle, WA
• prospector, Parent Company, Brooklyn, NY
• Riquísimo, Kendra Jayne Patrick, Bern, CH
2021 Date Poder, Kings Leap, New York, NY
2019 Reclinados, Prairie, Chicago, IL
• Pinopuenteros, Holding Contemporary, Portland, OR
2018 The Codex Selden, 77 Mulberry, New York, NY
2017 Dora Drawings, Jace Space, Los Angeles, CA
• Modern Family, 100% Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• El Que Nace pa Maceta No Sale De Corredor...,Wreath, Atlanta, GA
• Hesitating, Amor Tlalpan, Mexico City, DF Mexico
2016 Manzanillo’s Unction, Yeah Maybe, Minneapolis, MN

Select Two-Person & Group Exhibitions

2025 Y LAS ENTRAÑAS GRITARON, Guadalajara 90210, Mexico City, MX
2024 Minotaurs, Foreign & Domestic, New York City, NY
2023 Ring Ring Ring, curated by Andy Rankin, pal project, Paris, FR
• Jacob’s Edge, lower cavity, Holyoke, MA
2022 Ocultismo y barro, organized by ACOMPI, Miriam Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2021 Stress Tested, PUBLIC Gallery, London, UK
• All I remember now:, in lieu, Los Angeles, CA
• Friends & Family, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
• You may go, but this will bring you back, Sculpture Center, Queens, NY
2019 What’s Got Into You Lately?, Monaco, St Louis, MO
• Warmth is not simple, Frame Contemporary Art / Sorbus, Helsinki, FI
• Carriage, Holding Contemporary at Vacation, New York, NY
• New Moon, Hotel Art Pavillion, Brooklyn, NY
2018 This Country, Wesleyan University, Zilkha Gallery, Middletown, CT
• While Removing the Garbage or Paying the Cleaner, American Medium, New York, NY
• At the End of the Game You Will Be Forgotten, Alyssa Davis Gallery, New York, NY
• Images of Power, Freight Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2017 Retrato De Malinalli Con Fruta Temporal, Produce Model, Chicago, IL 2015 Fast Forward, Städelschule, Frankfurt-Am-Main, DE
• Fast Forward, Worksound International, Portland, OR
• Cowboy Ghost Watching Me When I Sleep?, False Front, Portland, OR

Art Fairs

2024 The Salon Invitational, An art fair by NADA x The Community with Kendra Jayne Patrick, Paris, FR
2020 NADA Presents FAIR with Hotel Art Pavillion (NY/CT), Online
2019 NADA Miami Beach with Magenta Plains (NY), Miami, FL
• MECA Art Fair with HOUSING (NY), San Juan, PR

Select Press

2023 Living Content. Exhibition Debrief: Jacob’s Edge, Adriana Bildrau.
2022 ArtNews. A Hot Recently-Shuttered Downtown Gallery Threw An Opulent Gala For Itself, Shanti Escalante De-Mattei.
• Down The Line. Roundtable with Mira Dayal.
• Art in America. New Talent Issue, Barbara Calderón.
• The Brooklyn Rail. Review: Ocultismo y barro.
2021 New York Magazine. A Giant Rubber Duck and a Birds Eye View of Bubba Gump, The Approval Matrix.
2019 Artspace. 6 Artists To Watch: December 2019, Torey Akers.
• Cultured Magazine. Picks From the 3rd Edition of MECA International Art Fair,  Rachel Small.
• Totokaelo. Editorial, World of Yohji Yamamoto: The Futility Question.
• The SEEN Journal. In Conversation // An Interview with André Filipek Magaña, Celia Glastris.
2018 Oregon Live. 9 Portland Art Exhibits to Include in your New Year’s Resolutions, Carin Brown.
• ARTFORUM. Critics Pick: While Removing the Garbage or Paying The Cleaner, Charlie Markbreiter.
• Latinx Journal. Images of Power: An Exhibition Confronting White Supremacy, Marissa Del Toro.
2017  YoungSpace. Interview with Kate Mothes.
• 60 Inches from Center. El Sol Sale Para Todxs, Anette LaPique.

Special Projects

2022 Merde!, Commission for Gala and Auction, Alyssa Davis Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 World of Yohji Yamamoto: The Futility Question, In-Store Installation, Totokaelo, New York, NY

Residencies

2023 Lower Cavity, Holyoke, MA
2020 Triangle Arts Association, Brooklyn, NY

Curatorial

2023 Jacob’s Edge, lower cavity, Holyoke, MA (with Carly Mandel)
2017 Daisy, 27 Arion Pl, Brooklyn, NY
2013-2015 Founder/Director, HQ Objective, Portland, OR