André Magaña
b. Lagunitas, CA, USA, 1992Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, USA
André Magaña is a sculptor whose work is concerned with the built realities of the industrialized world and its impact on cultural and material exchange between the United States and Mexico. His work studies systems and objects to understand the politics of value, power, and labor embedded in their genesis.
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Education
2013 BFA Pacific Northwest College of Art Portland, OregonSelect 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
2024 Minotaurs, Foreign & Domestic, New York City, NY2023 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, FR2020 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, NY2019 World of Yohji Yamamoto: The Futility Question, In-Store Installation, Totokaelo, New York, NY
Residencies
2023 Lower Cavity, Holyoke, MA2020 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