André Magaña
b. Lagunitas, CA, 1992Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
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.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
2013 BFA Pacific Northwest College of Art Portland, Oregonw/Kendra Jayne Patrick
• Riquísimo, Kendra Jayne Patrick, Bern, CHSelect 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
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, Stadelschule, Frankfurt-Am-Main, DE
• Fast Forward, Worksound International, Portland, OR
• Cowboy Ghost Watching Me When I Sleep?, False Front, Portland, OR
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
Art Fairs
2020 • NADA FAIR, Hotel Art Pavillion (NY/CT), Online 2019 • NADA Miami Beach, Magenta Plains (NY), Miami, FL• MECA Art Fair, HOUSING (NY), San Juan, PR
Residencies
2023 • Lower Cavity, Holyoke, MA2020 • Triangle Arts Association, Brooklyn, NY
Select Press
2023 • Living Content, Exhibition Debrief: Jacob’s Edge, Adriana Bildrau2022 • 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
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