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Education
2003
Postgraduate Program Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands
1999
MA in Philosophy at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico
1997
MA in Fine Art at National University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
 
Solo Exhibitions
2023
Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, Belgium (upcoming)
To-day project, Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil (upcoming)
2022
In a Convex Mirror, Pinksummer Gallery, Genova, Italy
Roman Rubbish, Bloomberg Space, London, United Kingdom
By the position of your heart IT WILL BE KNOWN WHERE THE MIDDLE PLACE IS, SBKM De Vleeshal, Middelbourg, The Netherlands
2021
Remedio Milenario, Códice de la Cruz – Badiano p. 61, Casa de México, Madrid, Spain
Amarantus, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen, Germany
Amarantus, MUAC Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
Amarantus, Artium Museum, Araba, Spain
Walking through the town I followed a pattern on the pavement that became the magnified silhouette of a woman’s profile, England’s Creative Coast, Towner Eastbourne, United Kingdom
2020
Between making and knowing something, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Replaying Life’s Tape, Ace Open, Adelaide, Australia
2019
Mariana Castillo Deball, a solo exhibition, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Replaying Life's Tape, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield, Australia
Mariana Castillo Deball: Finding Oneself Outside, New Museum, New York, USA
Point, kurimanzutto, New York, USA
2018
In Tlilli in Tlapalli, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
To-Day, February 20th, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, USA
das Haut-Ich., Barbara Wien Gallery, Berlin, Germany        
Mariana Castillo Deball: Petlacoatl, Logan Center Gallery, Chicago, USA
2017
Them inside the skin, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, Belgium
Pleasures of association, & poissons, such as love —, Galerie Wedding, Berlin, Germany
The tortoise and other footraces between unequal contestants, Pinksummer, Rome, Italy
Proyecto liquido., Alumnos 47, Mexico City, Mexico
2016
Feathered Changes, Serpent Disappearances, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
2015
Reliefpfeiler, Barbara Wien Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Cronotropo, Musée Régional D'art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérignan, France
¿Quién medirá el espacio, quién me dirá el momento?, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca MACO, Oaxaca, Mexico
2014
Parergon, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
Vista de Ojos, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
Moi-Peau, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, Portugal
2013
Tamoanchan, Pinksummer, Genova, Italy
Palavra e Pedra Solta Não Têm Volta, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil
What we caught we threw away, what we didn’t catch we kept, CCA Glasgow, Scotland, United Kigdom
What we caught we threw away, what we didn’t catch we kept, Chisenhale Gallery, London, United Kigdom
El donde estoy va desapareciendo, TEOR/éTica, San Jose, Costa Rica
2012
Zurich art prize, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
2011
We are silently illiterate, Barbara Wien Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Este desorden construido, autoriza geológicas sorpresas a la memoria mas abandonada, Museo experimental, El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico
Figures don‘t lie but liars can figure, Pink Summer, Genova, Italy
2010
Between you and the image of you that reaches me, Museum of Latinoamerican Art, Long beach, USA
Mariana Castillo Deball, SCHAU ORT Elisabeth Kaufmann + Christiane Büntgen, Zurich, Switzerland
2009
Kaleidoscopic Eye, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
2008
DO UT DES, Objectif exhibitions, Antwerpen, Belgium
Nobody was tomorrow, Barbara Wien Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2006
Estas Ruinas que ves, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
2005
Time takes no time in a story, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany
2004
Institute of Chance, Prix de Rome, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Never odd or Even, Marres Center for Contemporary Art, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2003
Interlude: The reader’s traces, Intervention in the National library in Paris, Public library in New York and the National Library in Berlin. Contributors: Paul Elliman, Hubert Czerepok, Dario Gamboni, Raimundas Malašauskas, Harry Mathews, Peter Piller, Manuel Raeder, Steve Rushton, Enrique Vila-Matas
To look for a needle in a haystack, Stephan Adamsky Gallery, Aachen, Germany
Nine chains to the moon., Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2002
The wall and the books: 987 words stolen from a library, Library and gallery space, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Stochastic Archives, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City, Mexico
 
Group Exhibitions
2023
Linhas Tortas, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil (upcoming)
Into Nature: Time Horizons, Into Nature, Borger-Odoorn, The Netherlands (upcoming)
As Hardly Found in the Art of Tropical Architecture, Architectural Association, London, United Kingdom
2022
mixed up with others before we even begin, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
todos juntos (all together), Kurimanzutto, New York, USA
Conference Around the Clock - Audio Feature (Presentation), Birkbeck Cinema, London, United Kingdom
Ceremony, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Until the Songs Spring, La Biennale di Venezia, 59th International Art Exhibition, Mexican Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Andreas Fogarasi and Mariana Castillo Deball: Five Ways of Telling Time, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
Panorama Monopoli, ITALICS, A city-wide exhibition, Monopoli, Italy
INTERMEDIA. ESCRIBIR LA IMAGEN, CREAR LA PALABRA, Museo Unav, Pamplona, Spain
2021
Pintar el Lienzo de Tlaxcala, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, Mexico City, Mexico
2020       
STUDIO BERLIN, Berghain, Berlin, Germany
Who is gazing?, Musée du quai Branly Jacques Chirac, Paris, France
Become Immortal and then Die, La Capella, Barcelona, Spain
1000°. Contemporary Art on Old and New Ceramic Techniques, Kunsthaus Dresden, Germany
2019
Time for Fragments - Works from the Marx Collection and the Collection of the Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
El Nudo, CarrerasMugica, Bilbao, Spain
Deep Sounding – History as multiple narratives, daadgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Undefined Territories: Perspectives on Colonial Legacies, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain
Is this tomorrow?, Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom
What remains is what the poets found, PS120, Berlin, Germany
The Green Goddess, ELDORADO Lille3000, Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France
Negative Space, Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany
Portadores de sentido: Arte contemporáneo de la colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
Mapping Memory: Space and History in 16th-century Mexico, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, USA
Abusos de las formas, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
2018
der grosse Anspruch des kleinen Bildes, Barbara Wien Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Writing the Mountains. Biennale Gherdëina VI, Ortisei / Val Gardena, Italy
General Rehearsal, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Magical fatalism Opera about desire and nostalgia, Alumnos 47, Mexico City, Mexico
Rogério Duarte. Marginália 1, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Statues Also Die: Conflict and heritage from the ancient world to the modern day, Museo Egizio, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Musei Reali, Turin, Italy
Exhibiting the Exhibition: From the Cabinet of Curiosity to the Curatorial Situation, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
Hello World. Revising a Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Copy, Translate, Repeat: Contemporary Art from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, 205 Hudson Gallery, New York, USA
2017            
Documenta 14: Learning from Athens, Athens, Greece                
Tamawuj, Sharjah Biennial 13, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates                  
While I was also listening to David, Eleanor, Mariana, Delia, Genk, Jean, Mark, Pierre, Shima, Simon, Zin and Virgini, La Criée Centre for Contemporary Art, Rennes, France
Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, Parasite, Hong Kong                      
Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, The Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand                  
Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Jakarta, Indonesia
Future Perfect, Museo de Artes de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico
A Universal History of Infamy,Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, USA
Neither., Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, Belgium      
Publishing as an Artistic Toolbox: 1989–2017, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Beyond the Box. Sammlung Dohmen, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany
Touch Base, Studio Flotti, Berlin, Germany
Lecturas de un territorio fracturado, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
Recouvrir, ensabler, copier, traduire, restituer, KADIST Foundation, Paris, France
2016           
Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs, MCAD Manila, Manila, Philippines
Riddle of the Burial Grounds, Extra City, Antwerp,
Another Reality. After Lina Bo Bardi, Stroom Den Haag, The Netherlands    
All Heritage is Poetry, Fórum Fundaçao Eugénio de Almeida, Portugal
30th Anniversary Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria      
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, United Kingdom      
Rainbow Caravan, 3rd Aichi Triennale, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
SITElines2016. Much wider than a line, SITE Santa Fé, Santa Fé, USA                  
¿Cómo vivir mejor con menos?, Bienal FEMSA, Monterrey, Mexico      
In The Belly of the Whale, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Liverpool Biennale, United Kingdom
30th Anniversary Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria                    
Under the Same Sun, The South London Gallery, United Kingdom                        
Unresolved, De Appel Art Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Natural Order of Things, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
To-day 9th of July 2016, Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, United Kingdom
2015
Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Boundary Objects, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
Riddle of the Burial Ground, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
Ce qui ne sert pas s’oublie, CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France
Sebald Variations, CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain
The Parliament of Things, Firstsite, Colchester, United Kigdom
Beyond Borders
, Fifth edition of Beaufort, Triennial of Contemporary Art by the Sea, Belgium
Biennial of the Americas, Denver, Colorado, USA
Panorama, The High Line, New York, USA
Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Suppleness and Rigidity – The Art of the Fold, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany
The Art of Preservation, Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen, Germany
2014
¡Puro mexicano! Tres momentos de creación, MUNAL, Mexico City, Mexico
Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France
8th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Under the Same Sun, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Playgrounds Reinventar la plaza, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Les Mots Bleus – Biennale de Belleville 3, Paris, France
TransVisible, 19 Bienal Paiz Guatemala - Artecentro Graciela Andrade de Paiz, Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala
Post / Postminimal, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Future Perfect. Contemporary Art From Germany, Ujazdowski Castle Centre
for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
Bibliologie, FRAC Normandie Rouen, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France  
2013
Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
how to write II, Galerie Wien Lukatsch, Berlin, Germany
The Way of the Shovel, MCA Chicago, USA
Future Perfect, Kunstverein Frankfurt, Germany
Arqueológicas, Matadero, Madrid, Spain
2012
dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany
Serpentine Gallery Memory Marathon, London, United Kingdom
Lieber Aby Warburg, Was tun mit Bildern, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen, Germany
Olinka, or Where Movement Is Created, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Life Is Elsewhere, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany
LA IDEA DE AMÉRICA LATINA, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, Spain
Nos hicimos la ilusión de avanzar directamente, Espai Cultural de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Colección: el crimen fundacional, MUCA Roma, Mexico City, Mexico
Un ojo, dos ojos, tres ojos, Mariana Castillo Deball/Irene Kopelman (Uqbar), Casa Vecina, Mexico City, Mexico
Never odd or Even, Museum of contemporary art, Roskilde, Denmark
Printin’, MoMA, New York, USA
Resisting the present, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, France
Esquemas para una Oda Tropical, Galeria Luisa Strina, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Prism. Drawing from 1990-2012, National Museum of Norway, Oslo, Norway
The Future Lasts Forever, Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle, Sweden
2011
The Future Lasts Forever, Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle, Sweden
Never odd or Even, Grimm Museum, Berlin, Germany
Never odd or even, Museet for samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark
Section Folklorique / Cabinet de Curiosités, Zeeuws Museum, Zeeland, The Netherlands
La Vie Mode d’Emploi (Life A User’s Manual), Meessen De Clercq, Bruxelas, Belgium
Homo Ludens, Motive Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mexicall/Resisting the present, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
The Eye is a Lonely Hunter – Images of Humankind, 4. Fotofestival Mannheim Heidelberg Ludwigshafen, Germany
Inanimate beings, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Magical Consciousness, Arnolfini Arts, Bristol, United Kingdom
What about this, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, Austria
INCIDENTES DE VIAJE ESPEJO EN YUCATÁN Y OTROS LUGARES, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Fleeting Stories/Historias Fugaces, LABoral, Gijón, Spain
Illuminations, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Amikejo 2 – men-show, Mariana Castillo Deball/Irene Kopelman (Uqbar), MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
Shadowboxing, Royal College of Art: Curating Contemporary Art MA, London, United Kigdom
AEther – Une proposition de Christoph Keller, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2010
Ars viva award, History, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
No Soul For Sale, Festival of independents, presenting with Peep-Hole, Milan, Italy, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom and Ginger Goodwin Way, OR gallery, Vancouver, Canada
For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there, Touring exhibition: Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit, Detroit, USA; de Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
The Heart of the Thing Is the Thing We Don’t Know, James Galley - CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA
2009
Ars viva award, History, Museum Wiesbaden, Germany
This place you see has no size at all…, KADIST Foundation, Paris, France
El Patio de mi casa, Cordoba, Spain
Heaven, Athens biennial, Athens, Greece
The Happy Interval, Tulips & Roses, Vilnius, Lithuania
What are we going to do after we’ve done what we’re doing to do next?, MACBA, Contemporary Art Museum, Barcelona, Spain
Paper exhibition, Artist space, New York, USA
The Malady of Writing, MACBA Contemporary Art Museum, Barcelona, Spain
A Fantasy for Allan Kaprow, Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo, Egypt
For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there, Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis, USA
Performa, Lectures and exhibition at Cabinet Magazine Space, New York, USA
Sequelism: Part 3, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Extranjeros en la cultura y en la tecnología, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Chapter 2 (the repetition), Parc Culturel de Rentilly, France
2008
22nd Ateliers Internationaux, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France
Galeria Sentimental, Tensta konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Salon of the revolution, 29th Youth Salon, Zagreb, Croatia
One of these things is not like the other things, unosunove, Rome, Italy
Manifesta 7, Rovereto, Italy. In collaboration with Irene Kopelman, Uqbar
Shanghai Bienale, China
Blackboxing, Artistspace, New York, USA
Master Humphrey’s Clock, De appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sensitive Timelines, 26cc, Rome, Italy
Object, The Undeniable Success Of Operations, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Seven Times Two or Three, CUBITT, London, UK
Selective Knowledge, The National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation/MIET, Athens, Greece
2007
A for Alibi, De appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Transacciones Filosóficas, Historical Observatory, Córdova, Argentina
The Book, Heidelberg Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
Extraordinary Rendition, Nogueras Blachard, Barcelona, Spain
The last piece of John Fare, GB Agency, Paris, France
Blackboxing, Project, Dublin, Ireland
24th Memorial Nadežda Petrovic, Cacak, Serbia
2006
Just in Time, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
10 Defining Experiments, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA
Concerning knowledge, BAK, Utrecht, Netherlands
Resonances, Stuk, Leuven, Belgium; Artis, Den Bosch, The Netherlands
Resonances, Artis, VK‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
A place in Time, Campr Street, San Antonio, USA
Redo/Undo, Friederichshain, Kasel, Germany
Mercury in Retrograde, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Friends and Enemies, Gagosian, Berlin, Germany
2005
Today, November 20; If I can’t dance – I don’t want to be part of your revolution, Scheltema Fabriek, Leiden, The Netherlands
Tropical Abstraction, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
9th Baltic Triennial of Art, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
Blackboxing, If I can’t dance – I don’t want to be part of your revolution, Production in sequences, Utrecht, The Netherlands
5ª Bienal de Artes Visuales del Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2004
Bucket Brigade, Firehouse Center for Contemporary Art, Burlington City, Canada
Black Friday, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany
GPB 2004, Galeri Pastor Bonus, Exteresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico
2003
Outside of a Dog: Paperbacks and Other Books by Artists, Baltic, Baltic - International Center for Contemporary Art Gateshead, United Kingdom
24/7. New York – Vilnius, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
20 million mexicans can’t be wrong, Southampton gallery, United Kingdom
En un mar en el que no se nada, Paris Photo, Project Room, Paris, France
Aparentemente Sublime, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Every Piece is the show, Luxe projects, New York, USA
2002
PULPA, Arte, literatura, moda, diseño y algo más Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, La Havana, Cuba
Titel folgt, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
Volkskrant Regular (True Type), Volkskrant, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bonnefanten magazine, Maastricht, The Netherlands
A to Z. Museum in progress, Vienna, Austria
2001
Registro/Registre, Galeria Banyoles, Spain
Se rendre a l’evidence, Institut Culturel du Mexique. Paris, France
XI Bienal Internacional, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal
2000
Los libros de otros, Museo de la ciudad de México, Mexico City, Mexico
Gráfica actual, Instituto de artes gráficas de Oaxaca, Mexico
Exposición colectiva, MUCA Roma, Mexico
1999
City editings. ZMVM: Zona Metropolitana del valle de México, Instituto Goethe, Buenos Aires, Argentina
El arte de los libros de artista: Homenaje a Ulises Carrión, Biblioteca de Mexico, Mexico
Exhibición de cortometrajes, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico

Public Collections
Blanton Museum of Art
Castello di Rivoli
Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M)
Colección Jumex
Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (FC/CPPC)
Guggenheim Museum
Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa)
KADIST Foundation
Kunsthalle St. Gallen
MoMA
Museo Amparo
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen