G.T. Pelizzi

Bio/CV: G. T. Pellizzi was born in 1978 in Tlayacapan, Morelos. He studied Philosopy at St. John’s College (New Mexico) and Architecture at The Cooper Union (New York). From 2004 to 2011 he was one of the founding members of The Bruce High Quality Foundation, with whom he exhibited at the Whitney Museum and MoMA PS1 in NewYork, Centre Pompidou de París, Proyecto de Arte Contemporáneo Murcia, and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebauden- go in Turin, as well as various galleries in New York, Zurich, Berlin and London. He has exhibited as a solo artist at Mary Boone Gallery, The Watermill Center for the Arts in New York, Revolver Galeria both in Lima and Buenos Aires, Sala Siqueiros in Mexico City, el Mu- seo Amparo in Puebla and el Centro de las Artes de Monterrey. He has participated in group shows in the Kunsthalle of Vienna, the École des Beaux-Arts and Jeu de Paume in Paris, el Museo del Barrio in New York, la Bienal de las Americas in Denver, Pacific Standard Time at the Craft and Folk Art Museum in LA, and La Tallera in Cuernavaca among others. In 2016 he was awarded the Inga Maren Otto Fellowship at the Watermill Center.

Artist Statement: My art practice is rooted in my formation as an architect and my studies of literature and philosophy. My work often appropriates industrialized materials, mostly used for construction, and repurposes them to engage with art history, particularly discourses surrounding abstraction and minimalism.

Selected Solo: 2021 “Illuminations” Galleria Ribot, Milano
2020 “No Signal” Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna
2019 “White Noise”, Tobias Mueller Gallery, Zurich
2018 “Salto de Frequencia”, Revolver Galeria, Buenos Aires
2017 “Complex Shapes” Leyendecker Galeria, Tenerife, “I Transport”, Curated by Taiyana Pimentel. Centro de las Artes, Monterrey
2016 “I Transport”, Curated by Taiyana Pimentel. Museo Amparo, Puebla, “Constellations”, Watermill Center For the Arts, Watermill, NY, “I Transport”, curated by Taiyana Pimentel. Sala Siqueiros, Mexico City
2015 “Visitations”, The Watermill Center for the Arts, Watermill, NY, “Test Patterns”, Revolver Galeria, Lima, “Before Completion”, Harmony Murphy Gallery, Los Angeles
2014 “Financial Times” Mary Boone Gallery, New York, “Libre Circulation de Capitaux Symboliques (after ALENA),” curated by Dorothee Dupuis. Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
2013 “The Red and the Black” Y Gallery, New York.
2012 “Border Paintings” Peveto Gallery, Houston, Texas, in collaboration with Ray Smith, “The Execution of Maximilian”, Y Gallery, New York, in collaboration with Ray Smith.

Selected Group Exhibitions: 2021 “Normal Exceptions” Museo Jumex, Curated by Kit Hammons. Mexico City, “Sound+” Museo Anahuacalli Curated by Andres Levin. Mexico City
2020 “Joy of Missing Out”, Museo Macro, curated by Luca Lo Pinto, Rome, “Variantes Asimetricas”, Fundacion Mapfre, Las Palmas, “Champ Libre” La Chapelle de Clairefontaine, Clairefontaine, “Con Aire Popular” Casa de Mexico en España, Curated by Carlos Palacios Madrid
2019 “Debora Bolsoni, G. T. Pellizzi, Matheus Rocha Pitta” Auroras, Sao Paulo, “Quatre Petites Points” Escougnou Galerie, Paris
2018 “Inside Out” Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, “Reflector”, Luciana Brito Galeria, New York, “The U.S/Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility”, 516 Arts, Curated by Ana Elena Mallet and Lowery Stokes Sims, Albuquerque
2017 “The U.S/Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility” PST, Craft and Folk Art Museum, Curated by Ana Elena Mallet and Lowery Stokes Sims, Los Angeles, “Mapas en Construccion” La Tallera, Cuernavaca, “Occupy Mana”. Mana Contemporary, Curated by Phong Bui, Jersey City
“Death Drive”. Y Gallery, Curated by Carlos Garcia Montero, New York, “CMYK”. Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles.
2016 “Abstraccion II”. Galeria Arroniz, Mexico, MX
2015 “Despues del Eden,” curated by Andrea Torreblanca. La Tallera, Cuernavaca, “De Tierra, Fuego, Agua Y Vento: Ceramica de Morelos,” Museo Morelense de Arte Popular, Cuernavaca, “Individual Stories: Collecting As Portrait And Methodology”, curated by Luca lo Pinto and Nicolaus Schafhausen. Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, “Transmission: Recreation and Repetition,” curated by Sarina Basta. Beaux-Arts de Paris, France  2014 “Base + Velo” Curated by Andres Marroquin Winkelmann. Revolver Galeria, Lima, “Bloodflames Revisited”, Curated by Phong Bui. Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, “All the Best Artists Are My Friends (part 1)” Curated by Ray Smith. Mana Contemporary, Jersey City “Staging Interruptions”, curated by Sarina Basta and Mary Rinebold. Southard Reid Gallery, London  2013 “Come Together: Surviving Sandy”, Curated by Phong Bui. Dedalus Foundation, New York, “Neo Povera”, Curated by Harmony Murphy, L&M Gallery, Los Angeles, Biennial of the Americas, Curated by Carson Chan, Denver, “La Bienal: Here is Where We Jump” Curated by Rocio Aranda Alvarado and Raul Zamudio. El Museo del Barrio, New York, “Une Exhibition Sans Textes” Curated by Mathieu Copland Jeu de Paume, Paris 2012 A. K. Burns, G. T. Pellizzi, Johannes Vogt Gallery, Curated by Travis Boyer, NY, “El Regreso de los Dinosaurios” Abrons Art Center, Curated by Adrian Saladana, NY “Color Go Lightly” Valentine Gallery Curated by Todd Huchenson and Laurie de Chiara. Bridgehampton, NY, “Wanderings” Y Gallery, NY, “Lo Carnavalesco” Piso 51, Curated by Sarina Basta. Mexico City, Mexico.
Social: @gtpelizzi