ADRIANA ARROYO


Lift II, reinforced concrete, emulsion, wood, acrylic glass, 120 x 78 x 20cm, 2012

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Exhibition: 'The Vertigo of Shallow Depths', Gowen Contemporary, 2014

Biography


Born in 1981 in San José, Costa Rica
Works in San José, Costa Rica and Berlin

Education

2011-2013 - De Ateliers, Amsterdam
2004-2007 - BA (1st Class Hons) Contemporary Media Arts Practice, Brighton University, Sussex, United Kingdom
2003-2004 - Foundation Studies in Art and Design, Northbrook College, Sussex, United Kingdom
2001 - Diploma in Audiovisual Production, Centro de Imagen, San José, Costa Rica

Selected exhibitions

2014 - Unstable Strata, Gabriel Rolt Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2014 - Structures form layers, forms layer structures, layers structure forms, KM galerie, Berlin, Germany
2014 - On White II, Geukens & De Vil, Knokke, Belgium
2014 - A Paradise Built in Hell, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany
2014 - On white, Geukens & De Vil, Antwerp, Belgium
2014 – The Vertigo of Shallow Depths, at Gowen Contemporary, February - March, Geneva, Switzerland
2014 - Art Rotterdam Projections, Gabriel Rolt Gallery, February
2013 – I Appear Missing, Gabriel Rolt Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2013 – Ground to Ground, Offspring 2013De Ateliers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (cur. Francesco Stocchi)
2012 – Limbodrome, Capital A, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2012 – is this my beginning or is this the end?, Foundry Gallery, Lewes, United Kingdom
2012 – Found Cuban Mounts, Arte Creative web channel broadcast Sept. 2012 – Sept. 2013
2012 – Intentional Stance, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (cur. Bojan Sarcevic)
2012 – Media City Film Festival, Ontario, Canada (screening)
2011 – HotAvatgardeHotHot, Oslo 10, Basel, Switzerland (cur. Simone Neuenschwander and Christiane Rekade)
2011 – Found Cuban Mounts (screening), Wavelenghts Programme, Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
2011 – Found Cuban Mounts (screening), Berliner Senat Künstlerinnenprogramm, Arsenal Cinema, Berlin, Germany
2011 – Found Cuban Mounts (screening), Oberhausen Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Berlin, Germany
2011 – Geographies of the Other Power (screening) , Forum Expanded, Berlinale Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
2010 – Session_12_Words + Untitled, Four Boxes Gallery, Skive, Denmark
2010 – Through Apparatus , NICC, Antwerb, Belgium
2009 – Session_7_Words, Am Nuden Da, London, United Kingdom
2009 – Session_2_Flags, Am Nuden Da, London, United Kingdom
2008 – Outside Context Problem, Skalitzer Str. 133, Berlin, Germany
2007 – Nothing is Dead, Fringe Basement, Brighton, United Kingdom
2006 – On site-En Suite-In Situ, Old Ship Hotel Basement, Brighton, United Kingdom

Awards

2011 – Dutch Ministry of Culture Grant (2011 – 2013)
2011 - Shortlisted for Frieze Emdash Award
2010 – Berliner Kulturverwaltung – Künstlerinnenprogramm Stipendium

Bibliography

2013 - Allen, Jen, Found in Translation, Offspring 2013 Catalogue, De Ateliers, Amsterdam
2013 - Haest, Hinde, Offspring De Ateliers 2013, Metropolis M online
http://metropolism.com/reviews/offspring-de-ateliers-2013/
2013 - Keijer, Kess, Paarse plas listerine is het ticket naar Parijs, 28-05-2013, Het Parool, The Netherlands
2013 - Kuiper, Stefan, Review Offspring 2013: Bedachtzame en hermetische kunst, mooi gepresenteerd, 24-05-2013, de Volkskrant, The Netherlands
2013 - Oslo 10:HotAvantGardeHoHot 2011-2013 catalogue, published by Simone Neuenschwander and Christiane Rekade
2012 - HotAvantGardeHotHot Mousse Magazine online,
http://moussemagazine.it/hotavantgardehothot/
2011 - Scinski, Michael, Wavelengths 2011, Notes from a Dark Room,
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/wavelengths-2011-notes-from-a-dark-room
2011 - Berlinale Forum Catalogue, Berlin, Germany.
2010 - SPW/T,P&E : A festival on Photography, Exhibition Catalogue, Antwerp, Belgium

Publications

2011 - A site less than a millimetre deep, Crude Metaphors, HotShoe International, June 2011
2009 - On Finding Time: An Interview with Elizabeth McAlpine, Session_4_Conversations, Am Nuden Da Online, September 2009
2009 - A Two Dimensional Death, Crude Metaphors, HotShoe International, April 2009
2009 - A few words but a tale: The fucking family, Crude Metaphors, HotShoe International, January 2009.

Other

2010 - Founder of Time Material: analogue studio for the moving image, Berlin, Germany, 2010-11
2008-2009 - Intership no.w.here lab, London, United Kingdom