darío escobar
guatemala city, 1971.
lives and works between guatemala city and mexico city.
selected one-person exhibitions
2025
“Two mirrors facing each other are enough to create a labyrinth”, Livia Benavides Galería, Lima, Peru. (upcoming)
“The weight of memory”, Nils Stærk Gallery, Copenhagen.
2023
“Encrypted Messages”, Almine Rech Gallery, New York.
2022
“Words are silver, silence is golden”, Museo Nacional de Arte [MUNAL], Mexico City.
“Encrypted Messages”, Nils Stærk Gallery, Copenhagen.
2019
“After the red snake”, ArtNexus Foundation, Bogotá, Colombia.
“What is not good for one, is not necessarily bad for another”, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City.
“The irony of coincidence”, Leyendecker Gallery, Tenerife, Spain.
2018
“Lines of Flight | Darío Escobar”, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York.
“Uncertainty Principle”, Nils Stærk Gallery, Copenhagen.
2017
“Darío Escobar / Imperfect Orbits”, the 9.99 gallery, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
2016
“Darío Escobar: Composições”, Casa Triângulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2015
“Another order”, the 9.99 Gallery, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
2014
“Unions & Intersections”, Nils Stærk Gallery, Copenhagen.
2013
“Abstract Painting No. 7”, González & González, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
“Untitled”, Kamel Mennour, Paris.
“Darío Escobar / Blacksmith Project”, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York.
“Darío Escobar / Line & Space”, ArteCentro, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
2012
“Darío Escobar / The Object Experience”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago [MAC], Santiago de Chile, Chile.
“Darío Escobar: Singular Plural”, Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia / [SCAD] Atlanta – Gallery 1600, Atlanta, Georgia.
“Darío Escobar / Recent Works”, Baró Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2011
“Darío Escobar / Review”, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno Carlos Mérida, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
2010
“Side and Back”, Kamel Mennour, Paris.
“Obverse and Reverse”, González y González, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
2008
“Playoffs”, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York.
2007
“The Interrupted Line”, Centro Cultural Metropolitano [CCM], Guatemala City, Guatemala.
“Darío Escobar / Project Room”, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.
2006
“Objects in Transit”, Sala Gasco, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
2005
“Serpentarium”, Centro Cultural de España Guatemala [CCEG], Guatemala City, Guatemala.
2003
“Provisional Spaces”, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo [MADC], San José, Costa Rica.
“Visual Entertainments”, Museo de Arte Moderno de Mérida, Mérida, Mexico.
2000
“Darío Escobar: Selection”, II National Biennial of Lima, Peru.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
“The Noise Of Nothingness”, Nils Stærk Gallery, Copenhagen.
2024
“Radically Unique, Radically Different”, Mayoral, Barcelona.
“Come in!”, Museo de Arte y Diseño [MADC], San José, Costa Rica.
“Emic/Etic”, TEOR/éTica, Lado V – Centro de Estudio y Documentación, San José, Costa Rica.
“No Man’s Land”, Il Posto, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
“The Fourth Step”, El Programa, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
“Critical Landscapes: Selected Works from the Ella Fontanals–Cisneros Collection”, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver [MCA], Denver, Colorado.
“El Dorado: Myths of Gold – Part II”, Americas Society/Council of the Americas, New York.
2022
“Making Worlds. An Approach to Reading the FEMSA Collection”, Museo de Arte e Historia de Guanajuato [MAHG], León, Guanajuato, Mexico.
“L’étranger”, NO NAME Creative Projects, Paris.
2021
“Gangwong Triennale 2021 | Archive3: Resident’s Everyday Memorial”, Hongcheon Art Museum, Hongcheon-gun, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea.
“Balls”, OOF Gallery, London.
2020
“Emerge Selections 2020”, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago [MCA], Chicago.
“Stories of Abstraction: Contemporary Latin American Art in the Global Context”, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona.
“Cultures of the Sea: Art of the Ancient Americas”, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
“On the Razor’s Edge”, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico.
“Revisión: Art in the Americas”, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado.
2019
“The Material Order of Things”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, N.L., Mexico.
“As Many Reps As Possible”, Naughton Gallery at Queen’s, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
“ACE: Art on Sports, Promise, and Selfhood”, University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York – Albany, New York.
“(A+D)*25=Ag”, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo [MADC], San José, Costa Rica.
“Globe as a Palette: Contemporary Art from the Taguchi Art Collection”, Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art / Kushiro Art Museum / Hakodate Museum of Art / Sapporo Art Museum, Japan.
“VOLLGAS: FULL SPEED”, Museum Art.Plus, Donaueschingen, Germany.
2018
“Temporalities”, Museo de Arte e Historia de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico.
“People Get Ready”, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
“Ball in Art”, Zariadie Park, Moscow.
“For the Love of the Game 1998–2018”, Les Magasins généraux, Paris.
“The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art”, Pérez Art Museum Miami [PAMM], Florida.
“Great Latin American Artists”, Centro Cultural de la Moneda, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
“Play Ball! Baseball at the DIA”, Detroit Institute of Arts [DIA], Detroit.
“Transformers: New Contemporary Latin American Sculpture”, AMA | Art Museum of the Americas, Washington DC.
“#iff2018”, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, São Paulo, Brazil.
2017
“On View”, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York.
“From Mexico City to LA: A Visual History of Graphic Art”, Mixografia, Los Angeles, California.
“Guatemala from 33,000 km: Contemporary Art, 1960 – Present”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, California.
“ProjectsLA”, Downtown LA [DTLA] Warehouse, Los Angeles.
2016
“Good News”, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York.
“FOOT FORAINE”, Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, France.
“GAME ON!”, Children’s Museum of the Arts [CMA], New York.
“MAC Collection. Latin American Works”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago [MAC], Santiago de Chile, Chile.
“The Way Things Go”, the 9.99 Gallery, Guatemala.
“Overlap”, the 9.99 Gallery, Guatemala.
2015
“But I’m Not a Photographer”, The 9.99 Gallery, Guatemala.
“10th Mercosul Biennial”, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
“Trio Biennial”, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
“Gold”, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Purchase, New York.
“Daros Latinamerica Collection”, Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires.
“Hand Lines”, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas.
“Beleza?”, Centro Cultural São Paulo, Brazil.
“5 – RPM (Revolutions per Minute)”, The 9.99 Gallery, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
2014
“Height x Width x Depth”, The 9.99 Gallery, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
“The Day We Became Contemporary”, Museo de Arte y Diseño [MADC], San José, Costa Rica.
“Gold”, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida.
“Fútbol: The Beautiful Game”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art [LACMA], Los Angeles, California.
“Deslize”, Opening of Museu de Arte do Rio [MAR], Rio de Janeiro.
2013
“Confusion in the Vault”, Museo Jumex, Mexico City.
“Inaugural Exhibition”, The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio.
“California-Pacific Triennial”, Orange County Museum of Art [OCMA], Newport Beach / Coastline Community College Art Gallery [CCC], California.
“And… So?”, The 9.99, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
“The Collaborative: Question in the Line”, Museum of Latin American Art [MOLAA], Long Beach, California.
2012
“Futbol. Art and Passion”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey [MARCO], Monterrey, Mexico.
“The Island / A Game of Life”, Gallery One, Manarat al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi.
“Play With Me”, Museum of Latin American Art [MOLAA], Long Beach, California.
2011
“Now: Works of the Jumex Collection”, Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico.
“Video Again”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Fortaleza, Brazil.
“Ideal Project”, Centro Cultural de São Paulo, Brazil.
“From the Recent Past: New Acquisitions”, Museum of Contemporary Art [MOCA], Los Angeles, California.
2010
“Chapter II: Noise”, 9.99/Proyecto, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
“Ideal Project”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago [MAC], Santiago de Chile, Chile.
“Radical Optimism”, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York.
“XVII Guatemala Biennial”, Centro Cultural Metropolitano [CCM], Guatemala City, Guatemala.
“Dracula Effect”, Museo Universitario del CHOPO, Mexico City, Mexico.
“Social Affects: A Selection from the Permanent Collection of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies / Harvard University”, Boston Center for the Arts / Mills Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
“Four Views from the Permanent Collection”, Museum of Latin American Art [MOLAA], Long Beach, California.
2009
“The Impolitics”, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli [PAN], Naples, Italy.
“10 Springs in the Fall”, Kamel Mennour, Paris.
“Périfériks”, Centre d’art Neuchâtel [CAN], Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
“Mundus Novus: 53rd International Biennial of Venice”, Artiglerie dell’Arsenale, Venice, Italy.
“0.3333333333333333…”, 9.99/Proyecto, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
“Nothingness and the Self”, La Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico City, Mexico.
“Video Again”, Metales Pesados, Santiago de Chile, Chile.
“Performing Localities”, Institute of International Visual Arts [INIVA], London.
“Tenth Havana Biennial”, Fortaleza de San Carlos de la Cabaña, Havana, Cuba.
2008
“The Invention of the Everyday”, Museo Nacional de Arte [MUNAL], Mexico City.
“Object of Value”, Miami Art Central [MAC-MAM], Miami, Florida.
“Playtime”, Bétonsalon / Centre d’art et de recherche, Paris.
“World Histories”, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa.
“Visions from Abroad”, Flushing Town Hall, New York.
“Black Elephant”, Museo Diego Rivera, Mexico City, Mexico.
2007
“Fortunate Object”, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation [CIFO], Miami, Florida.
“Silence & Echo”, Arena 1, Santa Monica, California.
“The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia.
“Poetics of the Handmade”, The Museum of Contemporary Art [MOCA], Los Angeles, California.
2006
“The Skier at the Bottom of the Well. Fifth Interpretation of The Jumex Collection”, La Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico City, Mexico.
“Stil Biuti”, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland.
“The Beautiful Game: Contemporary Art and Fútbol”, Brooklyn Academy of Music [BAM], Brooklyn, New York.
“Constant Disturbance”, The Spanish Cultural Center, Miami, Florida.
2005
“The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America”, Dublin Museum, Ireland, United Kingdom.
“Living for the City”, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York / [CIEL] Centre International d’Expositions de Larouche, Toronto, Canada.
2004
“Newspapers”, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York.
2003
“Intangible”, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo [MADC], San José, Costa Rica.
“LA Freeways: Latin America”, The Museum of Contemporary Art [MOCA], Los Angeles, California / Americas Society, New York (2004).
“RAIN Project”, Pabellón Cuba, Havana, Cuba.
“Stretch”, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada.
“TransEAT”, Food Culture Museum, Miami, Florida.
“VIII Havana Biennial”, Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba.
2002
“ARTitsmo”, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo [MADC], San José, Costa Rica.
“Contaminated”, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo [MADC], San José, Costa Rica.
“From the Center to the Island”, Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba.
“Intimate/Universal”, Ateneo de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela.
“Mesoamerica: Oscillations and Artifices”, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno [CAAM], Canary Islands, Spain.
“Zones in Tension”, de GANG Gallery, Haarlem, Netherlands.
2001
“Continuous Connection”, Felissimo Project, New York.
“Short Stories”, La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy.
“Spaces/Bodies/Identities”, Centro Cultural de España, San José, Costa Rica.
“13 Hours”, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela.
“Tirana Biennial”, National Gallery & Chinese Pavilion, Tirana, Albania.
“IV Caribbean Biennial”, Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
“Mud of America”, IV Biennial, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofía Imber, Caracas, Venezuela.
2000
“International Biennial Design Festival”, École des Beaux Arts de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France.
“L’art dans le monde”, Pont Alexandre III, Paris.
1999
“Guatemalan Art”, Sala Oficial Juan Ismael del Cabildo de Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain.
“II Iberoamerican Biennial of Lima”, Lima, Peru.
1998
“Fotojornada ‘98”, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno Carlos Mérida, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
“Without Title”, Plaza G&T, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
“I Central American Biennale”, Centro Cultural Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemala City, Guatemala / Duke University Museum of Art [DUMA], North Carolina.
“VI International Art Biennale of Cuenca”, Cuenca, Ecuador.
1997
“The Young Stamp”, Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba.