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An installation and performance 
2018 Summer Artists in Residence

Building Bridges Art Exchange, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Exhibition: "Geographies of the Invisible Line"
Davis Birks: USA, Mexico / Doris Champ, a.k.a. La Razzia: Austria / Luciana Abait: Argentina, Los Angeles

Curator: Marisa Caichiolo

Artist Reception: September 8, 2018
Exhibition: September 8 - October 1, 2018

More information...here>>

CHAOS!!!

Ro2 Art 

Dallas, TX, USA
Aug 4 - Sep 8, 2018

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Usted está aquí: Cartografías de un destino

Oficina de Proyectos Culturales 

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 
May 26 - Aug 15, 2018

More information...here>>

Images of the installation Empire: Mexico, which forms part of this exhibition...here>>

Auckland Art Fair 

Interlude Gallery
May 23 - May 27, 2018

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Errata Project Web Launch

Taller OPC, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
March 27, 2018

Oficina de Proyectos Culturales, OPC, presents The Errata Project, a collaborative community endeavor for building a public research archive to be housed at Taller OPC, in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. In the form of an ever-growing erratum with a focus on women artists, this project, in conjunction with an associated social program, creates a sustained dialogue on the value of women in art and society. 

Read about this community project...here>>

Conference: Errata Project

Centro Universitario de la Costa, U de G, CUCosta, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
March 8, 2018

Moderator:  Ireri Topete - visual artist, professor and coordinator of the Visual Arts Program, CUCosta

Panelists:
Javiera Pintocanales - visual artist, book designer, professor at CUCosta
Davis Birks

Errata Project PDF (Eng) (Esp) (926 kb)

Language Disorder III 

Interlude Gallery, Sydney, Australia
December 7 - December 15, 2017

In the third edition of Language Disorder, Interlude Gallery invites collaborating writers to respond to selected works of art to form new meaning.

more information...here>>

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Sydney Contemporary 

Interlude Gallery
Carriageworks, Sydney, Australia
Booth CO6A
September 7 - September 10, 2017

more information...here>>

Crónica de un Instante: Reinterpretación de la colección MUSA

Museo de Las Artes, MUSA, Guadalajara, México
August 31 - October 29, 2017
more information...here>

Fissures in The Tropics: Artistic Practices of the 90s in the Occident

Galería Jesús Gallardo, Instituto Cultural de León, Mexico
June 9 - August 20, 2017

Curated by Rubén Méndez, this exhibition explores the development of contemporary art during the decade of the 90s in Guadalajara, Mexico.

image of Lo Difícil del Poder...here>>
image of  Three Skies Over the Rich Earth...here>>

Colección Pueblo de Jalisco

Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico 
June  8 - August 31, 2017

image of the installation Social Servants, 1988...here>>

KlosterSkulpturenAusstellung

Klosterruine, Rüeggisberg, Kanton Bern, NaturparkGantrisch, Switzerland, Europe
Since 2003 annually from Pentecost until Fall.

more information (German)...here>>

IF (you can read this you are very close to art)

Public installation for the Martha and David Haynes Educational Garden, Oficina de Proyectos Culturales, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Unveiling, April 5, 2017

image of the work IF...here>> 

Art and Money

February 7 - February 10, 2017 at the Harry Wood Gallery 
February 21 - April 28,  Institute for Humanities Research 
Arizona State Universtiy Campus, Tempe, AZ

Curated by Angelina Fox, this exhibition explores direct links between art and money, the concept of value and the present national and international economy. 

image of the work Empire 2, Mexico...here>> 
image of the work War Monument...here>>

information and catalog...here>>

Fissures in The Tropics: Artistic Practices of the 90s in the Occident

February 4 - May 1, 2017
Oficina de Proyectos Culturales, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Curated by Rubén Méndez, this exhibition explores the development of contemporary art during the decade of the 90s in Guadalajara, Mexico.

information...here>>

Contemporary Archaeology, Contemporary Art

October 22, 2016

Artist talk and project for high school students of Puerto Vallarta as part of the
education workshop Art and the Mountain sponsored by OPC and directed by Tanya Mancha. Students found contemporary archaeological fragments of eroded brick and mortar at the mouth of the Cuale River and wrote creative, fictitious texts pertaining to the history of each fragment as a way to reflect on the mechanism of the narrative as a means to document historical events.

information...here>>

Transitable: The Search for Meaningful Meaning

A workshop co-produced with Claudia Rodriguez for MAZ, Museo de Arte Zapopan, Mexico, as part of the Estudio Abierto 7: Escuela de Los Comunes

June  20 - June 26, 2016

information...here>>

Presented at the 26th International Sculpture Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 16, 2016, for the panel "A place for research and cultural resistance: Interstitial Public Space: a transdisciplinary view"

Panelist: Claudia Rodriguez

Information...here>>

You are Here: Urban Approximations

May 28 - July 30, 2016
Oficina de Proyectos Culturales, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Exhibition information...here>>

image here>>

Acquisition 2016

Social Servants, 1988
cardboard, steel and polyurethane mounted on a hand truck 
each element measures 118 x 60 x 65 cm.

Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico

image...here>>

Introductions

January 15 - February 12, 2016
Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Exhibition information...here>>

Unity

Claudia Álvarez, Davis Birks, Nicola Costantino, Anthony Goicolea, Maximo Gonzalez, Rogelio Manzo, Xawery Wolski

May 20 - June 20, 2015
Galería Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Exhibition information...here>>

Davis Birks: Paraíso en Proceso

May 28 - July 12, 2014


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Oficina de Proyectos Culturales, OPC, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Exhibition information... here>>

Heavenly Bodies

February 22 - May 25, 2014

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, USA
Exhibition information... here>>

image of  Blackboard 10  included in the exhibition (500KB)...here>>

Confrontaciones y Analogías

Febuary 13 - April 3, 2014

Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Tamaulipas, Matamoros, Mexico

image of Tu Y Yo (You and I) included in the exhibition (449KB)...here>>

Idle Hands

November  22, 2013 - January  15, 2014
Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, USA

image of So Eloquent 2 included in the exhibition (500KB)...here>>

La Red - Social Servants

Installation views at the Westin Regina, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Sponsored by Galería Omar Alonso

March - September,  2013

 images of the installations...here>>

Artificial Turf

Galería Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

February 6 - February 28,  2013

images of the exhibition...here>>

CloseUpVallarta

2nd International Festival of Video Creation

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico  

May 1 - May 5, 2012 

DeTuR

Galería Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico  
March 21 - April 21, 2012 

images and information...here>>

The Beachcombers...here>>

War & Peace

Galería Nina Menocal, Mexico City  
February 21 - April 4, 2012 

images from the exhibition...here>>

Now or Never/Ahora o Nunca

Puerto Vallarta, Mexico  
October 15 - November 20,  2011... more>>

images and info of the installation PASADO/FUTURO... here>>

Fuerzas Básicas

Museo de La Ciudad
Guadalajara, Mexico  
October 14, 2011 -  February 5, 2012

info of the project GOOD VIBRATIONS...here>>

images of the installation...here>>

Topo/Graphy

Edward Cella Art and Architecture
Los Angeles,  USA
July 9 - August 28,  2011

Installation A>Z

KlosterSkulpturenAusstellung, 2011
Klosterruine, Rüeggisberg, Kanton Bern, NaturparkGantrisch, Switzerland, Europe

Link to the pages of the exhibit ...more>>

Rojo/Red

Galería Omar Alonso
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
February 18 - March 30, 2011...more>>