Iñaki Bonillas (born 1981 in

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) is an

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living and working in Mexico City. His recent work is based on the photographic archive of his grandfather J.R. Plaza and family. In 2007 he participated in a group exhibition at Claremont Museum of Art.

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions * 2016 ''Secretos.'' Estancia FEMSA, Casa Luis Barragán, Mexico City, Mexico. * 2015 ''Photogravures.'' BORCHs Butik,

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, Denmark. * 2014 ''The Idea of North.'' ProjecteSD,

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, Spain. * 2014 ''The Disappearance.'' Nordenhake,

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. * 2013 ''(Détail)''. Greta Meert,

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. * 2013 ''Captain Oates''. Art Basel 44/Art Unlimited,

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. * 2013 ''The Story of the Sinking Ship, Which Is a Ship and yet Is Not.'' LIGA, Space for Architecture, Mexico City, Mexico. * 2013 ''The Rain Came Last.'' OMR, Mexico City, Mexico. * 2012 ''The Encyclopedia of the Dead.'' Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany. The Eyes. Niels Borch Jensen,

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. * 2012 ''Arxiu J.R. Plaza''. La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, Spain. * 2011 ''The Eyes''. Capella de Sant Roc, Valls, Spain. * 2011 ''Double Chiaroscuro.'' Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France. Days in the Countryside. Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium. * 2010 ''Ghost Stories of an Antiquary.'' ProjecteSD,

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. * 2010 ''The Expression of the Emotions in Men and Animals.'' Hermes und der Pfau, Stuttgart, Germany. * 2010 ''The Mirror’s Ideas.'' Sonia Rosso. Turin, Italy. * 2010 ''Double Chiaroscuro.'' Art Basel 41/Art Statements,

. * 2010 ''The Return to the Origin''. OMR, Mexico City, Mexico. * 2009 ''Circular Thinking: an Anthology.'' Museo de Arte Moderno MAM,

, Mexico. * 2009 ''No Longer, Not Yet''. Sonia Rosso, Turin, Italy. 2008 Thought Figures. Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium. * 2007 ''A sombra e o brilho.'' ProjecteSD, Barcelona, Spain. The Topoanalyst. Matadero, Madrid, Spain. * 2007 ''Shipwreck with Spectator.'' OMR, Mexico City, Mexico. * 2006 ''Bañeras.'' La casa verde, Mexico City. * 2006 ''Iñaki Bonillas: Isabel Price, COFF Foundation''. Sala Kubo Kutxaespacio del Arte, San Sebastian, Spain. * 2005 ''J.R. Plaza Archive''. ProjecteSD, Barcelona, Spain. * 2005 ''Intervention to the Pavilion.'' Mies van Der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain. Dead Archive. _h4cht, Mexico City, Mexico. * 2004 ''Five Minutes to Die''. OMR, Mexico City, Mexico. * 2003 ''Little History of Photography.'' MUHKA,

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. * 2003 ''Work in Collaboration, with Pieter Vermeersch''. OMR, Mexico City, Mexico. * 2003 ''Iñaki Bonillas''. Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium. * 2002 ''Photographic Views from a Wall.'' Galería de Arte Mexicano GAM, Mexico City, Mexico. * 2001 ''Audiovisivi''. Bordone,

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. * 2000 ''Project Room''. Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico. Dark Room. Colima 385, Mexico City, Mexico. * 2000 ''607 W.'' Proyecto Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico. * 1999 ''Lighting''. Zacatecas 89, Mexico City, Mexico. * 1998 ''Photo Aperture''. La BF.15,

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. * 1998 ''Photographic Work''. Regina 51, Mexico City, Mexico. Group Exhibitions * 2016 ''Crisis of Presence.''

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, Pori, Finland. * 2015 ''How to Do Art with Words''. MUSAC,

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. * 2015 ''Écrit sur du vent: Iñaki Bonillas & Bertrand Lamarche''. La Compagnie, Lieu de Création,

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. * 2015 ''Tulum Hotel: PRODUCTORA + Iñaki Bonillas''.

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, Chicago, United States. * 2015 ''Strange Currencies: Art & Action in Mexico City, 1990-2000''. The Galleries at Moore, Philadelphia, United States. * 2015 ''(Ready) Media.'' LABoral, Gijón, Spain. * 2015 ''General Indisposition.'' An Essay About Fatigue. Fabra i Coats, Centre d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain. * 2015 ''Another Part of the New World''.

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, Moscow, Russia. * 2015 ''This-Hasn't-Happened.'' Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo CA2M, Madrid, Spain. Desires and Necessities. MACBA, Barcelona, Spain. * 2014 ''The Marvellous Real / Art from Mexico 1926-2011.'' Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada. * 2014 ''Credit to the Edit.'' Cneai, Chatou, France. * 2014 ''The Depth of the Surface''. Museum of Art of Sinaloa,

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, Mexico. * 2014 ''Goethe Dialogues.'' Goethe Institute, Barcelona, Spain. * 2014 ''Rumors of the Meteor.'' Frac Lorraine, Metz, France. * 2014 ''Punctum.''

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, Salzburg, Austria. * 2014 ''Iñaki Bonillas & Sandra Vasquez de la Horra.'' Niels Borch Jensen, Berlin, Germany. * 2014 ''Variation.'' The Obsessive as Kind of Landscape. Centro de Arte Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain. * 2014 ''Pieces for a Collection.'' Bernal Espacio, Madrid, Spain. * 2014 ''Latin America 1960-2013.''

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, Puebla, Mexico. * 2013 ''Jetztzeit (Present Time) + The Angel’s Back.'' Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida, Spain. * 2013 ''Confusion in the Vault.'' Jumex Museum, Mexico City, Mexico. * 2013 ''Latin America 1960-2013.'' Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France. * 2013 ''Reanimation Library.'' Talcual, Mexico City, Mexico. * 2013 ''Thinking and Speaking.'' Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden. * 2013 ''Paint it Black.'' FRAC Île de France, Le Plateau, Paris, France. * 2013 ''Turn off the Sun: Selections from The Jumex Collection''.

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, Phoenix, United States. * 2012 ''Reality is a Persistent Illusion.'' CAL CEGO, Barcelona, Spain. * 2012 ''Accrochage X: Works on Paper.'' Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium. Narrativas domésticas: más allá del álbum familiar. Sala de exposiciones Diputación de Huesca, Huesca, Spain. * 2012 ''Donde el lenguaje es material''. Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola, Mexico City, Mexico. * 2012 ''The Imminence of Poetics.'' Thirtieth Biennial of São Paulo, Brazil. * 2012 ''Art & Books.'' Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark. * 2012 ''Poule!'' Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico. * 2012 ''Resisting the Present.'' Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris / ARC, Paris, France. * 2011 ''Exhibition.'' Galerie van der Mieden, Antwerp, Belgium. * 2011 ''Tiempo de sospecha.''

Museo de Arte Moderno The Museo de Arte Moderno (Museum of Modern Art) is located in Chapultepec park, Mexico City, Mexico. The museum is part of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura and provides exhibitions of national and international contemporary a ...

MAM, Mexico City, Mexico. The Space Between Now and Then. OMR, Mexico City, Mexico. * 2011 ''Beyond.'' KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia. * 2011 ''Resisting the Present.'' Amparo Museum, Puebla, Mexico. * 2011 ''A Serpentine Gesture and Other Prophecies.'' FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France. Accrochage IX: Photography. Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium. * 2011 ''Mexico: Expected / Unexpected''.

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, San Diego, United States.

Works of Art

''To create A Card for J.R. Plaza'', Iñaki Bonillas pored over photographs, albums, and slides he inherited from his grandfather, J. R. Plaza. Included in the archive was a sheet of

business cards Business cards are cards bearing business information about a company or individual. They are shared during formal introductions as a convenience and a memory aid. A business card typically includes the giver's name, company or business aff ...

, each corresponding to a position Plaza held during his professional life as a salesman. Intermixed among these were eleven cards Plaza designed and typed, representing professions he never held, including borreguero (

shepherd A shepherd or sheepherder is a person who tends, herds, feeds, or guards flocks of sheep. ''Shepherd'' derives from Old English ''sceaphierde (''sceap'' 'sheep' + ''hierde'' 'herder'). ''Shepherding is one of the world's oldest occupations, i ...

) and modelo (model). Inspired by the cards, Bonillas paired several of his grandfather’s

self-portraits A self-portrait is a representation of an artist that is drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by that artist. Although self-portraits have been made since the earliest times, it is not until the Early Renaissance in the mid-15th century tha ...

with the fictitious business cards, playfully exploring Plaza’s interest in self-presentation and constructing a series of new narratives about his own family history. Bonillas also inherited Plaza’s typewriter, which inspired him to create one last business card: “self-portraitist.”

References

External links

* kurimanzutt

* Frieze Magazine , Shows , Inaki Bonilla

* Iñaki Bonillas ittle History of Photographyat Muhk

* Iñaki Bonillas' intervention to Mies van der Rohe Pavilio

* Photography-no

* Galería OM

Inaki Bonillas in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art
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