Miguel Calderón (born June 1, 1971 in
Mexico City
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) is a Mexican artist and film maker. In the 1990s, along with other artists, he founded the independent art space,
La Panadería, in the Condesa neighborhood in Mexico City. Calderón received his
BFA at the
San Francisco Art Institute in 1994. He has worked in paint, photography, video, film and installation.
Miguel Calderón has been considered to have "a knack for pushing crass stereotypes and clichés to absurd and provocative extremes." An article in ''
Sculpture
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'' magazine called him "something of an international phenom," and the
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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referred to him "
/nowiki>he enfant terrible of contemporary art in Mexico." His gallery, kurimanzutto, claims that Calderón "highlights the macabre complexity of man’s position in the universe deftly weaving together mockery, foolishness, social critique and sincerity of emotion."
He has solo exhibitions at the Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum in Mexico City,[Artnet](_blank)
/ref> the Andrea Rosen Gallery
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in New York City,[Andrea Rosen Gallery page](_blank)
/ref> the San Francisco Art Institute's Diego Rivera Gallery,São Paulo
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Biennale.Guggenheim Museum
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Museums in this group include:
Locations
Americas
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's ''Air: Projections of Mexico'' exhibit,[San Francisco Art Institute biography](_blank)
the ''Prometer no empobrece: arte contemporáneo mexicano'' show at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Museo may refer to:
* Museo, 2018 Mexican drama heist film
*Museo (Naples Metro)
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in Madrid
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,P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
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in New York City, the 2005 Sharjah Biennale
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, the 2005 Yokohama
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Triennale, the 2006 Busan
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Biennale,Frieze Art Fair
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in London. In 2007, Calderon exhibited with several other Latin American Artists at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Some of his work also appeared in the film ''The Royal Tenenbaums
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'' after director Wes Anderson
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saw Calderón's work.[''Eater'']
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Calderón has also worked in collaboration with different publishers and has a varied collection of artists books.
References
External links
Artfacts.netSculpture magazine articleCalderon at SFMOMA
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Living people
1971 births
Mexican contemporary artists
Mexican male writers
Writers from Mexico City
Artists from Mexico City