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 * 2020 ''Diario de Sucesos poco notables'' '' ournal of (Un) remarkable events', ProjecteSD, Barcelona, Spain * 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 (MAM) is a museum dedicated to modern Mexican art located in Chapultepec Park in Mexico City. The museum is part of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura and provides exhibitions of national and internat ...

MAM, Mexico City, Mexico. The Space Between Now and Then. OMR, Mexico City, Mexico. * 2011 ''Beyond.''

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, 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 a ...

, 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 is a person who tends, herds, feeds, or guards flocks of sheep. Shepherding is one of the world's oldest occupations; it exists in many parts of the globe, and it is an important part of Pastoralism, pastoralist animal husbandry. ...

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

self-portraits Self-portraits are Portrait painting, portraits artists make of themselves. Although self-portraits have been made since the earliest times, the practice of self-portraiture only gaining momentum in the Early Renaissance in the mid-15th century ...

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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