News — Ernesto Solana

06/22

KOLAPSE imaginar desde el colapso opened on June 30th at Machete Galeria in Mexico City.

Bitácoras: Colección Fundación Casa Wabi opened on June 24th at Museo de Arte Contemporéneo Queretaro (MACQ) and will be on view until September 25th 2022 - The exhibition consists of 66 artists that have been part of Casa Wabi´s residency program from 2014 - 2022.

05/22

During May 2022 I was a resident at LACASAPARK in upstate New York.

Check out some of the work I did here.

04/22

A Self of Herself (Ungarden II), 2022 was part of Machete Galeria´s booth A08 at Material Art Fair Vol. 8 in Mexico City

Inmortalizando al cangrejo a group show organized by guadalajara90210 opened as a site specific proyect in a house in Colonia Condesa in Mexico City, where I participated with 3 sculptures along with other great artists.

Inmortalizando al cangrejo organized by guadalajara90210 was featured in Artishock
See full article here

01/22

Entre Irse y Quedarse a group show conformed by Mexican artists curated by Mario Navarro at palace enterprise in Copehagen, DK

11/21

My solo show Instituto de la neoprehistoria: Capítulo II featured in Artishock
See full article here.

10/21

My solo Instituto de la neoprehistoria: Capítulo II opened October 29th on Centro Interpretativo Guachimontones “Phil Weigand” in the archaeology site Guachimontones, Teuchitlan, MX

07/21

Bajo el sol de Jalisco is a summer group show by Machete in collaboration with CURRO in Guadalajara, MX

06/21

La Jornada journal did a piece on my solo show Sympoietic that was the culmination of my residency USSR in Mexico City.
See full article here.

05/21

Some of my photographic work is included in the graphic design and art direction of the Mexican Pavilion entitled Desplazamientos for the 17th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale Di Venezia.

Graphic design and art direction by Estudio Herrera.

Access the project webpage here.

My solo show Sympoietic featured in Artishock
See full article here.

04/21

Memory Shop curated by Nicolás Bourriaud opened April 24th at Casa Wabi in Puerto Escondido, MX and will be on view until January 2022

Capitaloceno on view until June 30th at Casa Wabi Santa Maria in Mexico City, MX

Practicas imaginarias de Astronomía, Biología y Botánica presented by guadalajara90210 is part of ZONA MACO art week in Mexico City, MX

03/21

Instituto de la neoprehistoria at Terremoto Magazine
See full article here.

02/21

Excited to be part of SALON ACME Nº9 in Mexico City, MX September 9th - 12th 2021

01/21

Instituto de la neoprehistoria Capitulo I: Despertar entrópico on view until February 27th at guadalajara90210 in Guadalajara, MX

12/20

Forage and Gather a photographic series I made in 2015 is featured on DER GREIF a Munich-based organization for contemporary photography.

11/20

Ecología feral until January 2021 at view in Casa Wabi, Mexico City, MX

10/20

Transatlantico opens October 18th at Mana Contemporary, New Jersey, US

Interlaced (Boa Constrictor) is part of online exhibition curated by Marie Gomis-Trezise. The monthly Guest Room hosted by DER GREIF a Munich-based organization for contemporary photography.

“The night doesn’t swallow us, it lets us stumble.“

07/20

A couple of photographs where included in the publication Der Greif #13 »Surplus Management« (In and Out of Order) by DER GREIF a Munich-based organization for contemporary photography.
Guest edited by Penelope Umbrico.

06/20

From Hartford with Love is a photographic print sale & fundraising campaign offering archival prints donated by 70+ photography alumni, students, and faculty from the Hartford Photography MFA program.

In solidarity with the efforts to raise the awareness and reform of racial injustice in the US. All proceeds of this sale (minus printing and postage) will be donated to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

You can buy my work Mecate (El Rosario), 2020 at this amazing fundraising.

05/20

Fotos por México is a fundraising initiative to support our country in response to the public health crisis in which we are living as caused by COVID-19. All money raised will be automaitcally deposited to the Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición.
You can buy my work From Before The Now, 2018 at this amazing fundraising.

04/20

On Wednesday April 29th I’m going to be talking about my work with the Director and Chief Curator of Visual Arts of Americas Society / Council of the Americas Aimé Iglesias Lukin as part of their Live Instagram program In the Studio. You can watch the video on their youtube channel here.

03/20

Artishock created an article about the group show Pajaro piedra curated by Andrea Celda at kino tonalá located on Cine Tonalá in Mexico City.

02/20

Endemic Studies I featured on This week on Cargo a weekly newsletter that highlights artwork from Cargo’s community

02/20

Totemic Studies II is part of group show Inmanente: Disoluciones en el paisaje curated by César Girón at Oficina de Proyectos Culturales (OPC) an independent non-profit arts organization in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

02/20

A Chthonic Becoming (Mendieta’s Venus), Totemic Figure (Offering II) and Taxon Resin (Anthropocene Studies) are part of the group show Pájaro piedra curated by Andrea Celda at kino tonalá located on Cine Tonalá in Mexico City.

01/20

Saturniidae (Diorama Studies) and Exuviae (Diorama Studies) where part of Plaza de la informalidad on this year’s ZONA MACO a new space organized by the gallery guadalajara90210.

01/20

My solo show Transformarse en objeto/Becoming Object at Proyecto Arte was part of the activities of PreMaco Guadalajara 2020.

Recent inclusion of my work accompanying an excerpt of Belarus writer Sasha Filipenko’s new novel on the literature edition of printed magazine Esquire Russia.

11/19

Check out this video that features my work from Fisheye Magazine along with a great article that speaks about my process as an artist.

Read the article here.

Hummingbird Pedestal (Totemic Studies) is feature in the cover of Fisheye Magazinez’s special Paris Photo issue #39 along with a with a beautiful text by Lou Tsatsas and other work. I’m exited that this fisheye feature is deticated to the current environmental crisis.

11/19

Here is the note that Mural newspaper did on my solo show Transformarse en objeto / Becoming Object at Proyecto Arte in Guadalajara, Mexico.

My solo show Transformarse en objeto / Becoming Object opened on November 2nd at Proyecto Arte in Guadalajara, Mexico. Curated by Miriam Villaseñor. On view until February 8th 2020.

Saturniidae (Diorama Studies), Totemic Studies II and Exuviae (Diorama Studies) are part of the group show Mercurio retrógrado organized by the gallery by the gallery guadalajara90210 in Guadalajara, Mexico. On view until December 21st.

10/19

I had the opportunity to be a resident at Palazzo Monti an artist residency housed in a palazzo dating back to 1200 in Brescia, Italy.

09/19

Saturniidae (Diorama Studies), Totemic Studies II and Exuviae (Diorama Studies) are part of the group show El Castillo de los ladrillos rotos organized by the gallery guadalajara90210. Happening during Gallery Weekend CDMX 2019.

Opening September 7th in Mexico City.

08/19

Untitled (Clay Studies I) made while in residency at Casa Wabi is part of online exhibition at Don’t Take Pictures a New York-based photography magazine.

See the online gallery here.

07/19

Totemic Figure (Offering I) is part of online exhibition curated by Emma Bowkett director of photography at FT Weekend Magazine. The monthly Guest Room hosted by DER GREIF a Munich-based organization for contemporary photography, considers Juan Downey’s quote from ‘The Laughing Alligator’ as the theme for the instalment.

“I discover that I would like to be eaten up by some Indians of the Amazon rainforest, not as a self-sacrifice, at least not consciously, but as a demonstration of the ultimate architecture. To inhabit, to mourn both physically and psychologically within the human being, who would eventually eat me.”  

See the online gallery here.

Untitled (Treefrog), 2018 is featured as photo of the day at VOGUE Italia’s PHOTOVOGUE.

06/19

Here is the note that El Norte newspaper did on Primal Reflex and Más allá del mundo, hay letras current shows on view until Aug 23th at PEANA in Monterrey, MX.

Come visit my solo show Primal Relfex on view until Aug 23th at PEANA in Monterrey, MX.

Work from Systema Artificialis got publish in Photobook Vol. 3, the books surveys the best contemporary photographers published by Fisheye Magazine.

As a conclusion of my month-long residency at SVA Bio Art Lab in New York City fellow residents and me presented a group exhibition titled Sympoiesis.

The School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents a group exhibition highlighting the work of eight artists and scientists, produced at SVA’s Bio Art Lab. Entitled, Sympoiesis, this exhibition speaks to Donna Haraway’s concept of boundaryless systems. Like complex, self-organizing, and collectively produced networks, the works in the exhibition range from video, installation, photography, sculpture, 3D printing, and living matter. Both materials and processes speak through the biological world as a matrix of metaphor. Materials include bacteria, fungi, plant and marine life, fish skins, as well as found artifacts and technologically driven programs.

02/19

Here is the interview that Mural newspaper did to me where I talk about my process and the artist residency I attended in Guadalajara, MX.

01/19

Open Studio for Premaco Guadalajara 2019.

Untitled (Goldfish) from my series Systema Artificialis is part of Photo-Emphasis group show BREAK A LEG curated by Rebecca Drolen at sUgAR Gallery in the University of Arkansas.