Matias Armendaris

Quito, Ecuador, 1990

Vive y trabaja en Chicago, Estados Unidos.

Statement

Through his drawings, engravings and installations Matias Armendaris investigates the pauses and signs that implicate the poetic material of objects with its semiotic potentiality of metamorphosis. His work revolves around exploring the codes of language, comprehending these as units that constitute the object and interfere with relationships that the object establishes with that which lies outside it.

His oeuvres are presented as containers of endless spaces that make use of metaphors taken from science fiction to reflect about binary dynamics of power. His oeuvres include passages of a historical past that opposes facts known -socially and politically- and accepted ideological structures. This dualism of Matias Armendaris’ work confronts the viewer with certain perceptions of otherness existent in our society. And places the viewer in a space of singular accidents riddled with connections and associations between the real and the fictitious.

Recent solo shows include Mise en Abyme (2014); Nausea (2012); Cara y Cruz (2010). He has also participated in group shows such us Material Art Fair (2016); Expanded Non-Territory (2015); Al Final del Pasillo (2014); LindArt Artist Residency Exhibition (2013).

Educación

2018: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, SAIC, Chicago, Estados Unidos.

2015: Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canadá.

2010: Estampería Quiteña, Quito, Ecuador.

2009

American School Foundation, Ciudad de México, México.

Casa de Cultura Jesús Reyes Heroles, Ciudad de México, México.

Premios y reconocimientos

2016: Beca New Artist Society (Mención de honor), School of the Art Institute of Chicago, SAIC, Chicago, Estados Unidos.

2009

Beca de admisión, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canadá.

Artista destacado del año, 40th Annual Art Fair, the American School Foundation, Ciudad de México, México.

2005: Beca otorgada por la Fundación Christopher, CFFTA, Vancouver, Canadá.

Residencias

2017: Premio Brasil, Residencia en Pivô, Sao Paulo, Brasil; impulsado por el Centro de Arte Contemporáneode Quito, Ecuador.

2013: Primer lugar en LindArt Artist Residency, Lendava, Eslovenia.

Exposiciones individuales

2016: Manual de autoayuda para heridas colectivas de vidas pasadas visibles e invisibles, ArteBA25 (Barrio Joven), booth BJ6, No Lugar Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2014: Mise en Abyme, Gallery Museum of Lendava, Eslovenia.

2012: Nausea, The Gam Gallery, Vancouver, Canadá

2010: Cara y Cruz, No Lugar, Quito, Ecuador.

Exposiciones colectivas seleccionadas

2018: Material Art Fair, Galería Sketch, Ciudad de México, México.

2017

Muestra Premio Brasil, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Quito, Ecuador.

ArtBO, Galería Sketch, Bogotá, Colombia.

2016

Material Art Fair, Galería Sketch, Ciudad de México, México.

Phantom Limb – Chapter One – The Relic, Public Access, Chicago, Estados Unidos.

Artissima Art Fair, Galería Sketch, Turín, Italia.

Tongues, Echoes: Matias Armendaris, Hyang Cho, and Olivia Whetung, Access Gallery, Vancouver, Canadá.

2015

La Quietud Hecha Esfinge, In-Situ (patio), Ciudad de México, México.

Expanded Non-Territory, Project Space, Vancouver, Canadá.

2014

Al Final del Pasillo, Taller Observatorio, Ciudad de México, México.

Salon Acme 2, Archipielago, Ciudad de México, México.

2013

LindArt Artist Residency Exhibition, Gallery Museum of Lendava, Eslovenia.

Hechos Inciertos del Porvenir, Bicéfalo, Ciudad de México, México.

2012

Aproximaciones al fin, Galeria CC186, Ciudad de México, México.

Bestiario, Foro Indie Rocks, Ciudad de México, México.

Your Body is a template, Omiya, Ciudad de México, México.

La Bota en Tiempos de Guerra, Brick, Ciudad de México, México.

Show and Tell, Satelite Gallery, Vancouver, Canadá.

The Seventh Bienial International Miniature Print Exhibition, Across B.C., British Columbia, Canadá.

Referencing the Referent, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, Canadá.

2011

Presence 2, Catalog Gallery, Vancouver, Canadá.

TRIUMF, Tapestry, Vancouver, Canadá.

Dinner for the Dead, The Waldorf Hotel, Vancouver, Canadá.

Nomad 2, Nomad Gallery, Vancouver, Canadá.

The Cheaper Show 10, Vancouver, Canadá.

Spread, Chapel Arts, Vancouver, Canadá.

New Ground: Discoveries in Study Abroad, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, Canadá.

Interval, Fourtwoeightfive Gallery, Burnaby, Canadá.

MERKINtile, 221A Gallery, Vancouver, Canadá.

Print Selecta, The Fall Gallery, Vancouver, Canadá.

2010

Black Holes and Other Transformations, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, Canadá.

In Print, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, Canadá.

Holy Chromoly!, Grace Gallery, Vancouver, Canadá.

2009

Cronopolis, Casa de Cultura Jesús Reyes Heroles, Ciudad de México, México.

The 40th Annual Art Fair, The American School Foundation, Ciudad de México, México.

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