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Jorge Méndez Blake
MARCO Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, 2024.
Photo by: Michelle Lartigue.
MARCO Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, 2024.
Photo by: Michelle Lartigue.
MARCO Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, 2024.
Photo by: Michelle Lartigue.
MARCO Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, 2024.
Photo by: Michelle Lartigue.
MARCO Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, 2024.
Photo by: Michelle Lartigue.
MARCO Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, 2024.
Photo by: Michelle Lartigue.
MARCO Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, 2024.
Photo by: Michelle Lartigue.
Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, MX, 2023.
Photo: Ana Quiñonez / Estudio Méndez Blake
Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, MX, 2023.
Photo: Ana Quiñonez / Estudio Méndez Blake
Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, MX, 2023.
Photo: Ana Quiñonez / Estudio Méndez Blake
Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, MX, 2023.
Photo: Ana Quiñonez / Estudio Méndez Blake
Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, MX, 2023.
Photo: Ana Quiñonez / Estudio Méndez Blake
Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, MX, 2023.
Photo: Ana Quiñonez / Estudio Méndez Blake
Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, MX, 2023.
Photo: Ana Quiñonez / Estudio Méndez Blake
Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, MX, 2023.
Photo: Ana Quiñonez / Estudio Méndez Blake
Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, MX, 2023.
Photo: Ana Quiñonez / Estudio Méndez Blake
Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, MX, 2023.
Photo: Ana Quiñonez / Estudio Méndez Blake
Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, MX, 2023.
Photo: Ana Quiñonez / Estudio Méndez Blake
Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, MX, 2023.
Photo: Ana Quiñonez / Estudio Méndez Blake
Palm Springs Art Museu, 2023.
Palm Springs Art Museu, 2023.
Instantánea, Antigua Fábrica Kodak, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2020.
Instantánea, Antigua Fábrica Kodak, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2020.
Instantánea, Antigua Fábrica Kodak, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2020.
Instantánea, Antigua Fábrica Kodak, Guadalajara, Mexico, 2020.
Casa de México, Madrid, Spain, 2019.
Casa de México, Madrid, Spain, 2019.
Casa de México, Madrid, Spain, 2019.
Casa de México, Madrid, Spain, 2019.
Casa de México, Madrid, Spain, 2019.
XIII Bienal de la Habana, Cuba, 2019.
XIII Bienal de la Habana, Cuba, 2019.
XIII Bienal de la Habana, Cuba, 2019.
XIII Bienal de la Habana, Cuba, 2019.
XIII Bienal de la Habana, Cuba, 2019.
Centro Cultural Gabriel García Márquez, Bogotá, Colombia, 2018.
Guadalajara, Mexico, 2028.
Guadalajara, Mexico, 2028.
Guadalajara, Mexico, 2028.
Guadalajara, Mexico, 2028.
Guadalajara, Mexico, 2028.
Marfa Contemporary, Texas, United States, 2017.
Marfa Contemporary, Texas, United States, 2017.
Marfa Contemporary, Texas, United States, 2017.
Marfa Contemporary, Texas, United States, 2017.
Marfa Contemporary, Texas, United States, 2017.
2015. La Kunsthalle Centre d’Art Contemporain Mulhouse, France. Curated by Sandrine Wymann.
La Kunsthalle Centre d’Art Contemporain Mulhouse, France. Curated by Sandrine Wymann, 2015.
La Kunsthalle Centre d’Art Contemporain Mulhouse, France. Curated by Sandrine Wymann, 2015.
MUAC (Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo), Mexico City, Mexico. Curated by Amanda de la Garza and Alejandra Labastida, 2015.
MUAC (Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo), Mexico City, Mexico. Curated by Amanda de la Garza and Alejandra Labastida, 2015.
MUAC (Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo), Mexico City, Mexico. Curated by Amanda de la Garza and Alejandra Labastida, 2015.
MUAC (Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo), Mexico City, Mexico. Curated by Amanda de la Garza and Alejandra Labastida, 2015.
MCA Denver, United States. Curated by Nora Abrams, 2014.
MCA Denver, United States. Curated by Nora Abrams, 2014.
MCA Denver, United States. Curated by Nora Abrams, 2014.
Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy. Curated by Anna Lovecchio, 2012.
Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy. Curated by Anna Lovecchio, 2012.
Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genoa, Italy. Curated by Anna Lovecchio, 2012.
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico, 2010.
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico, 2010.
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico, 2010.
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico, 2010.
Museum of Latin American Art, Los Angeles, United States, 2010.
Museum of Latin American Art, Los Angeles, United States, 2010.
Museum of Latin American Art, Los Angeles, United States, 2010.
Museum of Latin American Art, Los Angeles, United States, 2010.
‘Excepciones Normales: arte contemporáneo en México’, temporary exhibition Museo Jumex, 2021.
‘Excepciones Normales: arte contemporáneo en México’, temporary exhibition Museo Jumex, 2021.
he work of Méndez Blake explores the possible intersections between literature, visual arts and architecture, fusing different historic and geographical elements, provoking new readings on the role of language in our culture. The artist employs analysis and synthesis as tools to transform the narrative and the poetic into visual compositions, attempting to shed a light on the material aspects that are implied in the act of writing. Similarly, Méndez Blake has devoted a significant part of his work to studying libraries as relational systems in which historical and cultural dimensions of a given context converge.
His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions in museums such as Palm Springs Art Museum, US; Marfa Contemporary; the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and the Museum of Latin-American Art, Los Angeles, all in the United States; Casa de México in Spain; Kunsthalle Mulhouse, France; Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Geneva, Italy and MUAC Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Museo Tamayo, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros and Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico.
He’s currently presenting a new solo exhibition at the MARCO museum in Monterrey.
His work has been part of group shows at the Musée d’Art Moderne, La Maison Rouge, and the Musée Mac/Val in Paris, France; Ballroom Marfa, the Bass Museum in Miami, Oklahoma Contemporary, the Aspen Art Museum, the Artspace in New Haven, Hessel Museum of Art in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara and ASU Museum of Art, Phoenix in the United States; at Fundación PROA in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander and La Casa Encendida, Madrid, in Spain; at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and Frankendael Foundation in Amsterdam, Netherlands; Queensland Art Gallery, Australia; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium; the Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland. In Mexico, he has shown his work at Museo Jumex, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, MUNAL, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, in Mexico City; Museo Cabañas and Museo de Arte de Zapopan in Guadalajara and Museo Amparo in Puebla, among others.
He has also participated in the XIII Biennale of La Habana, Cuba, with a project at the Biblioteca Nacional José Martí (2019); the Rashid Karami International Fair, Tripoli, Lebanon (2018); the NGV Triennale, Melbourne, Australia (2017); the 13th Istanbul Biennial (2013); SABER DESCONOCER, 43 Salón (Inter) Nacional de Artistas, Museo de Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia (2013) and was a recipient of the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Grant Program Miami, United States (2012). He is a member of Sistema Nacional de Creadores in Mexico.
His work is part of the permanent collections at National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Pérez Collection, Miami, United States; Museo Amparo, Mexico; Fundación Botín, Spain; Deutsche Bank Collection, Germany; Queensland Art Gallery, Australia; Philara Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany; Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico; Colección del pueblo de Jalisco; Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo MUAC, Mexico.
He lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico.
2017. Acrylic on linen. 152.3 x 122 cm
2015.
Archival print on cotton paper.
444 x 81 cm.
2016.
Coloured pencil on paper.
120×150 cm.
2015.
Metal, wood, methacrylate, glass.
300x120x100 cm.
2013. Mixed Media. Variable dimensions
2011.
Wood, Books.
100x70x20 cm.
2014.
Neon.
7×85 cm.
2009.
Neon.
20×65 cm.
2009.
Methacrylate, wood and metal.
91x35x35 cm.
2014. Aluminium, enamel, serography, lacquer. 8 x 8 x 8 cm
2014. Aluminium, enamel, serograph, lacquer. 8 x 8 x 8 cm
Casa de México, Madrid | Jorge Méndez Blake & Gonzalo Lebrija
Éramos felices y no lo sabíamos is the group show that includes works by Jorge Méndez Blake and Gonzalo Lebrija at Casa de México, in Madrid, Spain. The exhibition is part of the Jumex Collection, curated by Ixel Rion Lora, and can be visited until June 8, 2025.
MAZ, Zapopan | Teresa Solar Abboud & Jorge Méndez Blake
Ficciones. Narratividad en el arte contemporáneo is the exhibition curated by Ferran Barenblit at MAZ, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, in Jalisco, Mexico. The exhibition will be open from November 29, 2024 to April 20, 2025. 2025. This show includes works by Jorge Méndez Blake and Teresa Solar Abboud.
ART BASEL, Miami Beach 2024 | Travesía Cuatro
Travesía Cuatro will be at booth D22 at Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, at the Convention Center, Miami Beach, Florida.
Private days: December 4 – 5
Public days: December 6 – 8
Artists: Álvaro Urbano, Teresa Solar Abboud Donna Huanca, Manuel Solano, Ana Prata, John Isaacs, Jorge Méndez Blake, Milena Muzquiz, Willa Wasserman, Sara Ramo, Ángela de la Cruz, Jorge Eielson, Eleonore Koch and Gonzalo Lebrija
Dialogues about a Poet, an Apple, and a Grid
Artists: Jorge Mendez Blake
Author: Jorge Mendez Blake
Impronta Casa Editora en Guadalajara, 2021.
Normal Exceptions: Contemporary Art in Mexico
Artists: Jose Dávila & Jose Méndez Blake
Authors: Kit Hammonds, Adriana Kuri Alamillo, Cindy Peña.
Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, 2021.
XIII Bienal de la Habana. La construcción de lo posible.
Artists: Jorge Méndez Blake, Sara Ramo, Asunción Molinos Gordo
Authors: Norma Rodriguez Derivet, Nelson Herrera Ysla, Ticio Escobar, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, etc.
Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam y ArteCubano Ediciones, Havana, 2019.
GUADALAJARA. Una geografía particular.
Una geografía particular (Grupos y Espacios en México. Arte contemporáneo de los 90)
Artists: Jose Dávila, Gonzalo Lebrija, Jorge Méndez Blake, etc.
Authors: Magalí Arriola, Monica Ashida, Patrick Charpenel, Teresa del Conde, Alejandro Davila, Juan José Doñan, Zélika Garcia, Baudelio Lara, Aurelio Lopez Rocha, Gabriela Lopez Rocha, Rubén Méndez, Humberto Moro, Paco Navarrete, Monica Nepote, Fernando Palomar, Guillermo Santamarina, Cristian Silva, José Noé Suro
Ediciones MP, 2018
Otra Literatura
Artist: Jorge Méndez Blake
Author: Sarah Demeuse, Veronica Gerber Bicecci, Luis Felipe Fabre, Geovana Ibarra, Brenda Lozano, Jorge Méndez Blake, Humberto Moro, Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio, Daniela Pérez, Matthew Reynolds
Ediciones MP, 2016
