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Milena Muzquiz
Torggler Fine Arts Center, Virginia, USA, 2025.
Photography by Matt Crim.
Torggler Fine Arts Center, Virginia, USA, 2025.
Photography by Matt Crim.
Torggler Fine Arts Center, Virginia, USA, 2025.
Photography by Matt Crim.
Torggler Fine Arts Center, Virginia, USA, 2025.
Photography by Matt Crim.
Torggler Fine Arts Center, Virginia, USA, 2025.
Photography by Matt Crim.
Travesía Cuatro Guadalajara, Mexico, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro Guadalajara, Mexico, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro Guadalajara, Mexico, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro Guadalajara, Mexico, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro Guadalajara, Mexico, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro Guadalajara, Mexico, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro Guadalajara, Mexico, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro Guadalajara, Mexico, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro Guadalajara, Mexico, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro Guadalajara, Mexico, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro Guadalajara, Mexico, 2022.
Travesía Cuatro Guadalajara, Mexico, 2022.
Jardin 17 Casa Estudio Luis Barragán, Mexico City, 2021.
Jardin 17 Casa Estudio Luis Barragán, Mexico City, 2021.
Jardin 17 Casa Estudio Luis Barragán, Mexico City, 2021.
Jardin 17 Casa Estudio Luis Barragán, Mexico City, 2021.
Jardin 17 Casa Estudio Luis Barragán, Mexico City, 2021.
Jardin 17 Casa Estudio Luis Barragán, Mexico City, 2021.
Casa Masa, Mexico City, 2021.
Casa Masa, Mexico City, 2021.
Installation View, Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2020.
Installation View, Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2020.
Installation View, Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2020.
Installation View, Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2020.
Installation View, Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2020.
Installation View, Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2020.
Installation View, Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2020.
Installation View, Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2020.
Installation View, Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2020.
Installation View, Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2020.
Installation View, Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2020.
Installation View, Travesía Cuatro CDMX, 2020.
Arles, France, 2019.
Arles, France, 2019.
Miami, United States, 2019.
Miami, United States, 2019.
Miami, United States, 2019.
Miami, United States, 2019.
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Getty Foundation program), Los Angeles, United States, 2017.
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Getty Foundation program), Los Angeles, United States, 2017.
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Getty Foundation program), Los Angeles, United States, 2017.
Boghossian Foundation (group show). Curated by Tino Sehgal, Dorothea von Hantelmann and Asad Raza, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium, 2017.
Boghossian Foundation (group show). Curated by Tino Sehgal, Dorothea von Hantelmann and Asad Raza, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium, 2017.
La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain. (group show). Curated by Tania Pardo, 2016.
La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain. (group show). Curated by Tania Pardo, 2016.
La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain. (group show). Curated by Tania Pardo, 2016.
New York, United States, 2015.
New York, United States, 2015.
New York, United States, 2015.
Milena Muzquiz’s works provide a direct encounter with her wit and her engagement with personal narratives and memories. Her paintings of women surrounded, if not enveloped, by flower blossoms, are recollections of memories of places, oozing with nostalgia. Viewers are invited to share her reminiscences of a semi-imaginary world, recalling her Tijuana birthplace and childhood vacations. The artist’s images and motifs feel familiar, rendered in expressionist brushstrokes.
Performance is an essential aspect of many of Muzquiz’s artistic projects, one of them was the group Los Super Elegantes, which she founded with Martiniano López Crozet in the nineties; this became a combination of installation, video art and music, which circulated in both institutional spaces such as museums and art fairs, but also in music festivals around Latin America. The artists referenced the fantasy of music understood as mass entertainment as a moldable and open possibility; Muzquiz will reflect this afterwards in her individual work by altering the dynamics of the exhibition space, incorporating performative and participative aspects.
Milena Muzquiz trained at the California College of Fine Arts, San Francisco and then completed an MFA at the Art Centre College of Design, Pasedena, tutored by conceptual artist Mike Kelley.
She has presented solo exhibitions at Instituto de Visión, New York, USA (2023); Travesía Cuatro, Guadalajara, Mexico (2022); David Gill Gallery, London, United Kingdom (2019); Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, lead by the Getty Foundation (2017); Travesía Cuatro, Madrid, Spain (2017, 2014); Travesía Cuatro, Guadalajara, Mexico (2014); Pantaleone Gallery, Palermo, Italy (2010); Interior Projects, Los Angeles, United States (2008); and Deitch Projects, New York, United States (2000).
She has also taken part in group exhibitions in museums and biennales including: Bohossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium (2017); La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain (2016); Dickinson Gallery, New York, United States (2016); Peter Kilchmann (2015); 6th Liverpool Biennial (2010); 28th São Paulo Biennale (2008); Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France (2007); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, United States (2007); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States (2006).
The artist lives and works in Los Angeles.
2016.
Oil on linen.
80x65x8 cm.
2014.
Hand painted ceramic.
55.9×78.7×114.3 cm.
2016.
Oil on linen.
80x65x8 cm.
Detail.
2016.
Oil on linen.
80x65x8 cm.
2015.
Hand painted ceramic
29x21x35 cm.
2015.
Hand painted ceramic.
20x14x14 cm.
2015.
Hand painted ceramic.
42x25x26 cm.
2015.
Hand painted ceramic.
35x24x35 cm.
2015.
Hand painted ceramic.
46x30x43 cm.
2015.
Hand painted ceramic.
30x19x20 cm.
2015.
Hand painted ceramic.
20x40x52 cm.
2016.
Oil on linen.
80x65x8 cm.
2014.
Hand painted ceramic.
80 x 70 x 100 cm.
Torggler Fine Arts Center, Virginia | Milena Muzquiz
Milena Muzquiz is currently featured in the group exhibition The Vessel Revisited: Fundamental Forms in Contemporary Ceramics at the Anne Noland Edwards Gallery at Torggler Fine Arts Center, Newport, Virginia, USA. The show is open to visitors until August 8th, 2025.
LOS ANGELES MUNICIPAL ART GALLERY | Milena Muzquiz
The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs’ (DCA) will present Step & Repeat, a group exhibition curated by Nancy Meyer and John Weston. The show, that includes works by Milena Muzquiz, will be on view from March 6th at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG), USA.
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
