Born 1963 in Havana, Cuba
Lives and works in Mérida, Mexico and New York
1984–1988 BFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
1982–1984 University of Illinois at Chicago
2023
TEFAF 2023, Petzel Gallery, New York
Jorge Pardo: JP @ SCAD, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah
2022
Jorge Pardo, Gió Marconi, Milan
Sarah Charlesworth & Jorge Pardo, Paula Cooper Gallery, Palm Beach
2021
Jorge Pardo: Mongrel, Miami Dade College, MOAD & Freedom Tower, Miami
Jorge Pardo: All bets are off, Petzel Gallery, New York (520 W), Chelsea, New York
2020
Jorge Pardo. Flamboyant, Galeria Luciana Brito, Sao Paulo
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Albertusstrasse, Cologne
2019
Jorge Pardo. Eccentric Reflexivity 1988–1994, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2018
Jorge Pardo. mx, Santa Maria dela Ribera, Mexico City
Victoria Miro, London (Wharf Road, London
2017
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne Jorge Pardo. Self Portraits, Petzel Gallery, New York
Lux Art Institute, Encinitas
2016
José García, Mérida
2015
Meretricious, David Gill Gallery, London
2014
Jorge Pardo, neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Dad’s Cuba, 1301PE, Los Angeles
Toulouse International Art Festival, Musée des Augustins, Toulouse
Jorge Pardo & Milena Muzquiz, Travesia Cuatro, Guadalajara
Jorge Pardo. Inert, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2012
Jorge Pardo, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Jorge Pardo, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana Biennial, Havana
2011
Jorge Pardo, neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Untitled, Armory center for the Arts and One Colorado, Pasadena
2010
Bulgogi, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
Jorge Pardo, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Jorge Pardo, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2009
Jorge Pardo. From the collection of Pae White, 1301PE, Los Angeles
K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
2008
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Jorge Pardo, Michael Maloney/ Maloney Fine Art
Jorge Pardo, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles
Jorge Pardo, Haunch of Venison, London
2007
Jorge Pardo: House, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
Jorge Pardo, Lighthouse – Instllatie Van, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Jorge Pardo, Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid
Jorge Pardo, I love my wife, Neugeriemschneider, Berlin
Jorge Pardo, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2006
Jorge Pardo, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Jorge Pardo, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Jorge Pardo, Gio Marconi, Mailand
Jorge Pardo, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
2005
Jorge Pardo – Las Vegas, Galerie Neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Jorge Pardo, Haunch of Venison, Zurich
Jorge Pardo, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
2004
Jorge Pardo, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Jorge Pardo, 1301 PE, Los Angeles
Jorge Pardo, Collecion Fundació “la Caixa”, Barcelona
2003
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Jorge Pardo, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
Prototype, Dia Art Foundation, New York
Haunch of Venison, London
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Gio Marconi, Milano
2002
Le Consortium, Dijon
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle
China Art Objects, Los Angeles
1301PE, Los Angeles
Neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Taka Iishi, Tokyo
Gio Marconi, Berlin
PKM, Seoul
Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Public Art Fund Project, Madison Square Park, New York
2001
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Montblanc Kulturstiftung, Hamburg
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2000
Dia Art Foundation, New York
Kunsthalle Basel (cat.)
Galeria Marta Cevera, Madrid
Brian Butler, 1301 PE, Los Angeles
1999
The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia
Royal Festival Hall, London (cat.)
Neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Swish I’m a Fish, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach (cat.)
Brian Butler, 1301 PE, Los Angeles
1998
Jorge Pardo. 4166 Sea View Lane, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (cat.)
Ghislaine Hussenot/Phillipe Rizzo, Brussels
Patrick Painter, Santa Monica
Baby Blue, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Wool, Cotton, Latex, Wax & Steel, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Villa Franck, Ludwigsburg
1997
Lighthouse, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (cat.)
Garnish and Landscape (w/ Tobias Rehberger), Gesellschaft für Gegenwartskunst, Augsburg (cat.)
1996
It Hangs Out There, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Neugerriemschneider, Berlin
1995
Nafta, Tom Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles
Borgmann Capitain Gallery, Cologne
1994
Zeichnungen, neugerriemschneider, Berlin
One Component of the Work Is That the Show Will Have Many Titles, One of Them Being: MoCA.Three Prints Per Second, Friedrich Petzel/ Nina Borgmann, New York
1993
Person’s Weekend Museum, Tokyo (cat.)
Tom Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles
1992
Terrain Gallery, San Francisco
1991
Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica
1990
Tom Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles
Petersburg Gallery, New York
1988
Bliss Gallery, Pasadena
2024
Soliloquies, Petzel Gallery, New York
2023
Tomorrow is the Question: Benefit Art Sale, Storefront for Art and Archiecture at kurimanzutto, New York
Light is like Water, Water is like Light, Brant-Timonier, Palm Beach
An Apartment for Ghosts: ’57–’23, Petzel Gallery, New York
2022
Joan Didion: What She Means, Hammer Museum, Westwood, Los Angeles
Sarah Charlesworth & Jorge Pardo, Paula Cooper Gallery, Palm Beach
2021
The Art of Assemblage, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Ft. Lauderdale
Konstantin Grcic & Jorge Pardo: The Museum, a Chair, a Lamp Miteinander Gegenüber #2, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Toes, Knees, Shoulders, Heads + Butts & Guts, Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York
Works on Paper, Petzel Gallery, New York (35 E), Upper East Side, New York
Infinite Games… 2, Capitain Petzel, Berlin
The Prints Project, Shoot the Lobster, New York
Via Cafe, Tif Sigfrids, Athens
2020
Green Go Home, Hua International, Berlin
Infinite Games, Capitain Petzel, Berlin
2020
Backstage: Topology Of Contemporary Art, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg
Room enough for former teasers, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Kunst Handwerk, Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig (GfZK), Leipzig
Mechanics of Skin, Galerie Hussenot, Paris
2019
Arts Crafts: Between tradition, discourse and technologies, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
Chairs Beyond Right & Wrong, R & Company NY, New York
Jorge Pardo, Enoc Perez & Urs Fischer: Summer Installation, Lever House Art
Collection, New York
A Time Capsule Continued, Parkett Editions, Zürich
2018
Making Space, Mixografia, Los Angeles
2017
Cells, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Display – between art and arts & crafts, Applied Arts Pavillion, Venice Biennale
Some Aesthetic Decisions: A Centenary Celebration of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain, NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2016
Artists Choose Artists, Parrish Art Museum, Watermill, New York
Okoyama Art Summit 2016, Okoyama
Progressive Praxis, de la Cruz Collection, Miami
Fine Young Cannibals, Petzel Gallery, New York
Viehof Collection: International Contemporary Art, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
2015
You’ve Got to Know the Rules … to Break Them, de la Cruz Collection, Miami
Petzel Gallery, New York
Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
Yes We’re Open, Gió Marconi, Milano
2014
Contemporary/Modern: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
Man in the Mirror, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels
Summer Group Show, 1301PE, Los Angeles
Beyond the Supersquare, The Bronx Museum of Arts, New York
Festival international d’art Toulouse, Musée des Augustins, Toulouse
2013
From the Collection: Looking at Process, De La Cruz Collection.
Contemporary Art Space, Miami
KölnSkulptur #7, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne
Display @, Galerie Hussenot, Paris
Objective, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles
Finisce e Continua Uno, Gesso Artspace, Vienna
Rockypoint Prints & Films, Sommer & Kohl, Berlin
2012
Print/Out, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York
2011
Art of Communication: Anri Sala, Yang Ah Ham, Philippe Parreno, Jorge
Pardo, National Museum of Art, Deoksugung
Everything Must Go, a project with Cerámica Suro, Guadalajara
Suspense. Suspended sculptures, EX3 Centro per l’arte contemporanea Florence
2010
abc. light camera action, Marshall-haus, Berlin exhibition grounds, Berlin
a basic human impulse, Moroso/Civic Gallery of Contemporary Art of Monfalcone
The Jewel Thief, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
Prometheus!, Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz
Interim in Three Rounds, Round 3, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2009
Le Nouveau Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Il Giardino dei Lauri, The Angela and Massimo Lauro Collection, Città delle Pieve
UFO. Grenzgänge Kunst und Design – Blurring the Boundaries between Art and Design, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
15 Jahre Sammlung. Gegen den Strich, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Jonathan Viner’s Furniture Show, Jonathan Viner Gallery, London
2008
theanyspacewhatever, The Guggenheim Museum, New York
Abstrakt / abstract, Museum Moderner Kunst Kaernten, Klagenfurt
2007
Köln Skulptur 4, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne
Rooms with a View: Environments for Video, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Idylle, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, National Gallery, Prague
Manipulations, Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
on paper, Amerikanische Zeichnung ab 1960, Gesellschaft für Gegenwartskunst e.V., Augsburg
The Lath Picture Show, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2006
Idylle Traum und Trugschluss, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg-Harburg
Manipulacje, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Danzig
This is not for you, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
all hawaii eNtrees, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2005
Colours and Trips, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Museum der Stadt Ratingen
Fairy Tales Forever, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Arhus
View Eight: A Few Domestic Objects Interrogate a Few Works of Art, curated by Bruce Ferguson, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
THINK BLUE, Blum&Poe, Los Angeles
“Kiss The Frog” – The Art of Tranformation, Nasjongalleriet, Oslo
2004
26th Bienale de Sao Paulo, Fundacao Bienal de Sao Paulo
Trans/Migrations: Graphics as Contemporary Art, San Juan Poly/Grapic Triennial, Old San Juan
Nothing Compared to This, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Off the Wall, Bruce Museum, Grennwich
North Fork/Sourth Fork: East End art Now, Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton
Design Art, Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Albright College Freedman Art Gallery, Reeding Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville
2003
On The Wall, The RISD Museum, Rhode Island
100 Artists See God, ICA, New York
Jessica Stockholder: “Table Top Sculpture”, Gorney, Bravin + Lee, New York
Gio Marconi, Milano
I Moderni//The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli (Torino)
It Happened Tomorrow, Lyon Biennale, Lyon
Flower Power, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille
2002
Jorge Pardo, Philippe Parreno, 1301PE, Los Angeles
Touch: Relational Art from the 1990s to Now, San Francisco Art Institute
Refraction, Jorge Pardo and Gerhard Richter, Dia Center for the Arts, New York
No Return, Sammlung Haubrok, Städtiches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (cat.)
Busan Biennale 2002: Culture meets culture, Busan
2001
Active Ingredients, Copia, American Center for Food Wine & the Arts
Reverb, Jorge Pardo and Gilberto Zorio, Dia Center for the Arts, New York
Beautiful Productions, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Comfort, curated by Kristin Chambers, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art
Public Offerings, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
KolnSkulpture3, curated by Dr. Michael Stoffel, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne
In Between: Art and Architecture, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
The Beauty of Intimacy, Lens and Paper, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism: SITE Santa Fe Fourth International Biennal, Santa Fe
Collaborations with Parkett, 1984 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2000
Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1989, curated by Ilene Kurtz, David Kiehl & Patrick Moore, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
Talleres: Art from the Guadalajara Workshops, Mexican Cultural Institute
Threads of Dissent, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia
Against Design, curated by Steven Beyer, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary At, San Diego, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Double Space, curated by A.S. Bessa, Apex Art Curatorial Program, New York
Objecthood 00, Rethymnon Centre for Contemporary Art, Rethymnon
Strange Paradise, Casino Luxembourg
Quotidiana, Castello di Rivoli, Torino
Rags to Riches, curated by Petra Bungert and Alexandra Dimentieva, Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels (cat.)
What If, Moderna Museet, curated by Maria Lind and Liam Gillick, Stockholm
Quiet Life, Blickle Stiftung
Fast Forward, Kunstverein Hamburg
Strange Paradise, Casino Luxembourg
1999
Threads of Dissent, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Objecthood 00, Hellenic American Union, Athens
Comfort Zone: Furniture by Artists, curated by Amy Wolf, The Public Art Fund, PaineWebber Art Gallery (brochure)
Jorge Pardo (with Bob Weber), China Art Objects, Los Angeles
Drawn by…, Metro Pictures, New York
Talleres: Art From Guadalajara Workshops, curated by Carlos Ashida, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica
DConstructivism: life back in to art, Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Center
Wonder world – notes for a solid collection, Newsantandrea, Savona
Konstruktionszeichnungen, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
1998
Light X Eight: The Hanukkah Project, Jewish Museum, New York
Richard Hawkins/Jorge Pardo, Brent Petersen Gallery, Los Angeles
Chaos, Control, Chaos, Control You Like? You Like, curated by Anne Lemieux, Elias Fine Art, Boston
artranspennine, with Langlands and Bell, Atelier van Lieshout and Francois Quardon, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, curated by Penelope Curtis (cat.)
Dad’s Art, neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
FAST FORWARD “archives”, Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg
Fast Forward / Body Check, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg
Works for the Ideal Home, Art Metropole, Toronto
Scratches on the surface of things, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Marienhof – Konzepte der Kunst, Rathaus, München
Kunst für Bundestagsneubauten, Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin
Jason Meadows / Jorge Pardo, Brent Petersen Gallery, Los Angeles
Mai ’98, Kunsthalle Köln, Cologne (cat.)
Minis, Midis & Maxis, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz
1997
Angel Hair EX. LA., Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig
Check in, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
Hospital, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Kunst..Arbeit, Aus der Sammlung SudWest LB, Stuttgart (cat.)
KölnSkulptur 1, Cologne (cat. pp. 122-125)
Kevin Appel, Francis Cape, Jorge Pardo, Janice Guy, New York, curated by Margaret Murray
Assuming Positions, Institute of Contemporary Art, London (cat.)
Home Sweet Home, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (cat.)
Rooms With a View. Environments for Videos, Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York, curated by Nancy Spector (including Vito Acconci, Angela Bulloch, and Dan Graham)
Laying Low: Postminimalism/Scatter Art, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway (cat.)
Bastards of Modernity, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
Skulptur. Projekte in Münster 1997, Münster (cat.)
Cruising L.A., Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid (cat.)
1996
True.BLISS, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (cat.)
Just Past: Contemporary and Permanent Collection 1975–1996, MoCA Los Angeles
Richard Telles Gallery, Los Angeles (with Jim Iserman)
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Ab Fab, feature inc, New York
Blum & Poe, Santa Monica
Defining the 90’s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (cat.)
Projekte/Projects:Art at the New Trade Fair of Leipzig, Leipzig (cat.)
Multiple Pleasure, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Dark Memories Hovering, Marc Foxx Gallery, Santa Monica
Traffic, CAPC Musee d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France (cat.)
le labyrinthe moral, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Dijon
nach Weimar, Kunstsammlung zu Weimar, Weimar (cat.)
wunderbar, Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg (cat.)
Faustrecht der Freiheit: Sammlung Volkmann, Kunstsammlung Gera
Alle Neune, ACC Galerie, Weimar
groupshow, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Ranch, Peter Strauss Ranch, Santa Monica
Jim Iserman, Jorge Pardo, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Affairs, Institut für Gegenwartskunst, Vienna
Der Umbau Raum, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Legende I, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
Ab Fab, feature inc., New York
1995
Affairs, Institut fuer Gegenwartskunst, Vienna
Hawaii (with Pae White, Mitchell Kane, & Mythter), Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Alles was modern ist, Galerie Baerbel Graesslin, Frankfurt
Dark Memories Hovering Below the Transparent Screen of the Present Will Project Images of Reality in Sharp Silhouette, to Create the Pleasurable Effect of a Double World, Marc Foxx, Santa Monica, CA
Le Consortium, Dijon
1994
filmcuts, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany (video)
Das Ende der Avantgarde – Kunst als Dienstleistung, Sammlung Schuermann, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany (cat.)
Saturday Night Fever, curated by Michael Cohen and Catherine Liu, Tom Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles
Interdisciplinary, Woodbury University, Burbank
Temporary Translation(s) – Kunst der Gegenwart und Fotografie – Sammlung Schuermann, Deichtorhallen Hamburg (cat.)
Neue Möbel für die Villa, Villa Merkel, Esslingen
Lost Paradise, Kunstraum Wien, Vienna
Pure Beauty: Some Recent Work From Los Angeles, curated by Ann Goldstein, traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Los AngeleAmerican Center, Paris
Backstage, Kunstmuseum Luzern
Untitled Groupshow, Metro Pictures, New York.
Love in the Ruins, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach (cat.)
Breakdown , MOCA ,San Diego (cat.)
Museum auf Zeit, slide projections at Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
1993
Backstage, Kunstverein Hamburg
Pardo– Segar– Rirkit Tiravanija– Tobier, 1301 Gallery, Santa Monica
Displace Michael Cohen Gallery, New York
Summer Group Exhibition, Anderson O’Day Gallery, London
11– Artists organized by Tim Neuger, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
6– Artists organized by Tim Neuger, Galerie Max Hetzler
1992
Gallery Artists Group Show, Thomas Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles
Tele Mundo, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco
Very, Very, Very… Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica
5 Artists Summer Show, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco
Mars Gallery, Tokyo
Object/objet (with Stephen Berens, Elizabeth Bryant, Anne Walsh), El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance
California: North and South, Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena (cat.)
1991
Phenon/Phenotype: A Group Therapy, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco
L.A. Times, curated by Jackie Christ, Boise Museum of Modern Art, Boise
Facing the Finish, curated by John Caldwell and Robert Riley, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (cat.)
1990
Omnia ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, curated by Peter Wright, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
Improvements on the Ordinary, curated by Dan Peterman, Randolph Street, Chicago
Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica
New Sculpture (with Craig Watson), Terrain Gallery, San Francisco
1989
H20, curated by Thomas Solomon, Beverly Hills
1987
Graduate Group Show, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena