Miguel Calderón
Miguel Calderón (born June 1, 1971 in Mexico City) is a Mexican artist and film maker. In the 1990s, along with other artists, he founded the independent art space, La Panadería, in the Condesa neighborhood in Mexico City. Calderón received his BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1994. He has worked in paint, photography, video, film and installation.
Miguel Calderón has been considered to have "a knack for pushing crass stereotypes and clichés to absurd and provocative extremes."[1] An article in Sculpture magazine called him "something of an international phenom,"[2] and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art referred to him "[t]he enfant terrible of contemporary art in Mexico."[3] His gallery, kurimanzutto, claims that Calderón "highlights the macabre complexity of man’s position in the universe deftly weaving together mockery, foolishness, social critique and sincerity of emotion."[4]
He has solo exhibitions at the
His work has been displayed at, among other places, the
Some of his work also appeared in the film The Royal Tenenbaums after director Wes Anderson saw Calderón's work.[14][15][16]
Calderón has also worked in collaboration with different publishers and has a varied collection of artists books.
References
- ^ Antioch College Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Sculpture magazine article
- ^ SFMOMA Archived 2007-07-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "miguel calderón - Artists - Kurimanzutto". www.kurimanzutto.com. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
- ^ a b c d Artnet
- ^ a b Andrea Rosen Gallery page
- ^ a b San Francisco Art Institute biography Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Artnet article
- ^ Mexican Embassy Archived 2007-06-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Sharjah Biennial
- ^ Yokohama Triennale Archived 2007-06-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Frieze Art Fair Archived 2007-01-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Calderon at SFMOMA Archived 2007-07-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Studio 360 Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Slant Magazine
- ^ Eater, "The Stories Behind Five Pieces of New Restaurant Art"