Mauricio Limon, Mexico. He studied at the Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten residency. Nominated for the Pinchuk Prize 2015. His work is being shown in Videobiennale Bonn, Young Positions ArtCologne, and received the Pollock-Crasner Foundation Grant. 2019 was his first solo show in Germany at wildpalms. Wrong dress in plumes of smoke. followed by “El primero que ria“, 2023. In October 2023, Mauricio Limon de Leon, will present a large institutional exhibition in Guadalajara at Museo Cabañas, “Memoria ciega” curated by Victor Palacios

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Ciudad de México, 1979. Lives and works in México City.

Education. Visual Arts, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México DF

Scholarships and Residencies 2020 Fiminco, París, FR 2018 Residencia Casa Wabi. Oaxaca, MX 2015 – 2016 Rijksakademie Residency, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Países Bajos 2014 Future Generation Art Prize Nominee, Victor Pinchuk Foundation 2011 Jóvenes creadores – FONCA Annual Grant 2010 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Annual Grant 2009 Pocket Utopia international

Solo Shows: 2023 Memoria Ciega, Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, México. 2023 El primero que ria, wildpalms, Düsseldorf 2022 Fallen Like Snake Skin, Pequod Co., Ciudad de México, México 2022 Les petits pois sont vertes…les petits poissons rouges. Ellen De Bruijne. Amsterdam 2021 El primero que ría, Instituto Cultural de México, Madrid, España 2020 Empowering innuendos. Performance Galerie – Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR. 2020 Le Premier Qui Rira. Instituto Cultural de Mexico, Paris, FR 2020 A gigantic broom to uncover compelling narratives. The Performance Show, ArtRotterdam, NL 2019 Dientes Rotos (Broken Teeth). Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, MX 2019 Wrong Dress In Plumes Of Smoke. wildpalms Düsseldorf. 2019 Performing White Skin. wildpalms, Poppositions, Bussels, BE 2018 A set of non verbal fantasies. Ellen de Bruijne Projects. Amsterdam, NL 2017 The soup is delicious. A rose is rose is a rose, Rozanstraat 59. Amsterdam, NL 2017 Pagará a la vista al portador. Hilario Galguera Gallery, Mexico DF 2014 Promesa Prohibida. Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico DF 2014 Buscando la sombra del árbol. Hilario Galguera Gallery, Mexico DF 2012 Batiente.01. Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola (UNAM) México DF 2012 ¡Con todo el respeto que usted se merece!. Oaxaca Painters’ Museum (MUPO), Mexico 2012 Hilario Galguera Gallery, ART COLOGNE – New positions 2011 Versus–buscando la sombra del arbol. Projex-Mtl, Montreal, Canada 2011 Divinatory meanings. Vice Gallery, Mexico DF 2010 Squeegees. Projex-Mtl, Montreal, Canada 2008 Psicotropico. Hilario Galguera Gallery, Mexico DF 2006 And a Big Fellow Too. Trolebús Galeria, Mexico DF 2005 Recipies for disaster. Arena México Arte Contemporáneo, Guadalajara, DF 2005 Arte Contemporáneo, Guadalajara, Mexico. 2004 Crepusculitos. Torre Latinoamericana, Mexico DF

Group Exhibitions (Selection) 2024, Performance Festival Rooms. Marres. Rotterdam. 2021 Ablar ha defesios, hablar adefesios, defesios ablar ha. Pequodco. Mexico 2021 City.Trojantaco. Espacio Temporal, Paris, FR 2021 Hotel Simplon. Giulietta.Basel, Basel. CH 2021 Pleins Feux. Fondation Fiminco, Paris, FR 2020 Organismos articulados / Organismen in Verbindung. Instituto Cultural de Mexico, Berlin DE 2018 FIAC ART FAIR Paris 2018 #núcleo, Galería Hilario Galguera, MX 2017 Rijks OPEN, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. NL 2016 Promise prohibited. Paradocs IDFA, Screening at Eye Museum, Amsterdam 2016 Rijks OPEN, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. NL 2016 Arte Para la Nación – Museo de la Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público, MX 2016 Once (11). Espacio Monitor, Caracas, VE 2016 Books, wildpalms, Düsseldorf, DE 2015 Los justos desconocidos (de todas maneras cago). El cuarto de máquinas, Mexico City, MX 2015 Jardín botánico UNAM, Mexico DF 2015 Foto Museo Cuatro Caminos, Mexico DF 2014 21 Artist Shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine 2014 INDEX 4: Proposals for the era of simulation, Hilario Galguera Gallery, Mexico DF 2014 Rufino Tamayo XVI Painting Biennial, Mexico DF 2014 Casa del Lago, Mexico DF 2014 inSite/Casa Gallina, edition project, Mexico DF 2013 MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico 2013 Galeria Metropolitana UAM, Mexico DF 2013 Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany 2013 Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico DF 2012 Bristol Biennial, Bristol, England 2012 Espacio M, Mexico DF 2011 Mycellium Ingenium, Mexico DF 2011 Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico DF 2011 MFA – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2011 La MaMA La Galleria, New York, USA 2011 Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts, USA 2010 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA 2010 Projex-MTL Gallery, Montreal, Canada 2010 CA2, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo. Madrid, Spain 2010 Museo de la Ciudad de México. Mexico DF 2009 Simposium Internacional de Teoría de Arte Contemporáneo, Sur, sur, sur sur…(SITAC VII), Mexico DF VIBA 2009 ThisIsNotAGallery. Buenos Aires, Argentina 2009 Centro Cultural de Cali. Cali, Colombia 2009 Livraria/Café Gato Vadio Projecto Videolab, Porto, Portugal 2009 Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico DF 2009 Projex-MTL Galerie. El libro de las letras, Montreal, Canada 2009 MUCA Roma, Mexico DF 2009 New Art Lab, Hong Kong, China 2009 Hilario Galguera Gallery, Leipzig, Germany 2008 Hilario Galguera Gallery, Mexico DF 2008 Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington D.C., USA 2008 Electrochoc Festival. Rhóne, Alpes, France 2008 Centre Pompidou, Paris, France 2008 Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico DF 2008 Fortino di Sant Antonio, Bari, Italy 2008 Hilario Galguera Gallery, Mexico DF 2007 Casa Luis Barragán, Mexico DF 2007 35 Festival Internacional Cervantino, Guanajuato, Mexico 2007 Bizco Merolico Chorus, P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana (Slovenia) 2007 Musee d’art Contemporain du Val de Marne, Paris 2007 IVAM, Valencia, Spain 2007 EX Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico DF 2006 Mexico D.U.M.B.O., Arts Center, Brooklyn, USA 2006 Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico DF 2006 Espace Piano Noville, Geneve, Switzerland 2005 Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy 2005 Künsterhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany 2005 Curator’s Office Micro Gallery, Washinton D.C., USA 2005 Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain 2005 Art&Idea, Mexico DF 2004 Ex-Teresa arte actual, Mexico DF 2004 Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico DF 2004 Contemporary Art Blue Star Center, San Antonio, USA 2004 Revillagigedo 37, Mexico DF 2004 Museum of Natural History, Mexico DF 2003 Ex-Teresa arte actual, Mexico DF 2003 Museo de Historia Natural, Mexico DF 2003 Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico DF 2002 Centro de la imagen, Mexico City, Mexico Acknowledgements 2005 Bienal de pintura Alfredo Zalce. Honorable mention 2002 Bienal de Yucatán. Honorable mention X Bienal de Fotografía.Honorable mention 2001 Bienal de pintura de Tamaulipas. Honorable mention Bienal Alfredo Zalce. Honorable mention Projects as curator 2006-2007Museo Experimental El Eco, Monthly video shows 2006 Pictorial projects according with a construction work context, Mexico DF 2005 Coordination and work selection for Declaraciones, Curated by Guillermo Santamarina. Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, ARCO 2005 2004 Curatorial collaboration with Joaquín Segura. Casa Frissac, Mexico DF 2003 MHN, 01/02/03, Site projects-Museum Of Natural History, Mexico DF Collections Fundación-Colección Cisneros, Mexico DF Museo de Memoria y Tolerancia, Mexico DF MUAC, Mexico DF Graeme W Briggs, LARA/Asiaciti Trust María Paz Gaviria Collection Gilberto Borja Collection Catalina Casa – Galeria Casas Riegner Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico Museo de Arte Moderno, MAM, Mexico DF AVL Van Lieshout, Rooterdam, NL Oehmen Collection Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, DE

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Publications (selection) 2020 Experiences of the Common Good, INSITE/ CASA GALLINA, Mexico 2013 Mesocosmos, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Mexico 2013 Videonale 14, Festival for Contemporary Video Art. Bonn 2012 Carga útil 39. Contemporary artists at the Modern Art Museum, Mexico DF 2012 Trolebús 2005-2009. And a big fellow too. Mexico 2012 The Detour Book, Moleskine 2011 Dialéctica del paisaje urbano. Museo Mural Diego Rivera. La paz 2010 Draw. Museo de la Ciudad de México, Agua Blanca 2010 Fetiches Críticos, Residuos de la economía general. Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo (CA2M) 2009 South, south, south, south. Simposio Internacional de Teoría sobre Arte Contemporáneo, SITAC VII. Lunes negro

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Mauricio Limon de Leon exhibition view memoria ciega in Museum Cabanas with the masks
Memoria Ciega. Exhibition view. Museo Cabañas. Guadalajara 2023
Exhibition view Memoria Ciega at Museo Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico, with paintings and prints by Mauricio Limón de Leon
Memoria Ciega. Exhibition view. Museo Cabañas. Guadalajara 2023
Model with wood sculpture made by Mauricio Limon for his solo institutional show at Museo Cabañas in Guadalajara, México
Memoria Ciega. Exhibition view. Museo Cabañas. Guadalajara 2023
Mauricio Limon dress sculpture mexican art deco
In collaboration with with Adriana Gonzales Hulshof, Atelier Caraco, Fondation Fiminco, 2020
Mauricio Limon
Janskerhof 9, 2021
Silk and leather and acajou wooden frame
Janskerhof 9, haute couture, silk, leather, acajou wooden frames 98 x 56 x 2 cm.. In collaboration with with Adriana Gonzales Hulshof, Atelier Caraco, Fondation Fiminco, 2020
Mauricio Limon
Westerstaat 87-3, 2021
Silk and leather and acajou wooden fram
Westerstraat 87-3, haute couture, silk, leather, acajou wooden frames 98 x 56 x 2 cm.. In collaboration with with Adriana Gonzales Hulshof, Atelier Caraco, Fondation Fiminco, 2020
Series Performing White Skin
Mauricio Limon Masks Performing White Skin
Mask. Mask. Hand carved pine wood and pigments. Performing White Skin. 2019.
Mauricio Limon Masks Performing White Skin
Mask. Hand carved pine wood and pigments. Performing White Skin. 2019.
Series Pagará a la Vista del Portado
pagará a la vista del portado, 2016, litography
Bank Notes MAURICIO LIMON DE LEON.
pagará a la vista del portado, 2016, litography
Se pagara al portador litografia MAURICIO LIMON DE LEON
pagará a la vista del portado, 2016, litography
pagará a la vista del portado, 2016, detail
pagará a la vista del portado, 2016, detail
pagará a la vista del portado, 2016, detail
Series Dientes Rotos
Dientes Rotos 2, 2015, 60x222cm
Dientes Rotos 3, 2015, 60x222cm
Dientes Rotos 5, 2015, 60x222cm
Dientes Rotos 6, 2015, 60x222cm
video works (stills)
Mauricio Limon Video Screenshot
Performing White Skin, 2019, Video
Política deportiva (Sports policy), 2014, Video
Screenshot of Mauricio Limon video cerniendo azucar, voice and nature in mexico wildpalms
Cerniendo el azúcar (Sifting of sugar), 2012, Video
screenshot Mauricio Limon video el primero que ria. Presented at ArtCologne 2021, Videobiennale Bonn, and in Paris. wildpalms
El primero que ría (The first one to laugh), 2012, Video
exhibition views (selection)
Mauricio Limon Mexican colorful wooden masks in the exhibition at wildpalms 2019
Wrong Dress in Plumes of Smoke, wildpalms, 2019-20
Mauricio Limon Mexican colorful wooden masks in the exhibition at wildpalms 2019
Wrong Dress in Plumes of Smoke, wildpalms, 2019-20