Artist Statement/ Biography

Cristóbal Gracia's practice reshapes historical milestones and social and cultural phenomena through the investigation, connection and reconstruction of official chronicles, microhistories and urban myths. Using tools such as humor, fiction, violence, desire and failure, his work aims to build baroque systems of disbelief in order to create the space and means of production needed for culturing different subjectivities. His process of work involves diverse creative agents, every participation, collaboration and context of production gives a unique specificity to each project. ​​Gracia tends to search for the tensions that art can create when working with dichotomies and contradictions belonging to different fields of knowledge, in this dialectical process lies the opportunity to reshape life.

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Gracia received his BFA from the E.N.P.E.G “Esmeralda” and later attended to SOMA. He is a former member of Biquini Wax EPS, an artist-run space in Mexico City. He holds an MFA from the Yale School of Art. Gracia has been awarded distinctions such as the Fulbright scholarship, Jóvenes Creadores FONCA, Programa BBVA- MACG, among others. His work has been shown in; Museo Tamayo, Museo Carrillo Gil, Palais de Tokyo, Biennale of the Americas, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, kurimanzutto, Pequod co, just to name a few. He has done residencies in The Henry Moore Foundation, Galveston Artist Residency, and ViaFarini. His work has been published in CULTURED, Artforum, Código, Terremoto, Utopía, Gas TV, La Tempestad.

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