About Mexican photographer Miguel CALDERÓN (b.1971, in Mexico City)

In 1994, Miguel CALDERÓN made his BFA in Film at San Francisco Art Institute. He lives and works in Mexico City.

Photo books by Miguel CALDERÓN

  • 'México vs. Brasil' (2004)
    'Eden is a Magic World' (2011)

    'Backstabbing Gemini' (2012)

    'Crack' (2015)

    'Catálogo' (2019)

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The out-of-print 'Eden is a magic World' by Miguel CALDERÓN is about an obsession. The central character is Flor Eduarda, former Mexican child actress who received letters from an admirer in Korea after a highly successful telenovela in which she appeared
128,00 € Weight 0.6 kg
'Catálogo' by Miguel CAKLDERÓN gathers images of prostitutes that were shown to him when he was thirteen, so that he could choose one of them for his 'initiation into manhood'. Thirty years later, he uses them to analyze and narrate his sexual awakening.
90,00 € * Weight 0.5 kg

Grants & Awards (a selection)
  • 1994: Best Film. San Francisco Art Institute
    1995: Bancomer/Rockefeller Fellowship, Mexico
    2000: MacArthur Fellowship for Film-Video-New Media, USA
    2013: Sundance Directors Lab Program and Sundance Scriptwriters Lab Program, USA
    2015: Programa de Fomento a Proyectos y Coinversiones Culturales. FONCA. Mexico.
Exhibtions

Solo exhibitions
  • 1994: 'From Social Activist To Drug Lord Transformation (A Touristic Manifestour)', Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute.
    1995: 'Historia Artificial', Museo de Historia Natural, Mexico City; 'Miguel Calderón', La Panadería, Mexico City.
    1996: 'Miguel Calderón', Andrea Rosen Gallery. New York.
    1997: 'A Propósito...', Installation with Yoshua Okon, La Panadería.
    1998: 'Aggressively Mediocre/Mentally Challenged/Fantasy Island', Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York; 'Ridiculum Vitae', La Panadería.
    1999: 'Miguel Calderón', Inova, Milwaukee, United States; 'Joven Entusiasta', Museo Tamayo, Mexico City.
    2000: 'Costco Series', La Panadería.
    2001: 'Gran-Dote' (together with Milena Muquiz), La Panadería.
    2003: 'Miguel Calderón', Andrea Rosen Gallery.
    2006: 'Miguel Calderón', kurimanzutto, Mexico City.
    2007: 'Anónimo Alemán', Vacío 9, Madrid.
    2008: 'La discípula del velocímetro', FICCO Festival Internacional de Cine, Contemporáneo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City; Centre Pompidou, Paris.
    2009: 'Bestseller', Museo Tamayo.
    2010: 'Miguel Calderón', Casa América, Madrid.
    2012: 'Color Bleed', Rochester Art Center, United States; 'Hecho por Kuchar. Film series', Cine Tonalá, Mexico City.
    2017: 'Independientemente de con quien duerma', Fototeca Latinoamericana, Buenos Aires; 'Caída libre', kurimanzutto off-site, Gral. Manuel F Loera 42, Mexico City; Luhring Augustine, New York.
    2019: 'El placer después', kurimanzutto, Mexico City.
    2020: 'Interrogatorio Inverso', Páramo Galería, Guadalajara, Mexico.
Group exhibitions
  • 2005: 'Sharjah Biennial 7', UAE
    2006: Busan Biennale, South Korea; 'Distor', Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; 'Las Implicaciones de La Imagen', Museo de Arte de Sinaloa, Mexico.
    2007: 'Playback', Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris; 'Viva México!', Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; '7th Internationale Photo-Triennial Esslingen', Germany; 'Escultura social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City', Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; 'Freakshow. An Unnatural History'; Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK; 'La Era de la Discrepancia: Arte y Cultura Visual en México 1968-1997', MUCA, Mexico City; 'Art In The Life Ground', Breaking Ground, Dublin.
    2010: 'Dracula Effect: Art/Youth Cultures/Fetishism Youth', Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City.
    2011: 'Antes de la resaca... Una fracción de los noventa de la Colección del MUAC', Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico City; 'Distant Star/Estrella Distante', Regen Projects, Los Angeles; kurimanzutto, Mexico City; 'Mexico: Expected/ Unexpected', Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, United States.
    2013: 'América Latina 1960-2013. Fotos + Textos', Fondation Cartier, Paris; 'Deferred Archive', CIFO, Miami; 'El cazador y la fábrica', Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City; 'Turn off the Sun', Museo Jumex.
    2014: 'América Latina 1960-2013. Fotos + Textos', Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico; 'Fútbol: The Beautiful Game', LACMA, Los Angeles.
    2015: 'El orden natural de las cosas', Museo Jumex; 'Kochi-Muziris Biennale', Kerala, India; 'La ciudad. Sus afectos', MUCA, Mexico City; 'Strange Currencies: Art & Action in Mexico City 1990-2000', The Galleries at Moore, Philadelphia, USA.
    2017: 'Punk. Sus rastros en el arte contemporáneo', Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City; 'The Time. The Place', Contemporary Art. Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; 'La Ciudad de México en el arte. Travesía de ocho siglos', Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City.
    2018: 'Par amour du jeu 1998–2018', Magasins Généraux, Pantin, France; 'Realidad programada: la vida y el arte en la television', Museo Jumex; 'The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art', Pérez Art Museum, Miami; 'Unfinished Thoughts', Taller Los Guayabos, Guadalajara, Mexico; 'Gran final mundial', PHotoESPAÑA, Centro Fernán Gómez, Madrid.
    2019: 'Nuevo manifiesto de cine mexicano', Lodos Gallery, Mexico City
    2020: 'Siembra', kurimanzutto, Mexico City; 'The world is not like us, it was imposed, we try to transform it', Galerie Britta Rettberg, Munich; 'Otrxs mundxs', Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City.
    2021: 'A spirit of disdisruption', San Francisco Art Institute; 'Excepciones Normales', Museo Jumex; 'Art of sport', Copenhagen Contemporary