Mark

Mark
JORGE GONZÁLEZ
(b.1981) San Juan, Puerto Rico
Lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico

EDUCATION
2012-2014  Fellowship, La Práctica, Beta Local, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
2006  BFA, Sculpture Department, Escuela de Artes Plásticas, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

RESIDENCIES / FELLOWSHIPS
2023 El Yunque Portal, organized by Georgie Vega, El Yunque, Puerto Rico
2022 USA Fellowship, United States Artists
2020-2022 Jane Lombard Fellow,  Vera List Center for Art & Politics, New York
2020-2022 Fellowship, Puerto Rico Arts Initiative II                                              
2020 Rabbit Hole: Pod Theory Residency, Toronto Biennial
2019 Artist-in-residence, KADIST San Francisco
2019 Residency La Reserva Guatoc, Barichara, Colombia    
2018 Residency, Artists Alliance, Inc, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center, New York    
2017 Residency Escuela Flora, FLORA ars+natura, Bogotá, Colombia                     
2012-2014 Fellowship, La Práctica, Beta Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 OROCOBIX, Recuerdo de la primera montaña, curated by Michy Marxuach,
Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (TEA), Tenerife, Spain
May 31–August 25, 2024
2023 En la luz como ceniza [Into Light as Ash], curated by Michy Marxuach, ICP, San Juan Puerto Rico
2016 359 dias en 19 meses (359 days in 19 months), Embajada, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2015  Understory, International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, NY
2011  Grass Grows From the Middle, Roberto Paradise, San Juan, Puerto Rico

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Guatu Nakan (In the middle of the fire) commissioned as part of Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
2023 El múcaro a lo lejos, Materia Abierta, curated by Jorge González, CDMX, Mexico
2021  CONSTANT STORM: ART FROM PUERTO RICO AND THE DIASPORA, curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné and Noel Smith, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
2021  A Few In Many Places (Unas Cuantas en Varios Lugares, co-curated by Mari Spirito and Abhijan Toto, PROTOCINEMASeoul, Bangkok, Istanbul, New York, Santurce, and Guatemala City
2020  MUTUALISMOS, curated by Anna Buckhardt & Juliana Steiner, Plural Nodo Cultural, Bogota, Colombia
2020  Abusos de las formas, curated by Mauricio Marcín, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
2019  And other such stories, The Chicago Architecture Biennial, curated by Yesomi Umolu, Sepake Angiama and Paulo Tavares, Chicago, IL
2019  Everyone to Everything, Museo de Arte y Diseño de Miramar (MADMi), San Juan, Puerto Rico
2018  Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2017  Inside the Nest, Simon Preston Gallery, New York, NY
2017  Under the Mango Tree: Sites of Learning, organized by ifa (Institut für
Auslandsbeziehungen, documenta 14, Kassel, Germany
2017  Las Antillas para los Antillanos, installation and presentation as part of An Ocean
Archive, curated by Lightbox, Navy Officers Club Arsenale, Venice, Italy
2017  Punto de Partida curated by Direlia Laszlo, Ana Mas Projects, Paseo Caribe, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2016  Much Wider than a Line, SITELines 2016: New Perspectives on the Art of the Americas, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2016
2016  Neotrópico, exhibition proposal by Monica Rodríguez and Fiona Connor, Laurel Doody, Los Angeles, CA
2016  Materia Prima, exhibition proposal by Guillermo Rodríguez for Estación Espacial, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2016  Manifesto Composta, a salute to Trienal Poliográfica, Joge González, Ricardo Morales, and Chemi Rosado-Seijo, San Juan Puerto Rico
2015  Nido o átomo He aquí la estrella, organized by Johanna Unzueta y Felipe Mujica, Die Ecke, Santiago, Chile
2015  A Rehearsal, by Johanna Unzueta y Felipe Mujica, ISCP, New York, NY
2014  COSAS, Apuntes sobre el objecto tridemsional en el arte contemporáneo Puertoriqueño, curated by Adiel Segarra, Instituto de Cultura Puertirriqueña, San
Juan, Puerto Rico
2012  Museu Laberinto/Museum of Unlimited Growth, curated by Pablo León de la Barra and Julieta González, Art Rio, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
2012  OB-R, curated by Carla Acevedo-Yates and designer Luis Díaz, San Juan, Puerto Rico