Gabriel Sierra

1975 born in San Juan Nepomuceno, Bolívar (CO)
1994–1999 Industrial Design, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Bogotá (CO)
lives and works in Bogotá (CO)


Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2019
Subito dopo l'oggetto più distante, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin (IT)
Museum Hours, kurimanzutto, Mexico City (MX)

2017
The First Impressions of the Year 2018 (During the early days of the year 2017), Wiener Secession, Vienna (AT)

2015
NOTICE: the title of the exhibition will change every hour, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago (US)
Before Present, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich (CH)
Numbers in a Room, SculptureCenter, New York (US)

2013
Thus Far, Peep-Hole @ Fonderia Battaglia, Milan (IT)
ggaabbrriieell ssiieerrrraa, kurimanzutto, Mexico City (MX)
Galeria Casas Riegner, Bogota (CO)

2012
( ), Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco (US) 
Irregular Hexagon, Cer Modern, Ankara (TR); Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (AU)

2011
A trip to Vienna like Bruno Munari, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna (AT)

2010
Sugestión de conversación entre una ventana desnuda y un paisaje indiscreto, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (BR)

2009
Zona Maco Sur – Solo projects curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Mexico Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (MX)

2008
Apéndice, Galeria Casas Riegner, Bogotá (CO)

2007
La Casa del Encuentro, Espacios de hospitalidad, Medellín (CO)

2006
Compuesto Verde – stepmothernature-series, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny-sur Orge (FR)
Día de Frutas y Nubes Negras – stepmothernature-series, El Bodegón, Bogotá (CO)

2005
Untitled, Water Bar Colette, Paris (FR)

2004
Armorfo sin titulo, Espacio la Rebeca, Bogotá (CO)
No diga si diga oui – Objectos y Estructuras Parafuncionales, Ciclo de fotografía y nuevos medios, Alianza francesa, Bogotá (CO)

2002
Todos lloran con jabón en los ojos, mini-Mal, Bogotá (CO)


Group Exhibitions (Selection)

2021
Moment. Monument. Aspects of contemporary sculpture, Kunst Museum Winterthur,
Winterthur (CH)

2020
Stories of Abstraction: Contemporary Latin American Art in the Global Context, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix (US)

2019
There will never be a door. You are inside. Works from the Coleção Teixeira de Freitas, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid (ES)
Amulet or He calls it chaos, The David Ireland House, San Francisco (US)

2018
Latinoámerica: volver al futuro, MACBA Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires (AR)

2017
First Day of Good Weather, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf (DE)
Duett mit KünstlerIn. Partizipation als künstlerisches Prinzip, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (DE); 21er Haus, Wien (AT)
Spaces without drama or surface is an illusion, but so is depth, Graham Foundation, Chicago (US)
Uma Fresta de Possibilidades, Fórum Eugénio de Almeida, Évora (PT)

2016
Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, South London Gallery, London (UK)
We've Got Mail III, Mostyn, Wales (UK)
Aquél que camina delante, Travesía Cuatro, Guadalajara (MX)
APAP 5, Anyang (KR)

2015
MetaModern, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando (US)
CRU – Comida, Transformação e Arte, CCBB Brasília, Brasília (BR)
United States of Latin America, MOCAD Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit (US)
MetaModern, SMOCA Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale (US)
Panorama, High Line Art, New York (US)
Do Objeto para o Mundo – Coleção Inhotim, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo (BR)
MetaModern, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign (US)
Proportio, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice (IT)

2014
From the Object to the World – Inhotim Collection, Centro de Arte Contemporânea e Fotografia, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte (BR)
Impulse, Reason, Sense, Conflict, CIFO Art Space, Miami (US) 
The Eye On Time. Works from Adrastus Collection, Museo de Arte de Sonora MUSAS, Hermosillo (MX)
Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (US)
Attitudes: Now and Here, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin (DE)

2013
Ways of Working: The Incidental Object, Fondazione Merz, Torino (IT)
2013 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (US)
El ojo en el tiempo: obras de la Colección Adrastus, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (MX)
Sin Título, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Medellín (CO)
Material Conceptualism – The Comfort of Things, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin (DE)
A Stone Left Unturned, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris (FR)

2012
BLOCK, PILLAR, SLAB, BEAM, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (US)
Parque Industrial, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (BR)
Planos de Fuga – Plans for Escape, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo (BR)
The Ungovernables, 2012 New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York (US)
Texto de Sala, Galerie Crevecoeur, Paris (FR) 
Geometrias, Coleção Moraes – Barbosa, São Paulo (BR)

2011
Une terrible beauté est née, 11e Biennale de Lyon 2011, Lyon (FR)
Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial), Istanbul (TR)
Art Parcours, Art Basel, Raum 33, Basel (CH)
Desenho, Galeria Casas Riegner, Bogotá (CO)
El ojo del coleccionista, Colección Maraloto, Museo del Banco de la República, Bogotá (CO)

2010
First and last, Notes on the monument, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (BR)
De frente al sol, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna (AT)
2010 CIFO grants and commissions exhibition, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami (US)
Panamericana, Kurimanzutto, Mexico City (MX)
Living Under the Same Roof, Hessel Museum, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (US)

2009
Panorama de Arte Brasileira, Museu de arte moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo (BR)
Grito e Escuta, 7a Bienal de Mercosur, Porto Alegre (BR)
Everything has a name, or the potential to be named, Gasworks, London (UK)
2nd Trienal Poli / Gráfica de San Juan: America Latina y el Caribe, San Juan (PR)
Circa, Galeria Casas Riegner, San Juan (PR)

2008
Urgente!, 41 Salón Nacional de Artistas, Cali (CO)
Los vinilos, Zoo Art Fair Projects, London (UK)
Underground, Road Records, Dublin (IE)
In living contact, 28th Sao Paulo Bienal, Sao Paulo (BR)

2007
La Casa del Encuentro, MDE07 Espacios de hospitalidad, Medellín (CO)
Sueno de Casa Propia, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (ES)
Habitat / Variations, BAC – Bâtiment de Art Contemporain, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Genève (CH)

2006
Borde Caribe o “la cuestión de lo limites”, 40 Salón Nacionales de Artistas, Biblioteca Nacional, Bogotá (CO)
Why I’m so unhappy, Or Gallery, Vancouver (CA)

2004
Biennale Internationale Design 2004, Saint-Étienne (FR)
Divinely, Galería de la raza, San Francisco (US)

2001 
Domestica, Programa Nuevos Nombres, Banco de la Republica, Bototá (CO)
Objectos Para Reunirse, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Bogotá (CO)

1998
New Designers, Business Design Center, London (UK)