Theo Michael
1978 born in
Panorama, Thessaloniki,
Greece
Lives in Mexico City, Mexico
Education
2002-2003 MA Fine Art, Wimbledon College Of Art
2000 Degree in Fine Art, Utrecht School of the Arts
1996-2001 Degree in Fine Art, Aristotle University
Solo Exhibitions
2024, upcoming solo show Alkinois, Athens
2023, Eyes Compound, Allouche Benias Gallery, Athens
2019 Crater Gardening, gdl90210, Guadalajara
2019 Prehistory Repeats Itself, Espositivo, Madrid
2018 La Simetria Del Ermitaño, Casa Del Lago UNAM, Mexico City
2017 ARTHROPODOS, Galerie Vallois, Paris
2014 The Opposite Of The Opposite, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles
2014 Reptile Dialectics, Galeria OMR, Mexico City
2013 I Didn ́t Think Of Anything I Don ́t Know What To Do, Preteen, Mexico City
2011 Scholars In Space, Galeria OMR, Mexico City
2009 Smoke From The Edge Of The Known, AMP, Athens
2001 Theo Michael, Steven Makris Gallery, Athens
Group Exhibitions
2024, La Casa Ideal, Proyecto Multiproposito, Mexico City
2024, Reorientation Of The Earth, L.A. Beast Gallery, Los Angeles
2023, Agua Que Quema, Museo Anahuacalli, Mexico City, cur. Karla Torres
2023, La Casa Erosionada, Museo Anahuacalli, Mexico City, cur. Karla Torres
2023, The Artist's Artist, Juan De La Cosa, Mexico City, cur. Fransesco Pedraglio
2023, Barbarismos, Pequod, Mexico City, cur. Joaquin Segura, Fernanda Ramos
2023 CUT, P8 Gallery, Tel Aviv, cur. Avshalom Suliman
2022 Every Day or Not At All, Peter and Merle Mullin Gallery,
ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, cur Robert Kett
2021 The Last Tenant, MASA Galeria, Mexico City, cur. Mario Garcia Torres
2021 Against The Linear, KEIV ATHENS, Athens
2021 Reset, Maia Contemporary, Mexico City
2020 Who's Afraid Of Comodo, Allouche Benias Gallery, cur. Evgenia Vereli
2019 Curved Arrows, Kunstaraum Am Schauplatz, Vienna
2019 A Quien Corresponda, Kirkland Gallery, Cambridge
2019 Streaming Realities Steaming, forgrace, Athens
2019 Pabellon De Las Escaleras, gdl90210, Mexico City
2018 Be Water Again, Koraï, Nicosia
2018 Nuevo Manifiesto De Cine Mexicano, Lodos Gallery, Mexico City
2018 What Do You Dream Of? The Mohole Flower And Other Stories,
Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, cur. Magali Arriola
2018 Constellations In The Dirt, NEON, Kouphonisi
2018 Cerrajeria, Lock Up International, Mexico City
2018 El Apartamento Imaginario Del Dr Atl, 90210 Gdl, Mexico City
2018 Geometria Primitiva, Galeria Mercado Negro, Puebla
2018 Stopping Point, Daily Lazy Projects, Athens
2018 Id^entity, Float Gallery, Athens
2017 +52 Paisajes Recientes, Fundacion Calosa, Irapuato, cur. Paulina Ascenscio
2017 Cabinet, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver
2017 Cajuelazo, 90210, Guadalajara
2016 Where There Is Sea There Are Pirates, 3 137, Athens
2016 Escape Routes, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan
2016 Lodos Presents A Theater Play, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City
2016 Chez Eux: Unseen Collections, Circuits&Currents, Athens
2016 Politicas De Polvo, Galeria Emma Molina, Monterrey
2016 Once(11), Espacio Monitor, Caracas
2016 Heroes, Galerie Vallois, Paris
2015 Predictions Of A One Night King, Chalet Society, Paris
2015 Verto, Studiocur/art, Paris
2015 Disparitions, Galerie RueVisconti, Paris
2015 Mascaras Mexicanas, Palacio Nacional, Mexico City
2015 Now What, Gildar Gallery, Denver
2015 Greased, The Breeder, Athens
2015 Alotropos, Museo Universitario Del Chopo, Mexico City
2015 No Sound, Galeria Millan, Sao Paulo
2014 Art Basel Miami Beach Film Sector cur. by David Gryn, SoundScape Park, Miami
2014 d h c m r l c h t d j; or true facts about stones, Lodos at Peregrine Program, Chicago
2014 Delusions Of Decay, Curro Y Poncho, Guadalajara
2014 Vernacular Alchemists, CAC-Passerelle, Brest
2014 Stalactica, Quincaillerie Vander Eycken, Bruxelles
2014 PLAT(T)FORM 2014, Fotomuseum Winterthur
2013 Under The Volcano, former post office of Nagara Gose, Nara, Japan
2013 Expanding Foam And Intellectuals, ReMap4, Athens
2013 The Eternal Internet Brotherhood, Mexico
2013 1:1, SteveTurnerContemporary, Los Angeles
2012 SOCONFUSEDLOL, Beo Project, Belgrade
2012 Footnotes On Candida Hofer, OMR, Mexico City
2012 American Meat Locker, L.O.T., Luisville
2012 The Possessed, Triangle France, Marseille
2012 BYOB, Duesseldorf
2011 BYOB, Miami
2011 The Space Between Now And Then, OMR, Mexico City
2011 Music For Insomniacs, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
2011 Stranger In A Strange Land, Remap, Athens
2011 BYOB Mexico City, Ex-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
2011 BYOB London, The Woodmill, London
2010 First Biennal Of The End: Collapse, El 52, Mexico City
2010 BYOB Athens, Kunsthalle Athena, Athens
2010 DRAW, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City
2010 The Destroyed Room, Galerie Im Regierungsviertel, Berlin
2009 Personal-Political, 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale
2009 Remap 2, Athens
2009 Video.it 2009, curated by Marina Fokidis, Torino
2008 Apartment, curated by Brian Chalkley and Lewis Amar, London
2008 MI2, Art Athina, curated by K.Dagritzikos Athens
2007 1st Thessaloniki Biennale, "Public Screen"
2007 Part Time Punks, Deste Foundation, Athens
2007 Republic, L'ESTlondon, London
2006 We 've lost the hearts and minds, E:vent Network, London
2006 Centrefold, ZOOARTFAIR, London
2006 Pay The Psychic, L'Est, London
2005 Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Bangkok
2004 Agora, Transition Gallery, London
2004 FleaMarket, TemporaryContemporary, London
Bibliography
Bagarres Revue, 2023
Dessin Dans L'Art Contemporain, Pyramyd editions 2022
Suave #3, 2022
OMR, Arte Contemporaneo en (y desde) Mexico 1983-2015, Turner Editions 2020
Una Utopia De Infancia, Revista De UNAM, 2018
New Voices, Frieze issue 180, 2016
Caniche 3, 2016
Trapper Keeper IV, Mega Press, 2016
Trapper Keeper III, Mega Press, 2015
Mascaras Mexicanas, INAH Mexico, 2015
Theo Michael Studio Visit, La Tempestad, 2015
Reptile Dialectics review, ArtReview, 2014
Reptile Dialectics review, ARTFORUM Critic ́s Picks, 2014
The Opposite Of The Opposite review, Los Angeles Times, 2014
Theo Michael interview, Designboom, 2014
Entrevista con Theo Michael, TimeOut Mexico, 2014
1984, The Drawer Vol.6, 2014
Tales From A Balkan VJ, Incite Journal Of Experimental Media, 2013
I'm Working On A Title, Will Send It Later, Codigo, 2013
Paracronismos Y Procronismos, La Tempestad, 2011
International Drawing Annual 6, Manifest Press, 2011
Pathology Of Ruins, Caviar Izquierda, issue no4, 2011
Beyond Immaterialism, kaput.gr, 2010
DRAW, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, 2010
Theo Michael, Celeste, March 2010 issue
Flash Art review, Jan-Feb 2010 issue
Video.It 2009, Artegiovane, 2009
Proud To Be Flesh, Autonomedia, 2009
Exhuming The Human, MUTE magazine, 2009
The New Prophecy, Dynasty Zine, 2008
Public Screen Catalog, Contemporary Art Centre of Thessaloniki, 2007
Part Time Punks, Deste Foundation, 2007
Stash no35, www.stashmedia.tv , 2007
onedotzero_film_challenge_2006, British Council, 2006
Ellinomouseion, 6 Centuries of Greek Painting, Manos Stefanidis, 2001
Residencies/awards
2023 NEON Grant Recipient, Athens
2020 Casa Wabi, Oaxaca
2019 Espositivo, Madrid
2018 Ceramica Suro, Guadalajara
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