Betsabeé Romero

Born 1963 in Mexico City

Lives and works in Mexico City

 

Education:

 

1994 Master in History of Art, UNAM, Mexico

1989 Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris, France

1986 Master in Fine Arts, ENAP San Carlos, UNAM, Mexico

B.A. in Comunication Sciences, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico

 

SOLO exhibitions (selection):

 

2006 Betsabeé Romero. New Sculptures and Installations. Voges + Partner Gallery,Frankfurt a.M., Germany

2005 Vulnerable Windows, Galería Ramis Barquet, Chelsea, New York

2004 SUR, Itinerant exhibition; Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Lima, Peru

National Planetarium, Bogota, Colombia

Palacio de Correos de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

La Recoleta and Museo Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Y al Amanecer Café, Galería Ramis Barquet, Monterrey. México

Carro Torre y Señalizaciones para bailar, Fete de la Musique, Tolouse,France

Art in the Gardens, Site-specific installation "Picnic cars²; exhibition, organized by the Public Art Department of Chicago,

Hide Park, Chicago, USA

2003 Betsabeé Romero, Galería Ramis Barquet, Paris Photo, Paris, France

Site-specific Installation, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Idaho, USA

Patio Coronado. Site-specific Installation. Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Tepotzotlán. Edo. de México.

Altar de Muertos, Ex Museo del Arzobispado, México.

 

GROUP exhibitions (selection):

 

2005 ECO: Mexican Contemporary Art, Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid,Spain

2004 Mexican Report, San Antonio, Texas, USA

Site-specific installation. Museo del Barrio, N.Y.

Todos Somos Otro, Museo del Chopo, México D.F.

2003 Llantas para Ciudades a Flor de Piel, Mas allá de la Potencia y lA

Velocidad, Site-specific Installation; Exhibition and residence at Kohj, Bangalore, India

Memory that Turns in a Circle, Site-specific installation, 8th. Havana Biennial, Cuba

Puerto Alegre Biennial, Brazil

Mexico Iluminado, Freedman Gallery/Albright College

 

Awards:

 

2002 Grant- Sistema Nacional de Creadores, Mexico City

2000 First Place, Political statement, International Art Car Fair of Houston

1995 First Place, Bienal de Monterrey, Installation, Museo de Monterrey



Betsabeé Romero, Milagro y accidente bandolero, 2001, Öl auf Motorhaube, 130 x 115 x 19 cm