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Jose Dàvila
b. 1974, Guadalajara, Mexico. Currently lives in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Following a degree in architecture obtained from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO), he became a self-taught artist whose practice spans sculpture, installation, painting, and photography.
More than 60 solo shows has been held at major museums such as Museum Haus Konstrukti (Switzerland), Dallas Contemporary (Texas), JUMEX Museum (Mexico City), Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg), Museum Del Novecento (Florence), and his work has been shown on occasion of international art events such The 16th Lyon Biennial (2022), The 13th Havana Biennial (2019), The 10th Mercosur Biennial (2015).
His work has become part of prominent museum and private collections such as of MUAC (Mexico City), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid/Spain), Instituto Inhotim (Brumadinho, Brazil), Pérez Art Museum Miami (Miami, Florida), Buffalo AKG Art Museum (Buffalo, New York), San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, Texas), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg), 、Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art (Luxemburg), Taguchi Art Collection and others.
He was awarded the 2017 BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art's New Annual Artists' Award, and is a 2016 Honoree of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC. In 2014 he was awarded with the 2014 EFG ArtNexus Latin America Art Award, and has been the recipient of support from the Andy Warhol Foundation, a Kunstwerke residency in Berlin, and the National Grant for young artists by the Mexican Arts Council (FONCA) in 2000. In 2022, Hatje Cantz published a major monograph illustrating the past twenty years of Dàvila’s practice.