César García-Alvárez

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Since 2012, Garcia has been the Founding Director and Chief Curator of The Mistake Room-Los Angeles' only independent, non-profit cultural institution solely devoted to an international program of art and ideas. In February 2020 has been named cocurator of the third edition of Desert X, which is slated to run in the Coachella Valley from February 6 to April 11, 2021. From 2007–2012, Garcia served as the associate director and Senior Curator at LAXART, Los Angeles. In 2008, Garcia served on the curatorial team of the 2008 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art (curated by Lauri Firstenberg, PhD) and in 2012 he was one of the curators of Made in L.A. 2012, the first Los Angeles Biennial organized by the Hammer Museum and LAXART. Garcia was the U.S. Commissioner of the 13th International Cairo Biennial, and in 2013 served on the curatorial research committee of the 55th International Venice Biennale curated by Massimiliano Gioni. Garcia's notable exhibitions and projects include Joel Kyack's freeway puppet theater Superclogger (2010); Marcos Ramirez' ERRE's retrospective exhibition at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (co-curated with Kevin Power); a re-staging of Mark di Suvero's Artists Tower of Protest for the Getty Foundation's Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival (2012); the U.S. museum premiere of Egyptian artist Wael Shawky's Cabaret Crusades at the Hammer Museum (2013);[10] and Eduardo Sarabia's mid-career survey at the Instituto Cultural Cabañas in Guadalajara, Mexico (2014), amongst others. At The Mistake Room, Garcia has organized the first U.S. institutional solo show of Colombia-born, UK-based artist Oscar Murillo (2014); the first Los Angeles solo show of Thailand-born, NY-based artist Korakrit Arunanondchai (2014); a survey of artist Gordon Matta-Clark's films (2014); a focused historical exhibition devoted to the work of American abstract expressionist painter Ed Clark (2015); and the first U.S. solo show of Argentina-born, Guatemala-based artist Vivian Suter (2015).

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Desert 2021

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Through the Flesh to Elsewhere

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Ken Taylor: Unwritten

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