Harold Méndez

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Born 1977, Chicago, IL. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. EDUCATION MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art and Design, Chicago, IL BA, Columbia College, Chicago, IL University of Science and Technology, School of Art and Design, Ghana, West Africa SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 At night we walk in circles, PATRON, Chicago, IL Local Impact, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX 2014 but I sound better since you cut my throat, Threewalls, Chicago, IL 2008 UBS 12 X 12: NEW ARTISTS / NEW WORK, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Advertisements for Myself, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL 2007 No better, no worse, no change, Polvo, Chicago, IL 2005 The Geography of War, Polvo, Chicago, IL The Geography of War, Mess Hall, Chicago, IL SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019 Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales / MacArthur Foundation International Connections, Havana, Cuba 2018 Being, edition of New Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 2017 Did You Ever See Such a Thing as a Drawing of a Muchness? artspace, San Antonio, TX Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Traduttore, Traditore, Gallery 400, University of Illinois in Chicago, Chicago IL ONE, curated by Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels, We Buy Gold, Brooklyn, NY RECONSTRUCTION, curated by Hamza Walker, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA Sunlight arrives only at its proper hour, curated by Olivia Shao, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA 2016 Present Standard, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL Subduction, curated by Rodrigo Valenzuela for Upfor Gallery, Portland, OR
 Dustsceawung, curated by Adam Farcus for DEMO Project, Springfield, IL Incidents (of Travel), with Yesomi Umola, curated by Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago for Latitudes, Barcelona, Spain and Kadist: Paris, France, San Francisco, US 2015 Black: Color, Material, Concept, Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
 Open Sessions 6, The Drawing Center, NYC Traces in the Dark, Curated by Liz Park, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA Name It by Trying to Name It, curated by Lisa Sigal & Nova Benway, The Drawing Center, NY 
Specter Field, Harold Mendez & Ronny Quevedo, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX Líneas de la Mano, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX Drawings in Context/Field, Queens Museum, NY Core Program Exhibition, Core Program, Glassell, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX 2014 Phantoms in the Dirt, curated by Karsten Lund, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL Core Program Exhibition, Core Program, Glassell, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Moving, Not Moving, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX 2013 A blurred and generalized projection of you and me, perFOREmance, Studio Museum, Harlem, NY Four Fragments, The Bindery Projects, St. Paul, MN 2012 Fore, curated by Lauren Haynes, Naima J. Keith, and Thomas Lax, Studio Museum, Harlem, NY Home: Public or Private, curated by Tricia Van Eck, 6018 North, Chicago IL Chicago + Detroit, curated by Tricia Van Eck, Künstlerhaus Speckstrasse, Amerikazentrum, Hamburg, Germany Artadia Awards Finalists, curated by Steven Bridges, EXPO CHICAGO Several Silences, curated by Hamza Walker, Knoxville Museum of Art / Renaissance Society, Knoxville, TN 2011 September 11, Museum of Modern Art / PS1, Curated by Peter Eleey, New York, NY Mutualisms, curated by Kirsten Leenars and Lise Baggesen, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, IL 2010 IAAFBJHMJNMOMRSATSW, curated by William Staples, Fountain Studios, Brooklyn, NY 2009 Hide and Seek, curated by Tricia van Eck, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Zombie: A Mindless Affair, curated by Edra Soto, Antena, Chicago, IL Fast Forward, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL Several Silences, Renaissance Society, Curated by Hamza Walker, Chicago, IL Just Good Art, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL 
 2008 So long as we can say this is the worst, this is not the worst, Outer Ear Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Eros, c’est la vie, London Biennale, organized by David Medalla, London, UK Latino Nation, USA, curated by Encarnacion Tereul, University Museum, Carbondale, IL 2007 Consuming War, Hyde Park Art Center, curated by Barbara Koenen, Chicago, IL Affair, Jupiter Hotel, Western Exhibitions, Portland, OR Harold Mendez, Yevgeniya Baras, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL Open & Closed, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL Spring Break, artLedge, Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL Fool Me Once: Celebrating the Art of Clowning Around, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL UIC MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL 2006 Road Trip, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL Lo Romantico: Chicago’s Latino/a Art, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL Form fit, University of Illinois at Chicago, CUPPA Hall, Chicago, IL 
 Six Flags: Polvo Est. 1996, Commerce Street Artist Warehouse, Houston, TX The Bungalows Project, San Antonio, TX 
 18th Evanston + Vicinity Biennial, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 
 2005 
 Lies that Bill Gates told me: Exploring the Digital Divide, vuspace, Australia Version 05: Invincible Desire, Zhou B. Center, Chicago, IL City Selections: Art from the Galleries, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 2004 Intercambio, functionvariable, Barcelona, Spain 
 Hispanic Heritage, ENLACE / EL CENTRO, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL The Big Picture: fundraiser for the Chicago Public Art Group, Three Arts Club, Chicago, IL Art: Terrorism, Polvo, Chicago, IL Tart, Curated by Sabrina Raaf, Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL 2003 There Goes My Hero, University of North Umbria, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE 2002 The Brown Sheep Project: Mexotica, A Living Museum of Intercultural Fetishes, co-curate with Guillermo Gómez Peña and La Pocha Nostra, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND GUEST LECTURES 2018 Hunter MFASO Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Hunter College UCLA MFA Visiting Artist Lecture Series, University of California, Los Angeles 2017 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Photography Department Lecture: Voices: Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago Boston University, College of Fine Arts 2016 Incidents of Travel, with Yesomi Umola, Curator (Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago) for Kadist (Paris, France) & Latitudes (Barcelona, Spain) Artist lecture, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 2015 Present Standard, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL Traces in the Dark, Conversation, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA 2014 but I sound better since you cut my throat, Threewalls, Chicago, IL In conversation with Hamza Walker, Curator, Renaissance Society, Threewalls, Chicago, IL 2013 A blurred and generalized projection of you and me, perFOREmance, Studio Museum, Harlem, NY In conversation with Fred Moten, Jamal Cyrus, Steffani Jemison, Studio Museum, Harlem, NY 2012 Artist lecture, Headland Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA 2011 Texts for Nothing / Future Plan & Program Publication presentation, Threewalls, Chicago, IL Future Plan & Program, Organized by Steffani Jemison, Museum of African American Culture, Houston, TX Future Plan & Program, Organized by Steffani Jemison, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX Artist lecture, University of Houston, Houston, TX 2008 UBS 12 X 12: NEW ARTISTS / NEW WORK, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Sculpture Department Lecture / Discussion Series, The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL Talk Back: Culture and Space, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL 2007 
UIC MFA Thesis Conversation with Matthew Jackson, Assistant Professor, Art History Department, University of Chicago, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL 2005 Kid culture, toy design, the mass-manufactured toy industry and violence, Mess Hall, Chicago, IL 2004 Latino Short Films, ENLACE / EL CENTRO - Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL 2003 Experimental Performances: Exhibiting the Other, University of North Umbria, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK 2002 
Natural Properties, Industrial Materials, Science Department, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL Artist in Residence Programs, Oak Park Art League, Oak Park, IL 2001 Artist lecture, Ox-Bow, School of the Art Institute, Saugatuck, MI RESIDENCIES, GRANTS, & AWARDS 2018 Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico 2016 
 The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Artist-in-Residence, Captiva, FL 2015 
 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant 2014 
Illinois Arts Council Artist Fellowship 
Headlands Center for the Arts, Alumni New Works / Artist-in-Residence, San Francisco, CA Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 2013 
 Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 
 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME Contemporary Arts Fellowship The Lighthouse Works, Fisher’s Island, NY 2012 
 3Arts Award Artadia Awards Finalists 
Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist-in-Residence, San Francisco, CA Illinois Arts Council, Professional Development Grant, Chicago, IL 2011 
 Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 2010 
 The Drawing Center, Viewing Program, New York, NY 2008 
 Special Assistance Grant, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL Experimental Sound Studio, Artists Residency Program, Chicago, IL 2007 
Special Assistance Grant, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL 
 Union League Civic and Arts Foundation, Second Prize, Chicago, IL 2006 
Juror’s Award, 18th Evanston + Vicinity Biennial, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL 2005 
University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art and Design Koffler Award University of Illinois at Chicago, Tuition Graduate Waiver 
Special Assistance Grant, Illinois Arts Council, Chicago, IL 
Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 2004 
 Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 2001 
Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL Ox-Bow Residency, School of the Art Institute, Saugatuck, MI 
 William Carr Olendorf Residency Fund, School of the Art Institute, Saugatuck, MI Salt Creek Quilters Guild Scholarship, Chicago, IL 1999-2000 
David R. Rubin Trustees’ Scholarship Recipient, Columbia College, Chicago, IL Presidential Recognition Award, Columbia College, Chicago, IL PERMANENT COLLECTION Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Studio Museum Harlem, NY Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago DePaul Art Museum, Chicago Colección Diéresis, Guadalajara, Mexico J.P. Morgan Chase Collection Chicago Transit Authority Soho House, Chicago