Manuel Solano
I Still Look Like A Model
10 Feb – 12 Mar 2022
Manuel Solano
Selected Work
I Still Look Like A Model, 2022
Installation view, Carlos/Ishikawa, London
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Selected Press & Texts
- ‘I thought it was over for me’: Manuel Solano on painting after going blind
Hettie Judah, The Guardian, 2022 - Manuel Solano Paints a Window Into Their World
Henry Dexter, Cultured, 2022 - Review: Manuel Solano at Pivo
Evan Moffitt, Artforum, 2021 - A Blind Artist Finds New Ways of Seeing
Michael Snyder, Barbara Anastacio, The New York Times, 2018 - How blind artist Manuel Solano learned to paint again
Jane Gayduk, Interview Magazine, 2018 - Manuel Solano Tackles Identity Politics and Blindness with Paint
Elizabeth Fullerton, Elephant Magazine, 2019
Selected Publications
- Manuel Solano: I Don’t Wanna Wait For Our Lives To Be Over,
Alex Gartenfeld, ICA Miami, 2019 - We Can’t Make You Younger
Benoît Loisseau, Galerie Karen Huber, Mexico City, 2017
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b. 1987, Mexico City, MX
Lives and works in Berlin, DE
2012 Bachelors of Fine Art at La Esmeralda, the National School of Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking, Mexico City
Selected Solo exhibitions
2023
Pijama, Peres Projects, Seoul, South Korea
2022
Ancestry, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
The Top of Each Ripple, Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA), Dundee, UK
I Still Look Like A Model, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
2021
Jacuzzi, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, PT
Heliplaza, curated by João Mourão and Luís Silva, Pivô, Sao Paulo, BR
2019
Portraits, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE
2018
I Don’t Wanna Wait For Our Lives To Be Over, curated by Alex Gartenfeld, ICA, Miami, US
Oronda, Open Forum, Berlin, DE
2016
PUNCHIS PUNCHIS PUNCHIS PUM PUM PUNCHIS PUNCHIS PUNCHIS, Museo
de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, MX
2015
Inherent Vice | Manuel Solano, Galería Karen Huber, Mexico City, MX
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Modelling Life, Z33, Hasselt, BE (forthcoming)
2024
Pintura enojada, Travesía Cuatro, Mexico City
An AIDS Walkthrough, curated by Eric Lerouge and Samuel Perea Diaz, we are village, Berlin, DE
2023
Soft Touch, Sultana Summer Set, Arles, France
2022
FUTURISMO, Mendes Wood DM, Sao Paolo, BR
Every Moment Counts - AIDS and its Feelings, Henie Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden, NO
2020
Seized by the Left Hand, curated by Eoin Dara and Kim McAleese, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK
2019
City Prince/sses, curated by Hugo Vitrani, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
Visual AIDS, PARTICIPANT INC, New York, US
2018
Strange Messengers, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE
2018 Triennial: Songs for Sabotage, curated by Gary Carrion-Murayari Alex Gartenfeld and Francesca Altamura, New Museum, New York, US
2017
THEMSELVES, curated by Kristan Kennedy, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Oregon, US
2016
Straight From Mexico City, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, US
Open Sesame, Lumber Room, Portland, Oregon, US
2014
En el umbral (y sólo a unos pasos de la dimensión sublime de la belleza), Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, MX
Selected Residencies
2023
BOFFO Residency, Fire Island, New York, US
Selected Public Collections
Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Miami, US
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
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