BROWN: MARIO YBARRA JR

MARIO YBARRA JR Born 1973, Los Angeles, CA Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA Education: 2001 MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 1999 BFA, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA 1996 Art Center College of Art, Pasadena, CA Solo Exhibitions: 2008 Scarface Museum…For All I Know He Had My Friend Angel Killed”, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland “Black Squirrel Society”, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY “Focus: Mario Ybarra Jr. – Take me out….”, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2007 “Be Good...If You Can't Be Good Be Careful...”, Galleria Maze, Torino, Italy “Mario Ybarra Jr., Capp Street Project”, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, curated by Jens Hoffman, San Francisco, CA “Bring me the head of…”, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006 “Tea Time For Tito”, Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Positions, Miami, FL Group Exhibitions: 2008 “Desertshore”, Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY “Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement”, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA “Los Angeles Confidential”, Parc Saint-Leger – Center d'Art Contemporain, Pouguesles-Eaux, France 2007 “Latitude”, LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA “L.A. Live: Contemporary Art in Los Angeles”, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA “The Theater of Life”, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento, Trento, Italy “The World as a Stage”, curated by Jessica Morgan, Tate Modern, London and ICA, Boston, MA “Prague Biennial 3”, Prague, Czech Republic 2006 “2006 California Biennial”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA “Alien Nation”, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK “Tijuana Biennial”, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico “Grey Flags”, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, traveling to (CAPC) Musee d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France “Consider This…”, designed by Barbara Kruger, with Mark Bradford, Dorit Cypis, Margaret Honda, Philip Rantzer, Mario Ybarra, Jr., and Bruce Yonemoto”, LACMA Lab, Los Angeles, CA “People for a better tomorrow”, curated by Meg Cranston, UC Riverside Gallery, Riverside, CA “Home of the Free”, curated by Jens Hoffman, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL 2005 “Uncertain States of America”, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Daniel Birnbaum, and Gunnar B. Kvaran, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, traveling to CCS Bard, New York, Serpentine Gallery, London, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Moscow Biennale, Herning Art Museum, CCA Warsaw, Le Musée de Sérignan, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague and Songzhuan Art Centre, Beijing 2004 “Dreamscape: UCI Alumni Show”, curated by Juli Carson, UC Irvine Art Gallery, Irvine, CA “100 Artists See God”, curated By John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA Laguna Beach Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA “C-level”, curated by Carolina Ponce De Leon, Galleria De La Raza, San Francisco, CA “I Am The Remix”, curated by Adrienne Lai, The Western Front, Vancouver B.C., Canada 2003 “I Am A Curator”, curated by Per Hutter, “Rocker by Choice”, curated by Tone O’Neilson, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK “Slangthis”, Slanguage Art Collective exhibition, 4-F Galley, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA “Rethinking Drawing”, curated by Max Presneill, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA 2002 “Better Look Twice”, curated by Geoffrey C. Allen, Pasadena City College, CA “Street Show”, curated by Lisa Dorin & Liza Johnson, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA “Whacked”, curated by John Souza, The Practice Space, Los Angeles, CA “A Show That Will Show That A Show Is Not Just A Show”, curated by Jens Hoffman, The Project, Los Angeles, CA “Mixed Feelings”, USC Fischer Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Gimme Shelter : Nuevo videos sobre incomodidad suburbana”, curated by Rita Gonzales, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico “Storefront LIVE”, Korean American Museum, Los Angeles, CA “Democracy When? Activist Strategizing in Los Angeles”, curated by Tone O’Niesen, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA “Oddrawings”, curated by Tyller Stallings, Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA 2001 “Echo Location”, University Gallery, Irvine, CA “Capital Art”, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2000 “America Foto” Latina, University of Guadalajara Art Museum, Mexico “Us vs. Them”, Arthouse, Irvine, CA “Concrete Labs”, curated by Tyler Stallings, Spurgeon Building, Santa Ana “gang bang”, OCCCA, Santa Ana, CA “Senales de Resistencia”, curated by Lorena Wolfer, Mexico 1999 “Otis College of Art and Design Senior Show”, Los Angeles, CA “dispute resolution services”, George’s, Los Angeles, CA 1998 “DIS/DAT”, Brewery Art Walk, Los Angeles, CA “Hot, Mild, Other, Bolsky Gallery”, Otis College of Art, Los Angeles, CA 1997 “Plastica”, Hollywood, CA Performances 2005 “For All I Know He Had My Friend Angel Killed”, Art Basel Miami Beach, Art Positions, Miami Beach, FL 2003 “Below The Belt”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA “Cowboys On Broadway”, A Show That Will Show That A Show Is Not Just A Show, curated by Jens Hoffman, The Project, Los Angeles, CA 2000 “Working Classics”, Side Street Projects, Los Angeles, CA “Monster Mash”, OCCCA, Santa Ana, CA 1999 “Allmodcons”, Otis College Of Art and Design Los Angeles, CA 1997 “Super Cultura”, South Central, Los Angeles, CA Curatorial Projects 2004 “Urban Hieroglyphics 2”, Up’space Gallery, L.A. Design Center, Los Angeles, CA 2003 “Elemental Journey: Your Style Is Worth While, 10 Year Survey Of Graffiti Art In Los Angeles 1993-2003”, Commissioned By The Los Angeles Dept. Of Cultural Affairs, Inshallah Gallery Los Angeles, CA “In My Room”, Robert Alvarez, Eric Marquez, Arturo G,Ochoa, Joseph Park, Jay Stuckey, Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA “Relative”, Liat Yossifor, Brienne Arrington, Homeland Gallery, Homeland Cultural Center, Long Beach, CA “Echoes Of Africa: African-American Hair Braiding Exhibition”, Homeland Gallery, Homeland Cultural Center, Long Beach, CA “Wonder Women: The Girls of Graff”, Homeland Gallery, Homeland Cultural Center, Long Beach, CA “Cache, Paintings, by Adrian De La Pena”, Class C Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Bibliography Ritchie, Abraham, “Interview with Mario Ybarra, Jr.”, ArtSlant, June 2, 2008 Jury, Louise, “Barber shop Tate-a-Tate”, The Evening Standard, October 22, 2007 Mizota, Sharon, “Mario Ybarra Jr.: Bring me the head of…”, Art Ltd, May, 2007, p.21 Knight, Christopher, “Thin show sports some sharp barbs”, Los Angeles Times, February 23, 2007 Hoffman, Jens, “Mario Ybarra Jr.”, Contemporary Magazine, February, 2007, Issue #89, pp.88-91 Berardini, Andrew, “Mario Ybarra Jr. Bring me the head of…”, Art Review, February, 2007, p.149 Brooks, Amra, “Mario Ybarra Jr.’s Bring me the head of...”, LA Weekly, February 7, 2007 Hoffman, Jens, “Mario Ybarra Jr.”, Work: Art In Progress, Winter 2006-2007, Issue 17, p.36 Hoffman, Jens, “First Take: Mario Ybarra Jr.”, Artforum, January, 2007, pp.212-213 Chang, Daniel, Fabiola Santiago, and Elisa Turner, “’America’s largest art market’ is open”, Miami Herald, December 7, 2006 Frascina, Francis, “We Dissent”, Modern Painters, November 2006, p.82 Zonkel, Phillip, “Vivid Impressions”, Long Beach Press Telegram, October 19, 2006 Fong Chin, John, “Venturing out, but always close to home”, SqueezeOC.com, October 1, 2006 Knight, Christopher, “Forget ‘isms’ – except eclecticism”, Los Angeles Times, October 1, 2006 Joselit, David, “Public Image Ltd.” Artforum, September, 2006, pp.113-114 Hart, Hugh, "Reflecting the Street", Los Angeles Times, September 3, 2006 Smith, Roberta, “Endgame Art? It's Borrow, Sample and Multiply in an Exhibition at Bard College” New York Times, July 7, 2006 Schwendener, Martha, “Grey Flags”, Artforum Critics’ Picks, June, 2006 Kuo, Michelle, “Consider This”, Artforum Critics’ Picks, June, 2006 Ollman, Leah , “On the walls and in your face”, Los Angeles Times, June 7, 2006 Armstrong, Elizabeth, “California Above All”, Art Review, May, 2006, p.83 Leopold, Shelly, “The Expressionist”, LA Weekly, April 21-27, 2006, p.34 Danto, Arthur, “Uncertain States of America”, Artforum, December, 2005, p.274 Kun, Josh, “The New Chicano Movement”, Los Angeles Times Magazine, January 9, 2005, pp.12-13 Willis, Holly, “Billboard Oases“, LA Weekly, December 31-January 6, 2005, p.13 Lai, Adrianne, FRONT, I AM THE REMIX, January-February, pp.32-33 Gonzalez, Rita, latinart.com, featured artist Slanguage (Mario Ybarra Jr., Juan Capistran) winter edition X-TRA MAGAZINE VOL.5 NO.4, ARTIST PROJECT BY SLANGUAGE, title page, pp.11-13 Cotter, Holland, “Doing Their Own Thing, Making Art Together”, Arts & Leisure, Section 2, New York Times, January 19, 2003, pp.1,36 Wride, Nancy, “‘Graff Girls’ Paint Up a Storm”, California Section, Los Angeles Times, January 18, 2003 pp.B2 Razo, Vicente, Mosevis,C. Medina.C Navarete.F., Smart Art Press, “The Official Museo Salinas Guide”, p.7 OC weekly, ODDRAWING exhibition review. “AMERICA FOTO LATINA” exhibition catalogue, pp.55-56 Botey Mariana, Pilar Perez, “Capitol Art /On The Culture of Punishment” exhibition catalogue, p.65 Ortiz-Torres, Ruben, “Toys/Juguetes”, Poliester, Vol.6 #21, Winter, Mexico City, Cover Art, pp.38-43 Publications “Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, curated by Rita Gonzalez, Howard n. Fox, Chon A. Noriega “The World as a Stage”, Tate Modern, London, UK, curated by Catherine Wood and Jessica Morgan “Anna Helwing Gallery Conversations: Karl Haendel and Mario Ybarra Jr.” Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Alien Nation”, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK “California Bienniel 06”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA “Uncertain States of America”, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway “100 Artists See God“, Independent Curators International, curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston “A Show That Will Show That A Show Is Not Just A Show“, The Project, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Jens Hoffman “Democracy When?” by Tone O. Nielson, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Collections The Collection of Eilene And Peter Norton Foundation, Santa Monica, CA Private Collection of Sydney Littenburg, Santa Monica, CA Private Collection of Mario Ontiveros, Los Angeles CA The Museo Salinas Collection, Mexico City D.F.,Mexico Awards and Grants 2008 Creative Capital Grant, New York, NY Levitt Fellow, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 2000 Artsbridge Scholar Award, Irvine, CA 1997 Otis College Institutional Grant, Los Angeles, CA 1995 Otis Summer Scholarship, Los Angeles, CA Art Center Minority Scholarship, Pasadena, CA 1991 First Prize, Harbor College Art Competition, Los Angeles, CA Scholarship, Wilmington Historical Society, Los Angeles, CA