Los Angeles, USA, 1976
Lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Eduardo Sarabia uses narrative as the raw material in his artwork. The language he has developed through the years, and his very personal aesthetic code, comes from his own life experience, but also from a type of fiction that is always accompanied by the construction of a story. Born in Los Angeles to Mexican parents, Sarabia’s work addresses the cultural impact of social phenomena and is permeated by his historical-geographical baggage. The autobiographical references in his works and series are developed to define his experimentation, but are suppressed or veiled to make way for an open interpretation and an emphasis on that which frames the cultural and social-political events in his life. This is most evident in his paintings: personal photographs that are covered by floral-like smears, that not only incite a tautological reflection, but also reference the inner stories that configure his reality, and a process with which we can all relate to, something hovering between oblivion, fiction and live memory.

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Education

BFA from Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, USA

Solo Exhibitions

2023
This Must Be The Place, Dallas Contemporary, USA

2022
TÚ ERES OTRO YO, CAC Málaga, Spain

2021
Sacred Tree (“Ceiba Sagrada”), The Office, Miami, USA
Como La Flor, Galería Javier López & Fer Francés, Madrid, Spain
The Passenger,site specific project by Eduardo Sarabia for Desert X 2021, Palm Springs, USA

2020
Expediciones, Galería Javier López & Fer Francés, Finca Cortesin, Cásares, Spain

2019
El Toro y Otros Relatos, Museo Universitario del Chop, Mexico City, Mexico
Intrahistorias, Galería Javier López & Fer Francés, Madrid, Spain

2018
Eduardo Sarabia, Relación de un interés- Sinaloa, México, Tommy Simoens, Antwerp, Belgium
Eduardo Sarabia, Maureen Pauley, London, UK

2017
Drifting on a Dream, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, USA
Dream on a Broken Memory, José García, Mexico City, Mexico

2016
Plumed Serpent and other Parties, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico

2015
Ballads, Other Criteria, New York, USA

2014
Eduardo Sarabia, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO), Mexico
Eduardo Sarabia, Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico
Moctezuma’s Revenge, ASU Art Museum, Phoenix, USA

2013
TAINTED: Eduardo Sarabia, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, USA

2010
La Gloria del Exceso, Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Eduardo Sarabia, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico

2009
There Will Be Better Days, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
There Will Be Better Days, Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan

2008
Eduardo Sarabia: History of the World, LA Louver, Los Angeles, USA

2006
Eduardo Sarabia, I-20 Gallery, New York, USA

2005
Eduardo Sarabia, 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2004
Eduardo Sarabia, 404 Arte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy

2003
Eduardo Sarabia / Eric Wesley, Sutton Lane, London, UK
Eduardo Sarabia, I-20 Gallery, New York, USA

2002
Project Room: Eduardo Sarabia. (Curated by Ciara Ennis), Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, USA

2001
Eduardo Sarabia, I-20 Gallery, New York, USA

Group Exhibitions

2023
Cerámica Suro: A Story of Collaboration, Production, and Collecting in the Contemporary Arts, Dallas Contemporary, USA

2022
La Casa Que Nos Inventamos. Contemporary Art From Guadalajara, Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma, USA
Assembly 1: Unstored. Assembly, New York, USA
Form Follows Energy, Collaborative exhibition between OMR & joségarcía,mx, LagoAlgo, Mexico City, Mexico

2021
Skin in the Game, Palm Heights, Miami, USA
Encontro Dos Aguas, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA

2020
LXS ANGELINXS, Galería Javier López & Fer Francés, Madrid, Spain
Instantánea., Antigua Fábrica Kodak, Guadalajara, Mexico
Con Aire Popular (curated by Carlos E. Palacios), ARCO, Casa de Mexico en España, Madrid, Spain

2019
US-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination and Possibility, Lille3000, France
ESCULTURA DE LA TIERRA, Cerámica Mexicana, Complejo Cultural Los Pinos, Mexico City, México

2018
GRAND REVERSE, Tommy Simoens, Antwerp, Belgium
NACIDO EN CASA. DEVENIRES Y PORVENIRES DEL OFICIO DE LA TAPICERÍA ALTO LISO EN JALISCO, 1968-2018, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico.

2017
THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER: PLACE, IMAGINATION, AND POSSIBILITY, Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA
SABER ACOMODAR. ARTAND WORKSHOPS OF JALISCO 1915- NOW, MCA, Denver, USA
Chingaderas Sofisticadas, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Vecinos, CULT Aimee Friberg Exhibitions, San Francisco, USA

2016
The Natural Order of Things, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
New Territories, The Albuquerque Museum, USA

2015
Out of the Labyrinth: Contemporary Mexican Ceramics, Norther Clay Center, Minneapolis, USA
Campeonato en Guadalajara 2015, Travesía Cuatro, Guadalajara, Mexico

2014
Testigo del Siglo, Museo de Arte Zapopan (MAZ), Zapopan, Mexico
New Territories, Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), New York, USA
Bienal Internacional del Arte Contemporáneo, Cartegena de Indias, Colombia

2013
New Blue and White, Museum of Fine Art Boston, USA
Turn Off the Sun: Selections from La Colección Jumex, Arizona State Art Museum, Tempe, USA

2012
Asiataco, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany
Ball of Artists, In collaboration with LAX ART, Los Angeles, USA

2011
Fuerzas básicas, formas del dibujo reciente en Jalisco, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Guadalajara, Mexico
MAKE Skateboards, organized by Jonathan Lavoie and Scott Ogden, I-20 Gallery, New York, USA
Everything Must Go, a project with Ceramica Suro, Guadalajara, Mexico, organized by José Noé Suro and Eduardo Sarabia, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, USA
No More Reality, organized by Textfield, Inc., Creatures of Comfort, New York, USA
Greater LA, organized by Eleanor Cayre, Benjamin Godsill, and Joel Mesler, 483 Broadway, New York, USA

2010
A.D.D. Attention Deficit Disorder, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary, Trevi, Italy
Arena Mexico, Pinta London, UK

2009
MAX ART FEST, Zagreb, Croatia
There Are False Problems More Than There Are False Solutions, La Galería en el Taller Mecánico, Monterrey. Organized in conjunction with Proyectos Monclova, Mexico
An Expanded Field of Possibilities, Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, Santa Barbara, USA
NCA Selection, NCA/Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

2008
Anthology, Otero Plassart, Los Angeles, USA
Firulais, Museo de la Ciudad, Guadalajara, Mexico
Extended Borders: Shifting Cartographies, Puerto Vallarta Arte Contemporáneo, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
VOLTA4, Art 39 Basel, Edition presented by Voges + Partner Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Phantom Sightings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
unitednationsplaza mexico DF, Casa Refugio, Mexico City, Mexico

2007
PAWNSHOP, e-flux, New York, USA
Big Family Business, in conjunction with the 10th Istanbul Biennial, Aitken Factory, IMC trade center, Turkey
An Atlas of Events, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Trinchera, Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico
Rogue Wave ’07, LA Louver, Los Angeles, USA

2006
Mobile: Suro Collection, TPS [Triangle Project Space], San Antonio, USA
Masters & Johnson, Charro Negro, Zapopan, Mexico
Great American Nude, Harvey Levine Gallery, Culver City, USA
Some Postcards from Mexico, Museo de Arte Contempóraneo de Santiago, Chile
…un minuto por favor, La Casa Taller Jose Clemente Orozco, Guadalajara, Mexico
Presente Perfecto/Present Perfect, Volitant Gallery, Austin, USA
Body and Geography, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France

2005
Poles Apart Poles Together, 51st Venice Biennale, Italy
4 Dimensional Shit, Bowie Van Valen, Los Angeles, USA
Air Container, Museo Raul Anguiano (Antiguo Museo de Arte Moderno), Guadalajara, Mexico
Having Differences, I-20 Gallery, New York, USA
Working on Paper: From Drawings to Ammo, BANK, Los Angeles, California, USA

2004
Democracy was fun, White Box, New York, USA
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, USA
OIL, Triangle Project Space, San Antonio, USA
Narcochic Narcochoc. Musee International des Arts Modestes, Paris, France
La relatividad del tiempo y los distintos sistemas de referencia, Oficina para Proyectos d’Arte (OPA), Guadalajara, Mexico

2003
Tekhne: Ancestral Techniques and Contemporary Practices in the SURO workshop of Tlaquepaque, Miami Design Center, USA
Harlem Postcards II, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA
Works for Giovanni, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, USA
Liz Craft, Pentti Monkonnen, Eduardo Sarabia and Eric Wesley, Oficina para Proyectos d’Arte (OPA), Guadalajara, Mexico
Age of Unreason, MOCADC, Washington DC, USA

2002
Scope Video Lounge, The Scope Fair, Dylan Hotel, New York, USA
Roots, PAGEA Arte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy
Art Forum Berlin, Germany
Cutting Edge, ARCO, Madrid, Spain
The Armory Show, New York, USA

2001
I Love New York, I-20 Gallery, New York, USA
Luminous Wonders of the Electronic World, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, USA

1999
I Candy, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, USA

Publications (Selection)

TU ERES OTRO YO, Cultural Management and Communication, SL – CAC Málaga, 2023

EDUARDO SARABIA: EL TORO Y OTROS RELATOS, Museo Universitario Del Chopo, Mexico City, 2019

Eduardo Sarabia, 2014. Essay by Cesar García and interview by Julie Rodrigues Widholm. Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Museo Cabañas & Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, 2015

EDUARDO SARABIA, Instituto Cultural Cabañas and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, 2014

History of the World, Eduardo Sarabia, Essays by Benjamin Godsill and Patrick Charpenel, published by Other Criteria, 2012

THE GIFT, Turner/Unam, Mexico, 2008

RELACION DE UN INTERES, Turner/A&R Press, Spain, 2008