Blasco combines architecture, photography and installation to explore themes of vision and perception in relation to the physical experience and space that surrounds us. He says: ‘I very often wonder around cities, looking up and in odd of the buildings and structures. Not just the city I live in but any other place that I visit. I an effort to relate to these new and not so new places I take pictures, lots of pictures. And I think on doing so, there is an emotional restraint that follows me conveying not destruction but disorientation, the unsettlingly simultaneous expansion and compression of space that the urban dweller experiences and that I am trying to reflect with these works.” Isidro Blasco is held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Chicago Institute of Contemporary Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art and many International Museums.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2017 Structures and Passages, DOMINIK MERSCH GALLERY 2016 Black and White Gallery, New York 2015 Site-specific, Moneo-Brock Studio, Madrid, Spain Carlos Carvalho, Lisbon, Portugal Museo de la Ciudad de Bogota, Colombia 2014 SIM Galeria, Curitiba, Brazil Museu Metropolitano de Arte, MuMa, Curitiba, Brazil 2013 Sydney Interiors, DOMINIK MERSCH GALLERY, Sydney, Australia Foto Bienal, Museo D Arte Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brail 2012 Wave Hill, The Bronx, New York 2011 Tilt, DOMINIK MERSCH GALLERY, Sydney, Australia This is what I Remember, Black and White Gallery, New York Tilted, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York 2010 Comunidad de Madrid, Alcala 31, Madrid, Spain Aqui Huidizo, Diputacion de Huesca, Spain Fucares Gallery, Madrid, Spain 2009 Shanghai at Last, DOMINIK MERSCH GALLERY, Sydney, Australia Ice House Gallery, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey 2008 Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China Diputacion de Huesca, Huesca, Spain Black and White Gallery, New York
2007 Center for Art and Design, The College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York The Middle of the End, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China 2006 The Middle of the End, ACA Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA Art and Design, Fúcares Gallery, Madrid, Spain 2005 Beginning’s End, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY Left Behind, Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Spain Fúcares Gallery, Madrid, Spain Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Fake Estates”, organized by Cabinet Magazine, White Columns, New York, NY 2004 Thinking About That Place, Espacio Uno, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain Thinking About That Place, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY 2003 Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain 2002 Fúcares Gallery, Madrid, Spain 2001 Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY 2000 Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Costa Rica 1999 Special Project P.S. 1, Sept-Nov. 99, Long Island City, NY Stefan Stux Gallery, Project Room, New York, NY Queens Museum of Art, Bulova Center, Queens, NY Stefan Stux Gallery, Project Room, New York, NY 1994 Diario Levante, Valencia, Spain 1991 Roma ’91, Spanish Academy in Rome, Italy 1990 Mácula Gallery, Alicante, Spain
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 ärki tekCHəral, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2015 Study Abroad: The Artist As Immigrant, Hewitt Gallery, New York RECALL, Art in Odd places at 14th St. New York Bienal de Asunción, Paraguay 507 Johnson, AirCirculation Gallery, New York Translated Citites, Shirin Gallery, New York Picture/Thing, Wesleyan University, Connecticut OBJECT HOOD, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York 2014 Human Landscape, DOMINIK MERSCH GALLERY, Sydney Foto Bienal – Pirelli Collection (Museum Oscar Niemeyer), Curitiba, Brazil 2013 Foto Bienal MASP (Museo De Arte Sao Paulo) 2013, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2012 Helsinki Photography Biennial 2012, Finland The World According To, Black and White Gallery, New York 5, DOMINIK MERSCH GALLERY, Sydney, Australia 2011 Nuartlink Gallery, Westport, Connecticut, New York 2010 What Surrounds Me, DOMINIK MERSCH GALLERY, Sydney, Australia Jans and Retro, Anthology Film Archival, New York 2009 Building Rooms, Carlos Carvalho, Lisbon, Portugal Nuevas Historias. A New View of Spanish Photography, Kulturhuset, Stockholm Out of Their Zone, DOMINIK MERSCH GALLERY, Sydney, Australia Transforming Photography, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary Material Culture, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago 2008 The Interior: Contemporary Photographic View, Martin Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis I Centenario S. Allende. Centro Cultural La Moneda, Santiago de Chile, Chile Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York Capricious and Mercurial Systems, A + D Gallery, Chicago Stretching the Truth, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin La Construcción del Paisaje Contemporáneo, Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Huesca, Spain
2007 The year in Art, S.H Ervin Gallery, Sydney Adicted to paper, Galerie Lelong Zurich, Switzerland PHOTO+, Blue Star Art Spaces, San Antonio, Texas Expansiones Implosivas, Centro Cultural de la Villa, Madrid, Spain ‘Facades’, Thirtyseven degrees Contemporary Fine Art Gallery, Sydney 2006 Substance and Light: Ten Sculptors Use Cameras, Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY Installed!, The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ Identidades Criticas, Universidad de Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain; Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain gimme shelter, 10a Serpentine Drive, Shelter Island, NY 2005 Odd Lots: Revisting Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Fake Estates”, organised by Cabinet Magazine, White Columns, New York The Gift: Building a Collection for the Queens Museum, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY Off the Wall, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY Welcome 2 the Jungle, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY That Which is Built, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA Collapsing Matter, Morsel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2004 Queens International 2004, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY Architecture Untethered, Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C. EAF04, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY Domicile: A Sense of Place, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA Synapses, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY In Practice, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York 2003 Temporary Spaces, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Denmark Not To Scale, Dorsky Gallery, curated by E. Arratia, Long Island City, NY Parklife, Public Art Fund, MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY Slingshot Project Gallery, New York, NY 2002 S-Files, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY Magische Expeditionen, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany 2001 Eccentric Photography, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY 2000 I’nsights: Interior Spaces in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum at Champion, Stamford, CT
‘Aerial Paris’, 2017, C-print, wood, museum board, 50 x 25 x 8 cm
‘Model 1’, 2016, C-print, wood, museum board, 48 x 20 x 5 cm
‘Bridge in Rio’, 2017, C-print, wood, museum board, 36 x 18 x 8 cm
‘Model 2’, 2016, C-print, wood, museum board, 25 x 25 x 5 cm
Black and White, 2016, C-Print, wood, museum board, 180 x 53 x 20 cm
‘Porto Bridge’, 2017, C-print, wood, museum board, 46 x 20 x 8 cm
‘New York Planet’, 2017, C-print, wood, museum board, 60 x 60 x 20 cm
‘Model 3’, 2016, C-print, wood, museum board, 25 x 25 x 5 cm
‘Eiffel Tower 2’, 2017, C-print, wood, museum board, 15 x 15 x 5 cm
‘New York Wave, BW’, 2017, C-print, wood, museum board, 198 x 71 x 35 cm
‘Subway 1’, 2016, C-print, wood, museum board, 38 x 15 x 8 cm
‘Yellow’, 2016, C-print, wood, museum board, 38 x 15 x 8 cm
Eiffel Tower’, 2017, C-print, wood, museum board, 63 x 40 x 8 cm
‘AdriS Houses 1’, C-Print, 50 x 25 cm
‘Subway 2’, 2016, C-print, wood, museum board, 38 x 15 x 8 cm
‘AdriS Houses 2’, C-Print, 50 x 25 cm
‘Paris Bridges’, 2017, C-print, wood, museum board, 30 x 35 x 8 cm
‘Subway Car’, 2016, C-print, wood, museum board, 81 x 46 x 15 cm
‘AdriS Houses 3’, C-Print, 50 x 25 cm
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