SPRING/AUTUMN 2025:
Iván Argote



Iván Argote. Dinosaur, 2024; aluminum, galvanized steel, automotive painting, aerospace clear coat.
Location: High Line, New York City, at 30th St. and 10th Avenue. Image courtesy of the aritst and Perrotin.



Born in 1983 in Bogotá, Colombia
Lives and works in Paris, France

Iván Argote is an artist and film director. Through his sculptures, installations, films and interventions, he questions our intimate relationship with others, institutions, power and belief systems. He develops strategies based on tenderness, affect and humour through which he suggests critical approaches to dominant historical narratives and attempts to decentralise them. In his interventions on monuments, large-scale installations and performances, Iván Argote proposes new symbolic uses of public space.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, United States
ASU Art Museum, Phoenix, United States
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, United States
KADIST Foundation, San Francisco, United States
CA2M, Madrid, Spain
MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), León, Spain
Colección de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia
CNAP (Centre National des Arts Plastiques), Paris, France
FMAC, Ville de Paris, Paris, France
FRAC Occitanie, Toulouse, France
FRAC Bretagne, Brest, France
MUNTREF, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Saatchi Art, London, United Kingdom

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Iván Argote. Dinosaur, 2024. Image courtesy of the aritst and Perrotin.

Katy Trail Art, in partnership with the Dallas Museum of Art, presents Iván Argote’s Wild Flowers for the first time in outdoor public space to engage with visitors to the Katy Trail. Begun in 2021, Wild Flowers is an ongoing series of immersive installations comprised of scattered cast bronze fragments of a figurative statue. Appearing as if nature has taken over and playing upon notions of monuments and time, the artist prompts the viewer to wonder if the statue is being removed, abandoned, or getting ready to be installed. Text and image courtesy of the aritst and Katy Trail Art.

Iván Argote. Wild Flowers, 2021. Image courtesy of the aritst and Katy Trail Art.

Iván Argote. Wild Flowers, 2021. Image courtesy of the aritst and Katy Trail Art.

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