RESIDENCY
The foundation directors and an advisory board select 2 artists per year to attend a residency in Dallas, Texas.
ADVISORY BOARD
Kelly Cornell
Director
Dallas Art Fair
Emily Edwards
Associate Curator
Dallas Contemporary
Thomas Feulmer
Curator
The Warehouse Dallas
Peter Augustus Owen
Director
Augustus Owen Foundation
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SPRING 2024: Gabriel Rico
Gabriel Rico. Augustus Owen Foundation VERSION fro the series - Excessive butter -, 2024;
White-tailed deer taxidermy & different balls, Approx. 38.75” H x 18” W x 25 1/2” D, Image by Kevin Todora.
Born in 1980 in Lagos de Moreno, Mexico Lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Gabriel Rico’s work is characterized by the interrelation of seemingly disparate objects. A self-proclaimed “ontologist with a heuristic methodology,” Rico pairs found, collected, and manufactured materials to create sculptures that invite viewers to reflect on the relationship between humans and our natural environment. He frequently uses neon, taxidermy, ceramics, branches, and more personal pieces of his past to create an equation or formulation, achieving a precise geometry despite the organic, roughly hewn character of his materials. His installations ironically and poetically combine natural and unnatural forms, insisting on a necessary contemplation of their asymmetry as well as our own cultural and political flaws.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Arizona Art Museum (ASU), Phoenix, AZ, USA
ArtNexus Foundation, Colombia & USA
Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
FMC (Frans Mesereel Centrum), Kasterlee, Belgium
Korean Ceramic Fundation (KOCEF), Seoul, South Korea
MASIN (Museo de Arte de Sinaloa), Culiacan, Mexico
The Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, Florida, USA
Taguchi Art Collection, Japan
Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar, Netherlands
AWARDS
2017
- BAR Beirut Art Residency, Lebanon
- ASU Art Museum & CALA Alliance, Pheonix, Arizona
2015
- Young creators anual fellowship PECDA, (Fondo Estatal para la Cultura & las Artes), Jalisco, Mexico
- Annual program of residencies for international artist 2015/2016, Gyeonggi Creation Center, Seoul, Korea
2014
- Bursary for artists, The Ténot Fondation , France
- Proyecta 2014, award for production, Secretary of Culture of the state of Jalisco, Mexico
- Annual residency program for artistic research and production. 2014, Marnay Art, Science & Technology Center (CAMAC) & Ténot Fundation, Marnay sur Seine, France
- Binational Artist Residencies Program 2014, National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) Mexico & the Ministry of Culture of Colombia., Bogota, Colombia
2013
- Annual Research Residency Program @, Frans Mesereel Centrum., Kasterlee, Belgium
2012
- DMZ Intaernational Peace Residency., Dongguk University, The border area near the DMZ Cheorwon-gun, Gangwon-do., Korea, Republic Of
- Annual residency program of the SASG. 2012, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, Republic Of Korea
2011
- Suport program for production -Anual Award- Prince Claus Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2010
- Young creators anual fellowship, FECA (Fondo Estatal para la Cultura & las Artes), Jalisco, Mexico
- Artis Village , WARP contemporary art plataform, St. Nikklass, Belgium
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