Miguel Calderón

Miguel Calderón (born June 1, 1971 in Mexico City) is a Mexican artist and writer best known for his work "Aggressively Mediocre/Mentally Challenged/Fantasy Island (circle one)". Calderón received his BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1994. He has worked in paint, photography, video and installation.

For the Cuban basketball player, see Miguel Calderón Gómez.

Much of Calderón's work has been called "low-brow" and that he "has a knack for pushing crass stereotypes and clichés to absurd and provocative extremes."[1] An article in Sculpture magazine called him "something of an international phenom,"[2] and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art referred to him "[t]he enfant terrible of contemporary art in Mexico."[3]

"Aggressively Mediocre/Mentally Challenged/Fantasy Island (circle one)" was part of a 1998 exhibit bought by Wes Anderson and the piece was shown in the film The Royal Tenenbaums.

He has solo exhibitions at the Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum in Mexico City,[4] the Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York City,[4] the Museum of Natural History in Mexico City,[5] the San Francisco Art Institute's Diego Rivera Gallery,[5] and the 2004 São Paulo Biennale.[4]

His work has been displayed at, among other places, the Guggenheim Museum's Air: Projections of Mexico exhibit,[6] the Prometer no empobrece: arte contemporáneo mexicano show at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid,[4] the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York City,[7][8] the 2005 Sharjah Biennale,[9] the 2005 Yokohama Triennale,[10] the 2006 Busan Biennale,[6] and had a film commissioned for the 2006 Frieze Art Fair in London.[11] In 2007, Calderon exhibited with several other Latin American Artists at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.[12]

Calderón has also worked in collaboration with the English artist Nick Waplington producing a series of photographs "Sherwin Williams/The garden of Suburban delights" and the graphic novel Terry Painter, which was exhibited in New York and London.

Calderón's paintings in The Royal Tenenbaums are shown as part of the bonus features of the film's DVD.[13]

References
  1. Antioch College Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Sculpture magazine article
  3. SFMOMA Archived 2007-07-02 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Artnet
  5. Andrea Rosen Gallery page
  6. San Francisco Art Institute biography Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
  7. Artnet article
  8. Mexican Embassy Archived 2007-06-07 at the Wayback Machine
  9. Sharjah Biennial
  10. Yokohama Triennale Archived 2007-06-10 at the Wayback Machine
  11. Frieze Art Fair Archived 2007-01-29 at the Wayback Machine
  12. Calderon at SFMOMA Archived 2007-07-02 at the Wayback Machine
  13. Slant Magazine Archived 2007-06-12 at the Wayback Machine
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