Roberto Turnbull

Mexico City | 1959

 

Sculptor, printmaker, illustrator and painter. His education began at the age of 18 years at the School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving “La Esmeralda”. His first solo exhibition was held in 1983 at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Since then they have dedicated exhibitions to his work at the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, room Siqueiros Public Art, Museum of Modern Art, Museo de la Estampa and galleries such as OMR, Kahlo Gallery Coronel, A. Negra Gallery, Gallery of Contemporary Art , Nina Menocal Gallery, Gallery Florencia Riestra. And inside the republic at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca, Museum of Arts from the University of Guadalajara, University of Guanajuato, Ex Convento del Carmen, Manolo Rivero Gallery, Merida, Yucatan. Gallery Carlos Ashida, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Jorge Alvarez Gallery, Guadalajara, Jalisco. Drexel Gallery Monterrey, NL. Abroad in the Howart Scott Gallery, New York, USA.

 

 

studies

1978-1982

National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving “La Esmeralda” INBA, Mexico, DF.

 

 

selection of solo exhibitions

2014

Cocktail clown, Gallery Le Laboratoire, Mexico DF.

Platitudes, Target Shooting Gallery, Guadalajara.

2010

Desfiguros II, Gallery Le Laboratoire, Mexico DF.

2009

Desfiguros Institute of Mexico in Spain, Madrid.

House and Museum, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City.

Impressions, Museo de la Estampa, Mexico DF.

2008

Poaching. Retrospective. Roberto Turnbull. Museum of Modern Art, Mexico, DF.

Inaccurate Geometry 2007. Drexel Gallery, Monterrey.

2005

You see the dogs, Kunsthaus Santa Fe, San Miguel de Allende.

2004

Inaccurate Geometry, Florencia Riestra Gallery, Mexico, DF.

Haus der Kunst, Guadalajara, Jal.

Inaccurate geometry, Florencia Riestra Gallery, Mexico, DF.

2003

Inside Line, Sala Hermenegildo Bustos, University of Guanajuato, Mexico.

Recent works 2002, Howard Scott Gallery, New York, U.S.A.

2002

sequences and montages, The Necromancer, San Miguel de Allende.

2000

Miscellaneous, Museum of Arts at the University of Guadalajara.

1995

Engravings, Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca, Mexico.

Paintings, drawings and prints, Jorge Alvarez Gallery, Guadalajara.

Untitled, Gallery Zone, Mexico, DF.

1994

Painting, drawing and prints. Nina Menocal Gallery. Mexico DF.

1993

Paintings, drawings and prints, Jorge Alvarez Gallery, Guadalajara.

1992

Paintings, Room Arte Publico Siqueiros, Mexico, DF.

1991

One Design, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Mexico, DF.

Papers 1990, Kahlo Gallery Coronel, Mexico, DF A. Black and Gallery, Mexico, DF

Paintings, drawings and prints, Jorge Alvarez Gallery, Guadalajara and

Ex Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Jal.

1988

New paint, Galeria OMR, Mexico, DF.

1987

Painting, drawing and printmaking, Manolo Rivero Gallery, Merida, Mexico.

Paintings, drawings and prints, Gallery Carlos Ashida, Guadalajara.

1986

Drawings, Gallery OMR, Mexico, DF.

1985

Paintings, drawings and prints, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico, DF.

1983

Travelling exhibition in various schools of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

 

 

selection of collective exhibitions

2008

Workshop Carlos B. Zetina, Mexico, DF.

2007

alone together. Gallery The refaccionaria, Mexico, DF.

2006

Cage Romantic. Ramis Barquet, Monterrey. Distor. Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico, DF.

XIII Bienal Rufino Tamayo, Museo Rufino Tamayo.

2005

Killingmesoftly. Ramis Barquet, Chelsea, N.Y.

2004

Equation du soleil noir. Institute of Mexico in Paris. Out of nowhere, Museum Raul Anguiano, Guadalajara, Jal.

XII Bienal Rufino Tamayo, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico, DF.

2004

Out of nowhere, Ex Teresa Arte, Mexico, D.F.

2003

Eyedrops, Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca, Mexico.

wreath, traveling exhibition artists from Canada and Mexico. Museum of the City of Mexico, Centro Cultural Necromancer, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico and Toronto.

Carlos B. Zetina Workshop 2002, Mexico, DF.

1998 Twelve finimilenaristas sculptors, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico, DF.

IX Rufino Tamayo Painting Biennial, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico, DF.

1996-1995

For our race the spirit will speak, cultural exchange Mexico-Colombia, Poplar University Museum, Mexico, DF and Luis Angel Arango Library, Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia.

1995

Collective sculpture, Gallery Zone, Mexico, DF.

1994

Mexico today, Casa de America, Madrid, Spain.

II Biennial of Painting and Sculpture Caribbean Central, Havana, Cuba.

Biennial engraving, Curitiva, Brazil.

1993

Europalia 93 Festival, Museum Voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende, Belgium.

I International Print Exhibition, Machida, Tokyo, Japan.

1991

On paper, Metropolitan Gallery, Mexico, DF.

1989

III Biennial of Cuenca, Ecuador.

Six painters, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Mexico, DF.

1990

Heart of Mexico, Riva Yares Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A.

1989

15 contemporary artists from Mexico, Mexican Fine Arts Museum, Chicago Illinois, U.S.A.

1987

New Roots, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.

Unexplained, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico, DF.

1986

Norway Internatinal Print Biennial, Friedrickstaad, Norway.

VII Biennial of Graphic Latin America and the Caribbean of San Juan of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican Culture Institute, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Memento Mori, Contemporary Art Cultural Center, Mexico, DF.

Annual Painting Exhibition, National Auditorium, Mexico, DF.

Confrontation 86, Palacio Bellas Artes, Mexico, DF.

1985

Seventeen artists today in Mexico, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico, DF.

1984

Second National Painting Biennial Rufino Tamayo. Culture House of Oaxaca, Mexico and Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City.

1983

First National Drawing Biennial, Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico, DF.

 

 

awards and appointments

 

2002-06

Member of the National System of Creators.

1998

Omnilife, painting, Guadalajara, Jal. Award.

Omnilife Prize, graphic, Guadalajara, Jal.

National Painting Biennial Rufino Tamayo (Acquisition Prize).

1992

National Painting Biennial Rufino Tamayo (Acquisition Prize).

1986

Annual Exhibition of Painting, Mexico, DF.