Cristobal Gracia

Cristóbal Gracia reshapes historical milestones and social and cultural phenomena through the investigation, connection and reconstruction of official chronicles, microhistories and urban myths. Using tools such as humor, fiction, violence, desire and failure, his work challenges the ideological and power systems, which govern and have constructed the conception of the Western contemporary civilization. In his process of work Gracia involves different creative agents, every participation and collaboration is essential not only in the material fabrication of his artworks but also in conceptual decisions that give each project a unique specificity. Gracia tends to search for the tensions that art can create when working with dichotomies and contradictions belonging to different fields of knowledge, here lies the opportunity of contemplating life in a different light. Gracia holds a BFA from the E.N.P.E.G Esmeralda, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude and later he attended to the Programa Educativo SOMA, both in Mexico City. He has been awarded with grants such as the BBVA-MACG Arte Actual and Jóvenes Creadores FONCA in the field of alternative media. Currently he is an aspirant for an MFA in Sculpture by the Yale School of Art, class of 2020 - 2022. . His work has been shown in Mexico, the United States, England, Italy, Germany, Colombia, Ecuador, Argentina, India, The Philippines and New Zealand, in venues such as: Museo Universitario del Chopo, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Museo Tamayo, Casa del Lago, Human Resources, The BOX gallery L.A, the Biennial of the Americas, Palais de Tokyo, Blain | Southern, the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, La Ene, the M100 Matucana and in Clark House Initiative among many others. He has been a resident artist in Bikini Art Residency, Lago di Como; Viafarini, Milan; Biennial of the Americas, Denver; Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston; Grand Union, Birmingham; Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido; Casa Nano, Tokyo; The Art House, Wakefield and Lugar Común, Monterrey. His work has been published in CULTURED, Artforum, Código, Caín, Art Review, Excelsior, Frente, Westword, Denver Post, Palais Maga- zine, Terremoto, Utopía, Letras Libres, Gas TV, La Tempestad just to mention a few.