Allora & Calzadilla

Allora & Calzadilla are an artist couple, Puerto Rico working together since 1995 in San Juan as visual artists.

Training

Jennifer Allora ( born March 20, 1974 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA) received her Bachelor of Arts ( BA) at the University of Richmond in Richmond (Virginia), Virginia in 1996 and earned the title Master of Science ( M. Sc. ) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2003. She received a scholarship of the Whitney Museum of American Art study program.

Guillermo Calzadilla ( born January 10, 1971 in Havana, Cuba) 1996 acquired his Bachelor of Fine Arts ( BFA) at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas, San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Master of Fine Arts ( MFA) followed in 2001 at Bard College in Annandale -on-Hudson in New York.

The two artists met for the first time in Florence.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2007: Renaissance Society, Chicago
  • 2007: Serpentine Gallery, London
  • 2007: Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
  • 2007: Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich
  • 2008: Kunstverein München, Munich and at the same time the Haus der Kunst, Munich; Stop, Repair, prepare: Variations on "Ode to Joy" for a prepared piano
  • 2008: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  • 2008: Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
  • 2009: National Museum of Oslo, Oslo
  • 2009: Temporary Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin; Allora & Calzadilla Compass
  • 2009: Art Museums Krefeld, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld; A Man Screaming Is Not a Dancing Bear. How to Appear Invisible
  • 2010: Trafalgar Square, London; Competition: The fourth plinth in 2011
  • 2011: Biennale di Venezia, Venice
  • 2011: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
  • 2012: documenta 13 in Vineyard bunker.

Prizes and awards

  • 2000/2001: Cintas Foundation Fellowship
  • 2002: Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
  • 2004: Gwangju Biennial Prize
  • 2006: Nam June Paik Award
  • 2006: Hugo Boss Prize
  • 2008: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD )

Works in museums

  • Museum of Modern Art (MOMA ), New York City, New York
  • Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Literature (selection )

  • Julienne Lorz (ed.): Allora & Calzadilla, Stop, Repair, prepare: Variations on "Ode to Joy", King, Cologne 2008 ISBN 978-3-86560-474-3
  • Sylvia Martin ( ed.): Allora & Calzadilla, publisher of Modern Art, 2009 ISBN 978-3-941185-62-3 Nuremberg
  • Angela Rosenberg ( ed.): Allora & Calzadilla Compass, Temporary Kunsthalle, Berlin 2009 ISBN 978-3-00-028637-7
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