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Born: Mexico 1972 Lives: and works in Oaxaca, Mexico


Solo Exhibitions 2011 Dr Lakra, The Drawing Center, New York 2010 Dr Lakra, ICA Boston 2009 Dr Lakra, Kate MacGarry Dr Lakra, kurimanzutto 2006 Dr Lakra, Kate MacGarry 2005 Los Dos Amigos, Dr Lakra & Abraham Cruzvillegas, Museo de Arte Contempor�neo de Oaxaca (MACO), Mexico 2003 Dr Lakra, Kate MacGarry, London 1998 Dr Lakra, Ju�rez 65, Mexico City, Mexico 1993 Dr Lakra, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin 1991 Dr Lakra, Caf� Primo, Berlin 1990 Dr Lakra, Galer�a Caracas, Berlin 1989 Dr Lakra, Galer�a El Juglar, Mexico City, Mexico
Group Exhibitions 2009 2nd Trienal Poli/Grafica de San Juan, Puerto Rico Modern Ruins, Kate MacGarry 2008 Inaugural Exhibition, kurimanzutto, Mexico City Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City, The Alameda National Center, San Antonio, USA 2007 Goth: Reality of The Departed World, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan La Planta, Arte Contemporaneo Omnilife, Guadalajara, Mexico Feral Kingdom, CCA Center for Contemporary Art Glasgow Cuesti�n Xeracional/ Generational Issue, Centro Galego de Arte Contempor�nea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Mad Love, Museum of ModernArt, Copenhagen Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City, Museum of Contemporary art, Chicago Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 2006 Spank The Monkey, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead I�m Sorry, Pilar Parra & Romero, Madrid I Love My Country but I Think We Should Start Seeing Other People, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco 2005 Words: The formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Mexico 70, Casa del Lago, Mexico City The Urban Edge Show, Milan Girls on Film, Zwirner & Wirth, New York 2004 Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage & Drawing (with Sebastian Bremer, Matt Bryans, Amie Dicke, Wangechi Mutu, Jochum Nordstr�m, Steven Shearer, Godfried Donkor and Nicole Wermers), Tate Modern, London Equation du Solelil Noir, Peinture Contemporaine du Mexique (curated by Guillermo Santamaria), Instituto de M�xico � Paris, Paris Deliver Us from Evil, (with Honore Daumier, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Robert Crumb, Keegan McHargue) Matthew Marks Gallery, New York 2003 Elephant Juice, Kurimanzutto, Mexico 2000 Galerie kurimanzutto @ Galerie Chantel Crousel, Paris Stolen Bike, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York 1999 Art and Idea, Mexico City The Light of Jesus, The Drawing Collective, Los Angeles 1998 Camu�as Family, Purgatorio 2, Valencia, Spain Festimad, C�rculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid 1996 Festimad, C�rculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid La Feria del Rebelde, La Panader�a, Mexico City No Soy Fot�grafo, La Panader�a, Mexico City 1995 Pierced Hearts and True Love; a Century of Drawings for Tattoos, The Drawing Centre, New York 1994 Mutant Messenger, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago Grap a Bag, Museum of Art Chicago 1993 Auslanders in Berlin, Kunsthaus Tachesles, Berlin 1991 Aire Fresco en el Verano del Amor, Divisi�narte, Mexico City 1990 Ya, Juventud, Ya, La Qui�onera, Mexico City Euritmia en el Tenderero, Puente de Piedra 19, Mexico City
Bibliography Dr Lakra Roberta Smith, New York Times (NYTimes.com), 11-17 April 2010 On pins and needles defending artistic expression, Carol Rose, The Boston Globe (Boston.com), 8 April 2010 Dr Lakra has a Tattoo of a Demon Peeing on Jesus Face, Bernardo Loyola, Vice, November 2008, pp.100-2 Spank the Monkey, Art Forum, Eugenia Bell, p.338 Dr Lakra, Tank Magazine, Winter 2007 Dr Lakra, Sally O�Reilly, Art Review, Sept 2006, p.135 On The Cover: Eric Parker on Dr Lakra, Eric Parker, BOMB, N. 94 The Ameritas Issue: Mexico and the Gula, Winter 2005-6 Dr Lakra, �nico mexicano en Pin-up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing, Merry MacMasters, La Jornada, Mexico City, 27 December, 2004. Arts Preview: Work at the cutting edge; Tate Modern is holding its first exhibition devoted to collage and drawing, Charlotte Cripps, The Independent, 2 December 2004 Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing, Sara Harrison, Art Monthly, February 2005 All stuck and scribbled, Andrew Graham-Dixon, The Sunday Telegraph; 19 December 2004 Dr Lakra, Graphic Magazine, Dec 2004 Deliver Us From Evil, Martha Schwendener, Artforum, August, 2004 After Shock. Jerry Saltz, The Village Voice, New York City, 31 Oct 2003 Dr Lakra, Anna Goumal, Dazed and Confused, Nov 2003 Through the eye of a Needle, Big Issue, Oct 2003 Dr Lakra, Guardian Guide, Sept 2003


Publications Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2009-10, Sally O'Reilly, Frieze, London 2009 Dr. Lakra, Health and Efficiency, foreword by Abraham Cruzvillegas, Editorial RM, Mexico City 2009 Viva la Muerte, Kunsthalle Wien, 2007 Cuesti�n Xeracional/ Generational Issue, exhibition catalogue, Centro Galego de Arte Contempor�nea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Xunta de Galicia, 2007 Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City, exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago/ Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2007 Abraham Cruzvillegas & Dr Lakra: Los Dos Amigos � Abraham Cruzvillegas & Dr. Lakra, kurimanzutto, A&R; Press, 2006 Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing, Emma Dexter, Phaidon Press, 2005 La Panaderia, edited by Yoshua Okon, essays by Carlo McCormick, Cuauht�moc Medina, and Eduardo Abaroa, Guillermo Fandanelli; introduction by Miguel Calder�n; TURNER, 2004 Equation Du Soleil Noir: Peinture Contemporaine Du Mexique, exhibition catalogue, Instituto de M�xico � Paris, text by Guillermo Santamarina, 2004

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