BOSCO SODI

BOSCO SODI
Bosco Sodi (b. 1970, Mexico City) is known for his richly textured, vividly colored large-scale paintings. Sodi has discovered an emotive power within the essential crudeness of the materials that he uses to execute his paintings. Focusing on material exploration, the creative gesture, and the spiritual connection between the artist and his work, Sodi seeks to transcend conceptual barriers. Sodi leaves many of his paintings untitled, with the intention of removing any predisposition or connection beyond the work’s immediate existence. The work itself becomes a memory and a relic symbolic of the artist’s conversation with the raw material that brought the painting into creation. Sodi’s influences range from l’art informel, looking to artists such as Antoni Tàpies and Jean Dubuffet, to master colorists such as Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and the bright hues of his native heritage.

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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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2025

火 | MtK Contemporary Art, (Kyoto, Japan)

Yo Vi La Luz | Galeria Nuno (Centeno, Portugal)

Andares | Fundación Cajas (Canarias, Spain)

À Mon Père | Köning Galerie, (Nave, Germany)

Installation at Henro & Ma-Ka, Kanaal, Belgium

La Rendición de la Materia | Museo de Arte de Sonora, (Sonora, Mexico)

Studio Bosco Sodi Anual at Sabino 336, Mexico City, Mexico.

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2024

Dusks | Johyun Gallery, (Seoul, South Korea); HEM Art Museum, (Shunde, China)

Transmutations | DSC Gallery, (Prague, Czech Republic)

Dawns | Johyun Gallery, (Busan, South Korea)

El Día Que Nos Volvimos A Encontrar | Galería Hilario Galguera, (Madrid, Spain)

Rock and Roll: Bosco Sodi e os objetos de interesse | Museu Casa das Rosas, (São Paulo, Brazil)

 

2023

Folegandros | Axel Vervoordt Gallery, (Kanaal, Belgium)

The Silence of Form | Sevil Dolmaci, (Istanbul, Turkey)

Galaxy | SCAI The Bathhouse, (Tokyo, Japan)

Solo Para Revivir | Kasmin Gallery, (New York, New York)

Mi Ricordo, Sì, Io Mi Ricordo | Cardi Gallery, (Milan, Italy)

Origen, Harvard Art Museums, (Cambridge, United States)

Spheres and Sack Paintings | Axel Vervoordt Gallery, (Kanaal, Belgium)

Saptatathagata | Fundación Casa de México en España, (Madrid, Spain);

Alabanzas | Galeria Hilario Galguera, (Mexico City, Mexico)

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2022

Studio Bosco Sodi Anual at Sabino, Fundación Casa Wabi, Ciudad de México, México

Famous Last Words | NUNO CENTENO, (Porto, Portugal)

It Was Early Morning yesterday | Johyun Gallery, Haeundae, (South Korea)

Totality | König Galerie, (Vienna, Austria)

Tabula Rasa | Kasmin Gallery and König Galerie, (Basel, Switzerland)

Reflexiones | Galeria Carles Taches, (Barcelona, Spain)

Curved Surfaces | Galeria Luciana Brito, (São Paolo, Brazil)

Unknown Unknowns. An Introduction to Mysteries | 23rd Triennale Milano, (Milan, Italy)

What Goes Around Comes Around | Palazzo Vendramin Grimani, Fondazione dell'Albero d'Oro, (Venice, Italy)

Básico | University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, (Tampa, United States)

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2021

La fuerza del destino | Dallas Museum of Art, (Dallas, United States)

Into the Deepest | Axel Vervoordt Gallery, (Kanaal, Belgium)

Tabula Rasa | Studio Bosco Sodi and Kasmin Gallery, Washington Square Park, (New York, New York)

Totality | König Galerie, (London, United Kingdom)

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2020

A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains | Axel Vervoordt Gallery, (Hong Kong, China)

Cuatro grandes alegorías |Álvaro Alcázar Gallery, (Madrid, Spain)

Asia Society Outdoor Sculpture Program | Asia Society, (Hong Kong, China); Eduardo Secci Contemporary, (Florence, Italy); GALLERY2, (Jeju Island, South Korea)

Perfect Bodies | Pioneer Works and Kasmin Gallery, (Brooklyn, United States)

Somos El Jardín, El Jardín Es Nosotros | Jardín Etnobotánico de Oaxaca, (Oaxaca, Mexico)

Ergo Sum | Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, (Málaga, Spain)

Vers l'Espagne | Kasmin Gallery, (New York, New York)

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2019

Untitled | Johyun Gallery, (Busan, South Korea); Royal Society of Sculptors, (London, United Kingdom)

Topographies | Mexican Cultural Institute, (Washington D.C., United States)

Las Tinieblas Sobre la Faz de la Tierra | Galería Hilario Galguera, (Mexico City, Mexico)

Heavens and the Earth | Blain Southern, (London, United Kingdom)

 

2018
Sedimentos | Axel Vervoordt Gallery, (Kanaal, Belgium)

There Will be Light | Eigen + Art, (Leipzig, Germany)

Muro | Art Night at National Theatre, (London, United Kingdom)

Del Fuego | Museum of Visual Arts (MAVI), (Santiago, Chile)

Terra è stata stabilita | SCAI The Bathhouse, (Tokyo, Japan)

2017
Icarus | Mestre Projects, (Nassau, Bahamas)

Caryatides | Paul Kasmin Gallery, (New York, New York)

Muro | Washington Square Park, (New York, New York)

Por los Siglos de los Siglos | Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL), (Mexico City, Mexico)

Voragine | Luciana Brito Gallery, (São Paulo, Brazil)

In Saecula Saeculorum | Brand New Gallery, (Milan, Italy)

Elemental | Museo Anahuacalli, (Mexico City, Mexico)

2016
Malpais | Paul Kasmin Gallery, (Los Angeles, United States)

En el Camino | Fundación Antonio Perez, (Cuenca, Spain)

Yūgen | Blain Southern, (London, United Kingdom)

Cubes | Eigen+Art, (Berlin, Germany)

Sahara | Carles Tache Gallery, (Barcelona, Spain)

2015
Rhus Verniciflua | SCAI The Bathhouse, (Tokyo, Japan)

Lacquer Papers | Tripoli Gallery, (Southhampton, United States)

Ag | Galeria Hilario Galguera, (México City, México)

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2014
The Last Day | Pioneer Works, (Brooklyn, United States)

En un lugar remoto | GE Galeria, (Monterrey, México)

Fractais | Galeria Fernando Santos, (Porto, Portugal)

Obayashi Collection | YU-UN, (Tokyo, Japan)

2013
Omni | Museo Dolores Olmedo, (México City, México)

Terra Ignota | Eigen + Art Lab, (Berlin, Germany)

Graphien | Pace Gallery, (London, United Kingdom)

2012

Croatia | Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, (Valenciá, Spain); San Ildefonso, (Mexico City, Mexico); Museo de los Pintores Oaxaqueños, (Oaxaca, Mexico), Museo de Arte de Ponce, (Ponce, Puerto Rico)

ZnO | Tripoli Gallery of Contemporary Art, (Southampton, United States)

Iro Miede | Taka Ishii Gallery, (Kyoto, Japan)

Una Momentanea Perdita di Ragione | Project B, (Milan, Italy)

Suspiro | Galería Álvaro Alcázar, (Madrid, Spain)

2011
Ubi Sunt | The Pace Gallery, (New York, New York)

Un Largo Camino a Casa | Galería Hilario Galguera, (Mexico City, México)

Paintings | Galería Carles Taché, (Barcelona, Spain)

2010
Pangaea | The Bronx Museum, (Bronx, United States)

Here Comes the Sun | Galerie Kai Hilgemann, (Berlin, Germany)

2009
Untitled | Galería Álvaro Alcázar, (Madrid, Spain); Cervantino Festival, (Guanajuato, Mexico); Mexican Institute in Spain, (Madrid, Spain); Galeria Hilario Galguera, (Leipzig, Germany); Galerie Kai Hilgemann, (Berlin, Germany); Galería Ysabel Pinyol, (Barcelona, Spain)

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2008
Untitled | Galería Arte 92, (Milano, Italy); Galería Juan Silió, (Santander, Spain); Casa De Asia, (Barcelona, Spain)

2007
Untitled | Galerie Kai Hilgemann, (Berlin, Germany); Tokyo Wonder Site, (Shibuya, Tokyo); Mssohkan Gallery, (Kobe, Japan); Casado Santa Pau Gallery, (Madrid, Spain); Museo Internazionale Delle Arti Applicate Oggi (MIAAO), (Turin, Italy)

2006
Untitled | Neuhoff Gallery, (New York, New York); Galería D ́art Torre Baró, (La selva del Camp, Spain)

2005
Beneath the Unconscious | Mexican Embassy in Japan in collaboration with the Mssohkan Gallery, (Tokyo, Japan)

2004
Untitled | Hartmann Gallery, (Barcelona, Spain); Diners Gallery, (Bogotá, Colombia); Cultural Center of the Embassy of Mexico in Portugal, (Lisbon, Portugal)

2003
El Color Como Materia | Oscar Román Gallery, (Mexico City, México); Chiostro Dei Pesci, (Milan, Italy); Cultural Center of Guanajuato, (Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico)

2002
Untitled | Cultural Institute of México in Spain, (Madrid, Spain); Bcnet, (Barcelona, Spain); Shatevín Art Gallery, (Barcelona, Spain)

2001
Untitled | Shatevin Art Gallery, (Barcelona, Spain)

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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2025

Wet Snow | SAC Berthelot, (Bucharest, Romania)

ミネバネ! | Contemporary Art - The Taguchi Art Collection​, Akita Museum of Art, Akita Senshu Museum of Art

Que veux-tu, Brique? | The Grand (Hornu, Belgium)

Raging Planet | Newport Street Gallery, (London, UK)

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2024

20th Annual Thanksgiving Collective | Tripoli Gallery, (Wainscott, NY)

Speaking in Silence, two man show | Ryosokuin Temple, (Kyoto, Japan)

Bosco Sodi & Alma Allen, THE MOSS ROOM, Manitoga | The Russel Wright Design Center, (Garrison, NY)

In the Presence of Absence | Desert X ®, AlUla, (Saudi Arabia)

OFFSET: Robert Rauschenberg at USF Graphicstudio | University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, (Tampa, United States)

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2023

Social Forms: Art as Global Citizenship, Fall 2023 edition of Converge 45 biennial | (Portland, United States)

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2022

Untitled Tennis Tournament | FF Projects, Monterrey, México; Museo De Arte Contemporáneo, (Querétaro, Mexico)

Bitácoras, Colección Fundación Casa Wabi | (Mexico)

Unknown Unknowns. An Introduction to Mysteries | 23rd Triennale Milano, (Milan, Italy)

Summer Sculpture Park | Bechyne Castle | König Galerie, The Panstvi (Bechyne, Czechia)

11th Edition, Sculpture in the City | König Galerie, (London, United Kingdom)

Assembly 1: Unstored | Contemporary Sculpture from Mexico, Assembly, Monticello, (United States); Kunsthal KAdE, (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

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2021

Between the Earth and Sky | Kasmin Gallery, (New York, New York)

Bosco Sodi and Johnny Abrahams | Sunday-S Gallery, (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Endgame | Orto Botanico Corsini Monte Argentario, (Porto Ercole, Italy)

Nasher Mixtape | Nasher Sculpture Center, (Dallas, United States)

Seeing Differently: The Phillips Collects for a New Century | The Phillips Collection, (Washington D.C., United States)

Slip Zone: A New Look at Postwar Abstraction in the Americas & East Asia | The Dallas Museum of Art, (Dallas, United States)

A Poet in New York or New York in a Poet | Abrazo Interno Gallery, The Clemente, (New York, New York)

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2020

Faster Than Ever | Ikon Gallery, (Birmingham, United Kingdom)

Life During Wartime: Art in the Age of the Coronavirus | University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, (Tampa, United States); National Gallery of Victoria Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, (Melbourne, Australia)

On the Frontline of Contemporary Art from the Taguchi Art Collection | The Shimonoseki City Art Museum, (Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan)

Writing Beyond | Axel Vervoordt Gallery, (Kanaal, Belgium)

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2019

Bound to the Earth: Art, Materiality, and the Natural World | Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, (San Diego, United States)

Crossing Lines, Constructing Home: Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary Art | Harvard Art Museums, (Cambridge, United States)

Fuck Art, Let’s Eat | Galeria Fernando Santos, (Porto, Portugal)

Infinitive Mutability | Axel Vervoordt, (Hong Kong, China)

Mementos Mons, Cabinets de Curiosités | Beaux-Arts Mons, (Mons, Belgium)

Reason Gives No Answers | Newport Street Gallery, (London, United Kingdom)

The Visible Turn: Contemporary Artists Confront Political Invisibility | University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, (Tampa, United States)

2018

Ear to the Ground: Earth and Element in Contemporary Art | New Orleans Museum of Art, (New Orleans, United States)

Beyond Wonder, Perspectives of Utopia | Nagoya University of the Arts, (Nagoya, Japan)

Prima Materia | Lacasapark, Gardiner, United States

Sculpture Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, (Milwaukee, United States)

A Tradition of Revolution | Nasher Sculpture Center, (Dallas, United States)

Jay DeFeo: The Ripple Effect | Aspen Art Museum, (Aspen, United States)

Wunderkammer I | Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, (Esbjerg, Denmark); Harbour Arts Sculpture Park, Hong Kong Arts Center, (Hong Kong, China)

Jay DeFeo: The Ripple Effect | Le Consortium, (Dijon, France)

 

2017
Recent Art from East Tennessee and Beyond | Knoxville Museum of Art, (Knoxville, United States)

Forever Never Comes, Metabolism of Times | Museo Archeologico e d’Arte della Maremma, (Grosseto, Italy)

Art of the New Millenium in Taguchi Art Collection | The Museum of Modern Art, (Gunma, Japan)
 

2016
Wirikuta  (Mexican Time Slip), curated by Nicolas Bourriaud | Museo Espacio, (Aguascalientes, México)

Point of View, Pena Garden Project | UNESCO World Heritage, (Sintra, Portugal)

2015

Art Basel Miami Beach | SCAI The Bathhouse, (Miami, United States)

Proportio | Palazzo Fortuny, (Venice, Italy); Museum of Stones, The Noguchi Museum, (Queens, United States)
 

2014
Carte Blanche | Pace Gallery at Chesa Büsin, (Zuoz, Switzerland)
 

2013
Come Together: Surviving Sandy curated by Phong Bui | Industry City, (Brooklyn, United States)

Beyond Limits | Sotheby’s, Chatsworth House, (United Kingdom)

 

2012
Untitled | Eigen + Art Lab, (Berlin, Germany)

2011
Adventure in Wonderland | Monte di Mola Museum, Promenade du Port, Porto Cervo, (Sardinia, Italy)

 

2010
Untitled | Art Karlsruhe, Galerie Kai Hilgemann, (Karlsruhe, Germany)

2008 
Seville Biennial | Ars Fundum Collection, (Seville, Spain)

Colectiva | Galería Xavier Fiol, (Palma de Mallorca, Spain)

 

2007
Sculpture Works | Galerie Kai Hilgemann, (Berlin, Germany)

Paper Works | Galerie Kai Hilgemann, (Berlin, Germany)

 

 

PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

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• Kunsthalle Praha, Prague, Czech Republic

• 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan

• Augusto Perfetti Collection

• Contemporary Art Collection of the Amister Hotel, Barcelona, Spain

• Castello di Ama, Chianti, Italy 

• Dallas Museum of Art, USA

• De la Cruz Collection, Puerto Rico

• Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA

• Deutsche Bank, New York, USA

• Esencies Collection, Ernesto Ventós Omedas Collection, Barcelona, Spain

• ESPAC Collection, México City, México

• Football Club Barcelona Foundation, Spain

• Gateway Foundation, Missouri, USA

• Godia Foundation, Barcelona, Spain

• Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, Japan

• Harold Stream Collection

• Harvard Art Museums, Massachusetts, USA

• IBM Building, New York, USA

• ICA Miami, Miami, USA

• Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

• Irene Cábez- Ignacio Muñoz Collection, Spain

• JUMEX Collection, Mexico City, Mexico

• Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee, USA

• Kum and Go Collection, Des Moines, USA

• Lhoist Group Collection, Limelette, Belgium

• Luis Barragán Foundation (Vitra Museum) Switzerland.

• Mestre Collection, Barcelona, Spain

• MIAAO (Museo Internacional del Arte Aplicada Oggi) Torino, Italy

• Mostyn Art Gallery, Wales, UK

• Murder Me Collection, London, UK

• Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany

• Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Saint-Martens-Latem, Belgium

• Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California, USA

• Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium

• Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands

• Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan

• Nasher Sculpture Center, Texas, USA

• New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana, USA

• San Antonio Museum of Art, Permanent Collection, San Antonio, Texas, USA

• Taguchi Art Collection, Japan

• The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan

• The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

• The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., USA

• The Scottish National Gallery of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland

• USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, USA

• Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut, USA

• Walker Art Center, Minnesota, USA