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.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Rock and Roll: Bosco Sodi e os objetos de interesse, Museu Casa das Rosas, São Paulo, Brazil
El Día Que Nos Volvimos A Encontrar, Galería Hilario Galguera, Madrid, Spain
2023
Folegandros, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Kanaal, Belgium
The Silence of Form, Sevil Dolmaci, Istanbul, Turkey
Bosco Sodi: Galaxy, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
Bosco Sodi: Solo Para Revivir, Kasmin Gallery, New York, New York
Bosco Sodi: Mi Ricordo, Sì, Io Mi Ricordo, Cardi Gallery, Milan, Italy
Bosco Sodi: Origen, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, United States
Bosco Sodi: Spheres and Sack Paintings, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Kanaal, Belgium
Bosco Sodi: Saptatathagata, Fundación Casa de México en España, Madrid, Spain
Bosco Sodi: Alabanzas, Galeria Hilario Galguera, Mexico City, Mexico
2022
Bosco Sodi: Famous Last Words, NUNO CENTENO, Porto, Portugal
Bosco Sodi: It Was Early Morning yesterday, Johyun Gallery, Haeundae, South Korea
Bosco Sodi: Totality, König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Bosco Sodi: Tabula Rasa, Kasmin Gallery and König Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Bosco Sodi: Reflexiones, Galeria Carles Taches, Barcelona, Spain
Bosco Sodi: Curved Surfaces, Galeria Luciana Brito, São Paolo, Brazil
Bosco Sodi: Unknown Unknowns. An Introduction to Mysteries, 23rd Triennale Milano, Milan, Italy
Bosco Sodi: What Goes Around Comes Around, Palazzo Vendramin Grimani, Fondazione dell'Albero d'Oro, Venice, Italy
Bosco Sodi: Básico, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, United States
2021
Bosco Sodi: 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
2020
A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Bosco Sodi: Cuatro grandes alegorias, Álvaro Alcázar Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Asia Society Outdoor Sculpture Program, Asia Society, Hong Kong, China
Bosco Sodi, Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Florence, Italy
Bosco Sodi, GALLERY2, Jeju Island, South Korea
Bosco Sodi: Perfect Bodies, Pioneer Works and Kasmin Gallery, Brooklyn, United States
Bosco Sodi, 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
2019
Bosco Sodi, Johyun Gallery, Busan, South Korea
Royal Society of Sculptors, London, United Kingdom
Bosco Sodi, 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
Malpaís, Paul Kasmin Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
Fundación Antonio Perez, Cuenca, Spain
Yūgen, Blain Southern, London, United Kingdom
Eigen+Art, Berlin, Germany
Sahara, Carlos 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
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
Croatia, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valenciá, Spain
Omni, Museo Dolores Olmedo, México City, México
Graphien, Pace Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Croatia, San Ildefonso, México City, México
Croatia, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico
2012
Terra Ignota, Eigen + Art, Berlin, Germany
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, México City, México
Bosco Sodi: Paintings, Galería Carles Taché, Barcelona, Spain
2010
Pangaea, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, United States
Here Comes the Sun, Galerie Kai Hilgemann, Berlin, Germany
2009
Galería Álvaro Alcázar, Madrid, Spain
Cervantino Festival, Guanajuato, México
Mexican Institute in Spain, Madrid, Spain
Galeria Hilario Galguera, Leipzig, Germany
Galerie Kai Hilgemann, Berlin, Germany
2008
Galería Arte 92, Milano, Italy
Galería Juan Silió, Santander, Spain
Casa De Asia, Barcelona, Spain
2007
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
Neuhoff Gallery, New York, New York
Galería D ́art Torre Baró, La selva del Camp, Spain
2005
Beneath the Unconscious, Mssohkan Gallery, Kobe, Japan
Beneath the Unconscious, Mexican Embassy in Japan in collaboration with the Mssohkan Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004
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, México City, México
Chiostro Dei Pesci, Milan, Italy
Cultural Center of Guanajuato, Leon, Guanajuato, México
2002
Cultural Institute of México in Spain, Madrid, Spain
Bcnet, Barcelona, Spain
Shatevín Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2001
Shatevin Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
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
2023
Social Forms: Art as Global Citizenship, Fall 2023 edition of Converge 45 biennial, Portland, United States
2022
Untitled Tennis Tournament, FF Projects, Monterrey, México
Museo De Arte Contemoráneo Querétaro: Bitácoraas, Colección Fundación Casa Wabi, México
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
Bosco Sodi at Kunsthal KAdE, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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
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
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, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Museo Espacio, Aguascalientes, México
Pena Garden Project, UNESCO World Heritage, Sintra, Portugal
2015
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
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
-21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
-Augusto Perfetti Collection
-Contemporary Art Collection of the Amister Hotel, Barcelona, Spain
-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