Monteserrat Albores Gleason

Born in Mexico city in 1974.
Works and lives in New-York

Program YCI 2006 participant

Education

2004 - 2006

Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA. MA in Curatorial Studies.

1995 - 2000

National School of Painting, Sculpture and Etching "La Esmeralda", Mexico City, Mexico. BA degree.

summer 1996

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Advance Painting Institute.

1992 - 1993

Essex University, Colchester, UK. One year of Art History degree.

Professional Experience

2003 - 2004

OMR Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico. Director.

2002

Documenta11_Educational Project, Kassel, Germany. The Education Project consists of nine cultural practitioners involved with the realization and critical reflection of Documenta11.

2001

Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico. Curator and responsible of the conference series.

1999 - 2000

Acceso A Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico. Founder, director and curator.

Curatorial Practice

2006

You don’t live here anymore, Museum of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY, USA. MA thesis exhibition.

2005

This is not an archive, Museum of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY, USA. Co-curator.

2004

Thomas Glassford: Pleasure Garden, OMR Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.

Carla Arocha: Smoke, omr_visit room, OMR Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.

Montserrat Soto: Salidas y Límites, OMR Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico. Co-curator.

Gabriela Galván: Paseo sabor CereZA, omr_visit room, OMR Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.

Multitasquin, group exhibition with Iñaki Bonillas, Calimocho Styles (collaboration between Eduardo Abaroa y Rubén Ortiz-Torres), Mónica Castillo, Claudia Fernández, Thomas Glassford, Cisco Jiménez, Jorge Méndez Blake, Rubén Ortiz-Torres, Sebastián Romo, Bonnie Seeman, Laureana Toledo, Pablo Vargas Lugo, Miguel Ventura and Xawery Wolski, OMR Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.

Cisco Jiménez: DNA crocodile, OMR Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.

Stephan Balkenhol, OMR Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico. Co-curator.

Jorge Méndez Blake: Casi Historias, omr_visit room, OMR Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.

2003

Pablo Vargas Lugo: Guirnaldas para Snoopy, OMR Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.

Melanie Smith: Seis pasos a la Realidad, 2003 (in collaboration with Rafael Ortega) and Untitled, 2003 (works with no sense), OMR Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico. Co-curator.

Heiner Schilling: Fotos, OMR Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico. Co-curator.

Yishai Jusidman: Pintores trabajando, OMR Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.

Iñaki Bonillas / Peter Vermeersch: Trabajo en colaboraci?n, omr_Visit room, OMR Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico.

Graham Gillmore: High Maintenance, OMR Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico. Co-curator.

2001

Algo con que tropezar: Reflexiones sobre la escultura contemporána, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico. Co-curator.

Estática: Photographic Series of Hiroshi Sugimoto, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico.

Cuna de lobos o ¡Que bonita familia! Private house and Celeste Magazine, Mexico City, Mexico. Co-curator.

2000

Enrique Jezik: 16:12:7.62, Galería Acceso A, Mexico City, Mexico. Co-curator.

Santiago Sierra: The wall of a gallery pulled out, inclined 60 Degrees from the ground and sustained by 5 people, Galería Acceso A, Mexico City, Mexico.

Situar, group exhibition, Galería Acceso A, Mexico City, Mexico.

Brooks Brothers: The devil make us do it, Galería Acceso A, Mexico City, Mexico.

1999

Emilio Said: Imagen Paralela, Galería Acceso A, Mexico City, Mexico. Co-curator.

Mariana Dellekamp: Antropología del cuerpo moderno, Galería Acceso A, Mexico City, Mexico. Co-curator.

Carlos Ranc: Simulacro, Galería Acceso A, Mexico City, Mexico. Co-curator.

Conferences and discussions

2006

Public interview to Javier Tellez, V SITAC (International Symposium of Contemporary Art Theory). Directed by Ivo Mesquita, Theatre of the Insurgentes, Mexico City, Mexico.

Conference: The Expanded Museum, International Symposium of Museology "Experiences and new goals in museums practices", Museum of Art of the Cultural Center of San Marcos, Lima, Peru.

Discussion with Juan Carlos Rico and Claudia Balerin: in the Search for a New Model of Museum, International Symposium of Museology "Experiences and new goals in museums practices", Museum of Art of the Cultural Center of San Marcos, Lima, Peru.

Discussion with Mara Canela: How Does Today’s Museum Work, International Symposium of Museology "Experiences and new goals in museums practices", Museum of Art of the Cultural Center of San Marcos, Lima, Peru.

Organization of conferences and public programs

2002

Documenta11_Discussion list hosted by Sarai. Organize with the Documenta11_Education Project. http:/mail.sarai.et/cgibin/mailman/listinfo/discussion-d 11

Round table Cityscape/lmagining Territories organize with the D11_Education Project. Participants: Raqs Media Collective, ZonAnomala, and Nomads&Residents.

2001

Organize the public conference of Lynne Cooke, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico.

Organize the public conference of Ute Meta Bower, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico.

Organize the discussion Algo con que tropezar: Reflexiones sobre la escultura contemporána, Museo Rufino Tamayo. Participants: Abraham Cruzvillegas, Thomas Glassford, Cuauhtémoc Medina, and Francisco Quesada, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico.

Publications

2004

"Interview to Miguel Ventura" in the monographic book Miguel Ventura (Mexico City: Trilce, 2004)

Text for Pablo Vargas Lugo presence in the catalogue of the 26th Sao Paulo Biennial (Sao Paulo: Fundacaon Bienal de Sao Paulo, 2004)

Jury

Part of the jury for the visual arts area of “The Grant Program for Creation and Artistic Development”, of the state of Jalisco, Mexico, 2003-2004.