Darío Escobar
Lines of Flight
March 6 – April 28, 2018
Born in Guatemala City in 1971, Darío Escobar lives and works in Guatemala City. His work has been exhibited extensively at biennials, museums and galleries internationally. Recent exhibitions clude: the Jumex Museum, Mexico City, MX (2020); Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (2020) Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC (2020); Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (2020) Fundación ArtNexus, Estudios las Nieves, Bogotá, Colombia (2019); Proyectos Monclova, Ciudad de México, MX (2019); Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, FL (2018); Art Museum of the Americas, Washington D.C (2018); Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA (2017); Children’s Museum of the Arts, New York (2016); Casa Triangulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil (2016); Centro Cultural Sao Paulo, Brazil (2015), LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA (2014); Pizzuti Collection, Colombus, OH (2014); Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA (2013); The Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA, Los Angeles, CA (2011); 53rd Venice Biennale, Artiglierie dell’Arsenale, Venice, IT (2009); La Colección Jumex, Mexico DF (2009). Escobar’s work is included in public collections including: Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami; La Colección Jumex, México; Daros Latinamerica Collection, Zurich; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit; Colombia Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge; The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago de Chile (MAC); Museo del Barrio, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles. Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston; The Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH), Houston; Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), Long Beach, California; The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham; Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona; Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo.
