ARTIST NAME Lorenzo Rocha Cito
TEAM NAME
GROUP Group XIV, May 02 - Sept 02
DISCIPLINE Architecture
WEBSITE www.revistaespacio.com
BIO Born 1967 in Mexico City
Lives in Mexico City

Education

Architecture, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico City

Selected Exhibitions and Works

2012
- “Oficina de arte” (C), Mexico City

2010
- "Urban Orchard," Mexico City (Architecture)

2009
- "Public Art Forum SAPS," Mexico City (Group Exhibition)
- "Cantarranas Public Square," Bilbao (Architecture)

2008
- "Office for Urban Transformation," Fundación Bilbao Arte, Bilbao (Architecture)
- "Untitled (he promised)," Open Space, contribution to Rikrit Tiravanija’s installation, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (Solo Exhibition)

Editor of [ESPACIO], contemporary art magazine, www.revistaespacio.com

Director of the Office for Urban Transformation-Mexico

2007
- “OUT Week,” Presentation and workshop in collaboration with Renaud Codron from OUT, Geneva, Switzerland and Office for Urban Transformation, Mexico City (Group Exhibition)

2006
- “ESPACIO #3," Video installation in collaboration with Eniac Martínez, Jerónimo Hagerman, and Alex Dorfsman, Habita Hotel Terrace, Mexico City (Group Exhibition)
- “ESPACIO #2,” Slide show and sound installation in collaboration with Guillermo Santamarina, Jerónimo Hagerman, and Alex Dorfsman, ECO Museo Experimental, Mexico City, (Group Exhibition)

2005
- “ESPACIO #1,” Sound improvisation in collaboration with Xavier Rodríguez, Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros, Mexico City (Group Exhibition)

2004
- “Garden, Terrace, and Swimming Pool,” Malinalco, Mexico (Architecture)
- “Roof Garden,” Galeria>Arquitectura, Mexico City (Architecture)

2003
- “Espacios de Ocio,” Space arrangement with non-furniture, Colegio de la Vizcainas, Mexico City (Solo Exhibition)
- "L’Isola dell’Arte in Milano," Galleria Giocca Arte Contemporanea, Milan and Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland (Group Exhibition)

2000
- "Guest Apartment on Calle Rio Grijalva," Mexico City (Architecture)

1999
- "Creación en Movimiento, Jóvenes Creadores, Novena Muestra," Main Gallery at the National Center for the Arts, Architecture and Urbanism Institute and Housing Institute of Mexico City (Group Exhibition)

Publication

2008
- "Out," Fundación Bilbao Arte, Bilbao, Spain

2007
- "Casa Estudio, Ediciones del Equilibrista," Lorenzo Rocha, Jill Hartley, Mexico City

2003
- "Missing Room," Lorenzo Rocha, Selva Barni, Elias Nahmias, MAKCenter for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles

Prizes and Awards

2009
- Urban Agriculture Program, SEDEREC, Government of Mexico City
- Urbanaccion competition, mention to Cantarranas public square, La Casa Encendida, Madrid

2008
- Fundación Bilbao Arte, Bilbao (Residency)

Publications

- 2013, Daniela Janser, Thomas Seelig, Urs Stahel (Eds.), “Concrete – Photography and Architecture”, Scheidegger & Spiess, exhibition catalog Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zürich
- 2011, Lorenzo Rocha Cito, “Essays on Photography and Architecture”, Editorial Diamantina, Mexico

Awards

2010, Independent magazines grant, FONCA, Mexico
PORTRAIT
Lorenzo Rocha Cito portrait
© Andres Paniagua
FINAL PROJECT
"Missing Room," Construction and video, 2002
"Missing Room," Construction and video, 2002 image
© MAK Center / Selva Barni

Project Details...
JURY
Vito Acconci
Viktor Misiano
Herbert Muschamp
Peter Noever
Hans-Ulrich Obrist