Raul Ortega Ayala

Page 1 | Biography

Born: Mexico City, 1973
Lives: London

Education
Education
2001�2003 Master in Fine Arts, Glasgow School of Art combined with Hunter College, New York
1995�2000 Degree in Visual Arts, National School of Painting, Sculpture and Print, �La Esmeralda�, National Centre for the Arts, M�xico City
1995�1998 Philosophy, National Autonomous University of M�xico
1994�1995 Cultural Sciences, University of the Cloister of Sor Juana
Painting, National School of Painting, Sculpture and Print, �La Esmeralda�, National Centre for the Arts, M�xico City

Solo Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2006 Bureaucratic Sonata, Rokeby Gallery, London
Commission by the Contemporary Art Society for The Economist, London
2005 3 Site specific works from the Bureaucratic Sonata series, Arts Depot, London
2004 Risk, Do not disturb (with Jemima Burrill), Hiscox Art Projects, London


Group Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 ART Futures, Bloomberg Space, London
'IT IS NOT A QUESTION OF KNOWING WHETHER THIS INTERESTS YOU
BUT RATHER OF WHETHER YOU YOURSELF COULD BECOME MORE
INTERESTING UNDER NEW CONDITIONS OF CULTURAL CREATION'.
PUNCH Gallery, Seattle
2006 Orange, Centre D'Exposition de Saint-Hyacinthe, Montreal
2005 The acceptance world, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
M�xico 70, Casa del Lago, M�xico City
Bloc, New Artists Survey Exhibition, BowieArt at County Hall, London
ARCO (Guest country: Mexico), Enrique Guerrero Gallery, Madrid
2004 Scope, White House Hotel, London
Pilot:1, Limehouse Town Hall, London
inbox: glasgow, Central Gallery, National Centre for the Arts, M�xico City
2003 Big Friendly Show, The Chateau, Glasgow
EV+ A, Limerick, Ireland
Rock Candy, Mariakappel, Hoorn, Holland
60 Years of Art, Central Gallery, National Arts Centre, M�xico City
MFA Glasgow, Tramway, Glasgow and TENT � Witte de With, Rotterdam
Portobello Film Festival, BowieArt selection, Westbound Studios, London
Scottish Drawing, Xi�an and Beijing, China
Inport: International Video � Performance Art, Estonia
Catch me if you can, National Gallery, Tirana, Albania
2002 New Contemporaries, Liverpool Biennial and The Barbican, London
1998 Designata, Central Gallery of the National Centre for the Arts, M�xico City
1996 Alternative Native � Art, Cultural Siqueiros Poliforum, M�xico City


Grants/Awards
2005 Arts Council England
National Council for Culture and Arts (CONACULTA), National Institute for Fine Arts (INBA) and La Colecci�n Jumex, M�xico
2004 La Colecci�n Jumex, M�xico
2001�2003 National Fund for Culture and Arts (FONCA), INBA, M�xico
2000 PADID, M�xico
1999 Rockefeller & Mac Arthur Foundation, USA


Publications
'Bureaucratic Sonata' Published by Monosabios, 2006.