ERNESTO BAUTISTA

www.bautista.work
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www.thefiretheory.org
Santa Ana. 1987.
Works and produces in El Salvador.
Founder member of The Fire Theory.

Beca Mundi, Flora Ars Natura, Bogota Colombia; ARCUS Project Residency Program, Morilya Ibaraki. Japan.
Recent exhibitions “Dios, Union, Liertad” curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud at Prosjektromnormanns, Stavanger Norway and “ICE” at Open
Source Galery, New York, USA and II Bienal del Sur, Caracas Venezuela. Fellowship for Emerging Artists at the Santa Fe Art Institute by
the Harpo Foundation, Baja California, EU. Residency of the Americas, by the Darling Foundry Centre, Quebeck Canada. Residency
through the Ministry of Culture of Colombia and Taller 7 at Medellin, Colombia. Recent Solo exhibition on the ExTeresa Art Museum.
Mexico, D.F. and Shangyuan Art Museum. Beijing, China. Participated in “X”, Museum of Art of El Salvador and Gallery Ernst Hilger.
Vienna, Austria. Triennal of Milan. Milan, Italy. VII Biennial of Visual Arts of the Central American Isthmus; Biennial of the Frontiers,
Tamaulipas. Mexico; Broken, Reflejos Intimos, ExTeresa Art Museum, Mexico City; Collections at the Illy Art Collection, Venezia, Italy.
Publications on Contemporary Languages of Central America by Luisa Fuentes Guaza. Editorial Turner. And Y.ES. Collect Contemporary
Art in El Salvador.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 LITTLE STORY OF DEMOCRATIZATION OF FEAR. Museum of Man. Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
2014 COGNITION. Lokkus Contemporary. Medellin. Colombia.
‘MANIFIESTO’. Ex Teresa Arte Actual Museum. Conaculta. Mexico D.F.
STATES OF TRANSCENDENCE. Shangyuan Museum. Beijing, China.
2013 ‘ORACIÓN’. Curated by Edith Medina. The Fire Theory/CCEsv. San Salvador, El Salvador.
2010 ‘LA PREDISPOSICION DE LO SENSIBLE’. Space 556/ The Fire Theory. Guatemala City, Guatemala.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2018 DONDE HUBO FUEGO. Permanent exhibition at the main hall of MARTE (Museum of Art of El Salvador). San Salvador, El
Salvador.
2017 Biennial of the South. Pueblos en Resistencia. Caracas, Venezuela.
ICE. Open Source Gallery. NY, USA. Curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud.
DIOS, UNION, LIBERTAD. Prosjektromnormanns. Stavanger, Norway. Curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud.
2016 CLOSING DISTANCES. Y.ES. Contemporary. 111 Lincoln Road. Miami, Florida. USA.
2015 DISLOCATING SAL. Hilger Brotk Kunsthalle. Vienna, Austria.
MOMENTS. Airspace. Sydney, Italy.
BIENNIAL OF THE FRONTIERS. Museum of Contemporary Art. Tamaulipas. Mexico.
TROPICAL INTERZONE. Agency for Spiritual Guest Work in the Service of Visualizing. Zurich, Switzerland.
TRIENNALE DE MILANO. Illy Pavilion at the Triennale Building. Milan, Italy.
2014 EXISTENTIAL TOURISM. Tart Gallery. Zurich, Switzerland.
‘X’. Museum of Art of El Salvador MARTE.
2013 ‘LA CARICIA VULGAR DE LA CAÍDA’. Curated by Pablo José Ramirez. CCE/G. El Salvador.
‘TRANSMIGRACIONES’. La Casa Tomada/CCET. El Salvador and Honduras.
2012 ‘TRANSMIGRACIONES’. Curated by Gabriel Galeano. The Fire Theory/MUA. Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
‘ESTO NO ES UNA DEGENERACION’. La Casa Tomada. San Salvador, El Salvador.
JUANNIO 2012. Selección del Jurado. Museum of Modern Art Carlos Mérida. Guatemala City, Guatemala.
‘EXTENSIONES DEL DIBUJO’. La Casa Tomada. San Salvador, El Salvador.
2011 ‘MESOTICA INC’. ArtBo Contemporary Art Fair. Through Jacob Karpio Gallery. Bogotá, Colombia.
2010 BAVIC 8: VII BIENNIAL OF VISUAL ARTS OF THE AMERICAN ISTHMUS. Theater Rubén Darío. Managua, Nicaragua.
‘MEMENTO MORI’. Galería [e] Star. Lima, Perú.
‘SELECCIÓN PROMERICA VII BIENAL DE ARTES VISUALES DEL ISTMO CENTROAMERICANO’. MARTE. El Salvador.
‘BROKEN, REFLEJOS INTIMOS’. Ex Teresa Arte Actual. DF, Mexico.
SUMARTE 10. Jury Selection. MARTE. San Salvador, El Salvador.
2009 ‘THE VOICE THAT REACHES YOU II’. Cara & Cabezas Contemporary Gallery. Kansas, Missouri. EU.
X PRIZE OF YOUNG ART. CCESV. San Salvador, El Salvador.

GRANTS & AWARDS

2018 BECA MUNDI. Flora Ars and Natura. Bogota, Colombia.
2015 ILLY COMISSION FOR A CUP DESIGN. Part of Illy Cup Cullection. Sustainable Connections 2.
2014 NOMINATION PAUL KLEE FOUDATION SUMMER AKADEMIE. Bern, Switzerland.
2013 PRICE IPSO FACTO on poetry. Equizzero Editorial. El Salvador.
 2011 FINALIST INTERNACIONAL GRANT OF POETIC CREATION ANTONIO MACHADO. Antonio Machado Foundation,
Mayoralty of Soria. Soria, Castilla y León, España.
NOMINATION CIFO GRANT OF PRODUCTION AND ADQUISITION. Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation. Miami, EU.
2010 LA MALA FAMA. Morelia, Production bursary. Morelia, Michoacán. Mexico.
JURY SELECTION 1RST NACIONAL CALLING OF ACTION ART. CCESV, Hibryd Art Projects, MUA, San Salvador
Mayoralty.
JURY SELECTION ‘SELECCIÓN PROMERICA PARA VII BIENAL DE ARTES VISUALES DEL ISTMO
CENTROAMERICANO’. MARTE.
PRIZE INTERNATIONAL CONTEST OF POETRY ‘GALLO TAPADO’. CCESV. El Salvador.
1RST PRIZE AUCTION OF LATIN AMERICAN ART (SUMARTE). MARTE. El Salvador.
2009 3RD PRIZE X NATIONAL PRIZE OF YOUNG ART. CCESV. MAPFRE, La Centroamericana.

RESIDENCIES
2018 FLORA ARS AND NATURA. Bogota, Colombia.
2016 ARCUS PROJECT Residency Program. Moriya, Ibaraki. Japan. Selected by Hiroyuki Hattori and Fumio Nanjio.
2015 HARPO FOUNDATION FELLOSWSHIP FOR EMERGING ARTIST. Santa Fe Art Institute. Santa Fe, Baja California. USA.
RESIDENCY OF THE AMERICAS. Darling Foundry Centre. Quebec, Canada.
2014 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE. Taller 7. Colombia Gouvenment. Medellin, Colombia.
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE. Shangyuan Art Museum’s International Residency Program. Beijing, China.
2011 ARTIST IN RESIDENCE. 556 Space. Guatemala City. Guatemala.
2010 R.A.P.P. (ARTISTIC RESIDENCY FOR PERFORMATIC POETS). Espira/Espora. Granada, Nicaragua.
2009 LA FORMA EQUIVALENTE. Espira/ Espora. Leon, Nicaragua.

CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2015 EXISTENTIAL TOURISM. Tart Gallery. Zurich, Switzerland. Co-curated with Anne Brand Galvez.
2014 MY UNIVERSE WILL DIE WITH ME. Collective exhibition. CCEsv. Curated by DC/The Fire Theory.
2013 ANTROPOMETRÍA. Solo exhibition of Melissa Guevara. CCEsv. Curated by DC/The Fire Theory.
TRANSMIGRACIONES. CCEsv. Curated by DC/The Fire Theory and Gabriel Galeano.
2012 LUCIANASEXTAPE.INFO. Online exhibition. ESFOTO 12. Curated by DC/The Fire Theory.
EJERCICIOS DE DESPRENDIMIENTO. Solo exhibition of Mauricio Kabistan. MUTE. Curated by DC/TFT
VPCR: VIDEO POLITICAS DE CONSTRUCCION Y REACCION, UN ENSAYO SOBRE LA REACCION O LA METAFORA
COMO SUCESO. Curated by DC/The Fire Theory. Municipal Museum of Santa Tecla. ES.
RELACION DE EQUIVALENCIAS. Solo exhibition of Melissa Guevara. Curated by DC/The Fire Theory.
PROYECTOS 37/38. In collaboration with Jaime Izaguirre, Melissa Guevara, Mauricio Kabistan. El Salvador.

TEXTS & PUBLICATIONS

2015 SAN SALVADOR, PRIMAVERA SILENCIOSA. Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros by Luisa Fuentes Guaza.
2013 LENGUAJES CONTEMPORANEOS DESDE CENTROAMERICA. Luisa Fuentes Guaza. Editorial Turner.
TEMPESTADNAYADE. Winner of ‘Ipso Facto’, International Contestst. Editorial Equizzero. El Salvador
2010 LA MARCHA DE LOS AUSENTES. Winner Book of National Contest of Poetry ‘Gallo Tapado’. Contracorriente Editores.
UNA MADRUGADA DEL SIGLO XXI. Anthologized by Vladimir Amaya. Editorial Universitaria.
4M3RICA: NOVISIMA POESIA LATINOAMERICANA. Anthologized by Hector Hernandez Montecinos. Editorial Ventana
Abierta. Coleccion Vallejo.
‘CATÁLOGO X PREMIO NACIONAL DE ARTE JOVEN’. AECID.
VII BIENNIAL OF VISUAL ARTS OF THE CENTRAL AMERICAN ISTHMUS. Ortiz-Gurdian Foundation, PROMERICA
Bank.
VIDEOAKT, INTERNATIONAL VIDEOART BIENNIAL. Hotel Amister, Screen from Barcelona and Loop Fair.