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Born 1973 Miami, Florida.
Born in Miami into a family of Cuban exiles, José Parlá moved to Puerto Rico at a very early age before returning to Miami again when he was nine. He currently lives and works in New York, and only recently traveled to Cuba for the first time. His life, like his work, is therefore at once extremely particular and generally reflective of the wanderings of today's urban populations. In the context of these migrations and upheavals, Parlá is concerned with the way that cities function as palimpsests, upon which the experiences of those who pass through them are materially inscribed in decay, in writing, in the well-worn paths of their inhabitants. Parlá's work attempts to extract and synthesize fragments of these urban environments in flux and reproduce them using the materials and methods of architectural construction: cement, wood, vinyl as well as those of traditional art like paper, paint, powdered dye, wax, and ink. Yet because these fragments are inflected by the memories and experience of the artist, he considers them to be paintings in sense that is probably truer than one that refers merely to the physical presence of pigments and oil. Parlá describes the object of his method as segmented realities or memory documents. Leading these ideas to form a personal philosophy of his work he calls Contemporary Palimpsests. Each painting bears the name of the location or experience from which it draws its source. |
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Awards: Scholastic
Art Awards of 1989. Miami, FL Exhibitions: 2007: Pirate Utopias. July 5th. Futura, José Parlá at ELMS LESTERS PAINTING ROOMS, London, UK. The Grand Tour. Solo show at THE AUTOPSY, Melbourne, Australia. May 3rd - May 31st. The Elsewhere Community. Solo show at Monster Children Gallery, Sydney, Australia. April 26th - May 18th. The Rosy Blue Masters 2007. 19th and 20th, 21st Century Art curated by Marc Latamie. Dubai, UAE. May 19 2006: Cityscapes. solo show. Curated by Manon Slome Art Basel Miami Beach Dec 06-10 The Mystic Writing Pad. solo show at Koehler Gallery Withworth College, Spokane Washington. Memory Document Lecture. MAC Northewest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane Washington. Puppy Love. Luminaire, Christies, Art Basel/ Miami Beach 2006 Stussy World Tour. group show, Los Angeles, California. In or Out? Elms Lesters Gallery. group show, London England. JUNE 13th CELUX ( Louis Vuitton ) Tokyo, Japan, 181 Martel LA, California, Joyce, Hong Kong. New Years Countdown with Takashi Murakami. Tokyo Japan. New Years Countdown with Takashi Murakami. Tokyo Japan. 2005: JUNE 13th. CELUX ( Louis Vuitton ) Tokyo, Japan. World Destiny Written (mural project). In-Art gallery / Osaka, Japan. Billboard Project V10.0. José Parlá, Undefeated, Nike, curated by Aaron Rose. Los Angeles. CA Experiencia Culinaria. Art Nites. Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. Autonomous Paths. BLK/MRKT Gallery. Los Angeles, California Serendip. Art Auction benefiting Tsunami Relief In Sri Lanka. White Box Gallery
Contemporary Palimpsests. Refill Gallery, Sydney Australia Memory Document. 222gallery. Philadelphia. Pictography. The Marlin Hotel, Miami
Hollywood to the Street: From the Poster to Graffiti. Chelsea Art Museum. 2004: Barnstormers: Retrospective. SECCA. Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. Winston-Salem. North Carolina. HYPHENS: MIAMI-NEWYORK-HABANA. Prophecy Gallery, Harlem NYC. Surface 2 Air. Flip the Script. SOHO, NY. April 1st. 2003: Final Modification 2: Ease, Rostarr, Kami. (EXREALM) Yamaha Gallery, Tokyo ) Bazzar: Cuchifritos Art Gallery. L.E.S. supported by The Puffin Foundation, NYSCA, LMCC. Cristian Mendoza, Romon Yang, Lee Quinones, Pablo Power, Ryan McGinness, Rey Parla, David Ellis, Jest, Clayton Patterson, Cer. What about NY?: Gallerie Du Jour, Agnes B. Paris. group show. Ryan Mcginness, Young Kim, Bryan Degraw, Rostarr, David Ellis, Kay Regan, Kenneth Capello, KR, Dash Snow, The Bedroom Show K48 Hive Mind Sound System. Lump Gallery/Projects. Raleigh. NC. Barnstormers. Bizenyaki pottery engravings. BAL. Okayama, Japan Two Rooms. with Moi Tran.
Brooklyn, NY. 2002: Chance by Choice, The Annex, Miami Beach Art Basel. Identidad en Progreso, Carlos Irrizarry Gallery. San Juan, Puerto Rico Solo show: Personal Alphabet. EXREALM (Yamaha) Tokyo, Japan. Extensions of the Spectacle. Albion Hotel. Miami Beach. Puerto Rico Museum of Art. Santurce, P.R. Boomerang. Lee Quinones, Rostarr, Ease. Agnes B. Soho, NY. No Condition is Permanent. Smack Mellon Gallery, Dumbo Brooklyn. Barnstormers collaborative. Marked
by Ink Stains.
BOB Gallery, L.E.S. New York City. 2001: Art Miami. Modern Primitive Gallery. 2000: solo show: 1999: Modern Primitive Gallery. group show. Sporadic Germination ( InkHeads )
113 Ludlow St. NYC.
0000. 1997: Scratching the Surface. Modern Primitive Gallery.
Collections: Agnes B. (Paris), Tom Ford (London) Richard Buckley, Katy Barker (London), Rafael Falcon, Tanushi Tomoki (Okayama Japan). Publications: Atlanta Journal Constitution, Miami Herald, Rolling Stone, Tokion, Dazed & Confused, Spectacle (Tokyo), Relax, Elemental, WARP, The Fader, Prophecy, Refill (Sydney). Clients include: BAL. (Japan), Virgin Records, (Gangstarr), Stussy NYC, Supreme Inc., Tokion magazine, YAMAHA. |