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Art Now Lightbox: Melanie Smith with Rafael Ortega
17 June  –  13 August 2006
Melanie Smith, Parres III, 2005
Melanie Smith
Parres III 2005
Courtesy Galería OMR, Mexico and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich

BIOGRAPHY

Melanie Smith, Parres II, 2004, Courtesy Galería OMR, Mexico and Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
Melanie Smith
Parres II 2004
Courtesy Galería OMR, Mexico and Galerie
Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
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MELANIE SMITH

1965 Born in Poole
1974–88  Reading University

Lives and works in Mexico City

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006 Spiral City and other Vicarious Pleasures, UNAM, Mexico City
2004 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
2003 Marco Noire Contemporary Art, Turin
Galería OMR, Mexico City
2002 Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
2001 Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
1996 Randolph Street Gallery, Project Room, Chicago
1992 L’Escaut, Brussels

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2004 Sodio y Asfalto, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterray
Made in Mexico, ICA, Boston and UCLA Hammer, Los Angeles
2003 Prague Biennale; Havana Biennal
2002 20 Million Mexicans Can’t Be Wrong, South London Gallery
Mexico City: An Exhibition about the Exchange Rates of Bodies and Values, P.S.1, New York
Here is There, Weiner Secession, Vienna
1999 IV Biennial of Monterrey
1997 Second Biennial of Johannesburg

RAFAEL ORTEGA

1965 Born in Mexico City

Lives and works in Mexico City
Since 1989, Ortega has worked as Director of Photography on more than forty fiction and documentary productions. He has collaborated regularly with artists of his generation since 1994, including Francis Alÿs, João Penalva, Damián Ortega and Abraham Cruzvillegas.