Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle is a visual and conceptual artist working with researchers and laboratories in his inter-disciplinary address of issues of hybrid identities in a climate of globalization. He has received numerous awards and honors for his work, including the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship, Award for Excellence in Design from the City of New York, and is currently a recent MacArthur Foundation Fellow. Numerous national and international exhibitions include the Guggenhiem, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Sao Paulo Biennal, the Ruffino Tamayo Museum in Mexico City. Other projects include institutions in Barcelona, Venice, Frankfurt and Singapore, as well as here in Chicago at the Art Institute and the Museum of Contemporary Art. Currently he is working with the UNESCO’s World Heritage Foundation and the Berkley Museum to create a project situated in the Vizcaino Bio-Preserve in Baja Sur, Mexico. And in Kassel, Germany is exhibiting his latest work “Phantom Truck” at Documenta 12.

Link to Documenta project

Selected collections include: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; Bohen Foundation, New York; Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Malaga, Spain; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Library of Congress, Washington D.C.; MacArthur Foundation, Chicago; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Bilbao, Spain; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Museum for Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium; Thyssen–Bornemisza Contemporary Art Foundation, Vienna; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Last Updated on Sept 1, 2007