Javier TORO BLUM (1983. Santiago, Chile)

Education

2013 – MA Sculpture. Royal College of Art. London, United Kingdom.

2009 – BA in Fine Arts. Pontificia Universidad Católica. Santiago, Chile.

2009 – Exchange Student at New York University. New York City, United States

2002- 2004 – Psychology studies. Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile.

Solo Exhibitions

2015 – Fotometrías, Galería Patricia Ready. Santiago, Chile.

2014 – Laboratorio Eigengrau, experiments about time, space and sound.

2011 – No Pasado, No Presente, No Futuro, Patricia Ready Gallery. Santiago, Chile.

2010 – Pabellon Negro, personal exhibition in Ch.ACO Art Fair

INGMAR. Galería Concreta, Centro Cultural Matucana 100. January. Santiago, Chile.

Collective

2017 – Compañía 1263, temporary Intallation in a patrimonial building.

2016 – Two Architectures For Researching, Casa Punto Croce, Venecia, Italia.

2016 – Against A Conspiracy Of Invisibilities, Sobering Galerie, Paris, France.

2016 – New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1 con Ediciones Popolet, New York, USA

2016 – Ch.ACO Art Fair, Santiago, Chile.

2016 – Impresionante artbook fair, Santiago, Chile

2016 – Artist toy, Galería Patricia Ready, Santiago, Chile.

2015 – 12a Bienal de Artes Mediales, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile.

2015 – New York Art Book Fair, Ediciones Popolet, MoMA PS1, New York, United States.

2015 – Feria MACO, México DF, Galería Patricia Ready. Feria Art Lima, Lima, Perú, Galería Patricia Ready.

2014 – Feria Art Lima, Galería Patricia Ready.

2014 -Art Dubai, Ediciones Popolet.

2014 -Feria Tijuana, Arte BA, Ediciones Popolet.

2013 – Luz Sur, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Valdivia, Chile.

2013 – Feria Ch.ACO, Galería Patricia Ready. Santiago, Chile.

2013 – 21st Century Art and Design – RCA 2013, Christie’s, London, UK.

2013 – RCA Show 2013 , Royal College of Art, London, UK.

2013 – Muse , Kunsthaus Lempertz, Berlin, Alemania.

2012 – Stairway to, Nitrianska Galeria, Nitra, Eslovaquia.

2012 – Paradise, Milan Salone. Milan, Italia.

2012 – Summer Show, Royal College of Art. London, UK Santorini Biennale. Santorini, Greece.

2011 – Interm Show, Royal College of Art. London, UK

2011 – FISURA, Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende. Santiago, Chile.

2011 – Ventanas en Isidora, Public Art, Municipalidad de las Condes. Santiago, Chile.

2010 – 13 por 13, Critics choose the best of 2010; choosed by Ricardo Mac Kellar. Universidad de Talca, Sede Santiago. Santiago, Chile.

2010 – Ch.ACO Art Fair, Patricia Ready Gallery. Santiago, Chile.

2010 – RELEVO, Galería concreta, Matucana 100. Santiago, Chile.

2009 – Umbrales, Centro de Extensión Pontificia Universidad Católica. Santiago, Chile.

2008 – Informe, Galería Moto. Santiago, Chile.

2008 – Blah Blah Blah, Galería Moto. Santiago, Chile.

2007 – Finalist Design Projects, Museo Interactivo Mirador, MIM. Santiago, Chile.

2005 – Reverberancias, Arte Sonoro Chileno, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Santiago, Chile.

2005 – Explosión Plástica Inevitable, Galería Galpón Vivaceta. Santiago, Chile.

2005 – Homenaje a Guillermo Deisler, Literature School, Universidad Diego Portales. Santiago, Chile.

Distinctions

2013 – Fondo Nacional del desarrollo Cultural y las Artes, FONDART. National fund for investigation through the development of the Eigengrau Laboratory. Government of Chile.

2013 – Land Securities Award

2011 – Becas Chile. Full Scholarship for MA Sculpture at RCA. Granted by Government of Chile

2010 – Corporación Cultural Arte + Fellowship

2009 – Fondo Nacional del desarrollo Cultural y las Artes, FONDART. National fund for the production of the exhibition INGMAR. Government of Chile.

2004 – Fundación Pablo Neruda Fellowship

Bibliography

2016 – Laboratorio Eigengrau, Ediciones Daga.

2016 – Daga 12, Ediciones Daga.

2015 – Fotometrías. Catalog for homonymous exhibition. Fundación Arte +, Galería Patricia Ready.

2015 – Pintura Chilena Contemporánea. Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile.

2014 – Libro Negro. Ediciones Popolet, Artist Book

2010 – Ch.ACO Art Fair Catalog, Entre Ch.ACO y Finlandia. Santiago, Chile

2010 – Ingmar y la apariencia oscura. By Pablo Corro, PhD, Cinema Theorist. In INGMAR paper publication.

2010 – Iban de noche oscuramente solos por la sombra. by Tomás Cohen, Write. In INGMAR paper publication. Galería concreta Matucana 100.

2010 – Ingmar. By Carlos Soto, PhD Philosophy. In INGMAR paper publication., Galería concreta, Matucana 100.

2010 – Arts at the Ends of the Earth, Art review for the in magazine, Lan Airlines. August

2009 –  New Latin American Architecture.

2007 – Foro de Escritores: New Chilean Visual and Sound poetry, Word for Word, Issue # 12, edited by Brian Whitener, Glenville, NY.

2006 – El poeta y su trabajo. Nº 22. Oak Editorial, México D.F. Primavera

2005 – Reverberancias: Arte Sonoro Chileno, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile

Collections

Royal College of Art

Colección del Consejo de la Transparencia, Gobierno de Chile.

Privates collections in Chile, Perú, United Kingdom and Germany.