- »Horizons of the Possible« Berlin, 2024
- Group Exhibition »From dreams you wake up - organized by Francisco Berzunza« Mexico City, 2024
- Group Exhibition »Ver« Mexico City, 2024
- »The Projectionist« Stockholm, 2022
- »Jazz Covers from the J.R. Plaza Archive« Berlin, 2020
- »La Desaparición« Stockholm, 2014
- »The Encyclopedia Of The Dead« Berlin, 2012
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Iñaki Bonillas in conversation with Joana Hurtado Matheu: Watching from a crooked angle: A conversation with Iñaki Bonillas, Editorial Concreta, 2016
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Thomas McDonough: Iñaki Bonillas, A Heap of Broken Images, 2012
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Tom McDonough: Iñaki Bonillas, Artforum magazine, Nov 2010
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Rubén Gallo: Iñaki Bonillas, Poliester Magazine, Verano 2000
Secrets: Footprints I, 2016, set of 10 pigment prints on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper, 380 gr, 83 x 104 cm each
Iñaki Bonillas
Iñaki Bonillas was born in 1981 in Mexico City, where he currently lives and works.
He participated in the 30th São Paulo Biennial (2012), showed his work at the Prague Biennale in 2005 and participated in “Utopia Station” at the Venice Biennale in 2003. Significant solo exhibitions include presentations at Museo Amparo, Puebla (2021), Casa Luis Barragán, Mexico City (2016), La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona (2012), Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City (2009), Matadero, Madrid, (2007), Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona (2005) and Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp (2003).
Iñaki Bonillas has participated in numerous group exhibitions at museums including the FEMSA Biennial Retrospective Survey (2024), MoMA, New York (2020), The Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey, MARCO, and ESPAC, Mexico City (both 2019), Cantor Arts Center, Stanford (2018), Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona (2018), Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego, (2018), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2015), Jumex Museum, Mexico City (2013), Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris (2012), Les Rencontres d'Arles and Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (both 2011), The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (2010), Bard College, New York and Kunstmuseum Basel and Malmö Konsthall (all 2009), Claremont Museum of Art, California (2007), The Power Plant (2003) and Haus der Kulturen der Welt HKW, Berlin (2002).
For his Artist's Web Project 'Words and Photos', commissioned by the Dia Arts Foundation in 2014, Bonillas digitized the 'J.R. Plaza Archive' and simultaneously created an extensive index of associated words "mirroring" the image database.
Iñaki Bonillas in conversation with Sebastian Riemer on the occasion of Bonillas' solo exhibition "Horizons of the Possible" at Galerie Nordenhake Berlin, September 14 – November 16, 2024
Installation view "Horizons of the Possible" Galerie Nordenhake Berlin 2024
Installation view "Horizons of the Possible" Galerie Nordenhake Berlin 2024
Solaris, 2024, inked and varnished chemical print on copper plate, walnut shelf, set of 5, overall 22.5 x 242.4 cm, 8 7/8 x 95 3/8 in, detail
The Big Sleep, 2024, pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth paper, 305 gr, set of 6, each 62 x 62 cm, 24 3/8 x 24 3/8 in, framed 64.2 x 64.2 cm, 25 1/4 x 25 1/4 in, overall 192,6 x 128,4 cm, 75 5/8 x 50 3/8 in, edition of 5
Down Memory Lane, 2024, LightJet print on Harman GDS FB paper, 310 gr, set of 3, each 13.3 x 113.3 cm, 5 1/4 x 44 5/8 in, framed 15.4 x 115.4 cm, 6 x 45 3/8 in, edition of 5
Installation view "Horizons of the Possible" Galerie Nordenhake Berlin 2024
Installation view "The Projectionist" Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm 2022
Los ojos de Sol, 2022, set of 15 Photogravure on cotton paper (Hahnemühle, 350 gr.), 35.5 x 35.5 each, 37 x 37 cm each framed
Ray, 2022, set of 9 pigmented prints on cotton paper (Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 308 gr), 18.5 x 30 cm each, 19.5 x 31 cm each framed
Filos [“Edges”], 2022, set of 6 pigmented prints with carbon inks on cotton paper (Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 308 gr), 30 x 41 cm each, 31 x 42 cm each framed
Installation view "Jazz Covers from the J.R. Plaza Archive" Galerie Nordenhake Berlin, 2020
Personal Mountains, 2020, installation view
Soundtrack for a Still, 2020, Installation view Galerie Nordenhake Berlin 2020
Installation view, Iñaki Bonillas, Zona Maco International Contemporary Art Fair, 2018
Secrets: Magic Lantern (projection), 2016, Projection of 20 slides and cedar wood shelf,
Projection: 29 x 44 cm Shelf: 38 x 107.5 x 54 cm
Secrets: Magic Lantern (projection), 2016, Projection of 20 slides and cedar wood shelf,
Projection: 29 x 44 cm Shelf: 38 x 107.5 x 54 cm
Secrets: Inversions, 2016, set of 3 pigment prints on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper, 380 gr,
60 x 40 cm each
Crucigrama #4, 2015, collage: silver gelatin print on fiber base paper & C-Print on resin coated paper, 36 x 39 cm
Long Day’s Journey into Night, 2013, 12 b&w ink-jet prints on cotton paper, 200 x 480 cm
Installation view "Iñaki Bonillas – La Desaparición", Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm 2014
Las ideas del espejo: visiones de Tánger, 2014, ink-jet on cotton paper, 60 x 39.5 cm
Specimens, 2013, 4 digital prints on cotton paper,
50 x 35 cm each
Iñaki Bonillas, Specimens, 2013, Detail
Captain Oates, 2012, 25 etchings on paper, 16 silk screens on paper, 30 ink-jet prints , 1 ink-jet print on cotton paper,
1 wooden base, translucent paper, stone, overall dimensions installed 300 x 1150 cm
Captain Oates, 2012, detail
Captain Oates, 2012, detail
El Cid, 2012, 10 oil paintings on maple wood, black paint on wall, 15 framed ink-jet prints, 170 x 170 x 3 cm
Braz Cubas, 2012, black MDF & reading lamp, 41 books, 17 postcards in an unlimited edition, sound piece composed in collaboration with Jacobo Lieberman (duration: 10min 13sec), looped, cabinet, 215 x 120 x 120 cm
Braz Cubas, 2012, detail
Braz Cubas, 2012, detail
Germinal, 2011, 6 digital prints on Hahnemühle cotton paper (Photo Rag Pearl), 66.4 x 50.4 x 4.5 cm each
Iñaki Bonillas, Germinal, 2011, Detail
Double Chiaroscuro II, 2008, digital print on cotton paper, 2 parts, each 100 x 70 cm