Dates:
born   1964
Biography: (artist biography as of 2004)

Raúl Cárdenas-Osuna. Born 1969,
Mazatlán, Sinaloa México.
Has lived in Tijuana since 1988. Director of
Torolab, which he founded in 1995


Selected Projects/Torolab

2004–2005 InSite 5

2004 Architectural Biennial Beijing,
Beijing, China

B2V Fashion Show, Vancouver Art
Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

MovO, Moderna Museet, Stockholm,
Sweden

Torolab, Vancouver Art Gallery,
Vancouver, Canada

‘City-Proyect’ in What We Want,
Collective Book Publication, Italy

Museum of Contemporary Art, San
Diego, USA/Vancouver Art Gallery,
Vancouver, Canada/CCAC Wattis Institute for
Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA

2003 Laboratorio de Arte Alameda,
collective exhibition, Mexico City, Mexico

Havana Biennial, collective exhibition at
the Cuban Pavilion, Havana, Cuba

Instant City, collective exhibition,
Cultural Centre of Mexico in Paris, France

El Toro Machado, installation at
Espectacular exhibition, Cultural Centre
of Spain in Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

Transmediale 0.3: The House of World
Cultures
, Berlin, Germany

2001–2003 Magic/Pool ToroVestimenta
collection
, Las Vegas Convention
Center, Las Vegas, USA

2002–2003 Sensitive Negotiations,
collective exhibition, Art Basel, Miami, USA

Diagnósticos Urbanos, collective
exhibition, Centro Cultural Tijuana,
Tijuana, Mexico

VIII Salón de Arte Bancomer, collective
exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City,
Mexico

2002 Saun, collective exhibition, Lux
Gallery, San Francisco, USA

Montreal Biennial, collective exhibition,
Montreal, Canada

No-one Over 21, collective exhibition
with Jonathan Hernández, P.S.1, New York,
USA

Pushale, Pasadena, USA

SOS, individual exhibition, Cedille, Paris,
France

Artwalk, collective exhibition, San Diego,
USA

2001 Utopia Now, collective
exhibition, CCAC Institute, Oakland, CA, USA

Torolab, Laboratorio of the Future in the
Present
, individual exhibition, Museum of
Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA

2000 Laboratorio Experimental 0.2,
installation (with students of UIA University,
Tijuana, Mexico)

El Toro Manchado, installation, Jai Alai,
Tijuana BC, Mexico as part of the Nortec
City Concert/March

No-one Over 21 project together with
Jonathan Hernández and Fussible for
InSite

1997 ToroVestimenta, a project of
urban interventions, USA (San Diego, Los
Angeles, Chicago, Texas, Boston, New York,
Hawaii, Alaska), Vancouver, Tokyo,
Osaka, Paris, Taiwan


Selected Conferences

‘Urbanism’ Roundtable at CECUT, Tijuana,
Mexico, May 2004

‘Territorios’, International Architectural
Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, 19–20
March 2004

‘SOS Architecture’, CCAC Institute, San
Francisco, USA, 10 February 2004

‘Torolab’, Otis College of Art and Design,
Los Angeles, USA, March 2003

‘Arte y Ciudad’, SITAC, Mexico City,
Mexico, January 2003

‘Torolab’, Museum of Contemporary Art,
September 2002

‘Architecture Lecture Series’, University
of California at Berkeley, CA, USA, April
2002

‘Mapping Global Culture Climates’, Art
Institute, Oakland, CA, USA, November
2001

‘Architectural Review’, University of
Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico,
November 2001

‘Nortec 2000’ Music Conference, Centro
Cultural, Tijuana, Mexico, November 2000

Source:Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, International 04 Festival catalogue
Date of source:2004

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