Téllez, Javier

Téllez has had solo exhibitions at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances (New York, 2024); Thurgau Kunstmuseum (Warth, 2022); the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2018); the Memorial Art Gallery (Rochester, 2018); the Blanton Museum (Austin); the San Francisco Art Institute (2014); Kunsthaus Zürich (2014); S.M.A.K. (Ghent, 2013); the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (2011); the CAM- Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, 2010); the Aspen Art Museum (2006); The Power Plant (Toronto, 2005); the Bronx Museum of the Arts (New York, 2005); and the Museo Tamayo (Mexico City, 2000). He has participated in group exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum (New York); MoMA PS1 (New York); the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam); the Castello di Rivoli (Torino); the Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin); ZKM (Karlsruhe); the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston); the ICA (Boston); and the Renaissance Society (Chicago). He has participated in international exhibitions such as the Aichi Triennial (2019); dOCUMENTA (2012); Manifesta (2008); the Sydney Biennial (2008); the Whitney Biennial (2008), the Venice Biennale (2001, 2003) and the Yokohama Triennial (2001).

He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999, and in 2016 the Global Mental Health Award for Innovation in the Arts from Columbia University, New York. Work by the artist is held in major museum collections worldwide, including Blanton Museum (Austin); FRAC Nord Pas-de-Calais (Dunkerque); the Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris); the Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon); the Fundació la Caixa (Barcelona); the Hall Art Foundation (Derneburg); Kunsthaus Zürich; Memorial Art Gallery (MAG) (Rochester); tje Museo de Bellas Artes (MBA) (Caracas); the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid); the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC) (León); the Museum Het Domein (Sittard); the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston); the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) (New York); the Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin); the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco; the Pinault Collection (Paris); the Princeton University Art Museum (Princeton); the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York); S.M.A.K. (Ghent); the Tate Modern (London).