Valladolid, Spain, 1965
Lives and works in Barcelona, Spain
Dora García works across a variety of media — especially performance, installation and drawing, but also extending to video, theater, film, text and relational projects — using her practice to mine the boundaries between reality and its forms of representation, which in turn form part of that same reality. Central to García’s practice is a sensitivity to the negotiated aspect of all cultural artifacts, in their authorial creation as well as their social, cultural, temporal and political reception.
García has had solo exhibitions at the Fondazione Baruchello (Rome, 2024); M HKA– Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (2023); Amant Foundation (New York, 2023); Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani (Palma de Mallorca, 2023); Patio Herreriano Museo de Arte (Valladolid, 2022, 2004); Centro Cultural Conde Duque (Madrid, 2022); European Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna, 2021); Rose Art Museum (Waltham, 2020); MOAD Museum of Art and Design (Miami, 2020); MNCARS Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, 2018, 2008, 2005); MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City, 2017); Fundació Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona, 2017); CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Móstoles, 2017); IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (Valencia, 2016); Power Plant (Toronto, 2015); Centro José Guerrero (Granada, 2013); Rijksakademie (Amsterdam, 2011); Kunsthalle Bern (2010); Moderna Museet (Stockholm, 2010); CGAC Centro Gallego de Art Contemporánea (2009); MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2009, 2003); Centre d’Art Santa Mònica (Barcelona, 2007); S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (Ghent, 2006); MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (León, 2005); CAAC Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Sevilla, 1999) and elsewhere.
García represented Spain in the 54th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia in 2011 and was selected to participate again in the Biennale di Venezia in 2015. She also was chosen for dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel in 2012; Skulptur Projekte Münster 07 in 2007; and the 8th Istanbul Biennial in 2003.