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Born in Iguala, Guerrero, México 1973.
Lives and works in Mexico City.
Anibal Catalan studied fine arts at Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado La Esmeralda from 2001-2006 and before that, attended the School of Architecture at Anahuac University from 1993-1997.
His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in both solo and group exhibitions. His most recent solo exhibitions include “Supremat”(2012) at Yautepec Gallery , Mexico city;”Reading the Space”(2011) at Space CAN, Beijing; “Open Sky” (2010) at Drexel Projects, Monterrey, Mexico; “Overland” (2008) at Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; and “Free and Mobile” (2007) at Gallery 415, San Francisco, CA. . Recent group exhibitions include “eva International Biennial of visual art” Limerick city, Ireland (2012) “An Exchange with Sol LeWitt” at MASS MoCA; “Cimbra Formas Especulativas y Armados Metafisicos” at Museo de Arte Moderno MAM, Mexico City (2011); “Light Art Biennale” Linz, Austria; “1st Land Art Biennial Mongolia”, National Mongolian Modern Art Gallery, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia; “Sobrestructuras,” Espacio de Arte OTR, Madrid; “Mexi-Cali Biennial 09-10,” Los Angeles (2010); “Les Rencontres Internacionales Paris-Berlin-Madrid,” Centre Pompidou, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia and Haus der Kulturen der Welt HKW; “Shangri L.A.: Architecture as a State of Flux,” 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA(2009); “XIV National Biennial Rufino Tamayo,” Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; “I Moscow International Biennial for Young Art,” MMOMA, Moscow, Russia; “Proyectos para Deconstruccion,” MUCA Roma, Mexico City; “It’s Not Easy,” Exit Art, New York (2008); “Sancta,” Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA (2007); “III Castellon Painting Prize,” Museo de Bellas Artes de Castellon, Spain (2006), among others.
Anibal is a current recipient of the National Fellowship FONCA Sistema Nacional de Creadores 2011-2013, received an honorable mention in the Diesel New Art Estocolmo in 2007 and the WTC Art Festival in 2006, received a National Fellowship for Young Art (FONCA painting) in 2004-2005 and was honorable mention fellowship from the Mex-Am Foundation in 2004-2005.
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Anibal Catalan, born in Iguala, Guerrero, México in 1973, currently lives and works in Mexico City. Anibal Catalan studied fine arts at Mexico City’s “La Esmeralda” from 2001-2006 and before that, attended the School of Architecture at Anahuac University from 1993-1997.

His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in both solo and group exhibitions. His most recent solo exhibitions include “Oktubre” at Polyforum Siqueiros in Mexico City; “Supremat” (2012) at Yautepec, Mexico City; “Reading The Space” at CAN Seoul and CAN Beijing (2011-12); “Open Sky” (2010) at Drexel Projects, Monterrey, Mexico; “Overland” (2008) at Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; and “Free and Mobile” (2007) at Gallery 415, San Francisco, CA.

Since 2001, Catalan’s work has been included in a wide variety of international group shows. Exhibitions include “Mesocosmos” at MARCO Contemporary Art Museum, Monterrey, Mexico; “After The Future,” eva International Biennial of Visual Art, Limmerick, Ireland; “An Exchange with Sol LeWitt” at MASS MoCA, “Certamen Internacional Explum” at Puerto Lumbreras, Murcia, Spain; “Cimbra Formas Especulativas y Armados Metafisicos” at Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City; “Light Art Biennale” at Lichtkunst, Linz, Austria; “1st Land Art Biennial Mongolia”, National Mongolian Modern Art Gallery, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia; “Sobrestructuras,” Espacio de Arte OTR, Madrid; “Mexi-Cali Biennial 09-10,” Los Angeles; “Les Rencontres Internacionales Paris-Berlin-Madrid,” Centre Pompidou, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia and Haus der Kulturen der Welt HKW; “Shangri L.A.: Architecture as a State of Flux,” 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA; “XIV National Biennial Rufino Tamayo,” Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; “I Moscow International Biennial for Young Art,” MMOMA, Moscow, Russia; “Proyectos para Deconstruccion,” MUCA Roma, Mexico City; “It’s Not Easy,” Exit Art, New York ; “Sancta,” Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; and, “III Castellon Painting Prize,” Museo de Bellas Artes de Castellon, Spain.

Anibal is a current recipient of the prestigious Mexican FONCA Sistema Nacional de Creadores Grant 2011-2013.