ИНЬИГО MANGLANO-ОВАЛЛЬЕ
Iceberg

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Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle was born in Madrid, Spain in 1961, and was raised in Bogotá, Colombia and Chicago, Illinois. He earned a BA in art and art history, and a BA in Latin American and Spanish literature, from Williams College (1983), and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1989). Manglano-Ovalle’s technologically sophisticated sculptures and video installations use natural forms such as clouds, icebergs, and DNA as metaphors for understanding social issues such as immigration, gun violence, and human cloning. In collaboration with astrophysicists, meteorologists, and medical ethicists, Manglano-Ovalle harnesses extraterrestrial radio signals, weather patterns, and biological code, transforming pure data into digital video projections and sculptures realized through computer rendering. His strategy of representing nature through information leads to an investigation of the underlying forces that shape the planet as well as points of human interaction and interference with the environment. Manglano-Ovalle’s work is attentive to points of intersection between local and global communities, emphasizing the intricate nature of ecosystems. He has received many awards, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award (2001) and a Media Arts Award from the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (1997–2001), as well as a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1995). He has had major exhibitions at the Rochester Art Center, Minnesota (2006); Art Institute of Chicago (2005); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico (2003); Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio (2002); and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1997). Manglano-Ovalle lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.
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source: gforg

Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle is a visual and conceptual artist born in Madrid, Spain (1961). He currently lives and works in Chicago, and teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Mr. Manglano-Ovalle has exhibited at numerous institutions, including the Guggenhiem Musuem, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum in New York; the Ruffino Tamayo Museum in Mexico City; the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; the Krefelder Kunstmuseen and the Museum für Modern Kunst – Frankfurt in Germany; the Mies van der Rohe Barcelona Pavilion and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in Spain; as well as the Singapore Biennale, Liverpool Biennial, and the São Paulo Biennal. Among his awards are a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Wexner Center for the Arts Media Arts Award, a Driehaus Foundation Award, and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

In the past few years his work has found him involved in washing and breaking the windows of Mies Van Der Rohe buildings, building radio-telescopes to search for extraterrestrials on the Mexican border with the U.S., creating cryogenic sperm banks for archiving specimens on loan from artists and curators, monitoring heroin poppies with military night vision, as well as capturing actual clouds and icebergs.

For Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany, he fabricated the infamous (and fictive) mobile biological weapons lab as described by Secretary of State Colin Powell to the United Nations Security Council, only to then hide it in a darkened space. The truck is currently hiding inside a church at the Kusthalle Osnabrück, Germany.

His latest film, Juggernaut, is on exhibit at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive. During his Guggenheim Fellowship term, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle is working on a year-long installation and film project for MassMOCA in North Adams, Massachusetts.

His work is represented by Max Protetch Gallery, New York; Galeria de Arte Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid; Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin; and Donald Young Gallery, Chicago.