biography
Alejandro Cesarco was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1975. Lives and works in New York.
In the past two decades Alejandro Cesarco has been making art as well as publishing books and curating exhibitions. Using film, photography and text, Cesarco’s practice investigates the agency of meaning, and how the expression of that agency is embedded within the practices of writing and reading, translating and misreading, repeating and remembering. The formal strategies of Cesarco’s (isolating a footnote from its context, the ongoing compilation of indexes for an as-yet unwritten book, a video who’s narrative structure is based on secrecy, for example) are often marked by an emotional register, where affect colludes with language to produce a series of metanarratives in dialogue with the histories of Conceptual Art. In addition to his studio practice, the artist has curated several exhibitions and is director of Art Resources Transfer (A.R.T.), a nonprofit organization that publishes books by artists and distributes free books on art to public schools, libraries and prisons.
Alejandro Cesarco was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1975. Lives and works in New York.
In the past two decades Alejandro Cesarco has been making art as well as publishing books and curating exhibitions. Using film, photography and text, Cesarco’s practice investigates the agency of meaning, and how the expression of that agency is embedded within the practices of writing and reading, translating and misreading, repeating and remembering. The formal strategies of Cesarco’s (isolating a footnote from its context, the ongoing compilation of indexes for an as-yet unwritten book, a video who’s narrative structure is based on secrecy, for example) are often marked by an emotional register, where affect colludes with language to produce a series of metanarratives in dialogue with the histories of Conceptual Art. In addition to his studio practice, the artist has curated several exhibitions and is director of Art Resources Transfer (A.R.T.), a nonprofit organization that publishes books by artists and distributes free books on art to public schools, libraries and prisons.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Otros ejemplos recientes, ARTIUM, Vitoria, Spain (2023); The Ongoing Story, Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan (2022); Todo en negro, los ojos cerrados por el exceso del desastre, Fotogalería Teatro San Martín, Buenos Aires (2021); Alejandro Cesarco, a solo exhibition, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (2019); Aprendiendo el Lenguaje, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico (2019); Tactics & Techniques, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius (2019); Alejandro Cesarco. Apprendre la langue (présent continu I), Jeu de Paume, Paris and CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (2019); Song, The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2017); The Inner Shadow, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam (2016); Prescribe the Symptom, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (2015); Secondary Revision, Frac Île-de-France /Le Plateau, Paris (2013); A Portrait, a Story, and an Ending, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich (2013); Alejandro Cesarco, mumok, Vienna (2012); A Common Ground, Uruguayan Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennial (2011); One without the Other, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City (2011); and Present Memory, Tate Modern, London (2010).
Group exhibitions include: Other Recent Examples, Lumiar Cité, Lisbon, Portugal (2023); CLOSER, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (2022); Footnotes I have never seen, Beletage, Zurich, Switzerland (2022); INFORMATION (Today), Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (2021) Travelled to: Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo; Affective Affinities, 33rd Bienal de São Paulo (2018); Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City (2017); Question the Wall Itself, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2016); Under the Same Sun, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2014); Tell It to My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (2013); and The Imminence of Poetics, 30th Bienal de São Paulo (2012).
Recent curatorial projects include: It’s Just a Matter of Time, with Manuel Segade, ARCOmadrid, IFEMA, Madrid (2020); Viewing Room. A charted journey through the contemporary art collection of the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, NY (2015); Between Artists, ongoing series of pocket sized, conversation based books published by A.R.T. Press, New York.
gallery exhibitions
images

Playing the Standards (As if it Were Adrian Piper), 2020
Archival ink-jet print
26 × 35 cm; 34,7 × 42,5 × 3,8 cm framed

New York Public Library Picture Collection (Subject Headings - Cross References), 2018
4 archival ink-jet prints
76,2 × 54,6 cm each

New York Public Library Picture Collection (Subject Headings - Cross References), 2018
4 archival ink-jet prints
76,2 × 54,6 cm each
public exhibitions
press
publications
video
Alejandro Cesarco, What does looking mean?
2023
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alejandro Cesarco on Alberto Giacometti
Artist talk: Alejandro Cesarco
2017
Artist Alejandro Cesarco discusses his Renaissance Society exhibition, Song (Nov 18, 2017-Jan 28, 2018), in conversation with curator Solveig Øvstebø at the opening reception on Nov 18, 2017.
Alejandro Cesarco on On Kawara
2012
Artists on Artists Lecture Series - Dia Art Foundation
John Baldessari and Alejandro Cesarco
2006-2007
Rolex Mentor and Protégé in Visual Arts
