Thomas Glassford has born on 1963, Laredo, Texas Lives in Mexico City, Mexico
“Fragmentation speaks more clearly to the realities of our lives than the false, flat image we are accustomed to seeing. There, everything is always backwards.”
Thomas Glassford studied art at The University of Texas at Austin, where he received his BFA. He moved to Mexico City in 1990, and joined a young avant-garde of Mexican, European, and American artists living in the city. Since the early 1990s, Glassford has used everyday materials–ranging from gourds to broomsticks, anodized aluminum to melamine plates–to create architectural or installation-scale works. He transforms these materials into rhythmic and often abstract creations, reminiscent of Minimalist sculpture and Op Art paintings of the 1960s.
Thomas Glassford’s works are represented in several major collections including Art Center/Instanbul, Borusan Center for Culture and Arts, Turkey; Associacao Beneficente Alzira Denise Hertzog da Silva, Brazil; Bruce and Diane Halle Collection, Scottsdale, AZ, USA; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami, FL, USA; Colección Valdemarín, Madrid, Spain; Collezione “La Gaia,” Italy; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, USA; Gelman Collection, Mexico; Jerry I. Speyer Collection; La Colección Jumex, Mexico; Montblanc International Collection; Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Bajadoz, Spain; Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes (MUCA), Mexico; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Houston, TX, USA; Neeley Collection; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, USA; Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, USA; Televisa Collection, Mexico and Vergel Foundation, New York, NY, USA.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Siphonophora, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico.
2015 Solar Plexus, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA, USA
2014 Thomas Glassford: Afterglow, Arts Brookfield, Houston, TX, USA
Afterglow, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2013 Afterglow, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2012 Thomas Glassford, Galeria Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
2011 Pteridomania, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2010 Xipe Totec, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
Afterglow, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico
2008 Implosion is Compulsory, Quint Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, USA
Between Earth and Sky, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2006 Cadáver Exquisito, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes (MUCA), UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
2004 Thomas Glassford, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX, USA
Pleasure Garden, Galería OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
Desdoblamientos, Galeria Principal de La Escuela de Artes. UAEMéx,Toluca, Mexico
Thomas Glassford, Arcaute Arte Contemporaneo, Nuevo León, Mexico
2003 Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Event Horizon, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico
2002 Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX, USA
Stripes and Solids, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA, USA
Fuente/ Exhibition Agua – Wasser, Temple of San Agustín (Ex National Library), Mexico City, Mexico
2001 DESIRE, Galería OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
ASTER, La Torre de los Vientos, Mexico City, Mexico
2000 Fuente Parabólica, Museo de La Alhóndiga, Festival International
Cervantino, Guanajuato, Mexico
1998 Neoprene Dreams, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX, USA
1997 Diversiones, Galeria de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
1996 Autogol: Oaxaca, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Mexico
New Work, Milagros Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX, USA
The Privilege to Contemplate the Theories of Black Holes, ExpoArte ’98,
Guadalajara, Mexico
1995 Autogol Monterrey, Museo de Monterrey, Mexico
1994 Autogol, Ex-Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Mexico
1993 Natural Acts, Moody Gallery Houston, TX, USA
1992 Arteria, Curare: Espacio Crítico Para Las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
1991 Laredo, Laredo Junior College Art Gallery, Texas
Hydraulics and Mechanics, N. No. O Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA
1990 Obra Nueva, Estudio Lic. Verdad, Mexico City, Mexico
1986 Drawings and Wall Pieces, Flood Gallery, Austin, TX, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Reverberations: Art and South in the MUAC Collections, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
BLOW-UP, Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy 2016 Mirando la Flor, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
El orden natural de las cosas, Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico Coty, Mexico.
2015 Strange Currencies: Art in Action in Mexico City, 1990-2000 The Galleries at Moore.
Under Construction, Galería Paramo, Guadalajara, Mexico.
2014 Presentación del libro: Arquitectura en México, 1900-2010, Palacio de Cultura Banamex, Palacio de Iturbide, Mexico
El Hombre al desnudo: Dimensiones de la masculinidad a partir de 1800, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
2013 Mexico Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX, USA
Opening, Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico Mesocosmos, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
2011 ¿Neomexicanismos? Ficciones identitarias en el Mexico de los ochento, Museo de arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Cimbra, formas especulativas y armados metafisícos, Museo de arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Destello, La Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
2010 Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Houston, TX, USA
The Traveling Show y El Gabinete Blanco, Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Todo a Nada, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), Mexico 2 City, Mexico
Efecto Drácula/Comunidades en Transfromación, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
2009 Hecho en casa: Una aproximación a las practicas objetuales en el arte mexicano contemporáneo, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico Quint: Three Decades of Contemporary Art, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA, USA
Color Into Light: Selections from the MFAH Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Houston, TX, USA
2008 SHOW DOWN, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, USA
An Unruly History of the Ready Made, La Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
La invención de lo Cotidiano, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico Recursos Incontrolables y Otros Desplazamientos Naturales, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, USA
Tlatelolco and the localized negotiation of future imaginaries, Museum as Hub, New Museum, New York, NY, USA
2007 Ephemeral: Explorations in Light, Claremont Museum of Art, Claremont, CA, USA
Constructing A Poetic Universe: The Diane and Bruce Halle Collection of Latin American Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Houston, TX, USA
La Era de la Discrepancia, Arte y Cultura Visual en Mexico 1968-1997, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes (MUCA), UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
2006 PLATFORMA, Galería de Arte Contemporáneo y Diseño, Puebla, Mexico Limbo a la Comodidad del Medio, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Esquiador en el Fondo de un Pozo, La Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Los Ángeles/México, Complejidades y Heterogenidad, La Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
XTRA – ORDINARY, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX, USA PINK NOT DEAD, Garash Galeria, Mexico City, Mexico
