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b. 1961, Madrid
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle was born on February 6, 1961, in Madrid. He received B.A. degrees in art and art history and Latin American and Spanish literature from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1983 and an M.F.A. in sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1989. His early work was oriented toward collaborations with urban communities and resulted in the founding of Street-Level Youth Media, a community arts organization for Chicago youth. His subsequent projects have incorporated a variety of mediums. Tires suspended from a gallery ceiling in Flotilla (1991) make reference to illegal immigration to the United States. Assigned Identities (1991) comprises images of ID cards in which some details are concealed and others revealed. The sculptural works Subwoofer (1995) and Bloom (1995–96) incorporate unorthodox materials such as car sound systems and firearms. The video trilogy Le Baiser/The Kiss (1999), Climate (2000), and In Ordinary Time (2001) critique the Modernist architecture of Mies van der Rohe. In recent sculpture—such as Cloud Prototype No. 1 (2003), a gargantuan, cloudlike metallic form—Manglano-Ovalle has experimented with spectacular scale.
Manglano-Ovalle's first solo exhibition was at Gallery 2 in Chicago in 1989. This was followed by solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (1997), Instituto Cultural Cabañas in Guadalajara, Mexico (1997), Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio (2000), Barcelona Pavilion (2002), and Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundació'n "la Caixa" in Madrid (2003), among others. Group exhibitions in which he has participated include the Bienal de São Paulo (1998), Best of the Season at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut (1999), Whitney Biennial (2000), Search, an exhibition of site-specific projects commissioned by InSITE 2000 in San Diego (2001), and Moving Pictures at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2002 and 2003). He has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship (1995), the Media Arts Award from the Wexner Center for the Arts (1997), and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowship (2001). He lives and works in Chicago.
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