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Priscilla Monge

Born in 1968 in San José, Costa Rica
Lives and works in San José, Costa Rica

Exhibitions
2013 - 55th Venice Biennial, Costa Rica Pavilion, Ca´Bonvicini, Venice.
2010 - Bienal de Pontevedra. “Utrópicos: Centroamérica y Caribe”. Comisario Santiago Olmo. Pontevedra. España
2007 - Global Feminisms - Brooklyn Museum of Art. Brooklyn, NY, USA.
2006 - Liverpool Biennial of contemporary Art 2006 . Liverpool, Reino Unido
2005 - Points of View - Photography in El Museo del Barrio’s Permanent Collection. El Museo del Barrio. New York, NY, EEUU.
2004 - I Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla –BIACS. Fundación Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla, Sevilla, España.
2003 - OPEN e v+ a 2003 - ev+a. Limerick Biennial,Limerick, Irland.
2001 - 49th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venecia. La Biennale di Venezia, Venecia, Italia.
2000 - 24° Bienal de São Paulo. Bienal de São Paulo. São Paulo, Brasil
1999 - Pervirtiendo el Minimalismo. Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, España.
1997 - Bienal de La Habana, Habana, Cuba.

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Luis Adelantado
T: (+52) 55 5545 66 45/ 31
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Yancey Richardson Gallery
646-230-9610
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Galería Juana de Aizpuru
+34 913 10 55 61
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Salt Fine Art
949.715.5554
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Recent works

Recent works

Mesa/Table

120 x 120cm, Wooden table and crutches, 2013

Recent works

Recent works

Conversation Piece 1

Circular marble slabs 120 cm each, wooden embroidery hooks and wool knit about 300 x 150cm, 2012

Recent works

Recent works

Conversation piece 2

12 and 14 inches circular marble slabs, embroidery hook and wool about 150 x 90cm, 2013

Recent works

Recent works

Conversation piece 3

12 and 14 inches marble slabs, wooden embroidery hook and wool knit about 100 x 160cm, 2013

Recent works

Recent works

Conversation Piece.

Detail

Recent works

Recent works

Conversation Piece.

Detail

Recent works

Recent works

Pattern

Pattern for baby dress embroidered on black leather 110 x 70 cm, 2013

Recent works

Recent works

Pattern

Pattern for baby dress embroidered on black leather, 100 x 115 cm, 2013

Recent works

Recent works

Pattern

Pattern for baby pajama embroidered on black leather, 102 x 115 cm, 2013

Recent works

Recent works

Art Is Haunted / Passport

White marble book engraved with the word “Passport” , 170 x 120 x 30 cm, Galería Luis Adelantado México, 2013

Recent works

Recent works

Art Is Haunted / Passport

Detail

Recent works

Recent works

Art Is Haunted / Passport

Detail

Recent works

Recent works

Art is Haunted

30 school desks with lacer engraved top, 50 x 70 x 75 cm each,

Recent works

Recent works

Art is Haunted/I feel as though I had know it all the time

Installation View, Costa Rica Pavillion, Venice Biennial, 2013
50 x 70 x 75 Engraved marble slab, wood and metal school desk, Detail form installation

Recent works

Recent works

Art is Haunted/ You substitute yourself for yourself all the time

Installation View, Costa Rica Pavillion, Venice Biennial, 2013
50 x 70 x 75 Engraved marble slab, wood and metal school desk, Detail form installation

Recent works

Recent works

Art is Haunted/ You are a candidate for eternity

Installation View, Costa Rica Pavillion, Venice Biennial, 2013
50 x 70 x 75 Engraved marble slab, wood and metal school desk, Detail form installation

Recent works

Recent works

Art is Haunted/ I want to kill you but you stole my gun

Installation View, Costa Rica Pavillion, Venice Biennial, 2013
50 x 70 x 75 Engraved marble slab, wood and metal school desk, Detail form installation

Recent works

Recent works

Art is Haunted/ He usado mi lengua para matarte

Installation View, Costa Rica Pavillion, Venice Biennial, 2013
50 x 70 x 75 Engraved marble slab, wood and metal school desk, Detail form installation

Recent works

Recent works

Art is Haunted/ I already seen that which I am seeing

Installation View, Costa Rica Pavillion, Venice Biennial, 2013
50 x 70 x 75 Engraved marble slab, wood and metal school desk, Detail form installation

Recent works

Recent works

Art is Haunted/ Death is in the air again

Installation View, Costa Rica Pavillion, Venice Biennial, 2013
50 x 70 x 75 Engraved marble slab, wood and metal school desk, Detail form installation

Recent works

Recent works

Art is Haunted/ You are a candidate for eternity

Installation View, Costa Rica Pavillion, Venice Biennial, 2013
50 x 70 x 75 Engraved marble slab, wood and metal school desk, Detail form installation

Recent works

Recent works

Art is Haunted/ I feel it all coming on again

Installation View, Costa Rica Pavillion, Venice Biennial, 2013
50 x 70 x 75 Engraved marble slab, wood and metal school desk, Detail form installation

Works on public Space

Works on public Space

Soccer

Pitch/cancha de Futbol, Liverpool Biennial, 2006

Works on public Space

Works on public Space

Soccer

Pitch/cancha de Futbol, Liverpool Biennial, 2006

Works on public Space

Works on public Space

Soccer

Pitch/cancha de Futbol, Liverpool Biennial, 2006, Building process

Works on public Space

Works on public Space

Soccer

Pitch/cancha de Futbol, Liverpool Biennial, 2006, Building process

Soccer

Soccer

Pitch/cancha de Futbol, Liverpool Biennial, 2006,

Works on public Space

Works on public Space

Soccer

Pitch/cancha de Futbol, Liverpool Biennial, 2006,

Works on public Space

Works on public Space

Soccer

Nuit Blanche Paris Place Stalingrad 2009

Works on public Space

Works on public Space

“Si nadie habla, las piedras hablarán”

Bienal de Pontevedra, 2010,
Jaulas de aluminio, reciclaje de granito, altavoces y grabación que en loop repite la frase: “Si nadie habla, las piedras hablaran”

Works on public Space

Works on public Space

“Si nadie habla, las piedras hablarán”

Proceso de construcción del muro

Works on public Space

Works on public Space

El Patio de mi casa/The sky within my House

“Flow” Cordoba , España; Stone fountain and red natural pigment

Works on public Space

Works on public Space

El Patio de mi casa/The sky within my House

“Flow” Cordoba , España; Stone fountain and red natural pigment

Works on public Space

Works on public Space

Project for the Leobendorf Roundabout Lower Austria

Vienna 2014 Leobendorf

Other works

Other works

Soccer Ball , 1999

Sanitary napkins and black leather 30 cm diameter aprox.

Trouser

Trouser

Sanitary napkins, threat and metal fastener

1998

Soccer Ball

Soccer Ball

Sanitary napkins and black leather

30 cm diameter 2012

Room for Isolation and Restraint

Room for Isolation and Restraint

300 cm3

Sanitary napkins, wood cube with door and lamp Plateau of Mankind. 49 Venice Biennial 2001

Another Tempest

Another Tempest

7 concrete tombstones with engraved texts taken from Shakespeare´s “The Tempest”

120 x 90 x 15 cm aprox. The piece was in the last exhibition made by Harald Szeemann. Exhibited in : PS1 Moma and Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain. Col. Of the artist

Another Tempest

Another Tempest

7 concrete tombstones with engraved texts taken from Shakespeare´s “The Tempest”

120 x 90 x 15 cm aprox. The piece was in the last exhibition made by Harald Szeemann. Exhibited in : PS1 Moma and Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain. Col. Of the artist

Another Tempest

Another Tempest

7 concrete tombstones with engraved texts taken from Shakespeare´s “The Tempest”

120 x 90 x 15 cm aprox. The piece was in the last exhibition made by Harald Szeemann. Exhibited in : PS1 Moma and Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain. Col. Of the artist

Another Tempest

Another Tempest

7 concrete tombstones with engraved texts taken from Shakespeare´s “The Tempest”

120 x 90 x 15 cm aprox. The piece was in the last exhibition made by Harald Szeemann. Exhibited in : PS1 Moma and Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain. Col. Of the artist

School Desk

School Desk

Marble, wood ,metal and blood stain

2009 Col. Of the artist.

Boomerangs

Wood, pyrography

30 x 9 x 1.5 cm 1998 Col. Museo Reina Sofía

Death Penalties

Death Penalties

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6 linen fabrics mounted on frames and embroidered actual death sentences given in Costa Rica up to the 19th Century and some news on police abuses given in San José at the beginning of the ...

Death Penalties

Death Penalties

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6 linen fabrics mounted on frames and embroidered actual death sentences given in Costa Rica up to the 19th Century and some news on police abuses given in San José at the beginning of the ...

Death Penalties

Death Penalties

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6 linen fabrics mounted on frames and embroidered actual death sentences given in Costa Rica up to the 19th Century and some news on police abuses given in San José at the beginning of the ...

Death Penalties

Death Penalties

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6 linen fabrics mounted on frames and embroidered actual death sentences given in Costa Rica up to the 19th Century and some news on police abuses given in San José at the beginning of the ...

Death Penalties

Death Penalties

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6 linen fabrics mounted on frames and embroidered actual death sentences given in Costa Rica up to the 19th Century and some news on police abuses given in San José at the beginning of the ...

Death Penalties

Death Penalties

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6 linen fabrics mounted on frames and embroidered actual death sentences given in Costa Rica up to the 19th Century and some news on police abuses given in San José at the beginning of the ...

Soap Virgin

Soap Virgin

Blue soap cast on the shape of a virgin

160 cm tall 2003

Chocolate Jesus

Chocolate Jesus

20 x 25cm

2009

Chocolate Virgin

Chocolate Virgin

25 cm tall

2009

Chocolate tablet

Chocolate tablet

20 x 30 cm

2009

Ballerina

Ballerina

2000

Variable dimensions Col. Tate Gallery, London

Shot up and sing

Shot up and sing

7 boxing leather masks mounted on wood and metal with music box

Habana Biennial, 1997