Eduardo Muñoz Ordoqui
Photography
CURRICULUM VITAE
Born in Havana, Cuba, 1964.
EDUCATION
2002-2005 The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA.
Master of Fine Arts. Studio Art Program (Photography).
1985-1990 Universidad de La Habana, Havana, Cuba.
Bachelor of Fine Arts. Art History.
FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS
2016-17 Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant. USA-Mexico (Fulbright-García Robles).
1998 The Cintas Foundation, Inc. (Fellowship). Institute of International Education, United Nations, New York, USA.
1997 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (Fellowship), New York, USA.
AWARDS
2007 Artpace International Artist-in-Residence Program. San Antonio, Texas, USA.
2003 Austin Critics Table award for Best Group show of the year, for the exhibit "Digging Alone: Five Cuban Photographers" (as a curator). Austin,
Texas, USA.
2002 Austin Critics Table award for outstanding male artist of the year, Austin, Texas, USA.
1992 Salón de la Ciudad, Special mention of the jury, Havana, Cuba.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 "Zoo-logos". Galería Punctum, Mexico City, Mexico.
2007 “New Works 07.2.” Artpace, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
2004 “Portable Worlds.” Gallery 106, Austin, Texas, USA.
2003 "Marea baja." Galería Foto fija, Mexico City, Mexico.
"Photographs: Arturo Cuenca and Eduardo Muñoz." Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA.
2001 “Photographs.” Gallery 106, Austin, Texas, USA.
“Resurrecciones." Espai Xavier Miserachs, Palau de la Virreina, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
2000 "Cartas por Sabina." Galería Nina Menocal, Mexico City, Mexico.
1999 “Zoo-logos.” Sala de Exposiciones de la Muralla Bizantina, Cartagena, Spain.
"Destierros." Fototeca de Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico.
1998 "Banishments (1996-98)." Image Room Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA.
"Entrando a la casa por la ventana." Galería Nacho López, Fototeca del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Pachuca, Mexico.
"Stealing into the House through the Window." Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA.
1997 "Banishments." Sicardi & Sanders Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA.
1993 "Zoo-Logos." Galería Nacho López, Fototeca del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Pachuca, Mexico.
1992 "Zoo-Logos." Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba.
"D-Construcciones." Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño, Havana, Cuba.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 “Doble Play.” Foto Museo Cuatro Caminos. Mexico City, Mexico.
“Austin Collects Contemporary: Selections from the Blanton’s Recent Gift from The Contemporary.” Blanton Museum of Art. Austin, Texas,
USA.
2016 “La banalidad del mar. Fotografía cubana contemporánea”. Museo de Arte Moderno. Santo Domingo.
2015 “Identidad animal.” Fábrica de Arte Cubano. Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba.
“Ritos de pasaje. Selecciones de fotografía contemporánea cubana.” Lima Photo 2015. Lima, Peru.
“Campos de batalla.” Studio 8/Punctum. Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba.
2014 “Dios los cría”. Factoría Habana, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba.
2012 “El baño. Fotografía contemporánea entre lo público y lo privado”. MAF, Mexico D.F.; Galería Alva de la Canal, Jalapa, Veracruz; Galería Casa
Escorza, Guadalajara, Mexico; Galería Nacional, San José, Costa Rica.
2011 “El baño. Fotografía contemporánea entre lo público y lo privado”. Fototeca Nacional del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH),
Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico.
2010 “The Collector’s Eye: Peers.” The Collection of Fernando Castro. Fotofest International Headquarters, Houston, Texas, USA.
“Made in Cuba.” Jadite Gallery, New York, USA.
“Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection.” The Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA.
2009 “Hasta la basura se separa (Artcrush).” Box 13 Artspace, Houston, Texas, USA.
Guangzhou Photo Biennial. Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China.
2008 “Hasta la basura se separa (Artcrush).” Antigua Aduana Cultural Space, Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
2006 “Unbroken Ties (Sin rupturas). Dialogues in Cuban Art.” Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California, USA.
“Reencuentro.” Convento de San Francisco, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba.
IX Bienal de La Habana. Havana, Cuba.
“Artistas citados.” Galería Nina Menocal, México D.F.
2005 “Viajeros: North American Artist/ Photographers’ Images of Cuba.” Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA.
“Plots and Schemes.” Creative Research Lab, Austin, Texas, USA.
“Mapas Abiertos.” Fototeca de Nuevo León, Monterrey, Mexico; Amos Anderson Museum, Helsinki, Finland; Sala de exposiciones de la
Ciudadela, Pamplona, Spain; Fundación Telefónica. Santiago de Chile, Chile; Auditorio de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Bienal
Fotonoviembre.
Centro de fotografía Isla de Tenerife, Spain.
2004 “Circumstantial Views: Contemporary Photography by Arturo Cuenca, Rogelio López Marín (Gory), Luis Mallo and Eduardo Muñoz Ordoqui.” INTAR
Gallery, New York, USA.
“Siete Miradas/Seven Visions: New World Photographers.” University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
"Mapas abiertos. Fotografía latinoamericana (1991-2002)." Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Museo de Arte Zapopan, Guadalajara México.
“Ahora Es El Futuro/The Future Is Now.” Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York, USA.
“Intersections/ Intersecciones: an Exhibition on Cuban Artists.” Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
2003 Art Basel, Miami, Florida, USA.
"Mapas abiertos. Fotografía latinoamericana (1991-2002)." Exposición: 18 de noviembre 2003-11 de enero 2004: Fundación Telefónica. Madrid,
Spain; 20 de noviembre 2003-15 de enero 2004: La Virreina Exposiciones. Instituto de Cultura de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
2002 "Water Premonitions." Art Basel, Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
"Chance Operation." Gallery 1313, Austin, Texas, USA.
“22 to Watch: New Art in Austin.” Austin Museum of Arts, Austin, Texas, USA.
Feria Internacional de arte, Monterrey, Mexico.
“La Huella múltiple.” Fototeca de Cuba, Ciudad Habana, Cuba.
2001 “A Love Affair with Pictures: 25 Years of Collecting Photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas,
USA.
“Latin American Artist-Photographers from the Lehigh University Art Galleries Collection.” El Museo del Barrio, New York; El Museo de Historia,
Antropología y Arte, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedros Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico; DuBois Gallery, Maginnes Hall, Lehigh University,
Pennsylvania, USA.
“Puntos de giros y sus posibles conexiones.” Centro de Desarrrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba.
Art Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
Art Miami, Miami, Florida, USA.
Chicago International Art Fair, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
2000 “Latin American Photographs, New Viewpoints.” Visual Arts Gallery, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA.
“Frontera.” (IX Bienal Internacional de Fotografía, Mexico), Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MARCO),
Monterrey, Mexico, and Museo de la Fotografía, Oaxaca, Mexico.
"En el filo. Habitando el espacio." Museo de Arte Moderno Juan Astorga Anta, Merida, Venezuela.
“Once Removed.” San Francisco Camera Work, San Francisco, California, USA.
1999 San Francisco International Art Fair, San Francisco, California, USA.
"Passionate Visions." Bath House Cultural Center Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA.
Corredor Cultural de La Roma, Galería Nina Menocal, Mexico City, Mexico.
Bienal Internacional de Fotografía, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico.
"Theater of the Memory: Five Cuban American Artist/ Photographers." Spanish Cultural Center, Miami, Florida, USA.
1998 "Ignition." Haz Mat Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
"Cuba: 100 años de fotografía." Photo España. Casa de América, Madrid; "La Mar de músicas." Sala de la Muralla
Bizantina, Centro Cultural Ramón A. Luzzy, Cartagena; FNAC-Plaza de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.
"CubaOn: Eleven Conceptual Photographers." Generous Miracles Gallery, New York, USA.
1997 "Breaking Barriers." Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
"Contemporary Images from Cuba." Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA.
"M.A.P." (Media Arts Project), Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland.
Beaux Arts Ball." Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA.
"Once Removed: The Photograph in Contemporary Cuban-American Art." West Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, California, USA.
"Group Exhibition." Sicardi & Sanders Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA.
1996 "Foto Forum." Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA.
1995 "Contemporary Latin American Photography." Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA.
"Black and White." Sicardi & Sanders Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA.
1994 "The New Generation: Cuban Contemporary Photography." The Menil Collection at Richmond Hall, FotoFest, Houston, Texas, USA.
"Nueva fotografía cubana." V Bienal de La Habana, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba.
"Portraits." Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas, USA.
1992 "Ten Cuban Photographers." Archivo Fotografico Toscano, Florence, Italy; Giovanni Corriani Photographic Competition, Art Institute of Siena,
Italy; Institute of Hispanic Culture, Munich, Germany.
"Cuban Photography 1959-1992." Neue Galerie, Berlin, Germany.
"Salón de la Ciudad." Centro Provincial de Artes Plásticas y Diseño, Havana, Cuba.
PUBLICATIONS
2015 “Entrevista a Eduardo Muñoz”. (Video interview published on the internet). ZoneZero, Fundación Pedro Meyer. Mexico City, Mexico. 17 de abril 2015.
“Tiempos encontrados”. (Web gallery). ZoneZero, Fundación Pedro Meyer. Mexico City, Mexico. 18 de marzo 2015.
2009 2009 Guangzhou Photo Biennial. (Catalog). Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China.
2006 Latin American Photography. Selections from the Lehigh University Art Galleries Collection. (Catalog). Lehigh University Art Galleries/ Museum Operation,
Bethlehem, PA, USA.
Unbroken Ties (Sin rupturas). Dialogues in Cuban Art (Catalog). Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California, USA.
2005 Viajeros: North American Artist/Photographers’ Images of Cuba. (Catalog). Lehigh University Art Galleries/ Museum Operation, Bethlehem, PA, USA.
2003 Mapas abiertos. Fotografía latinoamericana (1991-2002). (Catalog). Barcelona y Madrid, Lunwerg Editores y Fundación Telefónica. 2003.
ISBN: 84-9785-039-4, Spain.
Fisura (Magazine). Año 1, No. 3, Febrero, New York, USA.
2002 "Eduardo Muñoz Ordoqui , Photographer." Text by Heather Brand. Tribeza. (Magazine). December, Austin, Texas, USA.
22 to Watch: New Art in Austin. (Catalog). Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, USA.
"Eduardo Muñoz: Exploring Personal History, Memory and Separation." Text by Elizabeth Ferrer. Artlies. (Magazine). Issue No. 33. Winter 2001-2002, Houston,
Texas, USA.
2001 "Sobre Eduardo Muñoz Ordoqui." Text by Joaquín Ordoqui. Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana. (Magazine). Verano-otoño 2001, Madrid, Spain.
"Eduardo Muñoz Ordoqui." Text by Rob Curran. ArtLies (Magazine). Issue No. 31, Summer. Houston, Texas, USA.
“Eduardo Muñoz Ordoqui.” Text by Manuel García. Lápiz. (Magazine). Año XX, Núm. 171, Spain.
“Utopías privadas.” Text by Iván de la Nuez. “La Eterna miseria que es el acto de recordar.” Text by Juan Antonio Molina. Resurrecciones Eduardo Muñoz
Ordoqui.
(Catalog). Ajuntament de Barcelona, Institut de Cultura, Lunwerg Editores, Barcelona, Spain.
"Pagadera al regreso." Text by Juan Antonio Molina, Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana. (Magazine). Invierno 2000-2001, Madrid, Spain.
1999 “Entrando a la casa por la ventana.” Text by Juan Antonio Molina. Atlántica Internacional. (Magazine). Número 24, Otoño, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
“Viaje a la fotografía ilusionista.” Text by Juan Antonio Molina. Revista Equis. (Magazine). N. 17, septiembre, México, D.F.
1998 Cuba: 100 años de fotografía (Antología de la Fotografía Cubana 1898-1998). (Book). Mestizo A.C./ Fototeca de Cuba, Murcia, Spain.
1997 “Zoo-logos o las termitas de la reducción.” Text by Juan Antonio Molina. Extra Cámara. (Magazine). N.11, Caracas, Venezuela.
Breaking Barriers. Selections from the Museum of Art’s Permanent Contemporary Cuban Collection. (Catalog). Museum of Art. Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
1995 “Zoo-logos, or the Termites of Reduction.” Text by Juan Antonio Molina. Aperture. (Magazine). Fall, New York, USA.
1994 “The New Generation. Contemporary Photography from Cuba.” Text by Wendy Watriss. Fotofest’94. (Catalog). Houston, Texas, USA.
1993 “Elegía del cautivo.” Text by Patricia Massé. La Jornada (Weekly Issue). Núm. 201, 18 de abril, México, D.F.
“Zoo-logos o las termitas de la reducción.” Text by Juan Antonio Molina. La Jornada. (Weekly Issue). Núm. 189, 24 de enero, México, D.F.
REVIEWS
2015 “El espacio tenso y la mirada entrampada: Zoo-logos de Eduardo Muñoz Ordoqui en Punctum”. Text by Irving Domínguez. círculo a. (Web publication).
Mexico City, Mexico. 19 de mayo 2015.
2007 “Old-fashioned Approach to Past.” Text by Dan R. Goddard. San Antonio Express-News. (Newspaper). Sunday, August 5. San Antonio, Texas, USA.
2004 “Portable Worlds.” Text by Jacqueline May. The Austin Chronicle. (Weekly Issue). Vol. 24 No. 14. December 3, page 92. Austin, Texas, USA.
2003 "Modern Vintage." Text by Kelly Klaasmeyer. Houston Press. (Weekly Issue). May 1-7, page 49, Houston, Texas, USA.
2002 "El Malecón habanero en dos visiones fotográficas." Text by José Antonio Evora. El Nuevo Herald. (Newspaper). Sunday, December 8, Miami, Florida,
USA.
“Shades of the Future.” Text by Jeanne Claire van Ryzin. Austin American Statesman. (Newspaper). 11 April, pages: 18-23, Austin, Texas, USA.
Nexos. (Magazine). N. 292, abril, México, D.F.
2001 “A Family Living Nowhere.” Text by Jeanne Claire Van Ryzin. Austin American Statesman. (Newspaper). June 14, Austin, Texas, USA.
“Muñoz Ordoqui y el exilio.” Text by J.V. El País (Newspaper). Marzo 7, Barcelona, Spain.
“Muñoz Ordoqui muestra en la Virreina sus imágenes de dolor y violencia.” Text by Angela Molina. ABC. (Newspaper). Febrero 7, Barcelona, Spain.
“Transgressió fotográfica.” Text by Meritxell Doncel. AVUI Prensa Catalana S.A. (Newspaper). Febrero 3, Barcelona, Spain.
2000 “Once Removed.” Text by Berin Golonu. Art Papers. (magazine). September-October, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
“Once Removed.” Text by Lindsey Westbrook. The San Francisco Bay Guardian. (Newspaper). April 5, page 98, San Francisco, California, USA.
1998 “Eduardo Muñoz: Imagenes del exilio.” Text by Manuel García. Unomásuno. (Newspaper). 17 de octubre, México D.F.
“Cubaon: Eleven Conceptual Photographers.” Text by Nicolas Guagnini. Art Nexus. (Magazine). N.28 May-July, Bogotá, Colombia.
1997 Los Angeles Times. (Newspaper). February 11, Los Angeles, California, USA.
1996 “Orígenes en la poesía de Orígenes.” Text by César López. Encuentro de la cultura cubana. (Magazine). Núm. 2, otoño, Madrid, Spain.
1995 “Una fotografía del cambio en Cuba.” Text by Nelson Herrera Ysla. Unión. (Magazine). Núm. 21, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba.
1994 “Cuban Photography. Context and Meaning.” Text by John Mraz. History of Photography. (Magazine). Volume 18, No.1, Spring, Linacre College,
Oxford, United Kingdom.
“Cubas’s Emerging Eyes.” Text by Patricia C. Johnson. Houston Chronicle. (Newspaper), March 27, Houston, Texas, USA.
“Cuban Photography Displays Creative Freedom.” Text by Susan Chadwick. The Houston Post. (Newspaper). March 25, Houston, Texas, USA.
“Socialist Surrealism.” Text by Susie Kalil. Houston Press. (Newspaper). March 31- April 6, vol. 6, num. 13, Houston, Texas, USA.
1993 “La fotografia cubana dell’ ultima generazione.” Text by Giovanna Chiti. AFT. (Magazine). Num. 17, Giugno, Florence, Italy.
1992 Revue Noire. (Magazine). September, October and November, Paris, France.
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, USA.
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, USA.
Colección JUMEX, Mexico.
FotoFest International, Houston, Texas, USA.
Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba.
Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA.
Reinhard Schultz Collection, Berlin, Germany.
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida, USA.
The Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2013-2015 St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas, USA
Department of Visual Studies
Faculty Associate
2005-2013 St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas, USA
Department of Photocommunications
Adjunct Professor
2005 The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA
Department of Art and Art History
Photography Instructor
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1996-Present Fine Arts Photographer
1994-1996 Acadian Photoworks Inc., Houston, Texas, USA
Custom Printer
1992-1994 Institute of Cultural Development and Social Research, Pachuca, Mexico
Principal Photographer
Specialization in architecture for project to restore the historical city center of Pachuca, Mexico.
1991-1992 Fototeca de Cuba, Havana, Cuba
Curator
National project undertaken by Fototeca de Cuba, an archive of the development of the art of photography of Cuba. In charge, among other projects,
of research and photography for the exhibits “Tina Modotti, Photographer,” "150 Years of Cuban Photography" –in collaboration with Juan Antonio Molina--
(for the 4th Biennial Exhibition of Havana); and of "Affluents," an exhibit of contemporary Cuban photography.
Fototeca del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH)
(National Institute of Anthropology and History), Pachuca, Mexico
Training on preservation of historical and contemporary photographic collections.