Carmen Argote
Carmen Argote (b. 1981, Guadalajara, Mexico; lives and works in Los Angeles) received her MFA in 2007 from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she also received her BFA in 2004. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Primary, Nottingham, UK (2021); Clockshop, Los Angeles (2020); Visual Arts Center, University of Texas, Austin (2020); New Museum, New York (2019); PAOS, Guadalajara, Mexico (2019); Ballon Rouge Collective, Istanbul, Turkey (2019) and New York (2018); Instituto de Visión, Bogotá, Colombia (2018); Panel LA, Los Angeles (2017); Adjunct Positions Gallery, Los Angeles (2015); MAK Center, Los Angeles (2015); Human Resources, Los Angeles (2014); and Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles (2013). Argote has been featured in group exhibitions at Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles (2021); SculptureCenter, New York (2019); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2018); Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana (2017); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (2017), Ballroom Marfa (2017); and Denver Art Museum (2017). She is the recipient of the FOCA fellowship (2021); Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2019), Artadia Los Angeles Award (2019), Artist Community Engagement Grant from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation (2015), and California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2013). Photo Credit: Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times.