Iván Navarro

The artist

Born in 1972 in Santiago, Iván Navarro grew up under the Pinochet dictatorship. He has lived and worked in New York since 1997. Iván Navarro uses light as his raw material, turning objects into electric sculptures and transforming the exhibition space by means of visual interplay. His work is certainly playful, but is also haunted by questions of power, control and imprisonment. The act of usurping the minimalist aesthetic is an ever-present undercurrent, becoming the pretext for understated political and social criticism.

Exhibitions

Light Years

February 5 - March 21, 2026
New York
Cyclops

May 17 - July 19, 2025
Paris - Grenier Saint Lazare
Cosmography

June 27 - August 1, 2024
New York
Celestialand

November 3 - December 23, 2022
New York
Constellations of Fate

April 27 - July 16, 2022
Brussels
Planetarium

January 30 - May 11, 2021
Paris - Beaubourg
Prostutopia

September 6 - October 20, 2018
Brussels
Fanfare

March 11 - May 13, 2017
Paris - Beaubourg
Nacht und Nebel

January 16 - February 22, 2014
Brussels
Where is the next war ?

April 25 - June 1, 2013
Paris - Beaubourg
Nowhere Man

September 5 - October 24, 2009
Paris - Beaubourg
Antifurniture

March 1 > April 5, 2008
Paris - Beaubourg
Spy Glass

December 10, 2005 - January 18, 2006
Paris - Beaubourg

Biography

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Birth	Born in 1972 in Santiago, Chile
Residency	Lives and works in New York, USA
Education	1991-1995, BFA, Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile. Santiago, Chile.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2026	Light Years, TEMPLON, New York, USA
2025	Penumbra, Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral - GAM Santiago, Chile
	Cyclops, TEMPLON, Paris, France
2024	Reloj Solar, Galeria Madre, Santiago, Chile
2023	Silent Homeless Lamp, installation temporaire, Sunset Boulvard, Los Angeles, USA
	Iván Navarro, Peninsula Hotel, New York, USA
	Eccidio, MicroMuseo di Arte Contemporanea della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy

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2022	Celestialand, TEMPLON, New York, USA
	Thunder, Martin Asbaek Gallery in collaboration with TEMPLON, Copenhagen, Denmark
	Constellations of Fate, TEMPLON, Brussels, Belgium This Land is Your Land, Art-OMI Sculpture Park, Ghent, New York, USA (2022-2024)
2021	Planetario, Galeria Madre, Santiago, Chile Iván Navarro, Hôtel Peninsula, Paris, France Planetarium, CENTQUATRE-PARIS, Paris, France Planetarium, TEMPLON, Paris, France Desvanecer, Galeria Luciana Brito, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2020	This Land is Your Land, The Momentary, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, USA ExFinito, Farol Santander, Sao Paulo, Brazil KM8, Grand Paris Express, Paris, France
2019	Bifocal, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina Shinsegae Gallery Daegu, Shinsegae Daegu, South Korea This Land is Your Land, Paradise Art Space, Incheon, South Korea Homeless Lamp (video screening), Macro Museum, Rome, Italy Nocturno, Il Posto, Santiago, Chile Clamor, Il Posto, Santiago, Chile
2018	Latinoamerica: volver al futuro, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Buenos Aires (MACBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina Hangang Art Park Creation Project, Seoul, Korea The Bright Sun, Galeria Luciana Brito, Sao Paulo, Brazil Prostutopia, TEMPLON, Brussels, Belgium The Moon in The Water, Hyundai Gallery, Seoul, Korea Fundación Costantini, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aire, Buenos Aires, Argentina This Land is Your Land, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea Museo de Arte de Bogota (MAMBO), Bogota, Colombia Prostutopia, TEMPLON, Brussels, Belgium Permanent Collection Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA
2017	Fanfares, TEMPLON, Paris, France Value Exchang, LAND Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Los Angeles, USA
2016	Mute Parade, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA Interventions III, #1608 President Street, Brooklyn, New York, USA Espacios revelados, Plaza Yungay, Plaza Brasil and Torres de Tajammar, Santiago, Chile Cancha, Espacio O, Santiago, Chile
2015	Onomatoepopeyas, Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile Una guerra silenciosa e imposible, CA660 - Centro de las Artes 660, CorpArtes, Santiago, Chile This Land Is Your Land, Nasher - Museum Of Art At Duke University, Durham, USA Relay, Campus Creativo, Santiago, Chile Cuadrilla de Yungay, Casona Yungay, Santiago, Chile La Ley de la Precipitación, 12ª Bienal de Artes Mediales, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile New Ways Of Seeing: Beyond Culture, Dorsky Gallery, New York, USA The Music Room III, Sonar, Santiago, Chile; CA660 - Centro de las Artes 660, CorpArtes, Santiago, Chile This Land Is Your Land, Northpark Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
2014	This Land Is Your Land, Madison Square Art, New York, USA Nacht and Nebel, TEMPLON, Brussels, Belgium 299 792 458 m/s, Gallery Hyunday, Séoul, Korea Iván Navarro, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA The Music Room I, PS1, New York, USA This Land is Your Land, North Park Center, Dallas, USA Radetsky Loop, Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile
2013	Where is The Next War?, TEMPLON, Paris, France 11th Bienal de Artes Mediales, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile Arquivo Vivo, Museo Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil Uirapuru, Goethe-Institut, Nairobi, Kenya
2012	Impenetrables, Art kabinett, Paul Kasmin Gallery, Art Basel, Miami, USA Fluorescent Light Sculptures, Frost Art Museum, Miami, USA Light at the End of the Tunnel, Egeran Galeri, Istanbul, Turkey Nacht und Nebel, curated by Antonio Arévalo, Fondazione VOLUME! Roma, Italy Concept Room : Ivan Navarro, Galerie Litvak , Tel Aviv, Israel Heaven or Las Vegas, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USA
2011	Heaven or Las Vegas, Paul Kasmin gallery, New York, USA Baró Galeria, Sao Paulo, Brazil The Uno Fence, Prospect.2 at UNO Gallery, New Orleans, USA The Armory Fence, The Armory Show at Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA
2010	Tener Dolor en el cuerpo de Otro, Distrito 4, Madrid, Spain No Man's Land, Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain Tierra de Nadie, Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, CAB, Burgos, Spain Missing, Chambre Blanche, Manif d'Art5, la Biennale de Québec, Québec, Canada Missing, Chambre Blanche – Manif d´art 5, Catastrophe? Quebec, Canada Resistance., Metales Pesados Santiago, Chile Chile: Behind the Scenes, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
2009	DIE, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA Nowhere Man, TEMPLON, Paris, France Nowhere Man, Towner, UK Threshold, Pavillon du Chili, Arsenal, 53e Biennale de Venise, Venice, Italy
2008	Homeless Lamp, The Juice Sucker, Fabric Work Shop & Museum, Philadelphia, USA Antifurniture, TEMPLON, Paris, France No Man's Land, Koppelman Gallery, Tufts University Art Gallery, Massachusetts, USA Backstage, Greenaway Gallery - Adelaide Bank Festival, Adelaide, Australia
2007	Donde Estan ? Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile El Mendigo, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina Large Wall Hole, Jersey City Museum, New Jersey, USA Propuesta de Monumento para Victor Jara, Galeria Moro, Santiago, Chile
2006	Concentration Camp, Roebling Hall, New York, USA Unosunove Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy Pachamama, Galeria Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile No soy de aqui, no soy de alla, Union Gallery, London, UK
2005	Spy Glass, TEMPLON, Paris, France Jersey City Museum (project room), New Jersey, USA Shortcuts, Art Rock, Rockefeller plaza (project room), New York, USA
2004	Juice sucker, CSPS Legion Arts, Iowa, USA Monuments for D. Flavin, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, USA
2002	Blade runner, Gasworks Studios, London, UK
2001	Big Bang, Galería Animal, Santiago, Chile
1996	Camping day, PUC, Santiago, Chile

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2026	Through the looking-glass, Art Rock Festival, musée du Saint-Brieuc, France
	Simulacre, Magasins Généraux, Paris, France
2024	Glow : Neon and Light, Akron Art Museul, Ohio, USA Light Sound Senses, Heidi Horten Collection, Vienna, Austria
	Refaire le monde, Festival de la Francophonie, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France
	Under Pressure, Poli/Gráfica, Puerto Rico
	Au bout de mes rêves, La Tripostal, Lille, France
	La Conciencia Brillante, CristalLlíquido y Pantallas Expandidas, CAB - Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain

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	Enlazando Mundos, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Museo de Arte Moderno de Santo Domingo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
	Bajo presión / Under Pressure, Poli/Gráfica de Puerto Rico: América Latina y el Carib, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, Puerto Rico
	Light/Neon, Akron Art Museum, Ohio, USA
	Navigli, Outdoors Projects, Milan, Italy
2023	Premiere of the 2023 installations, The Bunker Art Space, West Palm Beach, FL, USA Paving Roads for Latin America: The Pioneering Work of Celia Birbragher, Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, FL, USA Grand Paris Express projects, Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Paris, France Au bout de mes rêves, Le Tripostal, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Lille, France Chile: Memory and Future, The Gallatin Galleries, NYU, New York, USA Lumière et Mouvement, Villa Datris Foundation, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France Mental Space, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum, New York, USA Capacete 25th Anniversary, Marli Matsumoto Galeria, Sao Paulo, Brasil Chile: Memory and Future (Collaboration with Courtney Smith), The Gallatin Galleries, New York University, New York, USA Light is Life, Donizetti Museum and Temple of Santa Croce, Bergamo, Italy INTERPLAY, SITE SANTA FE, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Cohecho, Centro de Documentación de las Artes Visuales, Santiago, Chile
2022	Cluster II, III and V, exhibited at Domaine Pommery, Reims, France COLLECTION, The Miniature Museum of Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2021	Ithra – Seeing & Perceiving, King Abdulaziz Center for world culture, Saudi Arabia Mirrors / Mirages, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, The Netherlands International Festival Santiago a Mil, Santiago, Chile Noor Riyadh Festival, King Abdullah Financial District, Conference Center, Riyad, Saudi Arabia Seeing and Perceiving, King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
2020	Water Reverie, Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey Mappa Mundi, Boghossian Foundation – Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium Recycler, Surcyclage, Fondation Villa Datris, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France The Light House, Boghossian Foundation – Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium Les Extatiques, La Défense, Paris, France KM8, Grand Paris Express, Paris, France
2019	Southamerican Rockers, Galeria Revolver, Buenos Aires Santiago: Ciudad Destino, Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile Art in Resonance, Peninsula Hotel, Hong Kong, China Prism Fantasy, Paradise City, Incheon, South Korea BIENALSUR, Home sweet home, Brazil Embassy, Palacio Pereda, Buenos Aires, Argentina Space Exploration, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, South Korea One if by Land, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China Declassified History: Archiving Latin America, Sur Gallery, Toronto, Canada Art in Resonance, Peninsula Hotel, Paris, France Otrxs Fronterxs, Museo de la Memoria y Los Derechos Humanos, Santiago, Chile XIV Bienal de Nuevos Medios, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile Trenza - Asilo (in collaboration with Courtney Smith), Macro, Roma, Italy Trenza (in collaboration with Courtney Smith), Museo de Arte Contemporâneo de Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Trenza (Courtney Smith and Ivan Navarro), Sala de Maquinas, Santiago, Chile, curated by Pablo León De La Barra 12th International Cairo Biennale (collaboration with Courtney Smith), Cairo, Egypt
2018	Hyperobjects, Marfa Ballroom, (curated by Laura Copelin and Thimoty Morton), Texas, USA Miroir miroir, MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland Bending Light: Neon Art 1965 to Now, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, USA Age of Terror, Imperial War Museum, London, UK Museo de Arte Contemporâneo de Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Duets, LAND, Los Angeles, USA Chicago Manual of Style, Chicago, USA Assemblage: An Organically Grown Exhibition, Palm Beach, USA Latinoamerica: Volver al Futuro, MACBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina (curated by Federico Baeza) Sur-Sur “desaparición de los andes”, Centro Cultural Rojas, Buenos Aires, Argentina Luz y Espacio, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain Grandes Artistas Latinoamericanos, Colección FEMSA en el Centro Cultural Palacio la Moneda en Santiago de Chile Duets, LAND, Los Angeles, USA Chicago Manual of Style, Chicago, USA
2017	Singular Object, Curated by Romain Dauriac and Jenny Mushkin Goldman, 53W53 Gallery. New York, USA Rotative Repository of Latin American Video Art: Mono Canal, Die Ecke. Santiago, Chile Rotative Repository of Latin American Video Art: Mono Canal, Museo del Barrio. New York, USA No Horizon, Planetario de la Universidad de Santiago. Santiago, Chile No Horizon, Robert H. Goddard Planetarium, Roswell, USA Luz y Espacio, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain Grandes Artistas Latinoamericanos - Colección FEMSA, Centro Cultural Palacio la Moneda, Santiago, Chile Hyperobjects, Marfa Ballroom, Texas, USA Bending Light: Neon Art 1965 to Now, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York, USA Latinoamerica: Volver al Futuro, MACBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016	Rotative Repository of Latin American Video Art: Mono Canal, 67 Ludlow, New York, USA Una Imagen Llamada Palabra, Centro Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2016, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea Transparência e Reflexo, Museu Brasileiro De Escultura, São Paulo, Brazil Habitar el Vacío, Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain Light Show, CORPARTES, Santiago, Chile On the Immense and the Numberless, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark Yinchuan Biennale, China Pommery experience #13 : Gigantesque !, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France Sculptures en Partage, Fondation Villa d’Atris, L’isle sur la Sorgue, France From here to eternity, Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium
2015	Mensajes de Una Nueva América, 10a Bienal de Mercosur, Fundação Bienal de Artes Visuais do Mercosul Porto Alegre, Brazil Lekker Light, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands ‘Aandacht, Aandacht’, C-Mine, Genk, Belgium The Written Trace, curated by Ariella Wolens at Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA Light show (International Tour managed by Hayward Gallery), Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE Light Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Aukland, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia Coletiva Preto e Branco, Baro Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands Futures, Matisse, Miro, Calder, Centre de la Vieille Charité/RMN, Marseille, France De Warande Museum, Turnhout, Belgium Icon(s), Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium Music Palace, Fondation Boghossian, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium Onomatoepopeyas, Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile BLUEPRINT, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, USA INTERVENTIONS II, OMI International Art Center - Project by Isidro Blasco, 257 State Street, Hudson NY, USA The Future of Light Art International Light Art Award 2015, Center for International Light Art Unna, Unna, Germany
2014	I Licht/Spiel im Power Tower, OK- Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria Light Show, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand Facets of Modern and Contemporary Glass, KMA - Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee, USA VELODREAM, BWA – Awangarda, Wroclaw, Poland Under the Same Sun: Art From Latin America Today, Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA Bearing Witness - Art and Resistance in Cold War Latin America, John Jay College, New York, USA Man in the Mirror, The Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium September 11th, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany 5th annual exhibition of hybrid art, VDNKh, Optika Pavilion, Moscow, Russia Transformer's Collector's View, Washington, USA Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
2013	Light Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia Light Show, Aukland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Aukland, New Zealand El Centro de Arte Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain Agenda Santiago, Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain Fluorescent Light Sculpture, Frost Art Museum, Miami, USA Light at the End of the Tunnel, Egeran Galeri, Istanbul, Turkey Jeunes collectionneurs, Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium Light Show, Hayward Gallery, London, UK Transverso: Instalaciones y nuevos medios en Iberoamérica, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain 11th Bienal de Artes Mediales, Museo nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile Junkie’s Promises, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA
2012	Monocromo, fundación_RAC, Galicia, Spain Agenda Santiago, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile CHILE ll PARTE, Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile Sculpted Matter, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA Neon- Who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue? Curated by David Rosenberg, La Maison Rouge, Foundation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France EVERY EXIT IS AN ENTRANCE: 30 Years of Exit Art, Exit Art, New York, USA Mouvement et Lumière, Villa Datris, L’Isle sur Sorgue, France Neon-Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? MACRO, Rome, Italy Eleventh Havana Biennial, centro de Arte Contemporaneo Wifredo Lam Havana, Havana, Cuba
2011	Motion of a nation, V.M.21 Arte contemporanea Gallery, Rome, Italy Prospect 2, International Art Biennial, New Orleans, USA Arco 2011, Galería Distrito 4, Madrid, Spain 2011 lùmens, Valls, Tarragona, Spain Arts Club, London, UK
2010	Cairo International Biennale, Cairo, Egypt Bicentenario, Diez Miradas Latinoamericanas, Museo Mural Diego Rivera, Mexico City, Mexico Somewhere over the rainbow, FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France Arsenal, Barro Galeria, Sao Paulo, Brazil Beuys y màs allà - El ensenar como arte, Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago, Chile Prospect 2, International Art Biennale, New Orleans, USA Manif' D'Art 5, Biennale de Québec, La Chambre Blanche, Quebec, Canada Chili: l’envers du décor, Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France HomelessHome, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
2009	Trienal de Chile, Santiago, Chile Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Tina B, Prague, Czech Republic Mécaniques Amoureuses, Guerlain, Paris, France Bienal de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain In the Between, Tabanlioglu Architects, Istanbul, Turkey Home Sweet Hogar, Allende Arts Festival, Artscape Wychwood Barns, Toronto, Canada Pete and Repeat, 176 / Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK El Terremoto de Chile, Triennal du Chili 2009, Museo de Arte Chileno Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile Tina B, Le Festival d'art contemporain de Prague, Prague, Czech Republic Los Desaparecidos, North Dakota Museum of Art, exposition itinérante : Weisman Museum of Art, Minneapolis, USA 53th Venice Biennale, Chilea Pavilion, Venice, Italy Bienal de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain
2008	NY / LA, Gallery Barry Keldoulis, Sydney, Australia Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts, Adelaide, Australia When We Build..., Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, UK Informed by Function, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, USA A Political Exhibition, Tirana Institute for Contemporary Art, Tirana, Albania Ellos me miran, Sala Gasco, Santiago, Chile
2007	Aquí y ahora: Transcultura, Centro Cultural de España, San Salvador, El Salvador Body Screens, Museo de la Ciudad, Querétaro, Mexico When We Build, Let Us Think That We Build Forever, BALTIC The Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England Daniel López Show, White Box, New York, USA Reality Undone, University of Essex Gallery, Essex, UK The Disappeared/Los Desaparecidos, Museo del Barrio, New York, USA Intelligent Design, Momenta Art, New York, USA Refract, Reflect Project : Lights works from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA Petrolina, Moscow Museum of Modern Art at Petrovka and We are your future, Art Center Winzavod, Special Projects for the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA Written with Light, Bloomberg, New York organized by Artists Space, New York, USA
2006	Multiplication, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago, Chile Trace, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA The Disappeared/Los Desaparecidos, Dakota Museum of Art, USA Artificial Light, VCUarts Anderson Gallery, Virginia, USA
2005	Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, curated by Dan Cameron, Brooklyn, USA Ars Lucis, Light as an art medium, ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Andreas Beitin Karlsruhe, Germany Poles apart / Poles together, White Box and the International Artists Museum for the 51th Venice Biennale’s paralell projet organisé par Juan Puntes et Doron Pollak, Venice, Italy Prague Biennale 2, Accion Directa, Karlin Hall, Curated by Marco Scotini, Prague, Czech Republic The disappered, North Dakota Museum of Art, curated by Laurel Reuter, North Dakota, USA Transformer, Matucana 100, curated by Mario Navarro, Santiago, Chile Sept. 11 1973, Orchard, New York, USA Can’t You Hear Me Knocking?, Roebling Hall, New York, USA Fear Gear, Roebling Hall, New York, USA The Disappeared (traveling exhibition) : North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, USA Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay El Museo del Barrio, New York, USA Museo de Arte de San Marco, Lima, Perú SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago, Chile Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia Art Museum of the Americas, OAS, Washington DC, USA University of Wyoming Art Museum, Wyoming, USA Weisman Museum of Art, Mineapolis, USA Acción Directa: Latin American Social Sphere, Prague Biennale 2, Prague, Czech Republic
2004	Crude oil paintings, White Columns, New York, Akus Gallery, curated by Elena Sorokina, Connecticut, USA Fantasmatic, Millennium Museum, curated by Luz Maria Williamson, Beijing, China Produciendo realidad, arte e resistenza latinoamericana, Prometeo Associazione, Curated by Marco Scotini, Lucca, Italy Condoros, 24/7 Gallery, London, UK Galeria Metropolitana, curated by Galeria Chilena, Santiago, Chile Bushleague, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, USA Biennale Adriatica di Arti Nuove, San Benedetto del Tronto, curated by Antonio Arevalo, Italy Terrorvision, Exit Art, curated by Papo Colo, New York, USA ARCO-Futuribles, Roebling Hall, Madrid, Spain Italia&Chile, Instituto Italo Latino Americano, curated by Antonio Arevalo Rome, Italy The Ballroom Blitz, Gimm-Eis, Copenhagen, Denmark
2003	L Factor. Exit Art curated by Papo Colo New York, USA Viology, Reynolds Gallery at University of the Pacific, Curated by Carlida Ponce de Leon, Stockton, USA Children of '73, Stony Brook University, curated by Keith Muller, Stony Brook, New York, USA BQE, White Box, curated by Joel Beck and Christian Viveros, New York, USA Brewster 2003, curated by Pabla Ugarte, Brewster, New York, USA Summer Jam, Satellite, curated by Franklin Sirmans, New York, USA Ricos y Famosos, Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile Frankenstein (Or, It’s All Fun And Games Until Someone Loses An Eye), Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
2002	Explanade, Singapore, Singapore Fantasmatic, National Art Gallery, curated by Luz Maria Williamson, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Overt operation, Joseph Helman Gallery, curated by Peter Ryan, New York, USA Viology, Galería de la Raza, curated by Carolina Ponce de Leon, San Francisco, USA Sudamericanrockers, Hartell Gallery at Cornell University, Uthica, New York, USA MAVI, Santiago, Chile
2001	International open studio exhibition, Art/OMI.Gent, New York, USA The place without limit, contemporary art from Chile, Curated by Justo P. Mellado (traveling exhibition), Museo de Arte Moderno de Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico Teorética, San José, Costa Rica Museo Nacional de Arte, Lima, Perú Museo Rubén Blades, Montevideo, Uruguay Museo del Barro, Asunción, Chile
2000	Circulation, a public mapping project of Repohistory, Exit Art, New York, USA Magnetica, Fundación Telefónica, Santiago, Chile Chile – Austria, (traveling exhibition), Landesgalerie-Oberoesterreich, Linz; Kärntner Landesgalerie, Innsbruck Kärntner Landesgalerie, Innsbruck, Austria Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
1999	Carpeta de grabados & segundo aniversario GCH Galería Chilena, Edificio Progesta Santiago, Chile The selected files, El Museo del Barrio, curated by Carolina Ponce de Leon, New York, USA Domestico, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Valdivia, curated by Mario Navarro, Valdivia, Chile Drawings, Archill Gallery, Aukland, New Zeland
1998	Galería Posada del Corregidor, Santiago, Chile Drawings, Archill Gallery, Aukland, New Zealand
1997	Young art in Chile (1986-1996), the ice fields, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, curated by Guillermo Machuca, Santiago, Chile Arte joven en Chile (1986-1996), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
1996	The things and its attributes (Mario and Iván Navarro), Galería Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile

COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)

	Musée Thyssen, Madrid, Spain
	21C Museum, Louisville, USA
	The Bangkok EDITION, Bangkok, Thailand
	Borusan Contemporary, Istanbul, Turkey
	Caldic Collection, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
	Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
	CENTRO University, Mexico City, Mexico

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	Colección CASA, Santiago, Chile
	Colección Paula Del Solar y Carlo Solari, Santiago, Chile
	Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
	Fundación Engels, Santiago, Chile
	Grand Paris Express, Paris, France
	Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA
	Hitay Holding, Istanbul, Turkey
	Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil
	King Abdulaziz Center for world culture, Saudi Arabia
	Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, USA
	LVMH Collection, Paris, France
	Martin Z, Margulies Warehouse, Miami, USA
	Mercedes-Benz Stadium for the Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta, USA
	Museo de Arte Moderno Chiloé, Décima Región de Los Lagos, Chile
	Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
	Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
	Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Collection, USA
	National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Deoksugung, Seoul, South Korea
	Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA
	New York Public Library, New York, USA
	Peninsula Hotel, Hong Kong, China
	Public Hotel, New York, USA
	Saatchi Collection, London, UK
	Sagamore Hotel, Miami, USA
	San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, USA
	Sehwa Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
	Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
	Teatro Regional del Bio Bio, Concepción, Chile
	Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
	Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
	Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, USA
	World Trade Center, New York, USA
	West Collection, Oaks, USA
	Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK

GRANTS, AWARD, RESIDENCIES AND PROJECTS

2025	Permanent installation at Metro station Villejuif Institut Gustave Roussy, (collaboration with architect Dominique Perrault), Grand Paris Express, Paris, France
2023	The Grand Paris Express project has been awarded the Veronica Rudge Green Prize for urban design by Harvard University (GSD), Boston, USA
2021	Memorial, Santiago, Chile
2020	The Ladder, public art installation, San Francisco, USA
2019	Residency at CCA Andraxt, Mallorca, Spain
	Video Screening “Homeless Lamp, The Juice Sucker” at MACRO MUSEUM, Rome, Italy
	Artist Talk, Puerto Ideas, Valparaíso, Chile

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2018	Residency at Fundación Casa Wabi, Puerto Escondido, Mexico Permanent installation (collaboration with architect Smiljan Radic) au Teatro Reginal del Bio Bio, Concepcion, Chile
2016	Press Prize to Best Exhibition of 2016, Santiago, Chile
2015	International Light Art Award, Unna, Germany
2014	This Land is Your Land, Madison Square Park, New York, États-Unis
2009	Altazor, National Prize for Visual Arts, Chile
2007	Fondart, Grant Ministry of Culture, Santiago, Chile
2006	Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, New York, USA
2005	Poles Apart / Poles Together, White Box and the International Artists Museum for the 51st Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2002	Gasworks, Residency Gasworks cultural exchange programme, London, UK Fondart, Grant Ministry of Education, Santiago, Chile
2001	Art Omi International Artists' Colony, Ghent, New York, USA
1999	Fondart, Grant Ministry of Education, Santiago, Chile

Collaborations

2024	Vid Vida Vidajena, (collaboration with Courtney Smith) La Capilla Azul Chiloé, Chile
2023	Tierra Sin Tierra, (in collaboration with Hueso Records) Teatro Italia, Chaco
	Las Ramas, (collaboration with Courtney Smith) Tierra Sin Tierra, Teatro Italia, Chaco
	El Paso (collaboration with Courtney Smith), Hawuapi – PS122, New York, USA
2022	Panorama (collaboration with Courtney Smith), Van Alen Institute, Brooklyn, USA
	Girasol, (collaboration with Courtney Smith), Revolver, New York, USA
	Remolino De Suerte (collaboration with Courtney Smith), Van Alen Institute, Brooklyn, USA

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2019	Lotus Pool (collaboration with Courtney Smith), Cairo Biennial, Cairo, Egypt Trenza - Assilo (collaboration with Courtney Smith), Macro, Roma, Italy Trenza (collaboration with Courtney Smith), Sala de Máquinas, Santiago, Chile
2017	Value Exchange (collaboration with Courtney Smith), LAND, Los Angeles, USA
2016	Interventions III (collaboration with Courtney Smith) Curated by Isidro Blasco and Piril Gunduz, #1608 President Street, Brookly, New York, USA Espacios revelados (collaboration with Courtney Smith) Plaza Yungay, Plaza Brasil and Torres de Tajammar, Santiago, Chile Cancha (collaboration with Courtney Smith), Espacio O. Santiago, Chile
2015	Cuadrilla de Yungay (collaboration with Courtney Smith), Casona Yungay, Santiago, Chile La Ley de la Precipitación (collaboration with Courtney Smith), 12 Bienal de Artes Mediales, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chil New Ways Of Seeing: Beyond Culture (collaboration with Courtney Smith), Co-curated by Jan Garden Castro and Eileen Jeng, Dorsky Gallery, New York, USA The Music Room III (collaboration with Courtney Smith), Sonar, Santiago, Chile The Music Room II (collaboration with Courtney Smith), Centro de las Artes 660, CorpArtes, Santiago, Chile
2014	The Music Room I (collaboration with Courtney Smith), PS1, New York, USA
2013	11th Bienal de Artes Mediales, (collaboration with AtomTM), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile Arquivo Vivo (collaboration with Mario Navarro), Museo Paço das Artes, Sao Paulo Uirapuru (collaboration with Courtney Smith), Goethe-Institut, Nairobi, Kenya
2012	Art Public (collaboration with Courtney Smith), Paul Kasmin Gallery, Art Basel, Miami, USA Video City II - Video Station (collaboration with Courtney Smith), CentroCentro – 5Cs, Madrid, Spain
2011	Permanent Collection (collaboration with Courtney Smith), ICA Boston, Boston, USA The Construction of Volumetric Interrelationships (collaboration with Courtney Smith), Baró Galería, São Paulo, Brazil
2010	Chile: Behind the Scenes (collaboration with Mario Navarro), Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
2009	Parsing Spirituality (collaboration with Courtney Smith), Affirmation Arts, New York, USA
2008	Remake (collaboration with Courtney Smith), G Fine Arts, Washington DC, USA Artist as Publisher (collaboration with Hueso Records), The Center for Book Arts, New York, USA
2007	Homemade (collaboration with Instituto Divorciado), De Warande Cultural Center, Turnhout, Belgium País de poetas: Contemporary Art from Santiago to Brooklyn (collaboration with Courtney Smith), Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
2006	Contra-golpe (collaboration with Instituto Divorciado), Karl Marx alle 87, Berlin, Germany Studio Visit (collaboration with Courtney Smith), Exit Art, New York, USA City Scapes (collaboration with Mario Navarro), Centro Cultural Matucana 100 in ARCO, Madrid, Spain
2004	Illegal Carnival, 173 North 7th Street, Williamsburg, New York, USA
1999	2007 (collaboration with Mario Navarro), Galería Posada del Corregidor, Santiago, Chile
1996	Las cosas y sus atributos (collaboration with Mario Navarro), Galería Gabriela Mistral, Santiago, Chile

PUBLIC PROJECTS

2025	Cadran Solaire, Grand Paris Express, Permanent installation at Metro station
	Villejuif Institut Gustave Roussy, in collaboration with architect Dominique Perrault Paris, France
2023	Landless Land, Moving Image Media Art, City of West Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA
2022	Cohecho, Centro de Documentación de las Artes Visuales, Santiago, Chile
	This land is Your Land, Art-OMI, Ghent, New York, USA
2021	Un Río de Sangre, Rio Mapocho, Festival Santiago a Mil, Santiago, Chile
2020	This Land is Your Land, The Momentary, Bentonville, Arkansas, USA

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	The Ladder (Sun or Moon), San Francisco, USA (permanent installation)
2019	This Land is Your Land, Paradise Art Space, Incheon, South Korea
2018	This Land is Your Land, Navy Piers, Chicago This Land is Your Land, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea Shine or Rain, Hangang Art Park Creation Project (permanent installation), Seoul, South Korea Es-Telar, Teatro Regional del Bio, in collaboration with architect Smiljan Radic (permanent installation), Concepcion, Chile
2016	This Land is Your Land, Yinchuan Biennale, Yinchuan, China
2015	This Land is Your Land, Nasher - Museum Of Art At Duke University, Durham, USA
2014	This Land is Your Land, Madison Square Park, New York, USA This Land is Your Land, North Park Center (permanent installation), Dallas, USA

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION)

	Iván Navarro, Land Mark, Archivorum, Berlin and Kodoji Press, Baden, 2022
	Iván Navarro, Welcome, Editions TEMPLON and Skira, 2020
	Iván Navarro, Espejos y Espejismos – Mirrors and Mirages, Editions Manuel Cirauqui, 2017
	Iván Navarro, Una guerra silenciosa e imposible, CorpArtes, Santigo de Chile, 2015
	Iván Navarro, Threshold, Venice Biennale, Charta, Venice, 2009
	Iván Navarro, Editions TEMPLON, Paris, 2007

Press

Paris Zigzag - July 2026

Hyperréalisme, illusion, simulation... Cette esposition gratuite explore le monde des simulacres

Romane Fraysse

The New York Times - May 2026

The Visual Artists Who Use Crosswords as Their Canvas

Julia Carpenter

Whitehot Magazine - March 2026

Interview: Getting Lost in the Light of Iván Navarro at Templon

Ayse Sarioglu

Metal Magazine - March 2026

Iván Navarro: Light Years, Glaring Truths

Sofia Crespo

Aesthetica Mag - February 2026

Vivid Illuminations: Five Lights Installations to See

Inferno - February 2026

Iván Navarro : Light Years

News

Iván Navarro, Waves, 2024-2025 Néon, bois de sapelli, miroir, glace sans tain et énergie électrique Neon light, sapele wood, mirror, one-way mirror and electric energy

Iván Navarro
SIMULACRES

Group show

Magasins Généraux, Paris
From June 26 to September 27, 2026

Simulacres presents works by artists who blur the boundaries between reality and appearances, questioning our ability to distinguish between truth and falsehood. Iván Navarro presents Waves 2025, Polka 2022, and Eternal Contradiction 2008. Curated by Anna Labouze et Keimis Henni

Iván Navarro
DE L’AUTRE CÔTÉ DU MIROIR : RÉFLEXIONS AUTOUR DE LA RÉFLEXION

Group show

Art Rock Festival
Pavillon des expositions temporaires du Musée de Saint-Brieuc (France)
From May 19 to 31, 2026

As part of a group show presented at the Pavillon des expositions temporaires during the Art Rock Festival around the mirror, Ivàn Navarro presents his works Beat (2016) and Silent (2017). His kinetic installations invite reflection on the mirror as an object that reflects and transforms reality.

Iván Navarro
CADRAN SOLAIRE

Installation

Level -1, Gare Villejuif-Gustave-Roussy
Summer 2026

In the sping of 2027, Chilean artist Iván Navarro will unveil Cadran Solaire [Sundial], an installation designed in collaboration with architect Dominique Perrault. 58 light boxes combining neon lights and mirrors will adorn the circular ceiling of Level -1 at Villejuif–Gustave-Roussy station, which was awarded the 2025 Prix Versailles for the world’s most beautiful station.

Iván Navarro
PENUMBRA

Solo Show

Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral, Santiago
From October 11 to October 26, 2025

The Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral is hosting a solo show by Iván Navarro as part of the Bienal Artes Mediales de Santiago until October 26, 2025. The performance Caravane del amor by Konantü and Iván Navarro will take place on October 23 at 12 pm around a sculpture produced by the artist and Courtney Smith. Free admission.

Iván Navarro
ACQUISITION

Permanent Collection

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, United States

Iván Navarro’s Death Row has joined the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art’s permanent collection, following the generous donation by collectors Candace and Michael Humphreys, who gave 200 artworks by over 100 artists to the museum.

Iván Navarro
GLOW : NEON AND LIGHT

Group show

Akron Art Museum, Ohio
From September 21, 2024 to March 7, 2025

On the occasion of the group exhibition Glow: Neon and Light, Iván Navarro exhibits his works Impenetrable Room II,Street Lamp (Yellow chair) and Bomb Bomb Bomb (Black and Yellow) from September 21, 2024 at the Akron Art Museum in the United States.

Iván Navarro
LIGHT SOUND SENSES

Group show

Heidi Horten Collection, Vienna
From September 20, 2024 to March 23, 2025

On the occasion of the group show Light Sound Senses, Iván Navarro exhibits his work Floor Hole, loaned by the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, from September 20, 2024 at the Heidi Horten Collection in Vienna.

Iván Navarro
WHAT BRINGS US TOGETHER: LANGUAGES AND IMAGINARIES

Group show

La Gaité Lyrique, Paris
From October 2 to October 6, 2024

On the occasion of the group show What brings us together: languages and imaginaries, Iván Navarro exhibits his work Silent from October 2, 2024 at La Gaîté Lyrique in Paris.

Ivan Navarro devant ses œuvres Blank Door, 2006 (à gauche) et No Se Puede Mirar, 2013 (à droite).

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Iván Navarro SIMULACRES

Iván Navarro DE L’AUTRE CÔTÉ DU MIROIR : RÉFLEXIONS AUTOUR DE LA RÉFLEXION

Iván Navarro CADRAN SOLAIRE

Iván Navarro PENUMBRA

Iván Navarro ACQUISITION

Iván Navarro GLOW : NEON AND LIGHT

Iván Navarro LIGHT SOUND SENSES

Iván Navarro WHAT BRINGS US TOGETHER: LANGUAGES AND IMAGINARIES

Videos

Cyclops

Constellations of Fate

Celestialand

Planetarium

Planetarium

Prostutopia

Fanfare

Fanfare

Where is the next war ?

Iván Navarro
SIMULACRES

Iván Navarro
DE L’AUTRE CÔTÉ DU MIROIR : RÉFLEXIONS AUTOUR DE LA RÉFLEXION

Iván Navarro
CADRAN SOLAIRE

Iván Navarro
PENUMBRA

Iván Navarro
ACQUISITION

Iván Navarro
GLOW : NEON AND LIGHT

Iván Navarro
LIGHT SOUND SENSES

Iván Navarro
WHAT BRINGS US TOGETHER: LANGUAGES AND IMAGINARIES