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Born in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, in 1962. Studied at the National School of Fine Arts-UNAM, Mexico (1981-1984) and completed his academic studies at Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid (1986-87). He is currently preparing a retrospective exhibition to be inaugurated next December at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. This show will then tour through the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Kunstmuseum Basel (Switzerland) and Tate Modern (London). His most important exhibitions have been presented at the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City (2007); Palacio de Cristal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2005); Serpentine Gallery, London (2004); Centro de Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal (2003); Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City (2000); Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA (1999); Artangel, London (1997); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, USA (1994); Museum of Modern Art, MOMA - Projects 41, New York (1993). From 1987 to 1992 he conducted the Taller de los Viernes (Friday Workshop), a group of debate and artistic production in which some of the most important artists of the contemporary Mexican art scene participated. In 2007 he was guest curator of Il Quoitidiano Alterato presented at the 50 Venice Biennale. In 2005 he was a lecturer at the Cátedra Latinoamericana Julio Cortázar, and in 2007 was awarded the Orange Prize. He lives and works in New York, Paris and Mexico City.