AMPARO SARD
Mallorca, Spain, 1976.
Bio
Bio
EDUCATION
1999
BFA University of Barcelona. Currently Professor at the University of Fine Arts of Barcelona and Head of Studies at the Adema-UIB (Balearic Islands) Art University School.
2003
MA New School University, New York.
2018
Doctorgrade, University of Barcelona.
AWARDS
2023
DM Culture Award to her career.
2018
Netherlands LXRY List recognition as one of the best 25 artist in the world. 2018
2014
Golden Medal awarded by the Italian Government to her career.
2005
First award Rendibu Video, Murcia. Spain.
2001
Generación 2005 Award Caja Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
2000
First national award, Deutsche Bank Identity Competition, Barcelona.
First international award, Deutsche Bank Identity Competition, Berlin.
Sa Nostra award (Master of Arts in Media Studies), New York.
First award, Premio Ciutat de Palma, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
I thought I could Change the World. 68 Projects by Kornfeld Gallery, Berlin.
2022
Origen. Baró Gallery. Palma de Mallorca.
Carn. Cap Vermeil Museu. Cala Rajada.
Autorretrato Háptico. Festival de les Humanitats. Balearia Foundation. Denia.
2021
El peso de la aberración. DA2 Museum. Salamanca.
Rompiendo el mar. Conde Duque Museum. Madrid.
Salvavidas. Art on Video Festival. Chiesa di San Giorgio, Salerno, Italia.
La inercia de los escombros. Man Museum, Camelle.
Exhalar y engullir. Artizar Gallery, La Laguna.
2020
HELP! Galería Phoebus, Rotterdam.
Alienation. Art Nexus Frankfurt.
2019
Reacciones precarias. Amparo Sard. Pilar Serra Gallery, Madrid.
Viaje a Saturno, Amparo Sard. Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
2018
Hybridizations. White Box, Beijing.
Slowly trough Whater, Amparo Sard. Phoebus Galerie, Rotterdam.
Demasiada Empatía, Amparo Sard. Artizar Gallery, La Laguna.
Too much Empathy, Amparo Sard. Paola Verrengia Gallery, Salerno.
2017
The Dialectic Body. Arts Connection Foundation, Miami.
2016
Luz. La sombra del tiempo, Amparo Sard. Contemporary Art Museum of Tenerife.
Autotomía, Amparo Sard. Pelaires Gallery, Palma de Mallorca.
Cutting the space, Amparo Sard. Paola Verrengia Gallery, Salerno.
2015
Limits. Contemporary Art Museum of Rome, Italy.
Sights and Shadows. Bravin Lee Gallery, New York.
Paisaje Umbrío. Barjola Museum, Gijon, Spain.
2014
Boundaries. Isa Gallery, Mumbai, India.
Hauptpunkt.. Paola Verrengia Gallery, Salerno, Italy.
El nacimiento de la tragedia. Terrassa Museum, Terrassa.
2013
La Otra, ABC Museum, Madrid, Spain.
Paisaje Interactivo. Ferran Cano Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Shady Landscape, Paisaje Umbrío, Museo de Pollensa, Mallorca, Spain.
Pareidolia. Es Baluard, Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Interior Landscape, BCK Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco.
2012
Amparo Sard – Spacing the Impasse, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
La Fuga, Espacio Líquido Gallery, Gijón, Spain.
La Fugue, La Galerie 38, Casablanca, Morocco.
2011
2011
Espaciando. Ferran Cano Gallery, Barcelona.
Paola Verrengia Gallery, Salerno.
2010
Impasse. Voss Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany.
Phoebus Gallery, Rotterdam, Holland.
Impasse. Canem Gallery. Castellón de la Plana, Spain.
2009
The Error of Oversight. Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Impasse. Casal Solleric Museum, Palma de Mallorca. Spain.
2008
The Fly Woman and the mistake. Natuur Historisch Museum, Rotterdam, Holland.
Mistake. Bravin Lee Gallery, New York.
Signature Gallery, Miami, FL.
2007
Amparo Sard. La Caixa Foundation, Lerida, Spain.
Amparo Sard. María Prego Gallery, Vigo, Spain.
Amparo Sard. Ferran Cano Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
2006
La Mujer Mosca. Espacio Líquido Gallery, Gijon, Spain.
The Fly Woman. Bravin Lee Gallery, New York.
2005
Amparo Sard, The Fly Woman. Contemporary Space Gallery, Tokio, Japan.
The Fly Woman. Van der Voort Gallery, Ibiza, Spain.
Amparo Sard, The Fly Woman. Paola Verrengia Gallery, Salerno, Italy.
2004
Phoebus Gallery, Rotterdam, Holland.
2003
Amparo Sard, Van der Voort Gallery, Ibiza, Spain.
Amparo Sard, Ferran Cano Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
2002
Eude Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
2001
Crazy Mol by Amparo Sard. Deutsche Bank Contemporary Space, Madrid, Spain.
2000
Eude Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014
What’s the smell of an exhibition, LABoral Museum, Gijon, Spain.
California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
2013
Hola Spain, The Cube Museum / Seongnam Arts Center, Korea, with Picasso, Dali, Miro, Usle, and Chillida.
From madonna to Maddona, DA2, Domius Artivm, Salamanca, Spain.
M.A.V. Pilar i Joan Miro Foundation, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Solo Video #3, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Open hof Houden, Phoebus Gallery, Rotterdam, Holland.
UNC Gallery, Korea, with Miro, Tapies, Saura, and Lacalle.
Fuso, Video program #2, Lisboa, Portugal.
2012
N2 Gallery, Jaume Plensa and Amparo Sard.
Palma Photo Festival, Ramon Llull Institut.
Eva Vetközni, Instituto Cervantes, Budapest, Hungary.
Sieben Grüne Sterne, Kunstraum, Frankfurt, Germany.
Imagery Affairs, Cineteca, Matadero, Madrid, Spain.
2011
Desnudo a Eva, Instituto Cervantes, Berlin, Germany.
Everything Changes, Galería DNA, Berlin, with Gary Hill, Tatsumi Orimoto, Hung-Chih Peng and Liu Zhenchen.
Pure Paper, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, with Vik Muniz, Bovely Lee, Paul Hayes, and Peter Callesen.
Ellas, Creadoras de los siglos XX y XXI, Caja Vital, Vitoria.
Higher Institute of Cinema in Cairo, Egypt, with Joana Vasconcelos, Kaoru Katayama, Carla Zacagnini and Vasco Araújo.
Visión: Desafíos, NM.
Artivm Museum, Video(S)torias.
LICHT!, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, The Netherlands.
Concepts, Gabarron Foundation, New York.
CONCEPTS, Instituto Cervantes, Vienna, Austria.
MICROWAVE, Hong Kong.
2010
Special Guests, Círculo de Bellas Artes from Tenerife.
El Ángel Exterminador: A room for Contemporary Art, Palais des Beaux Arts de Bruselas (BOZAR), curated by Fernando Castro.
Palacio de la Diputación de Cádiz, curated by Paula Llull.
Screen Festival Oslo, Norway.
Marlborough Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
Marlborough Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
Holland Paper Bienale 2010, CODA Museum, Holland.
Visión: Desafíos, curated by Magda González-Mora.
Impakt Ferstival, Amsterdam, Holland.
MOCA, Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea.
2009
Expanded drawings, DNA Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
Royal Ontario Museum, Toranto, Canada.
2008
I have a dream, Gabarron Foundation – Carriage House Center for the Arts, New York, with Bourgeois, Jasper Johns, Kiki Smith, and Bruce Nauwman.
Order, desire, light, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, with Kentridge, Le Witt, Muniz, Oursler, Polke, Richter, Smith, and Tapies.
White Box Gallery, New York, with Wolf Vostell, Marina Abramovic, and Gary Hill.
Thomas Gallery, Munich, Germany.
2007
Aquí y ahora, Alcalá 31, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain, curated by Maria Martin.
2006
Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid, organizes Loewe Foundation.
Take me with you, Museo Mori, Tokyo, Japan.
Oltre Lilith, Rome, Italy, with Marina Abramovic and Rebecca Horn.
Mediterráneo Contemporáneo, Museo Castelo Aragonese, Taranto, Italy, colectiva comisariada por Antonio D’Avossa.
2005
3D+1, Castillo de Santa Bábara, Alicante, colectiva comisariada por Paco Rico.
Art Report, Palma de Mallorca, with Miquel Barceló, Barry Flanagan and Bernardí Roig, curated by Gabriel Amer.
2004
Bienal de Valencia, Spain, Martinez Guerrikabeitia.
Video Mix, La Casa Encendida, Caja, Madrid, Spain, curated by Javier Duero.