1943 Born in Santiago, Chile
1962-1965 School of Fine Arts, Universidad de Chile
1965-1970 Lived and worked in Paris, Madrid, Berlin
The artist lives, works, and teaches in Santiago
AWARDS
1985 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2021 Airmail Paintings, Goldsmiths Center for Contemporary Art, London (upcoming)
2018 Eugenio Dittborn: Pinturas Aeropostales Recientes, Alexander and Bonin, New York
2015 Las Dos, Galeria Macchina, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago
2014 Drawings: Eugenio Dittborn, D21 Proyectos de Arte, Santiago
Pinturas Aeropostales, KOW, Berlin
Prepositions, Galería D21, Santiago
2013 Your Letters. Pinturas Aeropostales 1986-2012, Museum Het Domein, Sittard
2012 Airmail Paintings 1989-2011, Alexander and Bonin, New York
2010 Eugenio Dittborn, Museo De Artes Visuales (MAVI), Santiago
2008 Enteras Partes de Now and Then, Alexander and Bonin, New York, 8 Airmail Paintings
2005 Eugenio Dittborn: recent airmail paintings, Sala Gasco Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, 8
Airmail Paintings
2004 TINCTURA: recent airmail paintings, Alexander and Bonin, New York, 6 Airmail
Paintings
2001 La cuisine et la guerre, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of The University of Houston, 7
Airmail Paintings
The Foreseen and Unforeseen Position of their Bodies, Alexander and Bonin, New York,
5 Airmail Paintings
1999 Partida al Sur de Francia, Galería La Sala, Santiago, 1 Airmail Painting
14 Peintures Aèropostales, Château de Jau, Cases de Pène, France, 14 Airmail Paintings
1998 Taciturna (recent and non-recent airmail paintings), Alexander and Bonin, New York, 7
Airmail Paintings
24 Pinturas Aeropostales, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, 24 Airmail Paintings
Pinturas Aeropostais, Instituto de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, 9 Airmail Paintings
1997 Remota, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 7 Airmail Paintings
1996 Espacio 204, Caracas, 5 Airmail Paintings
1994-1995 Two Airmail Paintings, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
1994 Mapa, Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, 7 Airmail Paintings
In An Instant and With Devastating Fury, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, 4 Airmail
Paintings
1993 Mapa, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, England, 8 Airmail Paintings
La Casa de Erasmo de Rotterdam, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art,
Rotterdam, 30 Airmail Paintings
Mapa, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, 8 Airmail Paintings
1989 La Casa, The Letter, The House, Linden Gallery, St. Kilda, Melbourne, 4 Airmail Paintings
6th History of the Human Face (Black and Red Camino), Kinok Producciones, Santiago,
1 Airmail Painting
La Casa, The Letter, The House, Centre for Photography, Sydney, 5 Airmail Paintings
20 Airmail Paintings, Centro Cultural de la Municipalidad de Miraflores, Lima
1987 14 Airmail Paintings, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
1986 Un Día Entero de mi Vida, Galería Bucci, Santiago
15 Airmail Paintings, Chamaleon Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
12 Pinturas Aeropostales, Galería Sur, Santiago
6 Pinturas Aeropostales, Galería Bucci, Santiago
1984 From Another Periphery, Artspace, Sydney, 10 Airmail Paintings
20 Pinturas Aeropostales, Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali
1981 A Caballo Regalado no se le Mira el Diente, Un Refrán Escrito sobre un Caballo, Santiago
Cambio de Aceite: a spillage of 350 liters of burnt lubricant over the surface of the Tarapacá Desert, Tarapacá, Chile
1978 Delachilenapintura, Historia, y Final de Pista, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Pereira, Colombia
1977 Final de Pista, Pinturas y Cuadros de Honor, Galería Epoca, Santiago
1976 Delachilenapintura, Historia, Drawings, Galería Época, Santiago
1974 22 Acontecimientos para Goya, Pintor, Drawings, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019-2020 Crossing Lines, Constructing Home: Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge
Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power, MCA Chicago
2018 Bestea Naiz/ El Otro Soy Yo/ The Other is Me: Political and Poetical Migrations,
Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastián Estratégias Conceituais [Conceptual Strategies], Galeria Bergamin & Gomide,
Saõ Paulo
101 Drawings, Alexander and Bonin, New York
The Matter of Photography in the Americas, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University
2017-2018 Memories of Underdevelopment: Art and the Decolonial Turn in Latin
America, 1960-1985, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Fundación Jumex, Mexico City; Museo de Arte de Lima
2017 As If Sand Were Stone: Latin American Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Ontario
2015-2016 Resistance Performed- Aesthetic Strategies under Repressive Regimes in Latin
America, Migros Museum für Gegenswartskunst, Zürich
2014-2016 Art from Elsewhere, Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery;
organized by Hayward Gallery, London
2014 Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2013-2014 América Latina, Fondation Cartier, Paris
2013 Xerography, firstsite, Colchester
Arte y Óptica, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Lima
Correspondances, Espace culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris
2012-2013 Stimuli, Alexander and Bonin, New York
2012 7th Liverpool Biennial
La Triennale “Intense Proximity”, Palais de Tokyo and other venues, Paris
This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s, MCA, Chicago; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; ICA, Boston
Printin’, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2011-2012 A document, Alexander and Bonin, New York
2011 8ª Biennial de Artes Visuais do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Face Contact, PHotoEspaña, Madrid
Intimate Bureaucracies: Art and the Mail, University of Essex, England
2010-2011 América Latina: arte y confrontación, 1910 – 2010, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
2010 The Traveling Show, Fundación / Colección Jumex, Mexico City
2009 Provisions for the Future, 9th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE
Ordinary Revolutions: Contemporary Latin American Art, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
2008 Stay alive till ’95, Alexander and Bonin, New York
BAGHDAD/ SPACE COG/ ANALYST, Frith Street Gallery, London, 2 Airmail
Paintings
Arte ≠ Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000, El Museo del Barrio, New
York, 1 Airmail Painting
Dead Center/Marginal Notes, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, 1 Airmail Painting
2006 The 80s: A Topology, Museu Serralves, Porto
If it didn't exist you'd have to invent it: a partial Showroom history, The Showroom,
London
2005 Classified Materials: Accumulations, Archives, Artists, Vancouver Art
Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2004 Faces in the Crowd: The Modern Figure and Avant-Garde Realism, Whitechapel, London; Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin
26th Bienal de São Paulo, 1 Airmail Painting
2003 Traces of Friday. Art, tourism, displacement, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, 1 Airmail Painting
Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight, North Carolina Museum of Art, 2 Airmail Paintings
2001 Going Places, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, 1 Airmail Painting
Total Object Complete with Missing Parts, Tramway, Glasgow, 1 Airmail Painting
Lugares de la Memoria, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Spain, 1 Airmail Painting
2000 Más Allá del Documento, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 1 Airmail Painting
Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties, P.S.1, New York, 1 Airmail Painting
3rd Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju City, Korea, 2 Airmail Paintings
War Zones, Bearing Witness, Presentation House, Vancovuver, 1 Airmail Painting
1998 El Jardin de los Senderos que se Bifurcan, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, 1 Airmail Painting
Transatlántico, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Canarias, Spain, 1 Airmail Painting
1997 Trade Routes: History and Geography, The 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, 1 Airmail Painting
1997 Así Está la Cosa, Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporáneo A.C., Mexico City, 1 Airmail Painting
1996 Thinking Print: Books to Billboards 1980-1995, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1 Airmail Painting
Face à l'Histoire 1933-1996, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1 Airmail Painting
1995 Call It Sleep, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, 1 Airmail Painting
About Place: Recent Art of the Americas, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2 Airmail Paintings
1994-1995 Cocido y Crudo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 1 Airmail Painting
1994 Out of Place, Vancouver Art Gallery, BC, 3 Airmail Paintings
Witness, Presentation House, Vancouver, BC, 1 Airmail Painting
La Cita Transcultural, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 3 Airmail Paintings
1993 On Taking a Normal Situation and Retranslating It Into Overlapping and Multiple
Readings of Conditions Past and Present, MUHKA, Antwerp, 1 Airmail Painting
1992-1993 Latin American Artists of the 20th Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Estacion Plaza de Armas, Sevilla; Hotel des Arts, Paris; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 4 Airmail Paintings
1992 Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany, 1 Airmail Painting
The Bride of the Sun, Koninklijk Museum, Antwerp, 1 Airmail Painting
The Absent Body, I.C.A., Boston, 1 Airmail Painting
1991 4th Havana Biennale, 1 Airmail Painting
The Interrupted Life, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, 2 Airmail Painting
The Showroom, London, 2 Airmail Paintings
1990 Transcontinental, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; The Cornerhouse, Manchester, 6 Airmail Paintings
3rd Havana Biennale, 1 Airmail Painting
Airmail Paintings, New York Latin American Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, Triennale, New York
1985 Cuatro Artistas Chilenos en el Cayc de Buenos Aires, Cayc, Buenos Aires, 5 Airmail Paintings
1984 5th Sydney Biennale
New York Latin American Triennale, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, 2 Airmail Paintings
New Narrative, Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1983 CADA, Dittborn, Jaar, Downey: In/Out, Four Projects by Chilean Artists, Washington Projects for the Arts, Washington, DC
1982 Artists Books, Franklin Furnace Center, New York
XII Paris Biennale, 12 Airmail Paintings
1981 Impinturas y Cuadros de Honor, Medellin Biennale, Medellin, Colombia
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY – Monographs
2014 Nocturna: Eugenio Dittborn Dibujos, ex.cat. Santiago: D21 Proyectos de Arte.
2010 Desierta: Eugenio Dittborn, ex. cat. Santiago: Museo De Artes Visuales (MAVI)
2005 Dunker, Hedda. Eugenio Dittborn. (Ausgabe 69, Heft 4, 1. Quartal 2005) Munich:
Weltkunst Verlag
2005 Escobar, Ticio, Oscar Gacitua, Roberto Merino and Luis Oramas. “fugitiva.” Santiago:
Fundación Gasco
1998 Carlos, Isabel, Roberto Merino, Guy Brett. Pinturas Aeropostais – Eugenio Dittborn.
Lisboa: Instituto de Arte Contemporânea
Meynard, Evelyn. Mundana – 24 Pinturas Aeropostales de Eugenio Dittborn. Santiago:
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago de Chile
1997 Brett, Guy, Dan Cameron, Sean Cubitt, Roberto Merino, Gozalo Munoz, Gerardo
Mosquera, Adriana Valdés. Remota: Eugenio Dittborn Airmail Paintings. New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art and Santiago: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Santiago de Chile: Pública Editores
1992 Brett, Guy, Sean Cubitt, Roberto Merino, Gonzalo Munoz, Nelly Richard, Adriana Valdés, MAPA: The Airmail Paintings of Eugenio Dittborn, 1984-1992, co-produced by London: Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) and Rotterdam: Witte de With, Rotterdam
1988 Mellado, Justo Pastor. El fantasma de la sequía: a propósito de las pinturas aeropostales de
Eugenio Dittborn. Santiago de Chile: Francisco Zegers.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY – Artist’s Books and Published Projects
2018 Eugenio Dittborn: Pinturas Aeropostales Recientes, ex. broch. Text by Laura Braverman.
New York: Alexander and Bonin
2014 Dittborn, Eugenio. Una Mar de Zapatos : un texto de Eugenio Dittborn a propósito de 1344
miembros de la comunidad del calzado nacional marchan sobre nuestra conciencia, una obra de Claudio Bertoni. Santiago: D21 Proyectos de Arte
2006 Dittborn, Eugenio. Vanitas. Santiago de Chile
1983 Dittborn, Eugenio. Oscar Wilde : the artist. Santiago de Chile
Dittborn, Eugenio. A Sonnet by William Shakespeare. Santiago de Chile
1982 Dittborn, Eugenio. Fallo fotográfico. Santiago de Chile
1981 Dittborn, Eugenio. Gonzalez Silva. Santiago de Chile
Dittborn, Eugenio. El presente trabajo es la reedición de dos publicaciones anteriores.
Santiago de Chile
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY – Books and Catalogues
2018 Brizuela, Natalia and Robert, Jodi. The Matter of Photography in the Americas, ex. cat. Stanford, CA: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University and Stanford University Press
2013 America Latina Photographs 1960 – 2013, ex. cat. Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain/Puebla: Museo Amparo
Correspondances, ex. cat. Paris: Espace culturel Louis Vuitton
2012 crisisss: America Latina, Arte y Confrontacion. 1910 – 2010, ex. cat. Mexico City: Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, ex. cat. Chicago: Museum of
Contemporary Art
2011 Face Contact, ex. cat. Madrid: La Fabrica Editorial
2010 Pedrosa, Adriano, ed. The Traveling Book, ex. cat. Ecatepec, Mexico: Fundación/Colección
Jumex
2009 Revolutionen des Alltäglichen: Zeitgenössische Lateinamerikanische Kunst,(essay by Michel Blancsubé) ex. cat. Nürnberg: Verlag für Moderne Kunst
2008 Cullen, Deborah, Ed. Arte ≠ Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas 1960–2000, ex. cat.
New York: El Museo del Barrio
2006 The Archive: Documents of Contemporary Art. Edited by Charles Merewether. London: Whitechapel Ventures Limited
2004 26a Bienal de São Paulo. (essay by Alfons Hug) ex. cat. São Paulo, Brazil: Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, Parque do Ibirapuera
Basilio, Miriam, Fatima Bercht, et al. Latin American & Caribbean Art MoMA at El Museo, ex. cat. New York: El Museuo del Barrio and The Museum of Modern Art
2003 Contemporary Art and Latin America: Selections from the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection (essay by Beverly Adams) Tucson, AZ: Tucson Museum of Art
Paschal, Huston, Linda Johnson Dougherty. Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight. Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art
2002 Schweitzer, Robert, Margaret Randall. Rayuela/Hopscotch: Fifteen Contemporary Latin American Artists. Scranton, PA: University Art Gallery, University of Scranton; Mahady Gallery, Marywood University
2001 Birulés, Fina, José Miguel G. Cortés, Romà Gubern, Eduardo Haro Tecglen. Lugares de la Memoria. Castello: Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló
Sultan, Terrie. La cuisine et la guerre. Houston: Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston
2000 Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties. New York: P.S.1
Azevedo, Fernando, Charles Merewether, Margaret Sundell. Versiones del Sur: Más allá del documento. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
1994 La Casa de los Vagabundos (Artist Page), in "American Visions - Visiones de las Americas, Artistic and Cultural Identity in the Western Hemisphere." Arts International
La Ciudad en Llamas (Artist Pages) Midwest 5. Dunedin, New Zealand
La Casa de Erasmo de Rotterdam (Artist Pages), Cahiers 2. Rotterdam: Witte de With
1992 El Museo de Bolsillo (Artist Page), Molteplici Culture, Itinerari dell'Arte Contemporanea in un Mondo che Cambia, Rome
Artists Statements (Artist Pages), in “Turning the Map, Images of the Americas.” Camerawork, London
1990 Correcaminos-Roadrunner (Artist Pages), in “9 Latin American Artists.” Transcontinental, Manchester and Birmingham, England
Four Pages for Third Text (Artist Pages), Third Text (London) (13, Winter)
1987 Intervencion Grafica Para El Dossier (Artist Pages), Revista Universitaria, Santiago: Tercera Entrega
1984 La Feliz del Eden. Santiago: Self Edition
1982 Nous les Artists des Provinces Lointaines (Artist Page) Art Press 62. Paris
1981-1982 Photo Finish, Santiago: Self Edition
1977-1981 End of Runway, Ediciones Galeria Epoca
1979 Strategies and Projections of National Visual Arts Activities in the Eighties, Santiago: Ediciones Grupo Camara
1978 Definitely Transitory, (co-authored by Ronald Kay). Santiago: Ediciones Espacio Siglo Veinte
1976 La Tortilla Corredora (Artist Pages) Delanapintura, Historia, Santiago
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY – Reviews and Articles
2018 Kartofel, Graciela. “Eugenio Dittborn, Alexander and Bonin.” ArtNexus (September – November, 2018): 100-01
“Eugenio Dittborn: Pinturas Aeropostales Recientes.” Artishock (May 30, 2018)
Joy, Clair. “Fresh Air: Space-time and new models for landscape painting.” Journal of
Contemporary Painting, (Vol. 4, No. 1, 2018): 147-70.
2013 Smets, Sandra. “Dittborns oeuvre is nog altijd op de vlucht.” NRC Handelsblad (June 27, 2013)
2012 Dittborn, Eugenio. “Correcamanios VII/Roadrunner VII, 2012.” Afterall (Spring 2012): 76-77.
Risco, Ana María. “Disarmed and Equipped: Strategies, Politics and Poetics of the Image in Eugenio Dittborn’s Airmail Paintings.” Afterall (Spring 2012): 68-75.
Thayer, Willy. “Eugenio Dittborn: No Man’s Land Paintings.” Afterall (Spring 2012):
80-93.
2011 Thornton, Sarah. “Artists at work: El Genio Dittborn.” The Economist (January 19, 2011)
2010 Quiles, Daniel. “Eugenio Dittborn: Museo de Artes Visuales.” Artforum (September, 2010): 173
2008 Elms, Anthony. “Dead Center/Marginal Notes: Dan Devine/Eugenio Dittborn.” Artforum (February, 2008) (http://artforum.com/picks)
Leslie, Richard. “Eugenio Dittborn.” ArtNexus (No. 70, Volume 7, 2008): 145-156
Quiles, Daniel R. “Eugenio Dittborn.” Arte al día (June–July 2008): 112-113
2004 Levin, Kim. “Voice Choices: Pick: Eugenio Dittborn.” Village Voice (June 16-22, 2004): C81
2001 Dailey, Meghan. “Eugenio Dittborn, The Foreseen and Unforeseen Position of Their Bodies.” Time Out New York (March 29-April 5, 2001): 59
Johnson, Ken. “Art Guide: Eugenio Dittborn.” The New York Times (March 30, 2001): E35
Klaasmeyer, Kelly. “Letter Bombs.” Houston Press (April 26-May 2, 2001): 67
1999 Schambelan, Elizabeth. “Eugenio Dittborn at Alexander and Bonin.” Art in America (December 2001): 122
Millet, Catherine. “Eugenio Dittborn<<rémotitudes>>” artpress (September 1999): 26-29
1998 "Cultural Leaders." Avenue (January 1998): 20
Doren, Anne. “Eugenio Dittborn.” Time Out New York (December 3-10, 1998): 90
1997 Arning, Bill. “Especial Delivery.” Time Out New York (March 13-20 1997): 43
Douglas, Susan. "Eugenio Dittborn: The New Museum." Parachute (Summer 1997): 57-58
Camhi, Leslie. "Priority Mail." Village Voice (March 4, 1997): 81
Goodman, Jonathan. "Eugenio Dittborn at The New Museum." Art in America (November 1997): 128
Zamudio-Taylor, Victor. "Eugenio Dittborn." Art Nexus (July-September 1997): 48-51
1996 Fuenmayor, Jesus. "Eugenio Dittborn - Espacio 204." Flash Art (November/December 1996)
Philippi, Desa. "Distance of Memory: The Airmail Paintings of Eugenio Dittborn." Parachute (July/August/September 1996)
1993 Cameron, Dan. "Return to Sender." Artforum (March 1993)
Grant, Simon. "Eugenio Dittborn." Art Monthly (London) (June 1993)
MacRitchie, Lynn. "Paintings Unfolded." Financial Times (London) (May 1993)
Searle, Adrian. "Eugenio Dittborn." Time-Out London (April-May 1993)
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art (MUHKA), Antwerp
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin
Museum of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Château de Jau, Cases de Penne, France
Towner Museum, Eastbourne, UK
Museum Het Domain Sittard, Limburg, The Netherlands
Institute of Contemporary Art, Lisbon
Tate, London
Latino Museum, Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Pérez Art Museum Miami
Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC