Mario García Torres is an artist currently working in Mexico City.

This is his Instagram account.
These are his music projects in Spotify.
And this is what they say about him in Wikipedia.
Mario does not have a Facebook page.

The work of Mario García Torres is represented by:
Jan Mot, Brussels
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokio
neugerriemschneider, Berlin
Franco Noero, Turin

 

This is what he´s been up to:

Mario is preparing a «talk show» to be presented at Museo Experimental El Eco in conjunction with the Coppel Collection, in Mexico City.

A new «hose» sculpture is now  in display as part of the inaugural show of Assembly, in Monticello, NY.

Some Acapulco Chairs are now shown at the Rockefeller Center in NY, as part of a show organized by MASA.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York recently presented the piece Have You Ever Seen the Snow? online, as a response to the recent events in Afghanistan. This is an interview with Mario about the situation.

Mario recently premiered his work It Must Have Been a Tuesday in the Unlimited section of Art Basel. This was presented by all his galleries Jan Mot, Brussels, Taka Ishii, Tokio, Franco Noero, Torino and Neugeriemschneider, Berlin.

Mario recently launched his own podcast titled Así Si. Its now available in most podcast platforms.

We Shall Not Name This Feeling, a music album in collaboration with Sol Oosel related to their recent performatic lecture. It’s available in Spotify, Apple Music, and all other platforms.

 

These are some links to press:

Here a short note as part of Where We Are At, at Artforum mag (Sept, 2020).

Here is an essay he wrote about the museums situation in the context of COVID-19 pandemic published at newspaper El Norte. Iniciativa Museos Uno en Uno ENG Iniciativa Museos Uno en Uno

An article about his life and work published by Gatopardo Magazine.

An interview by Lucy Cotter for Mousse Magazine, issue 66 on his recent retrospective at Walker Art Center and WIELS Contemporary Art Centre.

His solo show at neugerriemschneider was part of the Highlights of the Berlin Gallery Weekend published by artsy.

A recent report published by Mousse Magazine, about The Day Time Lost It´s Patience, his show at Franco Noero.

A collaboration with Mousse Magazine about Michael Asher.

A number of works by Mario entered the Museum of Modern Art, New York recently.

Mario was invited to give his views about the changes in the last 15 years in Latinamerica at Frieze magazine.

A review of Video Art in Latinamerica, LAXART, and other shows from LA/LA at the LAtimes.

These are some older press notes:
The Frieze Questionare!
1000 words at Artforum, with Tom McDonough.
Una entrevista en i-D Vice por Edgar Hernández.
A conversation with Allen Smithee and Michael Wellen, published by Chronograph magazine.
A review in Artforum of a show he made in NY, as part of Itinerant. And this from the New York Times.
An artist project at Frieze, The Way They Looked
And these are some old Critics’ Picks at Artforum, about a show at the Berkeley Museum and Kadist, Paris.

 

This is a small selection of shows in the last few years.

Solo

Strange How Things Work Out, Luisa Strina, Sao Paolo

Flowers and Meteors, neugerriemschneider, Berlin.

Solo, Museo Jumex, Mexico City.

Falling Together In Time, Backlot Program, Frieze Los Angeles

Pinturas Recientes, jgmx

Alighiero e Boetti e Mario García Torres, Travesía Cuatro

Illusion Brought Me Here, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis & WEILS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels

Falling Together in Time, Beyond Performance, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence

Falling Together in Time, Taka Ishii, Tokio

Not-so-recent solo shows:

Not to Belong to Themselves, neugerriemschneider, BerlinThe Way They Look at Each Other, Jan Mot
When Time Lost Its Patience, Franco Noero, Turin
La fiesta fue ayer (Y nadie recuerda nada), Archivo, Mexico
An Arrival Tale, TBA21, Vienna
Caminar Juntos, Museo Tamayo, CDMX (This is a report with images in the curator’s blog)
The Space We´ve Got, Taka Ishii, Tokio
Perez Art Museum, Miami
The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
La Lezione di Boetti, MADRE, Napoli (By the way, this is a short review in Artforum)
NuMu, Guatemala
Je Ne Sais, El Eco, Mexico City

Recent Group shows

Cien en el MUAC, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City

Otrox Mundox, at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City

Modes Of Encounter, An Inquiry, Times Museum, China.

Stories of Almost Everyone, Hammer Museum, LA. You can buy the catalogue on Amazon.

En Busca de Un Muro, Museo Tamayo, México City

Take Me (I am Yours), Villa Medici, Roma
Hello World, Hamburger Banhof, Berlin
Zéro de conduite: Works from the Serralves Collection, Serralves Mueum of Contemporary Art
Stories of Almost Everyone, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Take Me I am Yours, Hangar Biccoca, Milano. Here a little blurb at Interview Magazine.
From the Collection, Stedelijk, Amsterdam
A Poet*cal Wager, MOCA Cleveland

Some more or less recent Biennials:

XIII Bienal Femsa, Zacatecas, México.
13 Sharjah Biennial, UAE
Manifesta 11, Zurich
8th Berlin Bienniale
Documenta 13, Kassel
Bienal Mercosur, Porto Alegre, Brasil. This is the music project he and a number of his friends made for it.
He has also participated in the Venice Biennial, the Yokohama Triennale, the Panama and the Sao Paolo Biennials.

 

These are some publications (that are available):

Here, a recently published profile of MGT at Revista Gatopardo (in Spanish).

The Walker Art Center and WIELS Contemporary Art Centre co-commissioned monograph Illusion Brought Me Herepublished with Koenig Books is now available!

MOREpublishers put out recently a piece that is titled: This gift paper will become a work of art once it is used to wrap an object, and its been open by its adresee, n.d. You can buy it here, for 99 euro.
Una Promessa Non Mantenuta, edited by MGT, and published by Franco Noero, Torino. Check it out on the Friends Make Books website.
This is the book made on the occasion of An Arrival Tale. Published by TBA21 and distributed by Sternberg Press. This is the page from the designers. You can buy it in Amazon.
The catalogue for Caminar Juntos, published by Museo Tamayo. Its in Spanish and English. Beyond a critical text by Sofia Hernandez Chong-Cuy, it contains a number of scripts by the artist.
A Few Questions Regarding the Hesitance… is an essay by the artist that was published on the occasion of dOCUMENTA13. You can still buy it from HatjeCantz.
Xoco, the Kid Who Loved Being Bored… Is a kids book, published by Taka Ishii Gallery. You can buy it at Motto, Berlin.
They published an interview he made with David Askevold, in this book about the artist.
Sur 1, (Collaboration for the magazine related to Conlon Nancarrow) ed. Rodrigo Ortiz Monasterio.
Amazon also has a very little run, and small book: Christopher d’Arcangelo 84 West Broadway… You can buy it there, used, for 49 usd.
Date Due, is a book published on the occasion of a show at Kadist, Paris. Amazon says is a collectible.