Eugenio Salas
Birthdate: 1976
Birthplace: Mexico
Based location: Canada and Pennsylvania, United States
Social profiles
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Biography
Eugenio Salas (born 1976, Mexico)
Eugenio Salas is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist based in Pennsylvania and Canada. Eugenio is a self-taught artist in performance and installation art. In his practice, he creates collaborative projects with the community through different participatory events such as engaging with media, print, or cooking. Eugenio curated and organized the Latin American programming of the 2006 Inside Out Annual Toronto Lesbian Gay Film and Video Festival. Eugenio has also been the recipient of multiple awards including the Best Education Program Award by the Ontario Association of Art Galleries (2013), the Best Public Program Award by the Ontario Association of Art Galleries (2011), and the Audience Award at Mostra Labda in Barcelona, Spain (2004).
Eugenio’s studio work is centred on collaborative projects and documenting the project process, the community exchanges, and the installations. Eugenio has produced the individual projects The Supercake (2019) at McIntosh Gallery at Western University in London, Ontario, the Garage series in the same year (also in London), Social Plastics - Nail Party (2014) at Paris Nails and the Gendai Gallery in Toronto, and YYZGRU Express at the Hemispheric Institute in New York (2013).
YYZGRU Express
2013
Installation details
Photograph by Julio Pantoja, exhibition YYZGRU Express at Hemispheric Institute, New York, google images 2023, accessed 2022
Solo exhibitions
Eugenio Salas solo exhibition YYZGRU Express, Hemispheric Institute, New York, 2013
Collective exhibitions
Eugenio Salas collective exhibition Grasping at the Roots, curated by Christina Battle, John & Maggie Mitchell Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, 2020
Eugenio Salas essay collective exhibition Grasping at the Roots, curated by Christina Battle, John & Maggie Mitchell Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, 2020
Eugenio Salas collective exhibition TransAmericas, Museum London, London Ontario, 2017
Eugenio Salas programming collective exhibition TransAmericas, Museum London, London Ontario, 2016
Eugenio Salas review by Stratford Festival, collective exhibition TransAmericas, Museum London, London Ontario, 2016
Eugenio Salas collective exhibition essay TAG TEAM at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, curated by Erin Silver, The ArQuives, Toronto, 2013
Eugenio Salas programming collective exhibition TAG TEAM at the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, curated by Erin Silver, The ArQuives, Toronto, 2013
Eugenio Salas collective exhibition Under new management, co-curated by Su-Ying Lee and Suzanne Carte, Queens West St, Toronto, 2010
Eugenio Salas review by Murray White, pop-up gallery Under new management, co-curated by Su-Ying Lee and Suzanne Carte, Queen West, Toronto, 2010
Eugenio Salas list of participating artists Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto, 2004
Interviews
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Presentations
Eugenio Salas Artist Talk, Art Museum of University of Toronto, 2010
Published work by Eugenio Salas
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Published work about Eugenio Salas
Eugenio Salas's article by Chris Duplus, ‘A brief history of Inside Out Tracking the 25-year evolution of Toronto’s LGBT film fest,’ Xtra Magazine, 2015
Eugenio Salas overview Guillermina Buzio ‘Performing Borders An exhibition of video-performances,’ MFA thesis, 2010
Press release
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List of Grants, Awards and Projects
Eugenio Salas project The Supercake, McIntosh Gallery at Western University in London, Ontario, 2019
Eugenio Salas press release project The Supercake, McIntosh Gallery at Western University in London, Ontario, 2019
Eugenio Salas press release project The Supercake, McIntosh Gallery at Western University in London, Ontario, 2019
Eugenio Salas article 'Zine Philosophy: Baking the Supercake,' Broken Pencil, 2019
Eugenio Salas collective project Centre for Incidental Activism (CIA) #1, co-curated by Emelie Chhangur, Suzanne Carte, and Michael Marand, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, 2011
Eugenio Salas collective project Centre for Incidental Activism (CIA) #1, co-curated by Emelie Chhangur, Suzanne Carte, and Michael Marand, review by Fran Schechter, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, 2011
Eugenio Salas press release Process-based collective Institue for Community Inquiry recognized by the Ontario Association of Art Galleries Public Award, Toronto, 2011
Eugenio Salas newsletter collective project Revolutionary Sundays and the Centre for Incidental Activisms, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, 2011
Eugenio Salas overview collective project Revolutionary Sundays and the Centre for Incidental Activisms, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, 2011