Iñaki Bonillas
Biography
Born in Mexico City, 1981
Lives and works in Mexico City
Despite not being a photographer, Iñaki Bonillas has been establishing a relationship with photography in his work since the late nineties. With a regard for the aesthetics and the conceptual practices of the sixties and seventies, the artist has been gradually isolating the constituent elements of photography and connecting them with other procedures. Trained in the subtleties of image processing while he worked as the assistant in a photographer’s studio, Bonillas saw his practice transformed by the inheritance of his grandfather’s photo archive. The J. R. Plaza Archive became the matrix of more than twenty works the artist produced between the years 2003 and 2016. But Bonilla’s work expands beyond this archive. Over the years he has suceeded in creating a very solid body of work that addresses the cultural history of photography to highlight the medium’s structural behavior and its relationship to the creation of identity.
Selected Texts
- 2018Manuel CirauquiSemejanza secreta. Iñaki Bonillas y el índice
- 2017Joana HurtadoRevista Concreta
- 2015Manuel CirauquiBonillas, Iñaki
- 2012Clément DiriéArt Press
- 2010Tom McDonoughArtForum
- 2008Carles GuerraExtraphotographic (bis)
- 2007María MineraMending Memories
- 2003Dieter Roelstraete and Iñaki BonillasPhotographic Views - Roma Publications
Exhibitions
- 03 December 2020 — 13 February 2021
- 06 October — 19 November 2014
- 29 September — 16 November 2017
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- 01—28 February 2023
- 07 May — 29 July 2022
- 14 December 2016 — 03 January 2017
News
- 7 July 2022 — 8 June 2023
GROUP SHOW: BOMBAS GENS, VALENCIA
- 27 March — 15 August 2021
Group show: Jumex collection, Mexico City
- 26 November 2020 — 27 February 2021
GROUP SHOW: CAPC Bordeaux
- 21 September — 31 December 2020
ON LINE GROUP SHOW AT THE MOMA, NEW YORK
- 10 September — 23 December 2020
GROUP SHOW: espacio artkunstarte, MADRID
- 29 November 2019 — 31 March 2020
GROUP SHOW: ESPAC, MEXICO CITY