Traveling exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami Curated by Bonnie Clearwater, Executive Director & Chief Curator, MOCA, North Miami / Coordinated at MOCA Cleveland by Margo A. Crutchfield, Senior Curator
ON VIEW in the Talalay, Lewis, and Seltzer galleries

Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Jorge Pardo: House is the first comprehensive US museum exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist, Jorge Pardo. Accompanied by an illustrated catalogue, this nationally touring solo exhibition spans Pardo’s career to include more than seventy seminal works.

Arranged according to use and function, and displayed within the context of various rooms of a house, the installations, sculptures, and paintings in Jorge Pardo: House highlight the artist’s ability to consistently traverse the boundaries between art, design, and architecture. These vignettes of household areas – a kitchen, office, living room, bedroom or garden – reveal how Pardo’s inventive works conflate seemingly distinct genres to defy meaning. In keeping with the genre-crossing characteristics of Pardo’s work, Jorge Pardo: House will also extend beyond the space of the museum itself to encompass several of Pardo’s site-specific projects installed around the world. These projects will be presented as photomurals, and viewers will be provided with information on visiting the sites themselves.

In the everyday objects and environments that he creates, Pardo considers issues relating to representation as well as to the place and role of an artwork—its frame, its borders, its relation to its site, and its intersection with architecture and design. Although Pardo’s work invokes both Modernism and Minimalism, he undermines both traditions in unique ways. He divorces Modernist form from function in his objects, yet, he invests these works with personal and autobiographical components that contradict a Minimalist sense of detachment.

Jorge Pardo (b. 1968, Havana, Cuba) immigrated to the United States in July 1969. Pardo holds a BFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He has exhibited widely in various international institutions since his first solo show in Pasadena in 1988. In addition to participating in numerous international group exhibitions, Pardo has realized various permanent projects, including Reading Room at the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam (1996), Pier in the Skulptur Projekte in Münster (1997), and in 4166 Sea View Lane with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (1998), and Untitled (Café-Restaurant), K21, Düsseldorf (2002). He has had solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (1997), the Museum Boijmans in Rotterdam (1997), The Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia (1999), The Dia Foundation in New York (2000 and 2003), The Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle (2002), and Fundació La Caixa in Barcelona (2004).

In Cleveland this exhibition is generously presented by an Anonymous donor, American Greetings, and Forest City, with the support of Oswald Companies, Herschman Architects, Inc., and Glidden House.

Jorge Pardo: House was organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami and curated by Bonnie Clearwater.

Support for this exhibition is generously provided by U.S. Trust, Bank of America PrivateWealth Management, Rosa and Carlos dela Cruz, and Christie’s.Support for exhibitions and programs at Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami is made possible through grants from the City of North Miami, the Florida Arts Council, the Department of State,the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor and Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners. The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami is accredited by the American Association of Museums.