Martín Touzón

Martín Touzón (Argentina, 1985)

Bio: Born just after the fall of the Argentine dictatorship, he grew up in a fragile new democracy plagued by economic crisis and hyperinflation. His personal motivations led him to study economics and then to take part in the UTDT Artists Program. His education is not just focused on a formal institutional level, it was also nourished by working with other artists in their projects and exhibitions.

Since then, his work has addressed the crossroads between art and economics through processes that involve media such as sculpture, installation, performance, and painting to question aspects of today's society.

Touzón has exhibited individually and in group shows, also made large scale sculptures and performances as public space interventions. In addition, he participated in residencies at The Banff Center (CA) and in Torino (IT) as a prize winner for the Premio Italia - Argentina per l'Arte.  Among others, he is a recipient of the Creation Grant by the Metropolitan Fund for Culture, Arts and Science, the Patronage of the City of Buenos Aires and the Bicentennial Grant of the National Endowment for the Arts. His work is in the public collection of La Rural (AR) and in other international private collections.

Artist Statement: Touzón uses various medias and materials that allows him to explore the aesthetic and political dimension of the economy and consumption, as well as the social component of visibility. So far, his artistic practice has been wide-ranging and polysemous while metaphorically catalyzing socioeconomic concerns.

By bringing to light certain paradoxes that may occur simultaneously outside and inside the art system, he saw a way to contribute to the medium that he is working with. And, somehow, it led his practice to be inspired by its context.

Many of his works come from the Argentine contextual economic background between accumulation, circulation and loss, his works have a poetic-aesthetic component that highlights and characterizes them.

Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2021 Un tiempo de duda, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2019 Los días pasan como segundos enteros curada por Martín Craciun, La Pecera, Uruguay
2018 La nueva esperanza, Fundación El Mirador, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2017 La continuidad del deseo, Viadellafucina16, Torino, Italia
2016 La producción de lo nuevo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2015 Medias Hojas, RO Galería, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013 Asociaciones Mínimas, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina, A park is a park, Banff Centre, Canada, En unión y libertad 2011-2013 Fiebre Galería, Buenos Aires, Argentina Juntos x Siempre, Feria de Parque Centenario, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Selected Group Exhibitions: 2021 Festival CAMPO, Pueblo Garzón, Uruguay, AFTERLIFE con Tomás Redrado Art en One thousand museum, Miami, EEUU OPEN CALL EXPRESS, ABRIR galería, Lima, Perú, Salón Anual Nacional de Santa Fe, Museo Rosa Galisteo, Argentina 2020 Confirm humanity curada por Hernán Borisonik, The Wrong Bienale
2019 TAREA curada por Chiachio & Giannone, Galería Pasaje 17, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mutante curada por Milagros López, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2018 UADE Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Todos para uno y uno para todos, Fundación El mirador, Argentina 2017 Los derivados curada por Alan Segal, Slyzmud Galeria, Argentina Fundación Andreani, Argentina, V Bienal de Fotografía ArtexArte, Argentina Fundación Williams, Argentina
2016 La suspensión del deseo curada por Susan Caraballo, La Habana, Cuba 2014 Algunos Gestos, La sin Futuro, Argentina, Uno sólo y varios lobos, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina 2013 Peer to Peer, The Banff Centre, Canada

Residencies: 2017 BECAR CULTURA - Premio Italia-Argentina para el arte, Torino, Italia 2013 The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada

Scholarships, Distinctions and Awards: 2021 Premio Semana del arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2018 Mecenazgo Cultural de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Beca Creación - Fondo Metropolitano de la Cultura, las Artes y la Ciencia 2016 Beca del Bicentenario, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Argentina
2015 Mencion, VIII Premio Nacional de Pintura 2015, Banco Central de la República, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2014 Mencion, CIII Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2013 Subsidio como beca, The Banff Centre, Canada

Social: @martintouzon