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Michael Linares
Museo del Palo
(Museum of the Stick)
2013 - 2016
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Collection
Collection is an ever-growing compilation that to
this day gathers almost four hundred artifacts that serve
as material evidence of the ubiquity of this object.
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Curator’s Text
by Catalina Lozano
A stick is not exactly a branch fallen from a tree.
To become a stick, it needs to be picked up and utilized;
it needs the imprint of the agency of the person who
wants to use it.1 The intention carved on the stick gives
it the ability to transform energy; a universal,
immeasurable energy set in motion for many ends.
Therefore, a stick is a tool, a material extension of
human will. The nature of a stick -which is also present
in language when it is called "a stick" - is linked to its
functionality, practical, recreational, or symbolic. This
means the stick is part of the social sphere, along with
its occasional or exceptional usages, as well as the
communication related to these. This book, also
imprinted in a social reality, gives another turns of the
2W.J.T. Mitchell, What Do Pictures Want? The Lives and Loves of Images,
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2004, p. xiii.
3 Spyros Papapetros, On the Animation of the Inorganic: Art Architecture and
750 Ave. Fernández Juncos the Extension of Life, Chicago y Londres: University of Chicago Press, 2012,
Local 1 San Juan, PR 00907
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The images acquire the right to exist on their own; they
are not representations of the stick, they do not
describe the stick, and yet they work in favor of the
stick, because they have been summoned to do so. In
the words of W.J.T. Mitchell, “pictures want equal rights
with language, not to be turned into language." 4
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Archives
Archives is a digital image compendium,
generated as the visual result of the two and half year
investigation on the subject in different internet sites,
made possible by emulating what is commonly known
in archaeology as superficial prospection.
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Biography
Michael Linares
(b.1979) Bayamón, Puerto Rico
Lives and works San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Education
2014 - …
MA, Archaeology Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y El Caribe, San Juan, PR.
2010-2011
Independent Studies, Beta-Local, San Juan, PR.
1999-2005
BFA, Painting and Sculpture Escuela de Artes Plásticas de San Juan, PR.
2015
Museo del Palo (Museum of the Stick), Casa del Sargento, Beta-Local. San Juan, PR.
www.museodelpalo.com
The Way of Makapansgat, Galería Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan.
A Aleatory History of the Stick, Art in General, NY. Curated by Kristen Chappa.
2014
Outside In/ Out. Solo Project. MACO Art Fair. curated by Juan Gaitán, México City, Méx. (with
Ltd Los Angeles)
2013
Was it a Rat I Saw? , Ltd Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA.
2012
Así las cosas (This being So), Mural Commission. Bass Museum of Art, Miami.
2011
Michael Linares, Chemi’s Room, San Juan, PR
2010
Useless, curated by Pablo Leon de la Barra, PINTA Art Fair London U.K.
Oasis Inclusive Structure at ARCO Solo Projects 2010, curated by Juan de Nieves , Madrid, Spain
2009
Found & Lost, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
2007
Eight, ocho, bizcocho, cake, Galería Comercial, San Juan, PR
Lawrimore Loves Painting, Lawrimore Projects, Seattle, WA
2006
Tu y Yo en una Isla para Dos sentados mirando el Sol..., Galería Comercial,
San Juan, PR
2005
Un, Galería Comercial, San Juan, PR
2017
A Universal History of Infamy. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Pacific Standard
Time LA/LA. (forthcoming)
2016
Heather Guertin & Michael Linares, Liste, Basel, with Galería Agustina Ferreyra (forthcoming)
Rican/Struction, in Collaboration with Abraham Cruzvillegas. Galería Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan,
PR.
2015
NADA Miami Beach 2015, with Galería Agustina Ferreyra, Miami, FL
2013
Group Show, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, Curated by Abdiel Segarra
2012
Gala, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, P.R.
La Sonora, Trienal Poligráfica de Puerto Rico, San Juan P.R.
The Way In, curated by Io Carrion, Popular Center Building, San Juan P.R.
Post-Panamax, Diablo Rosso, Panamá City, Panamá
Exhibition, De la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL
2011
Painting Expanded, curated by Marysol Nieves, Espacio 1414, San Juan, P.R.
PARAÍSO, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA
San Gerónimo 31, San Gerónimo 31, Colonia Centro, Mexico D.F.
Exhibición Re- Inauguración, Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce P.R.
2010
Exhibition, De la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami, FL
7x7, Galería S. XXI, Bogotá, Colombia
Michael D. Linares, Galería Altamira, Asturias, Spain
Mobile Spaces, Univesity of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Ultrapuñeta, Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala
2009
Geografía Humana, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
2008
En sus marcas... , Curated by Rebeca Noriega, Instituto de Cultura de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
Walter Otero Gallery, Circa Art Fair, San Juan, PR
2007
Galería Comercial, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
BioKunst, Antwerp, Belgium
COMERCIAL, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
Crimes of Omission, ICA, University of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
Galería Comercial, ArtLA, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Public Sculpture Art Project (with Galería Comercial), Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
Lisa Kirks Greatest Hits, The Wayward Cannon, London, U.K.
Galería Comercial, MACO, Mexico DF, Mexico.
The Galleries Show (with Galería Comercial), Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium
The S-Files II, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
The Lovers, CANADA Gallery, New York, NY
The Peace Tower, participation as part on Mark di Suvero & Rikrit Tiravanija’s project, Biennial,
Whitney Museum, New York, NY
2005
Ninjas killed my family, need money for Kung-Fu lessons, Galería Comercial, San Juan, PR
(Galería Comercial), NADA, Miami, FL
The S-Files, Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
Tropical Table Party, curated by María Inés Rodríguez, Centro d’ Art Santa Mónica, Barcelona,
Spain
2004
Galería Comercial, Stray Show, Chicago, IL
Group Show, Galería Sin Título, San Juan, PR
Javier Cambre, José Campeche, Michael Linares & Francisco Torres, Galería Comercial, San
Juan, PR
2003
Muestra Ecléctica, Museo de Arte de Caguas, Caguas, PR
2002
Exhibición Pequeño Formato, Galería Punto Gris, San Juan, PR
2001
Entre Hoy y Mañana, Galería Punto Gris, San Juan, PR
Bibliography
2016
Michelle Fiedler, Michael Linares, Kadist Art Foundation
2015
Michael Anthony Farley, NADA Highlights, Part 1, Art F City, 2015.
Mariela Fullana Acosta, Museo del Palo: Mirada a un objeto simple, El Nuevo Día, 2015.
2014
Pablo León de la Barra, Dispatch: Puerto Rico, Guggenheim blog, blogs.guggenheim.org 2014.
2013
Art Cities of The Future (San Juan), Edited by Pablo León de la Barra, Phaidon Press. 2013.
2011.
Ursula Dávila, "Puerto Rico Art Scene: Not Only Reggeaton Gets Your Heartbeat
Racing!,www.fluentcollab.org
Sharon Mizota, "Art Review: Paraíso at Ltd Los Angeles", Los Angeles Times, 2011
2010
Adriana Herrera Téllez, "Panorama of Emerging Latin American Art", Arte al Día, 2010.
Luis Feas Costillas, “Apuntes de Un ARCO Polémico”, La Voz de Asturias, 2010.
Marion Maneker, “Free Beer at ARCO”, Art Market Monitor, 2010.
“Michael D. Linares: Oasis”, Vernissage TV, 2010.
Paloma Torres Pérez Soler, “Arco 2010”, ABC, Madrid, Spain, 2010.
2009
Suzie Walshe, “Visual Mind Games”, New York Arts Magazine, New York, NY, 2009.
Marisol Nieves, “Michael Linares, Found & Lost”, Arte al Día, Arte al Día Internacional, 2009.
Lauren Cornell, Masimiliano Gioni, Laura Hoptman, “Younger than Jesus: Artist Directory”,
Phaidon & The New Museum, New York, NY, 2009.
2007
Manuel Álvarez Lezama, “Installations move front and center in local museums”, The San Juan
Star, September 2, 2007.
R.C. Baker, “Michael D. Linares”, The Village Voice, New York, July 17, 2007.
Holland Cotter, "Art in Review: Comercial" The New York Times, July 6, 2007.
"The L Picks" The L Magazine, July 11-17, 2007.
Walter Robinson, “Weekend Update”, Artnet, July 9, 2007.
“Out of Many, One”, New York Magazine, June 18, 2007.
Manuel Álvarez Lezama, “Michael Linares: Representante de una nueva generación de artistas
puertorriqueños”, Art Premium, Vol. 4, num. 19, 2007.
Manuel Álvarez Lezama, “Linares exhibit full of interesting surprises, as usual”, The San Juan Star,
March 26, 2007.
2006
Raisa Clavijo, “Art Basel Miami Beach 06”, Primera Hora, jueves, 14 de diciembre de 2006.
Adriana Herrera, “Art Basel Miami beach: tres dias de paroxismo”, El Nuevo Herald, December
6, 2006.
Elaine Delgado, “Puerto Rico 2005”, El Nuevo Día, January 3, 2006.
2005
Joao Ribas, “10 Artists to watch”, Art & Auction, May 2005.
Walter Robinson “Miami Heat”, artnet.com, December 4, 2005.
“El Museo Mounts 4th Bienal”, artnet.com, September 20, 2005.
Joel Weinstein, “(More Sexy Beast)”, Rotund World, 4th Edition.
Larissa Vázquez Zapata, “S-Files”, El Nuevo Día, October 2005.
GPB (Art Newspaper), March 2005.
Elvis Fuentes, “El amor es una carga pesada”, El Nuevo Día, February 23, 2005.