Gabriel Rico

Mexican | 1980

Gabriel Rico is a Mexican Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1980. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Guangdong Times Museum in Guangzhou. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Perrotin, New York have featured Gabriel Rico's work in the past.The maker's first piece to be offered at auction was "Arquitectura (Chess)" at Heritage Auctions, Dallas in 2019.Gabriel Rico has been featured in articles for FAD Magazine, Wallpaper and WHITEWALL. The most recent article is 2024 Dallas Art Fair Recap written for ArtDaily in April 2024.

Jesu, 2010

Dissected humming bird, branches, neon tubes, basketball ball, crystal rose and black tape.

51.181 x 0.393 x 27.559 inches (130 x 1 x 70 cm)

Arquitectura (Chess), 2019

Wood

20-1/2 x 10 x 10-1/2 inches (52.1 x 25.4 x 26.7 cm)

Black Energy (KK theory), 2009

Neon, chrome exhaust

31.496 x 3.149 x 7.874 inches (80 x 8 x 20 cm)

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At Auction

Recent Auction Results

Arquitectura (Chess)

By Gabriel Rico

Heritage Auctions, Dallas

Current Exhibitions

Embodied Rituals

Guangdong Times Museum

Guangzhou | China

Mar 22,2024 - Jun 22,2024

Past Exhibitions

Wunderkammer to Come: From the Uncompleted, a Beginning

Toyota Municipal Museum of Art

Toyota | Japan

Jan 20,2024 - May 06,2024

ONLINE: Creatures

Perrotin, New York

Lower East Side | New York | USA

Feb 20,2024 - Mar 19,2024

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Articles

2024 Dallas Art Fair Recap

ArtDaily 12/04/2024

The Dallas Art Fair marked its 16th edition with significant sales and robust attendance, concluding Sunday, April 7.

10 Booths Not to Miss at Frieze Los Angeles

FAD Magazine 01/03/2024

Walking past gourmet food trucks with the aroma of a wood-fired pizza oven and passing famous people was a welcoming start to the fair. People made small talk by asking, “are you having a good fair?” It was a lovely world to be transported to for the day.

Frieze LA 2024 Guide: The Art, Gossip and Buzz

Wallpaper 01/03/2024

Our Frieze LA 2024 guide includes everything you need to know and see in and around the fair

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Coverage

“ .. Collecting fragments of contemporary existence, sculptor and installation artist Gabriel Rico masterfully recontextualizes familiar objects and materials... ”
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Aspen Art Museum

“ ..With a post-Surrealist approach, artist Gabriel Rico’s latest body of work mines a range of materials from taxidermy animals to neon shapes and found objects, that together create environments addressing... ”
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Galerie Perrotin, Seoul

“ ..Influenced by scientific approaches, geometry, and philosophy, the artist creates non-mathematical equations from objects that reflect our fundamental struggle to achieve balance... ”
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Aspen Art Museum

“ ..Through his process of fusing the natural and kitsch, the artist will create a careful arrangement that is a portrait of contemporary life... ”
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Aspen Art Museum