Peres Projects

Dalton GATA (b. 1977 in Santiago de Cuba, CU)

• Lives and works in Coamo, PR

Education

2005

• BFA Fashion Design, Altos del Chavón, DO

Current Group Exhibitions

• Tropical Is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime, curated by Marina Reyes Franco, Americas Society, in collaboration with the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, New York, US
• FUTURISMO, Mendes Wood DM, Sao Paolo, BR

Upcoming Solo Exhibition

• Portrait for Loneliness, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022

• Cabeza de mango, Chapter, New York, US
• Allí, Galeria Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan, PR

2021

• Dalton Gata: The Way We’ll Be, curated by Alex Gartenfeld, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA Miami), Miami, US

2020

• Diálogos Remotos, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE

2019

• The Devil Sees Beauty In A Pair of Horns, Four Claws And a Tail, Chapter, New York, US
• Dalton Gata, Sunday Painter, London, UK
• La Mansion de Lucía, Galería Mamey, Santo Domingo, DO
• It ain’t necessarily so, Galería Agustina Ferreyra, Mexico City, MX

2018

• La Casa de Dalton, Embajada, San Juan, PR

2017

• Recent Adornments, Lucy García Gallery, Santo Domingo, DO

2014

• Dalton Gata, Ramos Mederos Gallery, Santo Domingo, DO

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021

• 3.0, Chapter NY, New York, US
• Do you realise there is a rainbow even if it’s night!?, The collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, curated by Natalia Sielewicz, Municipal Art Center, Gorzów, PL
• Striving After Wind, Chapter NY, New York, US

2020

• what fruit it bears, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE
• To dream a man, curated by Samantha Ozer, Clima Gallery, Milano, IT
• Geles Cabrera & Dalton Gatas, part of Siembra at kurimanzutto, Galería Agustina Ferreyra, Mexico City, MX

2019

• Futuro Modular, curated by Christopher Rivera, Rachel Uffner, New York, US
• Nothing without intention, curated by Kate Benedict, Claudia Delaplace, Xinchen Du, Rebecca Marsh, Angie Nee, David Suárez Mira and Yaoli Wang, The School of Visual Arts, New York, US
• Siempre New Angeles, curated by Violeta Mansilla, Los Angeles, US

2018

• La Cabeza Mató a Todos, Galería Agustina Ferreyra, Mexico City, MX
• Who loves in the world, curated by Harry Burke, Caton Gallery, Guangzhou, CN
• Alleviators, curated by Christopher Rivera, Charles Moffet Gallery, New York, US

2016

• Objets d’art, Embajada, San Juan, PR
• Intro, Lucy García Gallery, Santo Domingo, DO
• Still Others, Centro Cultural España, Santo Domingo, DO

2015

• Ser Otro, ArtLab, San Juan, PR
• Curiosity Room, Lucy García Gallery, Santo Domingo, DO
• Manga!, La Alpargatería, Santo Domingo, DO

2014

• Unfold, Ramos Mederos Gallery, Santo Domingo, DO

2013

• Dangerous Botany, Honorable mention, 27th National Biennial of Visual Arts, Santo Domingo, DO

2012

• Dibujos Aislados, La Alpargatería, Santo Domingo, DO

2011

• Super/Heavy, Lyle O. Reitzel Gallery, Santo Domingo, DO

Collections

• Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Miami, US
• Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Warsaw, PL

Selected Bibliography

2021

• Joi, Ming, Chakaia Booker and Dalton Gata at ICA Miami, Burnaway Magazine, November 15, 2021
• "Did you know the rainbow glows in the dark?" at the Municipal Art Center in Gorzów Wlkp, Szum Magazine, October 5, 2021
• Loos, Ted, Museum Shows With Stories to Tell, May 21, 2021
• Forteza, José, Una visión CARIBEÑA, Vogue Mexico, April 2021

2020

• Rees, Lucy, Next Big Things: Dalton Gata, Galerie Magazine, December 18, 2020
• Image of the Day, Elephant Magazine, August 5, 2020
• Q&A: Dalton Gata, Masthead Magazine, July 2020
• Steer, Emily, These Are the Ascendent Artists You Need to Watch, Elephant Magazine, July 3, 2020
• Fateman, Johanna, Dalton Gata, The New Yorker, February 2020

2019

• Dalton Gata “The Gaze Is Downstairs” at The Sunday Painter, London, Mousse Magazine, October 2019
• Martinez, Jamie, Dalton Gata at Chapter NY in collaboration with Galería Agustina Ferreyra, Arte Fuse, September 16, 2019
• Dalton Gata: It Ain’t Necessarily So, Artishock, June 17, 2019
• Inside Artist Dalton Gata’s Beautiful, Dark, Twisted, Fantasy, L’Officiel Art USA, May 29, 2019
• Jauregui, Gabriela, Flipping the Gaze: Exhibitions Around Mexico City Present the Body as Corportized, Colonized, Tortured, Ungendered, Conspicuous, ARTnews, February 25, 2019

2018

• Cepeda, Gaby, Critcs’ Picks: “La Cabeza que Mató a Todos”, Artforum, December 31, 2018