b. 1970 Mexico City

Gabriel Kuri graduated in 1992 from the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas at the University in Mexico City. Prior to this he spent several years in the workshop of artist Gabriel Orozco. Kuri completed his MA at Goldsmiths College in London in 1995. His work engages with memory and how we invest in objects. Kuri is interested in dialectics, working between material and semantics, object and image. Kuri’s solo exhibitions include Galeria Kurimanzutto, Mexico City (2003); Galeria Franco Noero, Turin (2004) and  MUHKA, Antwerp (2004). He was included in the 2003 Venice Bienniale and State of Play, Serpentine Gallery (2004). Kuri is currently based in Brussels and Mexico City.