Thomas Glassford was born in 1963 in Laredo, Texas. Glassford received his BFA from the University of Texas at Austin. In 1990, he moved to Mexico City. Glassford uses everyday materials to create architectural or installation-scale works. Having used diverse objects --from gourds and used broomsticks to mirrors and fluorescent light-- Glassford has most recently used anodized aluminum molded siding. Both decorative and alluring, these industrial materials are transformed into rhythmic images reminiscent of Minimalist sculpture and Op Art painting of the 1960s.

Select solo exhibitions include: Xipe Totec, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico (2010); Afterglow, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico (2010); Cadaver Exquisito, el Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes (MUCA) UNAM (2006), La Torre de los Vientos, Mexico City DF (2001) and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Oaxaca (1996). Solo exhibitions include: Select group exhibitions include: Tlatelolco and The Localized Negotiation on of Future Imaginaries, Museum as Hub, New Museum, New York, New York (2008), Second Lives, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York (2008), Constructing a Poetic Universe: The Diane and Bruce Halle Collection of Latin American Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (2007), Los Angeles/Mexico Complejidades y Heterogenidad, La Colección Jumex, Mexico DF (2006), Made in Mexico, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California (2004), Mexico: Identidad y Ruptura, Fundación Teléfonica, Madrid, Spain (2003), La persistencia de la imagen, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico D.F. (2001), Cinco Continentes y una Ciudad, Museo de la Ciudad, Mexico (2000), InSite (1997, 2005), Havana Biennial (1994 and 1997. Select permanent collections include: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Televisa Collection, Mexico DF; Gelman Collection, Mexico DF; La Colección Jumex, Mexico; The Bruce and Diane Halle Collection, Phoenix, Arizona; Collezione “La Gaia,” Italy; Montblanc International Collection; CIFO Foundation, Miami, Florida; Jerry I Speyer Collection, New York, New York; Vergel Foundation, USA; Neeley Collection, USA; Associaçao Beneficente Alzira Denise Hertzog da Silva, Brazil; Colección Valdemarín, Madrid, Spain and Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Bajadoz, Spain.

Thomas Glassford currently lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico.

1987: BFA, University of Texas, Austin, Texas

2011: Pteridomania, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas

2010: Xipe Totec, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlatelolco, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
Afterglow, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico
2008: Implosion is Compulsory, Quint Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
Between Earth and Sky, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas
2006: Cadáver Exquisito, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes, MUCA, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
2004: Thomas Glassford, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Pleasure Garden, OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
Desdoblamientos, Galeria Principal de La Escuela de Artes. UAEMéx, Toluca Thomas Glassford, Arcaute Arte Contemporaneo, Nuevo León, Mexico
2003: Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Event Horizon, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City, Mexico
2002: Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Stripes and Solids, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, California
Fuente/ Exhibition Agua – Wasser, Temple of San Agustín (Ex National Library), Mexico City, Mexico
2001: DESIRE, OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
ASTER, La Torre de los Vientos, Mexico City, Mexico
2000: Fuente Parabólica, Museo de La Alhóndiga, Festival International Cervantino, Guanajuato, Mexico
1998: Neoprene Dreams, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, Texas
1997: Diversiones, Galeria de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
1996: Autogol: Oaxaca, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Mexico
New Work, Milagros Contemporary Art, San Antonio, Texas
The Privilege to Contemplate the Theories of Black Holes, ExpoArte ’98, Guadalajara, Mexico
1995: Autogol Monterrey, Museo de Monterrey, Mexico
1994: Autogol, Ex-Convento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Mexico
1993: Natural Acts, Moody Gallery Houston, Texas
1992: Arteria, Curare: Espacio Crítico Para Las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
1991: Laredo, Laredo Junior College Art Gallery, Texas
Hydraulics and Mechanics, N. No. O Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1990: Obra Nueva, Estudio Lic. Verdad, Mexico City, Mexico
1986: Drawings and Wall Pieces, Flood Gallery, Austin, Texas

2011: ¿Neomexicanismos? Ficciones identitarias en el Mexico de los ochento, Museo de arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico

Cimbra, formas especulativas y armados metafisícos, Museo de arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Destello, La Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
2010: Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art, MFAH, Houston, Texas.
The Traveling Show y El Gabinete Blanco, Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Todo a Nada, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo MUAC, Mexico City, Mexico
Efecto Drácula/Comunidades en Transfromación, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
2009: Hecho en casa: Una aproximación a las practicas objetuales en el arte mexicano contemporáneo, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Quint: Three Decades of Contemporary Art, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, California
Color Into Light: Selections from the MFAH Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
2008: SHOW DOWN, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
An Unruly History of the Ready Made, La Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
La invención de lo Cotidiano, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
Recursos Incontrolables y Otros Desplazamientos Naturales, Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Tlatelolco and the localized negotiation of future imaginaries, Museum as Hub, New Museum, New York, New York
2007: Ephemeral: Explorations in Light, Claremont Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Constructing A Poetic Universe: The Diane and Bruce Halle Collection of Latin American Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
La Era de la Discrepancia, Arte y Cultura Visual en Mexico 1968-1997, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes, MUCA, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
2006: PLATFORMA, Galería de Arte Contemporáneo y Diseño, Puebla, Mexico
Limbo a la Comodidad del Medio, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Esquiador en el Fondo de un Pozo, La Colección Jumex, Estado de México, Mexico
Los Ángeles/México, Complejidades y Heterogenidad, La Colección Jumex, Estado de México, Mexico
XTRA – ORDINARY, Arthouse at the Jones Center – Contemporary Art for Texas, Austin, Texas
PINK NOT DEAD, Garash Galeria, Mexico City
2005: Polysemia, Arcaute Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, Mexico
Barrocos y Neobarrocos, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain
Erotic, Centro Cultural Banco de Brazil, Sao Paulo; Centro Cultural Banco de Brazil, Brazil
EXPOSICION ITINERANTE, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
In Site ’05, San Diego, California – Tijuana, Mexico
I’m He as You are He as Are Me as We Are All Together, Central de Arte, Guadalajara, Mexico
Eco. Arte Mexicano Contemporáneo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Contiene Glutamato, OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
2004: Made in Mexico, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Multitasquin, OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
Pulso de Los 90, Colección MUCA Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
2003: Construcción, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Amarga Belleza, Fundación Televisa, Mexico City, Mexico
Mexico, Identidad y Ruptura, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain
Upwards, Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas
2002: Sensitive Negotiations, Mexican Consulate, Miami, Florida
Zebra Crossing, Mexartes Festival, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
Invasión Extraterrestre, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
Libre Albedrio. La colección de Arte Contemporáneo de la UNAM y otros encuentros, Casa de La Cultura de Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Es 2002, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Baja California
Un Lugar en Otro Lugar, Centro Cultural de Mexico en París, France
The X-Files, la Pandería, Mexico City, Mexico
Teoría del Ocio, La Colección Jumex, Estado de México, Mexico
Casa, Vestido, Sustento, Mexico City, Mexico
Tridimensional, Arena México, Guadalajara, Mexico
2001: Do It, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Operativo, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Phoenix Triennial, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
La Persistencia de La Imagen, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; Sonje Art Center Museum, Seoul, South Korea
Road to Aztlan; Art From a Mystical Land, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
Escultura Mexicana (Tercera Parte), De La Academia a La Instalación, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Mutations, La Vídeo Mexicaine Actuelle, Palais des Arts de Toulouse as part of Rencontres Cinémas d’Amerique Latine, Toulouse, France; Hangar de Barcelona
Tendencias, VII Salón de Arte Bancomer, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
2000 Chromatoform: Color in Sculpture, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, California
Caleidoscopio: Lenguajes Contemporáneos, Banco Nacional de Comercio Exterior (BANCOMEXT), Mexico City, Mexico
Territorios Abstractos, Museo del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
Última Generación del Siglo, Antiguo Palacio del Ayuntamiento, Mexico City, Mexico
Room 1005, Hotel San Francisco, Mexico City, Mexico
Erógena, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Five Continents and One City, Third International Salon of Painting, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
VI Salón de Arte, Grupo Financiero BBVA/Bancomer, Mexico City, Mexico
Imágenes Robados, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
1999: Fluid, Bard College Annandale on Hudson, New York
Colección López Rocha, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Yo y Mi Circumstancia, Museé de Beaux Arts de Montreal, Canada
1998: Hiper, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Chromaform, UTSA Art Gallery (tour), San Antonio, Texas
Longitud de Onda, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
1997: In Site ’97, San Diego – Tijuana, Mexico
Our Ideas of the Perfect Are So Imperfect, Ramapa College Art Gallery, Mahwah, New Jersey
Así Está la Cosa, Instalación y Arte Objeto en Latino America, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Hecho en Mexico, Museo de las Artes, ExpoArte, Guadalajara, Mexico
Memory Frames, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Zona Verdad, Sexta Bienal de la Habana, Cuba
Tres Proyectos Latinos, Austin Museum of Art, Austin Texas
1996: Video Faz, Art & Idea, Mexico City/Expo Arte, Museo Regional, Guadalajara, Mexico
Masculine Measures, John Michael Kholer Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
1995: Morph, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas
...Moldavia Todavia Queda Mucho Por Decir..., X’ Teresa, Mexico City, Mexico
Juntos y Revueltos, Hospicio Cabaña, Guadalajara, Mexico
It’s My Life I’m Going to Change the World, Acme Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Colección, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Bajadoz, Spain
No Soy Puto, Rubén Gallo Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
1994: Quinta Bienal de la Habana, Cuba
1er. Certamen de Escultura al Aire Libre, Mexico City, Mexico
50 Artistas, Galería Marti’s, Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Neo, Galería OMR, Mexico City, Mexico
1993: Texas Between Two Worlds, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
Objeto/Sujeto, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Fat, Foster Freeman Gallery San Antonio, Texas
Lesa Natura, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
La Frontera/ The Border, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California/ Centro Cultural de la Raza, Tijuana, Mexico
1992: Rueda: Como Naturaleza, Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico
1991: Profiles I: The Land, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas
D. F. Art from Mexico City, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas
Nuevas Adquisiciones, Centro Cultural/ Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Marcas, Galería Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Target: South Texas / The World Outside, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
Material as Message, Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
1990: Triangle, Blue Collar Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Light Well, Site Specific Installation, Mariposa Park, Corpus Christi, Texas
1986: Dead Rays, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas
SAMA Open, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Televisa Collection, Mexico
Gelman Collection, Mexico
La Colección Jumex, Mexico
The Bruce and Diane Halle Collection
Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes, MUCA, Mexico
Collezione “La Gaia”, Italy
Montblanc International Collection
CIFO Foundation
Jerry I. Speyer Collection
Neeley Collection
Vergel Foundation
Associacao Beneficente Alzira Denise Hertzog da Silva, Brazil
Colección Valdemarín, Madrid, Spain
Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Bajadoz, Spain
Art Center / Instanbul, Borusan Center for Culture and Arts, Turkey
Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa

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