2021
Work
Series
SUITE TOURS

Drawing | Painting

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Solo exhibition
Les Ateliers de la Morinerie (Saint-Pierre-des-Corps, Tours, France)
Suite Tours
2020
Work
Series
Tipografías | Typographies

During my career, I have circumscribed my profession to the practice of drawing and painting on traditional supports, paper or canvas. This exercise is no different, except that now I intervene, with the stroke and the colour, black and white photos, moments captured by the camera over 25 years of Taller Ditoria.

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Solo exhibition
Virtual format, from Guadalajara studio
Tipografías | Typographies
2019
Critical Essay
Reverberations

by Gabriel Bernal Granados

In order to write these lines about Roberto Rébora’s most recent work, I’m consulting the book* that was published à propos his previous exhibition, Media Star, which gathers an outstanding series of critical texts written throughout the years about this painter’s work. First of all, I discover pictures that perhaps I had seen two years ago in person but now...

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Critical Essay
Flujo Mundo

by Daniel Garza Usabiaga

In this exhibition, Roberto Rébora presents a selection of pictures from the Flujo Mundo series (World Flux; 2018-2019), alongside some pieces created back in the 1990s. In that decade, his work stormed a scene dominated by the usual neo-Mexicanisms’ formulas and themes like a breath of fresh air. His approach from those years...

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Work
Series
Flujo Mundo | World Flux

Fugue of figuration to return to painting's primary elements: the colour, the line, the light.

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Solo exhibition
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (Oaxaca, Oaxaca)
Flujo Mundo Oaxaca | World Flux Oaxaca
Solo exhibition
Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana (Mexico City)
Flujo Mundo | World Flux
2018
Collective exhibition
Fundación BBVA Bancomer, itinerant exhibition since 2011-2012
Plastic Parallelisms in Mexico / Four Decades in the BBVA Bancomer Collection (1960-1990)

Paralelismos Plásticos en México / Cuatro Décadas en la Colección BBVA Bancomer (1960-1990)

Collective exhibition
Mexican Cultural Institute at San Antonio (San Antonio, Texas)
Common Currents
Collective exhibition
Museo de la Ciudad de México (Mexico City)
Mexico City in the Art / Eight Centuries Crossing

La Ciudad de México en el Arte / Travesía de Ocho Siglos

2016/19
Work
Series
Mundo anterior | Previous world

We are anomalies within a constructive process halted or verified within a picture.

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Solo exhibition
Galería Arte Actual Mexicano (Monterrey, Nuevo León)
Media Star
2017
Work
Series
Media Star

Luminous constructions figuration as spatial adherence.

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Solo exhibition
Galería Le Laboratoire (Mexico City)
Media Star III
Collective exhibition
Museo de la Cancillería (Mexico City)
Procesos en el Arte / Colección Pago en Especie | Processes in the Art

Payment in Kind Collection of the Tax Administration Service-Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit Mexico | Colección Pago en Especie SAT-SHCP

Collective exhibition
Galería Hamburgo (Mexico City)
Free Radicals / Vlady and the Spanish Exile

Radicales Libres / Vlady y el Exilio Español

Collective exhibition
Zona Maco / México Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City)
Media Star III in Zona Maco
2016
Critical Essay
Roberto Rébora: Recent Work 2013-2016

by Erik Castillo

The visual work produced by Roberto Rébora from the beginning of 2013 has been very striking indeed...

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Critical Essay
“Prologue”
To Roberto Rébora’s book Materia y discurso de fe / Matter and Discourse of Faith

by Philip Ball

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Critical Essay
Some Characteristics of Roberto Rébora’s Painting

by Eduardo Vázquez Martín

The first thing we need to say is that Roberto Rébora's painting is narrative. His images form part of a story...

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Critical Essay
Rébora, Line and Conflict

by Eduardo Milán

In between the canvas and the net there is a fishermen's myth. Or an arrest warrant...

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Critical Essay
The Paintbrush’s Gestural Impulses

by Juan José Gurrola

The gestural impulses of the paintbrush that violates the paper's whiteness and the girls' bodies in Roberto Rébora's monotypes shake as well the observer's modesty with icommernsurate sagacity...

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Critical Essay
Retrospective

by Jorge Contreras

In Juchitlán, Oaxaca, people say that if a child witnesses two adults having sex, then it should be tied down sitting on a donkey's back, facing backwards, and led through the streets proclaiming the names of the couple...

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Book
Matter and Discourse of Faith
Collective exhibition
Galería del Palacio Nacional (Mexico City)
Art for the Nation | Arte para la Nación

Payment in Kind Collection of the Tax Administration Service-Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit Mexico | Colección Pago en Especie SAT-SHCP

Solo exhibition
Unique Forward Original Gallery (Los Angeles, California)
Media Star II
2015
Book
Roberto Rébora
2014
Solo exhibition
Galería Diéresis (Guadalajara, Jalisco)
Media Star
Collective exhibition
Scuderie del Castello di Miramare (Trieste, Italy)
Messico Circa 2000 / Collezione José Pinto Mazal

Mexico Circa 2000 / José Pinto Mazal Collection

2013
Work
Series
Papeles Montpellier | Montpellier Papers

Virtual, digital and mediatic system of webs.

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Solo exhibition
Vernissage at private residence (Montpellier, France)
Red / Itinérant | Network / Itinérant Roberto Rébora
2012
Solo exhibition
Galería Diéresis (Guadalajara, Jalisco)
Obra Reciente / Inmaterial | Recent Works / Immaterial
2011
Book
Inmaterial
2010
Collective exhibition
Museo de Arte de Zapopan (Guadalajara, Jalisco)
Constante / La Nueva Babilonia
Constant / The New Babylon
2008/10
Work
Series
Inmaterial | Immaterial

Detaches from the strict figuration and articulate an indeterminate and suggestive image.

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2009
Collective exhibition
Museo Nacional de Historia del Castillo de Chapultepec (Mexico City)
Obras Selectas: Museo Amparo
Selected Works: Amparo Museum
Collective exhibition
Instituto Cultural Cabañas (Guadalajara, Jalisco)
Orozco from the 21st Century

Orozco desde el Siglo XXI (Pintura y Verdad, 2008-2010)

Collective exhibition
Spazio Oberdan (Milan, Italy)
The Latin Americas / The Weariness of Wanting

Las Américas Latinas / Las Fatigas del Querer

Solo exhibition
Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca (Oaxaca, Oaxaca)
Taller Ditoria / Graphic - Roberto Rébora / Portraits of Writers

Taller Ditoria / Gráfica - Roberto Rébora / Retratos de Autores

Solo exhibition
Drexel Galería (Monterrey, Nuevo León)
Inks and Watercolors of the Early Years

Tintas y Acuarelas de los Primeros Años

2008
Solo exhibition
Drexel Galería (Monterrey, Nuevo León)
Cuadros Recientes al Temple-óleo | Recent Tempera-Oil Paintings
2006/7
Solo exhibition
Museo de las Artes of the UdeG (Guadalajara, Jalisco)
Pintura | Paintings / Taller Ditoria
Work
Series
Azules y Rojos | Blue and Red

Degradation of Eros:
the human figure, a metaphor of a collective feeling.

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2005
Collective exhibition
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (Mexico City)
39° Intl. Fair for Modern & Contemporary Art (Cologne, Germany)
2ª Feria Internacional de Arte Zona Maco (Mexico City)
24ª Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo (Madrid, Spain)
Voracious Drunk Fire / Contemporary Painting in Mexico

Voraz Fuego Ebrio / Pintura Contemporánea de México

2004
Collective exhibition
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Monterrey, Nuevo León)
20th Century: Great Mexican Masters / Fin-de-Siècle Prodigies
2003
Book
El Carrusel de los Dioses Niños
Solo exhibition
Galería Myto (Mexico City)
Rébora
Solo exhibition
Pinacoteca Diego Rivera (Xalapa, Veracruz)
32 Dibujos - 5 Pinturas | 32 Drawings - 5 Paintings
2002
Solo exhibition
Ex Convento del Carmen (Guadalajara, Jalisco)
Pintura 2000-2002 | Painting 2000-2002
2001
Collective exhibition
Museo Amparo (Puebla, Puebla)
Centro de las Artes (Monterrey, Nuevo León)
Museo de las Artes of the UdeG (Guadalajara, Jalisco)
Cardinal Proposals as a 21st Century Prelude

Propuestas Cardinales como Preludio del Siglo XXI

Collective exhibition
Casa Refugio Citlaltépetl (Mexico City)
Europäische Bildungsuniversität (Meran, Italy)
Duo / Roberto Rébora - Monotipos Urbanos 98 | Christian Stecher - Otranto Beach
2000
Solo exhibition
Galería de Arte Moderno (Xalapa, Veracruz)
Linear Vote / Painting and Drawing 1993-2000

Voto Lineal / Pintura y Dibujo 1993-2000

Collective exhibition
Museo de Arte Moderno-Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (Mexico City)
Notes on a 21st Century Collection (New art works acquisitions)

Apuntes para una Colección del Siglo XXI (Nuevas adquisiciones de obra de arte)

1999
Solo exhibition
Instituto de México en España (Madrid, Spain)
19 Dibujos | 19 Drawings
1998
Solo exhibition
Galería Arte Actual Mexicano (Monterrey, Nuevo León)
Roberto Rébora
Collective exhibition
Museo Nacional de Arte (Mexico City)
Alluded Body / Anatomies and Constructions / Mexico, 16th-20th Centuries

El Cuerpo Aludido / Anatomías y Construcciones / México, Siglos XVI-XX

1997/8
Work
Series
Futura

Chromatic vibrations and dynamism of a framework achieved through extensive experimentation with painting.

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Collective exhibition
Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt, Germany)
Form und Funktion der Zeichnung heute |
Form and Function in Contemporary Drawing
Solo exhibition
Mexican Cultural Institute (New York, NY)
Drawings
1994/6
Suite Cojín y Poetisa | Cushion Suite and Poetess

Representation and painting: emergence of experience and modes of presence of a subject.

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1996
Solo exhibition
Art Museum of the Americas (1996; Washington, Columbia District)
Wien
1995
Solo exhibition
Palais Harrach (Vienna, Austria)
Wien
Solo exhibition
Vernissage at private residence (Mexico City)
Cushion Suite / Recent Paintings in Small Format
Solo exhibition
Lynn Goode Gallery (Houston, Texas)
Recent Paintings
Solo exhibition
Galería Arte Actual Mexicano (Monterrey, Nuevo León)
Poetisa | Poetess

National homage to mark the 300th anniversary of the death of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Collective exhibition
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (Monterrey, Nuevo León)
Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso (Mexico City)
Jalisco: Genius and Mastery / Two Centuries of Painting

Jalisco: Genio y Maestría / Dos Siglos de Pintura

1994
Series
Work
El Medio Inteligente | The Intelligent Medium

Representation and painting: emergence of experience and modes of presence of a subject.

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Solo exhibition
Galería Arte Actual Mexicano (Monterrey, Nuevo León)
El Medio Inteligente | The Intelligent Medium
Work
Series
La Niña Precoz | Precocious Girl

Caricature: cornerstone of the graphic sense in drawing and painting.

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Solo exhibition
Zona / Espacio para Artistas (Mexico City)
La Niña Precoz | Precocious Girl
1993
Solo exhibition
Museo de la Ciudad (Guadalajara, Jalisco)
La Niña Precoz | Precocious Girl
1992
Solo exhibition
Galería Arte Actual Mexicano (Monterrey, Nuevo León)
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (Mexico City)
Roberto Rébora / Pinturas Recientes | Recent Paintings
1991
Solo exhibition
Scuola d’Arte Il Bisonte (Florence, Italy)
Pinturas Recientes | Recent Paintings
1991
Solo exhibition
Galería Benavente Morales (Mexico City)
Cuadros para una Exposición | Pictures for an Exhibition
1990/1
Series
Work
Tres series | Three series

Images of the Conquest,  Warriors and Enemies, and Trapped Figures.

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1989
Solo exhibition
Cámara Nacional de Comercio (Guadalajara, Jalisco)
Grabado, Litografía y Monotipo | Engraving, Lithography, and Monotype
1985
Solo exhibition
Almacenes Nacionales de Depósito, ANDSA (Mexico City)
Primeros Grabados | First Engravings
1984
Solo exhibition
Maison du Mexique of the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris (Paris, France)
Graveurs | Engravings
1983
Solo exhibition
Galleria d’Arte Teorema (Florence, Italy)
Grida, che un Sordo non Ascolta | Shout, a Deaf Does Not Listen
Solo exhibition
Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Artes of the UNAM (Mexico City)
Por Favor, no Asusten | No Scaring, Please
1982
Solo exhibition
Ex Convento del Carmen (Guadalajara, Jalisco)
This Our Country of Blind / Betini Rébora’s Painting and Drawings
Solo exhibition
Galería de Arte Marchand (Guadalajara, Jalisco)
Betini
1981
Solo exhibition
La Puerta gallery (Guadalajara, Jalisco)
Betini / Monos y Dibujos | Doodles and Drawings
1977
Collective exhibition
Ex Convento del Carmen (Guadalajara, Jalisco)
II Salón de la Caricatura Jalisciense | II Jalisco Cartoon Salon