2023
Material Evidence Baxter St Camera Club of New York New York NY
2022
We wish we could have stayed home Kent Place Gallery Summit New Jersey
2021
We, too, have become ruins Trestle Gallery Brooklyn New York
2017
I cannot connect nostalgia with current reality Westchester Community College State University of New York Valhalla New York
2013
Nada se trata de nada todo se trata de mucho Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center Buffalo New York
2012
Tierra a la Vista Centro Cultural La Caja Chacao Caracas Venezuela
Dibujos Galeria Beatriz Gil Caracas Venezuela
2011
Gonzalo Fuenmayor + Esperanza Mayobre Galería Solar East Hampton New York
2010
Fuga de la Nada Galería Fernando Zubillaga Caracas Venezuela
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
Art Handling: An installation play by Liz Magic Laser Luxembourg + Co New York NY
El Dorado Myths of Gold Part 2 Americas Society New York NY
2023
Latinx Voices: Art, Activisim and Identity Amelie A. Wallace Gallery - SUNY Old Westbury Long Island New York
New Wine Clearsky Brooklyn New York
Revisiones, diagramas, secuencias, transformaciones Colección Mercantil Caracas Venezuela
Subasta 74 Sala Mendoza / Henrique Faría Caracas Venezuela
2022
Subasta 73 Sala Mendoza / Henrique Faría Caracas Venezuela
Amazonia Arco / Henrique Faría Madrid Spain
2021
Counter Flags Abrons Art Center New York NY
Entre nosotros y los otros: JUNTOS APARTE Bienal Sur Museo de la Inmigración Buenos Aires Argentina
2020
Garden of Riches Good Naked Gallery Peterborough NH
2019
How the light gets in Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.Cornell University Ithaca NY
Striking Gold: Fuller at Fifty Fuller Craft Museum Brockton MA
Dynasty PS 122 Gallery New York, NY
Entre toche y guayaba madura Juntos Aparte - Bienal Sur Cúcuta Colombia
Tierra de Gracia Beatriz Gil Galería Caracas, Venezuela
The Mushroom Show Sardine Brooklyn, NY
Whose Vestiges Subsist The Clemente New York NY
Supported at its Ends—Hanging by its Weight The Loisaida Center New York NY
2018
Executive (Dis)Order: Art, Displacement & the Ban Queens Museum Queens, New York
Retrato de un paisaje Sivori Museum Buenos Aires Argentina
The Mushroom Show 1124 County Route Craryville, New York
For Freedoms Henrique Faria Fine Art New York NY
Arte/Facto ProFoundation Artist Run Space Brooklyn NY
Flat Touch Steuben Gallery Pratt Brooklyn NY
Deconstrucción Sala 37 Aniversario Arco Madrid Spain
2017
Illuminations III: Activism / Chapter: Venezuela Henrique Faria Fine Art. Miami Biennale Miami Florida
Building and Rebuilding Asylum Arts / We Repair the World Brooklyn New York
Law and Disorder SVA Curatorial Practice CP Project Space New York NY
Hold These Truths No Longer Empty at the Nathan Cummings Foundation New York NY
Crossing Borders John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage. Brown University Providence Rhode Island
Tracing Trajectories: Selections from the Hoggard/Wagner Collection Trestle Projects Brooklyn NY
Crossing Borders Periphery Space Pawtucket Rhode Island
Immigrant of the Month Covert Operations Gallery Brooklyn New York
Broad Stripes and Bright Stars Elly Center of Contemporary Art New Haven Conneticut
Almost home: Between Staying and Leaving a Phantom Land Dorsky Gallery Long Island City New York
Post-magic symbiosis Matteawan Gallery Beacon New York
2016
"Smack Mellon 20th Anniversary Show " Smack Mellon Brooklyn New York
"Base" 6 st Brooklyn New York
"Moderno, El Arte De Vivir" Rosalux Berlin Germany
"Moderno, El Arte De Vivir" Museum Centro Pepe Espaliu Córdoba Spain
"recap: thirty years of momenta art" Momenta Brooklyn New York
"Common Room" Lesley Heller New York NY
"Portrait of a Landscape" Shirley Fiterman Art Center New York NY
"Magical (un) Real: Entranced Land" Momenta Brooklyn New York
Revel Kunstraum Gallery Brooklyn New York
"Antropocene Markers" Likky Ruph Project Space Brooklyn New York
"Project 10" Spring Break New York NY
"Drawing for Sculpture" TSA Gallery Brooklyn New York
2015
"Into the Woods Morris-Warren Gallery New York NY
"Sintaxis" Sala Mendoza Caracas Venezuela
"Published by the artist" International Print Center New York New York NY
"Made in USA" TSA Gallery Brooklyn NY
"AMotion" Sala Mendoza New York NY
"Behind the White Walls" Brooklyn Fire Proof Brooklyn NY
"Ensign Sgr A*" Radiator Arts Long Island City NY
"Treasure Island" Lower East Side Printshop New York NY
2014
"Panorámica. 2000-2012" Sala TAC Trasnocho Cultural Caracas Venezuela
"In and Out of Context" Lower East Side Printshop New York NY
"This is what sculpture looks like" Postmasters Gallery New York, NY
"Gráfica Mercantil. Indagación y seguimiento" Sala Mercantil Caracas Venezuela
2013
"Housewarming: Notions of Home from the Center of the Universe" BRIC Brooklyn NY
"Migratory Marks" Visual Arts Center Summit NJ
"Of Hope and Madness" MACLA San Jose California
"For which it stands" The Lodge Gallery New York NY
"In the Details" Maxon Mills Wassaic NY
"Epic Fail" Storefront Ten Eyck Brooklyn NY
"Mano segura no se tranca" Present Company Brooklyn NY
"Thanks" Lu Magnus New York NY
"Value Added: Artists' Perspectives on the Meaning of Worth" The College of New Jersey NJ
2012
"Intersection in the mapping process" University of Maryland College Park MD
"Hi Jack" Jack Shainman Gallery New York NY
"Transforming Function I" LMCC Arts Center Governors Island New York NY
"Transforming Function II" Conrad LMCC Space New York NY
"CTRL+P" Arlington Arts Center Arlington Virginia
"Divided by Zero" Art Gate Gallery New York NY
"This Side of Paradise" No Longer Empty at the Andrew Freedman Home Bronx NY
"Ñew York" Art Museum of the Americas Washington DC
2011
"Tuning" Incheon Biennial Incheon Korea
"Faraway Neighbor" Flux Factory Long Island City NY
"Prolonged Engagement" Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts New York NY
2010
"smART" Freedom Tower Miami Dade College Miami FL
"Domestic City" Kid Yellin Brooklyn NY
2009
"Interventions: Severance Package" Museo de Arte de El Salvador MARTE San Salvador El Salvador
"Moving Money" The Gallatin Galleries New York NY
2008
"Moving Money" SAC Gallery Stony Brook University Stony Brook NY
"Metro Poles: Art in Action" Bronx River Art Center Bronx NY
"Reflect/Refract" Rich Gallery London England
"What can brown do for you?" Galería Solar East Hampton NY
"X Salón CANTV Jóvenes con FIA" Centro Cultural CorpBanca Caracas Venezuela
2007
"Giftland VIII" Printed Matter New York NY
"The Feminine Mystique" Jersey City Museum Jersey City NJ
"Legal Aliens" Spaces Gallery Cleveland OH
2006
"Multiplex" Smack Mellon Brooklyn NY
"Dibujos" Galería Fernando Zubillaga Caracas Venezuela
"IX Salón CANTV Jóvenes con FIA" Centro Cultural CorpBanca Caracas Venezuela
"If a cat gives birth to kittens" Roebling Hall Brooklyn NY
"Inner Limits" Abrons Arts Center Henry Street Settlement New York NY
2005
"ITP Winter Show" Tisch School of the Arts – NYU New York NY
"To Whom It May Concern" Cuchifritos New York NY
"Venezueland" Gallery Galou Brooklyn NY
"AIM 25" The Bronx Museum of the Arts Bronx NY
2004
"Republicans like me" MIT Cavs Boston MA
"Republicans like me" Parlour Projects Brooklyn NY
"Traveling Scholars" Boston Museum of Fine Arts Boston MA
CURATORIAL
2016
Magical (un) Real: Entranced Land Momenta Brooklyn NY
2013
Mano segura no se tranca Present Company Brooklyn NY
2006
International Globus Dislocator Roebling Hall Brooklyn NY
PROJECTS
2024
Collaborative project with Choreography by Nicole Speletic Counterpointe11 - NorteMaar
The Mark O’Donnell Theather Brooklyn NY
2023
Ana Alenso Lo que la mina te da, la mina te quita / What the mine gives, the mine takes- Bomdia Books Berlin Germany
2019
Domingo Familiar (It’s not Sunday, but can you play domino with me?) La Nacional New York NY
2018
A drone was knocked by a toilet paper Vector 8 New York NY
2016
Is Domino Social Practice? + Screening of Agarrando Pueblo by Luis Ospina and Carlos Mayolo Momenta Brooklyn NY
2015
Artists' Cities / Cisneros Collection
2014
Postcards from Venezuela Creative Time Reports New York NY
2013
Second Annual Artist Sandcastle Competition Creative Time Brooklyn NY
AWARDS
2016
International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) New York NY
2015
Process Space Lower Manhattan Cultural Council New York NY
2014
Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (SARF) Washington D.C.
Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder New York NY
2013
The Jerome Foundation Visual Arts Travel and Study Grant Saint Paul MN
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant Nominee New York NY
2011
Smack Mellon Studio Artist Residency Brooklyn NY
2008
NYU Visiting Artist Program New York NY
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace (LMCC) New York NY
Gráfica Mercantil, Colección Mercantil / TAGA Caracas Venezuela
Honorable Mention XI Salón CANTV Jóvenes con FIA Caracas Venezuela
2005
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Fellowship Skowhegan ME
Artist in the Marketplace Fellowship at the Bronx Museum (AIM) New York NY
2003
Rebecca R. Joslin Traveling Scholars Award Boston MA
Clarissa Bartlett Traveling Scholars Award Boston MA
TALKS AND PANELS
2024
Esperanza Mayobre and Carlos Motta, moderated by curator Tie Ojima Americas Society New York NY
2023
Performative Lecture & Conversation with Esperanza Mayobre, Santiago Acosta and Jenna Hamed Baxter St Camera Club of New York New York NY
A Round Table with Latinx NY Based Artists Anto Astudillo, Andrés Senra, Esperanza Mayobre, and Nicolás Dumit Estévez Raul Espejo Art Lab Suny Old Westbury Long Island NY
Futuro Venezuela Columbia University New York NY
2022
After the (New) Gold Rush: Art and Extractivism in the Venezuelan Amazon SUNY Old Westbury NY
2021
Conversations with Contemporary Artists Dineen Hull Gallery /Artist Lecture Series New York NY
Esperanza Mayobre entre dos aguas y la constante traducción Tráfico Visual Caracas Venezuela
2020
In the Studio: Esperanza Mayobre Americas Society New York NY
2019
El Salón Hunter East Harlem Gallery New York NY
Esperanza Mayobre School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston MA
2018
Artist's Eye: Esperanza Mayobre Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn New York
2017
Art and Power - From Museum to Real World New York University NYU King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center New York
I cannot connect nostalgia with current reality Westchester Community College State University of New York Valhalla New York
Moholy-Nagy y las cargas de la producción. El arte del siglo XX y las prácticas contemporáneas. Espacio Mercantil Caracas Venezuela
2016
Local, Connected, and Creative: New Approaches to Community Building BRIC Brooklyn NY
2013
The Lodge Gallery New York NY
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center Buffalo New York
2009
International Center of Photography ICP New York NY
2008
Skowhegan Talks Artist Space New York NY
2007
Conversatorio. La Carnicería Caracas Venezuela
2006
Colirio. Museum of Fine Arts Boston Boston MA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024
Damaly Gonzalez “At Americas Society, Artists look at the mth that started natural resource extraction in Latin America” ArtNews April 26
Kame Hame “Nazanin Noroozi and Esperanza Mayobre Present Material Evidence at Baxter St at CCNY” Widewalls November 7
2023
Kame Hame “Nazanin Noroozi and Esperanza Mayobre Present Material Evidence at Baxter St at CCNY” Widewalls November 7
2022
Alejandra Villasmil “We wish we could have stayed home” Artishock March 3
2018 link
Lori Waxman "Not the same old immigrant story as hard questions are asked at 6018North gallery" The Chicago Tribune September 20
2017
Alejandra Villasmil "Esperanza Mayobre. Entre Dos Culturas, Entre Nostalgia y Realidad Artishock Nov 20
Felix Suazo "Tipos y contratipos. Post scriptum sobre arte y reproductibilidad[1]. Segunda parte." Tráfico Visual Aug 8
2016
Magical (Un)Real: Entranced Land Artishock | Jun 10
2014
Felix Suazo "Venezuela Outside (nota)." Tráfico Visual
Priscilla Frank"16 Contemporary Women Sculptors You Should Know" Huffington Post
2013
"Thomas Micchelli "Vanishing Virtuosity: Seven Artists, Seven Drawings" Hyperallergic Nov.23
"Enrico Gomez Housewarming" Wagmag Brooklyn Art Guide November 1st
Sarah Cascone "Creative Time's Sandcastles Return to Rockaway Beach" Art in America Aug.13
Lisa Blackmore "Amalia Caputo and Esperanza Mayobre" ArtNexus pg.89 June-August
Laura Salazar "nycARTscene Interview: Esperanza Mayobre" Nyartscene July
"Art and Ageism: The Decisive Eye of Fellow Artists" NY Arts Magazine Vol 20, N.3, Summer Issue
J. Tim Raymond "Esperanza Mayobre at Hallwalls" Artvoice pg. 15, Vol.12 No.21, Buffalo, NY
2012
Andreina Martinez "Amalia Caputo y Esperanza Mayobre conectadas por la añoranza" El Nacional pg. 5 Noviembre 22, Caracas, Venezuela
Dubraska Falcón "La memoria visual de Amalia Caputo y Esperanza Mayobre" El Universal Noviembre Caracas, Venezuela
Noah Dillon "HiJack!" The Brooklyn Rail pg. 39 November, Brooklyn, New York
Benjamin Sutton "One-Line Reviews: Our Staff's Pithy Takes on The Double Dirty Dozen (& Friends)," "HiJack!," Artinfo.com August 25
Allison Meier "Rediscovering Paradise in the Bronx" Hyperallergic May 3
Ryan Reft "Nueva York: Politics, Art, and the Transnational Big Apple" Tropics of Meta March 21
Eva Mendoza Chandas "Round Trip NY #22. Esperanza Mayobre." RoundtripNY March 12
2011
Laura Bardier "Prolonged Engagement" Arte al día 135, pg. 139, Miami, June-July
2010
Lorena González "El Papel Herido Esto es lo que Hay", El Nacional, May 4 ,Caracas
Dubraska Falcón "La ciudad de Mayobre" El Universal, April 23, Caracas
Marjorie Delgado Aguirre "Esperanza Mayobre arma y desarma la retícula de su memoria urbana" El Nacional, April 24, Caracas
Carmen Victoria Méndez "Paisajes contra la pared" Tal Cual, April 23, Caracas
2009
Jose Ruiz "Artist on Artist" Bomb New York, Winter Issue
"Intercambio Cultural" El Diario de Hoy, El Salvador, Septiembre 2
"Cinco Artistas Venezolanos Muestran Miradas Reflectantes" El Nacional, Caracas, October 14
2008
Alyshia Gálvez & José Carlos Luque Brazán "Performance and Politics in the Americas Vírgenes Viajeras / Traveling Virgins" emisferica April
2007
Douglas Max "Utter Strangers in Strange Land Free Times" Cleveland OH Feb. 7-13
2006
Maria Elena González "Curator’s Corner. Artist Maria Elena González selects Esperanza Mayobre" Velvetpark # 11, pg. 38-39, New York, Summer Issue
Karina Sainz Borgo "Disculpe, ¿quiso decir fuera de control?" El Nacional. Papel Literario pg. 4, Caracas, July 15
Gabriela Rangel "Notes on Exile, Self-exile and Immigration in Venezuelan Art" Arte al Día 115, pgs. 44-51, Miami, July
Lilian Dagher "Creadores Emergentes" Zeta # 1568, pg. 34-35, Caracas, June 30
2005
Christopher Howard "Good Business is the Best Art: Artist in the Marketplace" CAA News Volume 30, #6,New York, November
Holland Cotter "Latino Art, and Beyond Category" The New York Times New York, September 1
2004
Nick Stillman "New York Critics Pick. Republican Like Me" www.Artforum.com New York, September
EDUCATION
2005 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Skowhegan ME
2003 School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) Boston MA
2002 School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) Boston MA
1999 Instituto Artesanal de la Colonia Tovar (IACT) Caracas Venezuela
1997 Instituto ProDiseño Escuela de Comunicación Visual Caracas Venezuela