Iñaki Bonillas (born 1981 in
Mexico City) is an
artist living and working in Mexico City. His recent work is based on the photographic archive of his grandfather J.R. Plaza and family.[1] In 2007 he participated in a group exhibition at Claremont Museum of Art.[2][3]
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2016 Secretos. Estancia FEMSA, Casa Luis Barragán, Mexico City, Mexico.
2013 Reanimation Library. Talcual, Mexico City, Mexico.
2013 Thinking and Speaking. Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden.
2013 Paint it Black. FRAC Île de France, Le Plateau, Paris, France.
2013 Turn off the Sun: Selections from The Jumex Collection.
ASU Art Museum, Phoenix, United States.
2012 Reality is a Persistent Illusion. CAL CEGO, Barcelona, Spain.
2012 Accrochage X: Works on Paper. Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium. Narrativas domésticas: más allá del álbum familiar. Sala de exposiciones Diputación de Huesca, Huesca, Spain.
2012 Donde el lenguaje es material. Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola, Mexico City, Mexico.
2012 The Imminence of Poetics. Thirtieth Biennial of São Paulo, Brazil.
2012 Art & Books. Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2012 Poule! Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico.
To create A Card for J.R. Plaza, Iñaki Bonillas pored over photographs, albums, and slides he inherited from his grandfather, J. R. Plaza. Included in the archive was a sheet of
business cards, each corresponding to a position Plaza held during his professional life as a salesman.
Intermixed among these were eleven cards Plaza designed and typed, representing professions he never held, including borreguero (
shepherd) and modelo (model). Inspired by the cards, Bonillas paired several of his grandfather’s
self-portraits with the fictitious business cards, playfully exploring Plaza’s interest in self-presentation and constructing a series of new narratives about his own family history. Bonillas also inherited Plaza’s typewriter, which inspired him to create one last business card: “self-portraitist.”[4]
Iñaki Bonillas (born 1981 in
Mexico City) is an
artist living and working in Mexico City. His recent work is based on the photographic archive of his grandfather J.R. Plaza and family.[1] In 2007 he participated in a group exhibition at Claremont Museum of Art.[2][3]
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2016 Secretos. Estancia FEMSA, Casa Luis Barragán, Mexico City, Mexico.
2013 Reanimation Library. Talcual, Mexico City, Mexico.
2013 Thinking and Speaking. Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden.
2013 Paint it Black. FRAC Île de France, Le Plateau, Paris, France.
2013 Turn off the Sun: Selections from The Jumex Collection.
ASU Art Museum, Phoenix, United States.
2012 Reality is a Persistent Illusion. CAL CEGO, Barcelona, Spain.
2012 Accrochage X: Works on Paper. Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium. Narrativas domésticas: más allá del álbum familiar. Sala de exposiciones Diputación de Huesca, Huesca, Spain.
2012 Donde el lenguaje es material. Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola, Mexico City, Mexico.
2012 The Imminence of Poetics. Thirtieth Biennial of São Paulo, Brazil.
2012 Art & Books. Den Frie, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2012 Poule! Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico.
To create A Card for J.R. Plaza, Iñaki Bonillas pored over photographs, albums, and slides he inherited from his grandfather, J. R. Plaza. Included in the archive was a sheet of
business cards, each corresponding to a position Plaza held during his professional life as a salesman.
Intermixed among these were eleven cards Plaza designed and typed, representing professions he never held, including borreguero (
shepherd) and modelo (model). Inspired by the cards, Bonillas paired several of his grandfather’s
self-portraits with the fictitious business cards, playfully exploring Plaza’s interest in self-presentation and constructing a series of new narratives about his own family history. Bonillas also inherited Plaza’s typewriter, which inspired him to create one last business card: “self-portraitist.”[4]