Héctor Zamora

1974, Mexico City, Mexico. Lives and works in Mexico City.

Héctor Zamora is better known for his research, which involves public spaces and the built environment. In his works, the artist reinvents and redefines conventional spaces – exhibition spaces or others – giving rise to noise between the meanings of public and private, exterior and interior, real and imaginary. If, on the one hand, Héctor Zamora’s work deals with the aesthetic and formal legacy of concretism and other Latin American vanguard movements, on the other, it problematizes social and political questions related to work in a consumer society and to the subversion of architectures, of the city, and of history. 

Héctor holds a degree in graphic design and structural geometry. He has held solo shows at prominent institutions which include Museu Marítimo de Ílhavo, Ílhavo, Portugal (2023), The Roof Garden Commission, MET NY, USA (2020); LABOR, Mexico City (2019); Pavilhão Branco, Portugal (2018); the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico (2017); Fundación RAC, Spain (2017); the Palais de Tokyo, Spain (2016); CCBB São Paulo (2016), the Center for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA (2013) and Itaú Cultural, São Paulo (2010). He has participated in group shows at venues that include the 4th Mediterranean Biennial, Israel (2021); Hirshhorn Museum, USA (2020); the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Spain (2018); the 12th Shanghai Biennale, China (2018); MAM-RJ (2014); Guggenheim Museum (USA, 2013); the Museo de Arte de Lima (Peru, 2012); the 54th Venice Biennale (Italy, 2011); the 11th and 14th editions of the Biennale de Lyon (2011 and 2017); the 12th International Cairo Biennale (Egypt, 2010); the 9th and 12th editions of the Bienal de la Habana (2006 and 2015); and the 27th Bienal de São Paulo (2006). Zamora has moreover been awarded prizes from the Graham Foundation Arquitetura + Arte (2011), the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture (2009), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2007), the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (2006), the Jumex Collection Foundation (2006), and others. His works figure in collections of important institutions such as Amparo Museum (Mexico), Fundación RAC (Spain), and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (USA).