Terence Gower
Terence Gower, The Bicycle Pavilion, 2002, enameled steel, glass, vinyl, 4.5 × 2 × 18 m
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Short Biography
Born 1965, British Columbia/Lives and works in New York and Mexico City
Terence Gower works primarily with strategies of representation in Modernist architecture, with a special focus on Mexican Modernism. He has exhibited his work internationally in galleries, museums, and public sites including Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; ICA, Boston; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Queens Museum, New York; La Colección Jumex, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Museo del Chopo, and Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City; The Power Plant, Toronto; Gallery 101, Ottawa; Artspeak, Vancouver; Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig; Kunsthistorisches Institut, Bonn, Kunstverein, Göttingen; the XIII Bienal de la Habana, Cuba; and Centro Recoleta, Buenos Aires. Gower has also organized the exhibitions “Prácticas públicas/Vidas privadas”, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil; “The Conceptual Trend”, El Museo del Barrio, New York; and “The Counterfeit Subject”, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. A monograph on his work entitled, Ciudad Moderna, was recently published by A&R/Editorial Turner, Mexico City.
