ANTONIO LOPEZ

b. 1993 in Quito, Ecuador.

Most recent notable exhibitions include solo and group presentations at: flintlock - ECHO, Cologne (2023); The Hypochondriac’s Dream House - Louche Ops, Berlin (2024). Glower – Larder, LA (2022); Maw - Apparatus Projects, Chicago (2022); Errandt - Rudimento in Quito (2021).

Currently based in Frankfurt am Main, DE. He holds a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago (2017) and he attended Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main under Professor Monika Baer.  Within the Western imagination, Latin America is envisioned as a rural, impoverished caricature, existing outside the possibility of urbane civilization. Antonio López unsettles these expectations, both countering and extrapolating upon fictitious portrayals that legitimize and feed colonial perspectives. His often feral and barren imagery careens between toying with such ersatz depictions and rebuking the impulse to diminish the maligned Americas to entertain stereotypes of the West’s invention. Operating within this logic of propagation, López employs strategies of obstruction and replication to confuse the ease of recognition and siphon action from the tension of inertia.

Solo exhibitions

2025

Trotter — Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris.

2024 

Hydra (or downtown), Louche Ops, Berlin
Master of Spanish Realism, Drents Museum (solo retrospective

2023

Antonio López Retrospective, La Pedrera, Barcelona.
flintlock, ECHO, Cologne
Tidal, fffriedrich, Frankfurt am Main

2022

Maw, Antonio López & Elena Ailes, Apparatus

2021

errandt, Rudimento, Quito

2019
Babies born without brains, LAGOS, CDMX - for Condo CDMX 2019

Group exhibitions

2025

The Perennials — Balice Hertling, Paris

2024

The Call and Rundgang — Städelschule / Portikus, Frankfurt am Main. 

2023

The Hypochondriac´s Dreamhouse, Louche Ops, Berlin
For mummy, zaza’, Milan
New Order, ECHO, Cologne
Basement Romance, Romance, Pittsburg

2022

Alongside, Nightclub, Minneapolis
Glower, Larder, Los Angeles
Rundgang, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main
Inversiones, Rudimento, Quito

2018

Mutal Symbiosis (1 Soul 2 Bodies), Frontera 115, Ciudad de México