Erlea Maneros Zabala

CV in print & other writings

Erlea Maneros Zabala is a Basque artist living between Lekeitio, Spain and Joshua Tree, CA. She received her BFA from the Glasgow School of Art in 2002 and her MFA from California Institute for the Arts in 2003. Maneros Zabala utilizes a conceptual practice to redirect our attention from the experience of looking to how and why this information has been placed in front of us. Using appropriation, reproduction and seriality, she often begins by culling together a group of images in order to analyze how they are composed, displayed and archived. These production strategies challenge the traditional emphasis, particularly in painting, that is placed on the creation of a unique, authored object. Previous solo exhibitions include the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain; El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico; Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen, Norway; Seamen’s Art Club, Hamburg, Germany and Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain. Her work has also been presented at Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas; Centro de Arte de Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain; Castillo/Corrales, Paris, France; Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain; University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois and the Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France.

RFA Exhibitions

Selected Images

Erlea Maneros Zabala
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2016
Installation view

Erlea Maneros Zabala
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2016
Installation view, Prompt Book

Erlea Maneros Zabala
Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2014
Installation view

Untitled (Michel Zabé at the Mathias Goeritz Archive, Mexico City), 2011
Black & white light jet prints, steel, eighty 35mm slides, Kodak Carousel 5600 slide projector, and screen paint
Photographs: 17 x 24.5 x 1.5 inches each
Wall painting: 88 x 154 inches

Erlea Maneros Zabala
Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2014
Installation view

Untitled (Michel Zabé at the Mathias Goeritz Archive, Mexico City), 2011/2014
Black & white fiber-based silver gelatin print, foam core, walnut, SafeCorr board, hardware
38 x 24 inches

Process and Method: Erlea Maneros Zabala
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Basque country, 2013
Installation view

Grafía Vasca; tipografía y ornamentación: 1961–1967, 2013
Copper plates: 39 pieces, 18 x 12.5 inches each
Commissioned by The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, The Basque Country

Erlea Maneros Zabala
REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA, 2011
Installation view

Erlea Maneros Zabala
REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA 2011
Installation view

Erlea Maneros Zabala
REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA, 2011
Installation view

Pilgrimages for a New Economy, installation view, 2012
Maisterravalbuena, Madrid

Pilgrimages for a New Economy
(Niterói Contemporary Art Museum, 1996, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), 2007
RA-4 print

Pilgrimages for a New Economy
(Blur Building, Expo. 02, 2002,Yverdon Les Baines, Switzerland), 2007
RA-4 print
5 x 7 inches

Pilgrimages for a New Economy
(East Building, National Gallery of Art, 1978, Washington D.C., USA), 2007
RA-4 print
5 x 7 inches

Pilgrimages for a New Economy
(Quadracci Pavilion, Milwaukee Art Museum, 2001, Milwaukee, USA), 2007
RA-4 print
6 x 4 inches

Pilgrimages for a New Economy, installation view, 2012
Carreras Mugica, Bilbao, Basque Country

Untitled, 2012
Iron, gatorfoam, aluminium sheet, and offset print
61 x 69 x 16 inches

Erlea Maneros Zabala
Carreras Mugica, Bilbao, Basque Country, 2009
Installation view

Sin título 16 (Los Ángeles, 2009), 2009
Digital light jet print
36 x 24 inches

Sin título 9 (Los Ángeles, 2009), 2009
Digital light jet print
36 x 24 inches

Sin título 2 (Los Ángeles, 2009), 2009
Digital light jet print
36 x 24 inches

Untitled (Los Angeles Times archive on Microfilm, May 2007), 2008
Xerox on paper
48 x 36 inches

The Abstract Cabinet
Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Basque Country, 2007
Installation view

Untitled, Thursday, November 1st, 2001, Los Angeles Times (study 12), 2005
Watercolor on vellum
26 x 40 inches

November 1st, 2001, New York Times (study 19), 2005
watercolor on vellum
23 x 48 inches (detail)

Untitled, Thursday, November 1st, 2001, Los Angeles Times (study 20), 2005
Watercolor on vellum
20 x 26 inches

Untitled, Thursday, November 1st, 2001, Los Angeles Times (study 12), 2005
Watercolor on vellum
26 x 40 inches

Untitled, Thursday, November 1st, 2001, Los Angeles Times (study 17), 2005
Watercolor on vellum
26 x 40 inches (detail)

Spring Group Show 2005
China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, 2005
Installation view

September 3, 2004. New York Times, 2005
watercolor on wall
120 x 288 inches

Modified Uniforms
Curated by Silke Taprogge
Blum & Poe Gallery, Los Angeles, 2005
Installation view

September 3, 2004. New York Times, 2005
watercolor on wall
120 x 288 inches

Fallujah, 2004
watercolor on wall
50 x 75 inches

Untitled, 2004
watercolor on wall
4 x 10 inches