Born 1973 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, lives and works in New Mexico
EDUCATION
- 2003
- MFA, Mason Gross School of the Art, Rutgers University
- 1995
AWARDS
- 2004
- Full Fellowship Award, Vermont Studio Center
- Honorable Mention, Curator’s Award, Rocky Mountain Biennial
- 2003
- Paul Robeson Emerging Artist Award, Rutgers University
- 1995
- Phi Beta Kappa, Vassar College
TEACHING
- 2008 – present
- Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Foundation Studies
- University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES, AND VIDEO SCREENINGS
Solo Shows
- 2007
- Six Photographs of People I Don’t Know, EVO Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- 2006
- Hybrids, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado
- 1999
- Compound, Plan B Evolving Arts, Santa Fe New Mexico
Selected Group Shows, Performances and Screenings
- 2010
- The Sitting Room, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- 2009
- Pretty Is As Pretty Does, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Altered Spaces, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- 2008
- Giving Shelter, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- 2006
- Biennial Southwest, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- 2005
- Embodied: Seven Studies in Video, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- The True Mirror, City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey
- Gerry Snyder, Mark Shetabi, Ligia Bouton, Evo Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Motion, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- 2004
- Rocky Mountain Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, Colorado
- Tell Me a Story of a World Without Words, City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey
- Three Minute Film Festival, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Video:1minute:1800 frames, City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey
Selected Group Shows, Performances and Screenings (continued)
- 2003
- Manifestations: Form and Function, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, New York
- The Female Avant Garde Festival, Prague, Czech Republic
- Off the Top: the Rutgers Tradition, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, New York
- MFA Thesis Exhibition II, Civic Square Galleries, New Brunswick, New Jersey
- The Flux Mass, Johnson Chapel, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
- 2002
- Group Show, A Clean Well-Lit Space, Flemington, New Jersey
- The Flux Mass, Kirche des Humors, Wiesbaden, Germany
- 2001
- Where You At?, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York
- Six Years Out, James W. Palmer III Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
- 2009
- The Function and Dysfunction of Beauty, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Artists Lecture Series, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- 2004
- Dialogue Among Peers 2004 Lecture Series, sponsored by Santa Fe Council for the
- Arts and Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Carver, Jon. “Ligia Bouton: Santa Fe.” Art Papers, upcoming March/April, 2008.
Chandler, Mary Voelz. “Biennial Shows its Heart” Rocky Mountain News, May 1, 2004.
Cook-Romero, Elizabeth. “Strangers, then Fiction.” Pasatiempo: The New Mexican,
November 9-15 2007, 62-63.
Fairfield, Douglas. “Beauty Secrets.” Pasatiempo: The New Mexican, February 13-19, 2009,
32-35.
Fisher, Zane. “Projecting Perspective” Santa Fe Reporter, February 23 – March 1, 2005, 26.
Genocchio, Benjamin. “Searching for an Identity in Newark” The New York Times, March 20, 2005, 14NJ.
King, Sarah S. “Ligia Bouton: EVO” Art in America, September 2008, 174.
Lopez, Ruth. “Art that Echos the Rhythms of Everyday Life: Bouton’s Debut Solo Exhibit.”
Pasatiempo, March 5, 1999, 28.
Mayfield, Dan. “What Lurks Beneath.” The Albuquerque Journal, February 8, 2009, F 1-2.
Sardy, Marin. “Staging a Coup: How Ligia Bouton Installs Her World.” The Santa Fean
Magazine, April/May 2009.
Sauthoff, Patricia. “I Feel Pretty: Art as dominatrix takes over SITE.” The Santa Fe
Reporter, April 8th, 2009.
Statton, Liza. “Ligia Bouton.” THE Magazine, December/January 2007/2008, 63.
Weideman, Paul. “Art in Unexpected Places.” Pasatiempo: The New Mexican, February
20–26, 2009, 24-25.
