Erlich, Leandro

He was born in 1973 in Buenos Aires. He has lived in the USA and France. Today, he lives and works between Buenos Aires and Montevideo. He received grants from the FNA (1992) and the Antorchas Foundation (1994-95). He has participated in dozens of solo and group exhibitions in Argentina and abroad: HOW Art Museum (Shanghai, 2018), MORI Art Museum (Tokyo, 2018), Neuberger Museum of Art (New York, 2017), MUNTREF (Argentina, 2016), MALBA (Argentina, 2015), GLOBALE ZKM, Karlsruhe (Germany, 2015), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Korea (Korea, 2014), XXI Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa (Japan, 2014), Ruth Benzacar Gallery (Argentina, 2012), SongEun Art space (Korea, 2012), Izolyatsia (Ukraine, 2012), Sean Kelly Gallery (USA, 2011), Centre Pompidou (France, 2011), Luciana Brito Gallery (Brazil, 2009), Proa Foundation (Argentina, 2009), Reina Sofia Museum (Spain, 2008), PS1-MoMA (USA, 2008), among others. His works are in private and public collections such as Tate Modern (London), Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art moderne (Paris), and XXI Century Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanazawa, Japan). He has participated in the biennials of São Paulo (Brazil), Shanghai (China), Echigo-Tsumari (Japan), Havana (Cuba), Istanbul (Turkey), and Whitney (USA), among others. He represented Argentina at the Venice Biennale (2001). He has received awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation (2001), UNESCO-Istanbul Biennial (2001), and Leonardo (MNBA, 2000), as well as the Konex Award (2002 and 2012). In his work, he develops the strategy of displacement, decontextualization, and duplication, which activate visual ambiguity. He confronts the viewer with elements of everyday life in environments that challenge physical laws and modify perception.