Ulises Carrión

Ulises Carrión (1941-1989), perhaps Mexico’s most important conceptual artist, is widely known for his decisive role in defining and conceptualizing the artistic genre of artists’ book through his manifesto, “The New Art of Making Books” (1975). He began his artistic career as a poet in Mexico City, but quickly moved to a great number of genres including “bookworks” (as he named artists’ books), performance, film, video, and sound works, as well as public artworks and several publishing and curating projects, including the legendary Amsterdam bookshop gallery Other Books and So, and significant distribution and archiving initiatives for the international community of mail artists during its most creative period. Significant retrospective exhibitions of Carrión’s work have been presented at Museo Carrillo Gil in Mexico City (2002), Reina Sofia in Madrid (2016) and Museo Jumex in Mexico City (2017).