Federico Herrero

Courtesy of the Artist and James Cohan, New York.

Federico Herrero (b. 1978, San Jose, Costa Rica) has exhibited widely internationally, with solo exhibitions and public installations in São Paulo, Brazil; San Francisco, CA; Dusseldorf, Germany; Kanazawa, Japan; Tokyo, Japan; Mexico City, Mexico; Freiburg, Germany; and London, UK. Recent major institutional projects include Tactiles, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, Portugal (2022); Barreras Blandas, Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica (2020); Tempo aberto, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói, São Paulo (2019); Open Envelope, Witte de With, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2018); and Alphabet, a site-specific installation for the atrium of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2018). Herrero’s work was featured in the 2021 Thailand Biennale. He was the recipient of the Young Artist’s Prize at the 49th Venice Biennale (2001) and his work is in the permanent collection of numerous institutions including the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Ella Fontanels-Cisneros Collection, Miami, FL; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; ME Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany; MUAC, Mexico City, Mexico; MUDAM, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg; MUSAC, Castilla y León, Spain; Museo de Santander, Spain; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil; Palm Springs Museum of Art, Palm Springs, CA; PAMM, Miami, FL; Saatchi Gallery, London, UK; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Tate Modern, London, UK; and Towada Art Center, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Herrero is also the founder of Despacio and Cero Uno, two contemporary art spaces in his native San Jose, which have served as important forces in the continued development of Central America’s artistic voice. He lives and works in San Jose, Costa Rica.