Miguel Calderón

• Name — Miguel Calderón • Born — 1 June 1971 • Birthplace — Mexico City, Mexico • Education — BFA, San Francisco Art Institute (1994) • Field — Painting, photography, video, film, installation

Calderón received his BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1994.

In the 1990s, along with other artists, he founded the independent art space, La Panadería, in the Condesa neighborhood in Mexico City. Calderón has also worked in collaboration with different publishers and has a varied collection of artists books. Some of his work also appeared in the film The Royal Tenenbaums after director Wes Anderson saw Calderón's work.

He has solo exhibitions at the Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum in Mexico City, the Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York City, the Museum of Natural History in Mexico City, the San Francisco Art Institute's Diego Rivera Gallery, and the 2004 São Paulo Biennale. In 2021, he had a mid-career survey exhibition at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO), which was also presented in 2022 at Museo Tamayo. His work has been displayed at, among other places, the Guggenheim Museum's Air: Projections of Mexico exhibit, the Prometer no empobrece: arte contemporáneo mexicano show at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York City, the 2005 Sharjah Biennale, the 2005 Yokohama Triennale, the 2006 Busan Biennale, and had a film commissioned for the 2006 Frieze Art Fair in London. In 2007, Calderon exhibited with several other Latin American Artists at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.