Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle

Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle was raised in Bogotá, Colombia, and Chicago—where he lives today and is a professor in the Department of Art Theory & Practice at Northwestern University. Manglano-Ovalle earned a BA in art and art history and a BA in Latin American and Spanish Literature from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1983. He earned his MFA in sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1989.

Individual exhibitions of his work include, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: Blinking Out of Existence (2006) at the Rochester Art Center in Minnesota; Focus: Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle (2005) at the Art Institute of Chicago; White Flags (2002) at the Barcelona Pavilion of the Mies van der Rohe Foundation in Barcelona, Spain; and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle (2001) organized by the Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, which traveled to four additional museums. Manglano-Ovalle’s work also has been included in numerous group exhibitions, including Documenta XII (2007) in Kassel, Germany; Moving Pictures (2002-03) at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York; Ultra Baroque: Aspects of Post Latin American Art (2000-03) at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego and five other museums; and the Twenty-Fourth International São Paulo Bienal in Brazil. Among Manglano-Ovalle’s many awards are fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1995) and the MacArthur Foundation (2001). His public commissions include Portrait of a Young Reader (2006) for the Bronx Library Center in New York and Drift for the city of Miami Beach, Florida.