PABLO GARCIA-LOPEZ
ARTIST RESUME
Education:
MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, Maryland, 2012
PhD Neuroscience, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 2008
BS Biochemistry, Autonoma University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 2001
Professional Experience:
Adjunct professor at School of Visual Arts (SVA), 2013-present
Adjunct professor at York College (CUNY), 2021-present
Visitor Scholar at School of Visual Arts, New York, 2008-09
Graduate Student, Instituto Cajal, Madrid, Spain, 2004-08
Collaborator in the Exhibition ‘Cajal (1852-2002; Science and Art)’, 2003-04
Solo and two People exhibitions:
Modern medieval with Shiri Mordechay, Ivy Brown Gallery, 2025
The enchanted loom, York University, 2022
Blurred Perceptions, Hot Wood Arts Gallery with Simona Prives, 2019
Silkworks, Catalyst gallery, Beacon, 2016
Wider than the Sky, Local Project, New York, 2015
Bodies, the exhibition (Creative alliance, Baltimore), 2014
Group exhibitions:
Modern medieval with Shiri Mordechay. Ivy Brown Gallery,
The enchanted loom. York University.
Blurred Perceptions. Hot Wood Arts Gallery with Simona Prives.
Silkworks. Catalyst gallery. Beacon,
Wider than the Sky. Local Project. New York.
Bodies, the exhibition. Creative alliance, Baltimore
Group shows
Pagans. Equity Gallery
Creatures: Mythical to Mundane. NOT REAL ART (LA)
Body Politics, Mccoll Arts Center
Winter palace, Equity gallery
Governors Island Art show, 4Heads
Ancestral echoes. A decade of Bioart, SVA gallery.
Psyche exhibition, Gallery Bengaluru, India, online
The Sculpture Shoppe, Cornell University
Governors Island residency, 4Heads
Guttenberg Arts residency and Art show
Spring break art show
The cured, Radiator Gallery
Governors Island Art Fair
Artist in the Market Place residence
Bronx Calling: The fourth AIM Biennial
Border show. Starr spac, Bushwick
Conception Contemporary art show, New York, NY
Dissection and the fragmentation of the body,
Franconia Sculpture Park, Minessota
Figment, New York, NY
Crowd Surfing at Transmodern Festival, Baltimore, MD
Brain: The mind as matter, Wellcome Trust, London, UK
Off the Rails, MFA, Thesis Show, MICA, Baltimore, USA
The end of light, New York Academy of Science old mansion, New York
Academy 2012, Conner Contemporary, Washington DC
Seeing Ourselves. MUSECPMI, New York, NY
Images of the mind. Mind Envisioning: The Mind in Art and Science.
Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany and
Moravská Galerie, Brno, Czech Republic
1st year MFA, Fox Three Galery, MICA, Baltimore
Grants, Fellowships, Awards, and Honors:
Elizabeth foundation for the art (EFA) studio-membership
4Heads Governors Island residency
Vermont Study Center – Residency Program (Declined)
Queens Council for the Arts New work grant
Four Heads (Governors Island) AIR residency
Bric Workspace (finalist)
Socrates Sculpture Park (finalist)
Sculpture Space residency program
Franconia Sculpture Park grant
Recent Graduate Residents at Brooklyn Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
Accesit Premio Joven, Complutense University Foundation, Madrid, Spain
Rinehart Fellowships, MICA, Baltimore, Maryland
Caixa Galicia Fellowship to develop the project ‘Cortical Garden’ in the
School of Visual Art, New York
Best Experimental and Animation Award, SCINEMA, Australia
Bibliography:
JUXTA Positions. MICA. Sculpting the brain. ‘Neuroscientist comes to United States to connect Science, Art in Rinehart program’. Sept-Oct. 2011, pag. 8-9
Beacon, New York. Catallist Gallery. Sculpture Magazine
Art for Progress. Pablo Garcia Lopez silk sculptures. Sabeena Khosla
Icons and iconoclasts. Suzanne Anker
Visiting Artist Lectures:
2006 SIMBIOTICA, School of Anatomy and Human Biology. Univ. Western Australia, August 18th -22th, 2006, Perth (Australia) Lectures: ‘Cajal and the dendritic spine’ and ‘Cajal: science and art’.
Publications:
Sculpting the brain. Frontiers in Human of Neuroscience, Front. in Hum. Neurosci, (2012) 6:5.doi:10.3389/fnhum.2012.00005
Dendritic Spines and development: Towards a unifying model of spinogenesis –A present day review of Cajal’s histological slides and drawings. Neural Plasticity, (2010) doi:10.1155/2010/769207
Cajal’s achievements in the field of the development of dendritic arbors. International Journal of Developmental Biology (2010) 54: 1405-1417 (Cover)
The histological slides and scientific drawings of the Cajal Museum. Front. Neuroanat. (2010) 4:9. doi:10.3389/neuro.05.009.
Updating old ideas and recent advances regarding the Interstitial Cells of Cajal Brain Research Reviews, (2009), 61: 154-169
The growth cone as seen through Cajal´s original histological preparations and publications. Journal of History of Neuroscicence, (2009), 18: 197 -210
Cajal´s contributions to the study of Alzheimer Disease”. Journal of Alzheimer Disease (2007), 11: 1-14.
The discovery of dendritic spines by cajal in 1888 and its relevance in present-day neuroscience. Progress in Neurobiology, (2007), 83: 110-130 (Cover)
Las preparaciones histológicas del Museo Cajal: catalogación e investigación. Revista de Museología (2007), 38: 6-16
Cajal´s contributions to glia research. Trends in Neuroscience, (2007) 30: 479-487 (Cover).
3D reconstruction of cerebral cortex pyramidal cell of a Cajal histological preparation. Journal of Neuroscience (2006), 26: 11249-11525 (Cover)
Chapter of books
Cajal: Arte, Science, Art and Microscopic Technique. The discrete charm of technology. Catalogue of NetArt Exhibition celebrated in the Museo extremeño e iberoamericano of contemporary art. Museo extremeño (Badajoz), ZKM (Kalsruhe). Claudia Gianetti (ed), (2008).
Molecular Music. MuVi. Video and moving image on Synesthesia and Visual Music. International exhibition of video. Edited by Dina Riccò & Maria José de Córdoba. Edizioni Poli. Design, Milano, 2007, pag. 92-93
Neuron. MuVi. Video and moving image on Synesthesia and Visual Music. International exhibition of video. Edited by Dina Riccò & Maria José de Córdoba. Edizioni Poli. Design, Milano, 2007, pag. 94-95
Conservación, tratamiento documental e investigación de los dibujos científicos de Santiago Ramón y Cajal Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-2002). Actas Congreso Cajal. Gobierno de Aragón. Departamento de Educación, Cultura y Deporte. Zaragoza, 2003, Colección Actas 67, pags. 361-379.
Valoración científica y tratamiento documental de los dibujos histológicos de Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-2003). Ciencia y Arte. V.A. Impresores, S.A., Madrid, 2003, pags. 55- 60.
Conferences Oral contributions :
The Legacy of Cajal. Chesnut Hill College, School of Undergraduate, October 5th-7th, 2006, Philadelphia (USA).The Discovery of Dendritic Spines.
IV Semana de la Ciencia de la Comunidad de Madrid. Instituto Cajal (CSIC), November 22nd, 2004, Madrid (Spain).Nervous system diseases through the histological slides and drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Congreso Cajal. October 1-3th, 2006 Zaragoza (Spain) Conservación, tratamiento documental e investigación de los dibujos científicos de Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
Posters:
Congreso internacional de Sinestesisa” May 25th − 29th, 2007, Granada (Spain). Sinestesia I.
The Cajal Centenary Conference on the cerebral cortex. CosmoCaixa, 25th −29th April , 2006. Barcelona (Spain)Growth cones in cajal´s histological preparations”.
The Cajal Centenary Conference on the cerebral cortex. CosmoCaixa, Barcelona (España 25th −29th April , 2006.).An interactive computer−assisted coding for three dimensional reconstruction and quantitative analysis applied
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