Yuyo Gardiol
San Carlos Centro, Santa Fe, Argentina, 1980.
In my work I reflect on the passage of time, balance, fragility, and how permeable we are to our surroundings. Obsessed with the power of the simple and everyday, I explore the possibilities of materialising these concepts through multiple languages: sculpture, installations, performances, actions, videos and photographs. I often experiment with different materials—ceramic, glass, fabrics, iron, sand, branches—seeking to make the intangible tangible, to freeze moments and sensations, attempting to capture drawings in water.
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Artist, cultural manager and curator.
Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Faculty of Humanities and Arts, National University of Rosario, Argentina.
Founder and director of Crudo Arte Contemporáneo (since 2014); the artist-training programme Taller Compartido (since 2018); the contemporary-art introductory programme for new collectors “La Medici” (since 2023); the artist-residency programme CRUDO Residencias (since 2013) and Residencia Móvil (since 2009), among other projects.
She has taken clinics with Eduardo Basualdo, Ana Gallardo and Eugenia Calvo. She completed the programme “Escuela Prestada” (Municipal School Manuel Musto, Rosario 2019) and the training programme of the National Fund for the Arts + Nuevo Banco de Santa Fe held at the MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rosario, tutored by Rodrigo Alonso and Gabriel Valansi.
She has received grants and subsidies from the Ministry of Culture of Argentina (2020); the AAICI – Argentine Agency for Investment and International Trade (2018, 2019, 2020, 2023); the National Fund for the Arts (2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2021); and the Secretariat of Culture of the Municipality of Rosario (2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023) to develop and strengthen her projects as both manager and artist.
As an artist, she won the In Situ Prize awarded by collectors Joaquín Rodríguez and Abel Gogglione at Pinta BAphoto 2023, and the National Fund for the Arts Prize at the LXIX National Salon of Rosario 2015.
She is currently undertaking the Coordenadas residency in Buenos Aires.
She has completed residencies in Madrid (Spain), São Paulo (Brazil), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Santa María (Brazil), San Martín de los Andes (Argentina), Mar del Plata (Argentina), Tucumán (Argentina), among others.
Since 2005 she has exhibited in solo and group shows at museums, galleries, foundations, cultural centres and fairs in Argentina and abroad. Her works are held in private collections in Argentina, Panama, Uruguay, Spain and the United States. She has participated in fairs such as Zona Maco, Arco Lisboa, Pinta Miami, Pinta BAphoto, Swab Barcelona, Mercado de Arte Córdoba, among others.
Solo exhibitions: “Pueblo Fantasma”, CRUDO (Rosario, Argentina, 2024); “En la oscuridad absoluta hasta una montaña es invisible”, curated by Irene Gelfman, Museo Castagnino (Rosario, Argentina, 2023); “Observar lo invisible”, La Lavandería (Madrid, Spain, 2018); “Un secreto olvidado”, curated by Hernán Camoletto, CRUDO (Rosario, Argentina, 2018); “Autorretrato”, Galería Lava (Rafaela, Argentina, 2017); “Un campo de trigo”, tutored by Augusto Zanela, Panal 361 (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2016); “Reverdecer”, 12th Rosario Art Week (Rosario, Argentina, 2016); “Lo que quedó de nuestro amor”, National Salon of Rosario, Museo J. B. Castagnino (Rosario, Argentina, 2015); “Del vacío un bosque”, MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art Rosario (Rosario, Argentina, 2015); “Trincheras, de la serie Imposibilidades del amor”, CRUDO (Rosario, Argentina, 2014); “Imposibilidades del amor”, room 409, Hotel Morotín (Santa María, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 2013); “Armas de casa”, La Sede (Rosario, September 2012); “No puedo salir de casa”, Centro de Expresiones Contemporáneas (Rosario, Argentina, 2012); “Inestable”, the artist’s home (Rosario, Argentina, 2009); and “Nostalgia”, the artist’s home (Rosario, Argentina, 2005).
Group exhibitions: “Premio in situ 2021-2024”, curated by Joaquín Rodríguez, Casa Nacional del Bicentenario (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2025); “Rutas relacionales”, curated by Javier Martín Giménez, Galería Lucía Mendoza (Madrid, Spain, 2024-2025); “¿Cuánto pesa el amor?”, curated by Daniel Fischer, Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2024); “El cuerpo con letra entra”, curated by Manuel Quaranta, CRUDO (Rosario, Argentina, 2021); “Jet Lag”, CRUDO (Rosario, Argentina, 2020); “EP”, open studio of Escuela Prestada, Escuela Municipal Manuel Musto (Rosario, Argentina, 2019); “Calentamiento, penetración y resistencia”, as part of the artists’ collective Sindicato, Museo de la Ciudad (Rosario, Argentina, 2019); “Gran Antología Emergente”, Centro de Expresiones Contemporáneas (Rosario, Argentina, 2018); “Amor, amor, amor”, Cilindro (San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, 2016); “Confluencias”, curated by Rodrigo Alonso, Centro de Expresiones Contemporáneas (Rosario, Argentina, 2014); “Magnífico territorio”, Parque das Ruinas (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2014); “Rodízio”, Areia da Cultura (Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2013); “Souvenir de Río” (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2013); “Nunca supe porque no lo sé”, Viamonte Arte y Afines (Rosario, Argentina, 2013); “Cuestiones capitales”, curated by Fernando Farina, Casa de la Cultura del Fondo Nacional de las Artes (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2012); and “Papá me llevas al CEC”, with Adolfo Nigro and Ariel Torti.
She currently lives and works in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina.
Prensa y publicaciones digitales:
- Premio duplicado y primeras compras en Pinta BAphoto La Nación
- La imagen se expande en Pinta BAphoto La Nación
- Entrevista a Yuyo Gardiol Arte al día
