Cristóbal Lehyt

Santiago de Chile, 1973

Lives and works in New York, united States

BIOGRAPHY

Lehyt was born in 1973 in Santiago de Chile and from 1995 he lives in New York, united States. He began his Bachelor of Arts degree at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and subsequently completed her studies at Hunter College and the Whitney Independent Study Program of New York (USA). He is currently Asistant Professor in the art school of the Cooper Union, New York.

Solo exhibitions include: “Given a wall, what's happening behind it?”, Johannes Vogt Gallery (New York, USA, 2016); “Sun Chilean”, Die Ecke Arte Contemporáneo (Santiago, CL, 2014); “Iris Sheets”, the Americas Society (New York, USA, 2013); “If Organizing Is The Answer, What's The Question?”, Carpenter Center, Harvard University (Cambridge, UK, 2010); “a Drama Projection”, House of Propellers (London, UK, 2010) and “Cristóbal Lehyt”, MAVI (Santiago, CL, 2010).

His group exhibitions include: “The Circle was Missing, Museo Amparo, Puebla, MX, 2020); “Love and Ethnology: The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity (after Hubert Fichte)”, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, 2019); “SUPRASENSIBLIDADES”, National Museum of Fine Arts and Die Ecke Arte Contemporáneo (Santiago, Chile, 2018); “Momentum 8: Tunnel Vision”, 8th Nordic Biennial (Moss, NOT, 2015); “Outside”, Index-The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm (Stockholm, 2014); “Cut, Paste, Repair: A Hundred Years of Collage”, Sicardi Gallery in Houston, USA, 2014); “The Road”, Luis de Jesus Gallery (Los Angeles, USA, 2013); “Tectonic Shift: Contemporary Art From Chile”, Saatchi Gallery and Phillips De Pury And Company (London, UK, 2010); “Afterword”, Museo De Arte De Zapopan in Guadalajara, MX, 2010); 7th Mercosul Biennial – Grito E Escuta (Screaming And Hearing) (Porto Alegre, BR, 2009), and “Fantasmatic”, Millennium Museum in Beijing, CH, 2004); The American Effect, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York,USA, 2003).

Has obtained the competitions Art Forum Fellowship, Harvard University (USA), DIRAC (CL), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (USA), FONDART (CL) and the AMA Scholarship (CL). Her works are part of collections such as the MAC (Santiago, CL), National Historical Museum (Santiago, CL), MoMA (New York, USA), DRCLAS, Harvard University (Massachusetts, USA) and private as Juan Yarur, Hernán Garfias, among others.

Cristóbal Lehyt en inauguración Sol Chileno, Galería Die Ecke Santiago, 2014.

STATEMENT

Cristóbal Lehyt, Londres, 2010.

The work of Cristóbal Lehyt consists of drawings, videos, paintings, sculptures and installations.

 

Some of their projects consist of several works about the north and its stories as constructions of national identity, drawings, wall murals, and “semi-tapestries” of figures in the united undefined and sculptures that are arranged in geometries in limbo transformed by the caliche.

 

The figures may also reflect projections into the other, inventing stories and relationships that reflect to the observer rather than the subject being represented, and the sculptures are presented as phenomena dumb with bitter and sweet tastes.

 

The works of Lehyt are activated in the confusion and misunderstanding, at the same time that their transient nature makes them permeable to the position of the viewer.

Proyección Dramática 23

 

2008

 

Drawing

Ocular Espectacular II (líneas)

 

2009

 

Die Ecke Santiago de Chile

Sin Título

 

2016

 

Técnica mixta, papel sobre plexiglas

Dramaprojektion

 

2008

 

Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Alemania

Phantasmatic

 

2003

 

Jendela Visual Art Space, Singapur

Pomaire

 

2009

 

Fundación Telefónica, Santiago de Chile

El penúltimo paisaje

 

2009

 

Installation 

 

Portada «El penúltimo paisaje»

 

2009

 

Publicación

Iris sheets

 

2013

 

Americas Society Nueva York, Estados Unidos

PROJECT

Projections Dramatic

 

Projections dramatic is titled the creative project in which we have seen develop a set of works, in which you deposit your imagination devoid of rational intent, which is activated by an attitude ensoñadora close to the blade half-way between reality and unreality, the place inhabited by the ghosts, who use their language and land on reality through painting, drawing and sculpture.

Dramaprojektion, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart Alemania, 2008.

 

Untitled

 

2018

 

Dibujo, crayola sobre papel

Untitled

 

2014

 

Pintura, acrílico sobre poliester

Sin título, detalle

 

2014

 

Pintura, acrílico sobre poliester

Untitled

 

2018

 

Dibujo, crayola sobre papel

Untitled

 

2014

 

Pintura, acrílico sobre poliester

Untitled

 

2018

 

Dibujo, crayola sobre papel

Untitled

 

2014

 

Pintura, acrílico sobre poliester

Sin título, detalle

 

2014

 

Pintura, acrílico sobre poliester

EXHIBITS IN THE GALLERY

INVI CONTRA EL DIA

Against the day

26 de May al 15 de July de 2022
Headquarters Santiago

JAKI DESTACADA

JÄCKIBARKSMAU

14 de September al 20 de October de 2018
Headquarters Santiago

1 Inauguracion 14 scaled

Sol Chileno

14 de March al 19 de April de 2014
Headquarters Santiago

1 Inauguracion 5

El vértigo de eros y el dibujo incómodo

23 de November al 28 de December de 2012
Headquarters Santiago

die ecke barcelona colectiva 2010

Collective Die Ecke 2010

1 de February al 31 de March de 2010
Headquarters Barcelona

3 37

Ocular Spectacular II (Lines)

22 de December al 30 de January de 2009 - 2010
Headquarters Santiago

el mar de bolivia

The sea of Bolivia

16 de December al 27 de January de 2006 - 2007
Headquarters Santiago

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