Marco Godoy explores the relationship between images and ideology. He searches for alternative ways in which to talk about current social and political issues through the use of video, sculpture and performance. Over the last year Godoy's work has focused on how authority is visually constructed by those who exercise power, and the tools that we have to confront it.
Godoy studied Fine Arts at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) and the School of the Art, Institute of Chicago. He holds an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art (2014). His work is held in collections internationally, including La Panera Art Centre in Lleida; CA2M; the Spanish Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality; Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch; Hamaca; DKV Collection and MAC Collection (Chile).
Recent and upcoming projects include: Like gravity, NuncaNadieNadaNo, Madrid (upcoming); Theory of touch, Max Estrella Gallery (upcoming); Marco Godoy & Daniel de Paula: rest against, against rest, Copperfield, London (UK, 2025); A world behind the eyelid, Mac Quinta Normal Museum, Santiago de Chile (2025); Acción paralela, Ars Magna, Lanzarote, Comisariado por HAMACA (2024); He needs me, curated by Christophe Veys, LOSANGE, Brussels (2024); Art, an Algorithm in the Service of Society, DKV Collection, Ateneo Madrid (2024); Les Troisiémes rencontres, Comisariada por Jean Phillipe Vernes, Paris (2023); Lineas de fuga 2023, Comisariada por Lorena Gonzalez Innenco, Caracas, Venezuela (2023); Si las palabras hablaran (2022), Fundaciòn Sandretto, Madrid.
His work has also been presented at museums and institutions including Fundaciòn Sandretto, Madrid; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo (CA2M), Madrid; MACBA, Barcelona; Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Texas; ICA, London and Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
For his most recent solo/duo exhibition with the gallery please click here.
For his most recent group show with the gallery please click here.
Godoy studied Fine Arts at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) and the School of the Art, Institute of Chicago. He holds an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art (2014). His work is held in collections internationally, including La Panera Art Centre in Lleida; CA2M; the Spanish Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality; Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch; Hamaca; DKV Collection and MAC Collection (Chile).
Recent and upcoming projects include: Like gravity, NuncaNadieNadaNo, Madrid (upcoming); Theory of touch, Max Estrella Gallery (upcoming); Marco Godoy & Daniel de Paula: rest against, against rest, Copperfield, London (UK, 2025); A world behind the eyelid, Mac Quinta Normal Museum, Santiago de Chile (2025); Acción paralela, Ars Magna, Lanzarote, Comisariado por HAMACA (2024); He needs me, curated by Christophe Veys, LOSANGE, Brussels (2024); Art, an Algorithm in the Service of Society, DKV Collection, Ateneo Madrid (2024); Les Troisiémes rencontres, Comisariada por Jean Phillipe Vernes, Paris (2023); Lineas de fuga 2023, Comisariada por Lorena Gonzalez Innenco, Caracas, Venezuela (2023); Si las palabras hablaran (2022), Fundaciòn Sandretto, Madrid.
His work has also been presented at museums and institutions including Fundaciòn Sandretto, Madrid; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo (CA2M), Madrid; MACBA, Barcelona; Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Texas; ICA, London and Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
For his most recent solo/duo exhibition with the gallery please click here.
For his most recent group show with the gallery please click here.
Marco Godoy, A world behind the eyelid (Lithic experience), 2024 . Acrylic resin. 100 x 40 x 32 cm.
Marco Godoy, In the service of vision, 2020, Mixed Media installation of 10 riotshields
Marco Godoy, Sleight of Hand, 2019, Neon, 94 x 57 cm
Marco Godoy, Architectures of Intimidation, 2018, various metal fence sections, dimensions variable
Marco Godoy, What we still have to talk about, negative cast, resin, iron, 200 x 300 cm, installation view at Conde Duque, Madrid, 2021
Marco Godoy, If I were in your shoes (bread, education, freedom), 2016, HD Video, 2’56’’
Marco Godoy, Claiming the Echo, 2012, Full HD Video, 5'25”
Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2025 Like gravity, NuncaNadieNadaNo, Madrid (upcoming March 2025) Theory of touch, Max Estrella Gallery (upcoming June 2025) A world behind the eyelid, Mac Quinta Normal Museum, Santiago de Chile Marco Godoy & Daniel de Paula: rest against, against rest, Copperfield, London 2024 Marco Godoy & Daniel de Paula: rest against, against rest, Copperfield, London A world behind the eyelid, Mac Quinta Normal Museum, Santiago de Chile 2021 In the service of vision, Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain 2020 Heterarchy: Ven, seremos, Patricia Ready, Chile 2019 My we, your we, our we, Copperfield, London, UK Double reverb, solo performance, Centro Centro, Madrid, Spain 2017 The Distance Between Us, Sala de Arte Jóven, Madrid, as part of Primera fase, Comunidad de Madrid and DKV, Madrid, Spain What we still have to talk about, Galería Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain Möbius strip, curated by Violeta Janeiro, Hangar, Centro de Investigação artística, Lisbon, Portugal 2016 Europe, Copperfield, London, UK 2015 Claiming the Echo curated by Robert Blackson, Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, USA Group Exhibitions 2025 Custodia temporal Colección Font-Irwin. Palacio Condes de Gabia, Granada, Spain 2024 Acción paralela, Ars Magna, Lanzarote, Comisariado por HAMACA He needs me, Cur. Christophe Veys, LOSANGE, Brussels, Belgium Art, an Algorithm in the Service of Society, DKV Collection, Ateneo Madrid Polyphonic Essay, Curated by Maayan Sheleff, (non-)Conference, Athens 2023 What we still have to talk about, Museo de la memoria y derechos humanos, Chile Les Troisiémes rencontres, Comisariada por Jean Phillipe Vernes, Paris Lineas de fuga 2023, Comisariada por Lorena Gonzalez Innenco, Caracas, Venezuela 2022 Si las palabras hablaran, Fundaciòn Sandretto, Madrid, Spain Dialecto CA2M, curated by Manuel Segade and Tania Pardo, Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, Madrid, Spain Lineas de Fuga / Lines of Flight, Gallery CAF, Caracas, Venezuela ISEA 2022, La Capella del MACBA, Barcelona, Spain Les Troisiémes recontres, Paris, France Arco Madrid, Galería Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain ¿Como suena?, Centro Cultural de Mexico, Mexico 2021 Bajo la superficie, Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain Arco 2021, Max Estrella Gallery, Madrid, Spain La forma del tiempo, Loop, Sala San Miguel. Fundació La Caixa, Castelló Injuve, 30 años, Tabacalera Madrid, Spain Reset, Instructions to begin in a new present, TACA, Mallorca, Spain AP21, Aragon Park Madrid, Spain Under the Surface (Fear, Monsters, Shadows)’, Conde Duque Cultural Centre, Madrid, Spain 2020 14th Martínez Guerricabeitia Biennial, Valencia, Spain Proyecto Hospitaidad, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain Power is ficción, Perimetro de acción, Hablar en Arte, Madrid, Spain Acro 2020, Madrid, Spain 2019 Iris invertido / Inverted iris, within Gira project, Madrid, Spain Buffer Zones, Paradise Works, Manchester, UK Their past, your present our future, Tbilissi, Georgia Molten Capital, Mac Quinta Normal, Chile Reading International curated by Maayan Sheleff, Reading, UK 2018 Generation 2018, Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain Acts of disruption, Unit 1, London, UK Cinéphémère, Fiac 2018 curated by Natasa Petresin-Bachelez, Paris, France La forma de los tiempos, Casa Elizalde, Festival Loop, Barcelona, Spain The Fiction of Power, La Casa Encendida, Generaciones 2018, Madrid, Spain Poéticas del odio, Can Felipa, Barcelona, Spain 2017 Emociones incendiaries, Can Felipe Canter, Barcelona, Spain La pensée du tremblement / The thought of the tremor, Jeune Création and ENSAPC YGREC galleries, Paris, France Zone d’Utopie Temporaire (Z.U.T.), Yellow Brick, Athens, Greece We have the weights, We have the measures, Copperfield, London, UK Um trabalho um texto, with Clara Ianni, São Paulo, Brazil 2016 L'art de la revolte / The art of revolt, Hors Pistes, Une autre mouvement des images, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, and Malaga, Spain Esperando a Thoreau / Waiting for Thoreau: Disobedient Expressions, Injuve, Madrid, Spain Miseratione non mercede, Copperfield, London, UK Law's imagination, Arebyte, London, UK Hacking Habitat, the art of control, former prison Wolvenplein, Utrecht, the Netherlands Rencontres Internationales Berlin, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany and Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France Sorry you missed me, Kensington Galleries, Royal College of Art, London, UK 2015 London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK Do Disturb!, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France Preaching to the Choir, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Songs for someone who isn´t there, Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland ArteFactos, Dados Negros, Villanueva de los Infantes, Spain Learning from a pickpocket, ICA, London, UK Fireflies in the Night, Stravos Niarchos Foundation, Athens, Greece Le Cyclop, Milly-La-Forêt, France Et mon droit, Copperfield, London, UK New Contemporaries 2014, ICA London, London, UK 9a Biennal d’art Leandre Cristòfol, La Panera Lleida, Spain Who makes Europe, Gdańska Galeria Miejska, Poland Circunstancias, Centro Dados Negros, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain 2014 New Contemporaries 2014, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, UK New Contemporaries 2014, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK Abubuya Km.0, Workshop at Mamore River, Trinidad, Bolivia Final Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK XIV EAC 2014, Museum of Alicante, Spain Venez Fruits Pressés, La Manutention, Paris Post Communiqué, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Dallas, Texas 2013 Bosch Young Talent Show (BYTS), Stedelijk Museum’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands The Design Museum Den Bosch, s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands Who makes Europe, Städtische Galerie, Breman, Germany Circuitos, Sala de arte joven de la Comunidad de Madrid, Spain Micro Actions of Emergency, ADN Gallery / Platform, Barcelona, Spain Who makes Europe, Matadero, Madrid, Spain Notes to self, Dyson Galleries, Royal College of Art, London, UK Marca España, Kunsthalle Weißensee Kreativstadt, Berlin, Germany Puesta en escena, La Aurora Gallery, Murcia, Spain Manifestos: individual voices from a collective imagination, Espacio Trapecio, Madrid, Spain International Fellowship with Gasworks & Triangle Network; (des)ocupados, Siart Biennial La Paz, Bolivia 2012 INJUVE prize, Tabacalera, Madrid, Spain Estado Ausente, Lugar a Dudas Colombia Participar.de, Goethe-Institut Madrid and Matadero Intermediae, Madrid, Spain and Berlin, Germany Premio Joven, Arte 40, Centro de Arte C, Madrid, Spain Plan de rescate, Elefante Blanco, La Coruña, Spain Una historia vintage / A Vintage History, Platforma de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Spain 2011 Carne Fresca, UCM y Vincente Todolí, Madrid, spain MFA/BFA Show, Sullivan Gallery, Dene Siskel Center, Chicago, USA NOROC 4, The Green Lantern Gallery, Chicago, USA Channel, Channel, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, USA Intransit, Plataforma Complutense de creadores, Centro de Arte C, Madrid, Spain Collections CA2M Madrid Centre d'art la Panera, Lleida, Spain INJUVE, Collection of the Youth Institute, the Spanish Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality Stedelijk Museums, s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands MNCARS / Hamaca, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain Fidelity International, London, UK DKV, Madrid, Spain MAC Collection, Chile Residencies LauchPad Lab, curated by Veronique de Champvallier Parke and Sarah Lee Elson, La Boissière, France British School at Rome (Resident with New Contemporary Bursary), Rome, Italy Molten Capital - Mac Quinta Normal, Chile Kiosko, Santa Cruz Bolivia (International Fellowship with Gasworks & Triangle Network) Awards 2018 Generaciones 2018, Fundación Montehermoso 2015 Loop Discovery, Honorable mention, Barcelona, Spain 2014 International Fellowship with Gasworks & Triangle Network 2012 Scholarship by Letrou Family 2011 INJUVE, Collection of the Youth Institute, Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality 2010 Bancaja Scholarship to study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago |