1972, born in Mexico City, raised near NASA in Houston, TX, lives in Brooklyn, NY and works anywhere

Education
1991-1996
The University of Texas at Austin. studied Astronomy and Art History
1999-2000
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Mini-Med School Program,
New York University, New York

Selected Individual & Two Person Exhibitions
2013
fordPROJECT, New York (forthcoming)
2012
Alberto Peola Arte Contemporanea, Turin (forthcoming)
GE Galeria, Monterrey (forthcoming)
Astrospheres Galeria Okyo, Caracas (catalog)
Arnaldo Morales & Vargas-Suarez Universal Galeria Carlos Irizarry, San Juan de Puerto Rico
2010
Эльдорадо (El Dorado) Solar Contemporary Art & Design, East Hampton, NY
Cosmodrome Vectors Think.21 Gallery, Brussels
2008
Virus Americanus Maximus GE Galeria, Monterrey
2007
Next Green Sphere g-module, Paris
Oliver Lutz, Vargas-Suarez Universal, Space Other, Boston
Space Station: San Sebastian Galeria Carlos Irizarry, San Juan de Puerto Rico
2006
A New Kind of Science Karpio+Facchini Gallery, Miami
2005
Space Station: Tenochtitlan Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico D.F. (cat.)
2004
Wall Drawing Commission & Study Drawings LibertyHealth Foundation, Jersey City
Event Horizon g-module, Paris
2003
American Virus Jersey City Museum, Jersey City (brochure)
Outer (Negative) Space, obras recientes Galeria Ramis Barquet, Monterrey
Audio-Drawings & New Works on Paper Galeria Carlos Irizarry, San Juan de Puerto Rico
Art Unknown: Programa Comisariado de Proyectos Individuales Thomas Erben Gallery, ARCO ‘03 Feria
Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo, Parque Ferial Juan Carlos I, Madrid (cat.)
Proper Motion (Pictures) The Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers, NY
2002
Stardust, new wall drawings Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
Space Stations and Blueprints g-module, Paris
Vargas-Suarez Universal: Space Stations Lobby Gallery, Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn organized by d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn
2000
The Fourth Annual d.u.m.b.o. Art Under the Bridge Festival, Installations: Vargas-Suarez Universal
Metropolitan Transit Authority, New York City Transit, York St. Subway Station. organized by d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn
Domestic Model of a Wormhole (outdoor project), P.S. 122 Gallery, organized by Archibald Arts, New York
American Virus 288 Elizabeth Street, New York
1998
Trahere Naturalis & Virus 76 Varick, New York
A Brief Documentation of Black Holes and Blue Holes Holland Tunnel Art Projects, Brooklyn
Unknown (Sex Drive) Obsolete Studios, Queens
Texas Landscape Atelier von David Medalla, Berliner Kunstler Prograam des Deutschen Akademischen
Austauschdienst (DAAD), Berlin
1995
Vargas-Suarez Universal Apple Computer Corp., Austin

Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
Storefront Bushwick, Brooklyn
FIA, Hotel Tamancao Intercontinental, Caracas, VE
Trienal Poli/gráfica de San Juan: Latinoamérica y el Caribe, El Panal/The Hive, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina
Española, Viejo San Juan, Puerto Rico (cat.)
(Un)folding Patterns Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City, NY (cat.)
2011
Name.Date.Title. fordPROJECT, New York
Hello World, Milavec Hakimi Gallery, New York
Flag Day Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY (cat.)
Perceptions in Balance Nuartlink Gallery, Westport, CT (cat.)
Campo de Asociaciones: diálogos y silencios entre prácticas de dibujo Centro Cultural Simon Bolivar, Guayaquil, Ecuador (cat.)
A line of souls and some words from the holy Fortress to Solitude, Brooklyn, NY
Spirit of the Epoch: A Decade of Painting from the Ofelia Martin & Javier Nuñez Art Collection Museo Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo (MIAC-Lanzarote), Arrecife, Canary Islands, Spain (cat.)
2010-2011
Signs, Systems & the City in El Museo del Barrio's Permanent Collection El Museo del Barrio, New York
2010
Unraveling Abstraction Nuartlink Gallery, Westport, CT
YLA 15: Concensus of Taste, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin (cat.)
Atmospheres: A Walk In Silence, Galerie Pangee, Montreal
2009
Brooklyn Utopias? Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY
Theater of More: “21” White Box, New York
A Legacy of Change: 25th Anniversary Exhibition of the Permanent Collection Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX
Big Show: Love Jacob Karpio Galeria, San Jose de Costa Rica
Baroque Reason Keith Talent Gallery, London
2008
Workspace Program 2007-08 Dieu Donne Papermill, Inc., New York (cat.)
Wild Jacob Karpio Galeria, San Jose de Costa Rica
Abbey Mural Workshop Fellows Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York
Claiming Space: Mexican-Americans in U.S. Cities, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, The University of Texas at El Paso (cat.)
Walls and Gateways Existentie vzw, ACEC, Ghent, Belgium (cat.)
S.O.S. 4.8 Sustainable Art Actions, Centro de Congresos Victor Villegas, Murcia, Spain (cat.)
ggg.g-salon g-module, Paris
Put Your Flag Where Your Mouth Is St. Paul's Hall, St. Paul's Steiner School, London
2007
The Expanded Painting Show, Cottelston Advisors, Miami
Brave New World Solar, East Hampton, NY (cat.)
Suncom Art Nites Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan
Per Square Foot Dieu Donne Papermill Inc., New York (cat.)
della Pittura Digitalis: On Painting and the Digital Moment Galerie Caprice Horn, Berlin
Double-edged Abstraction g-module, Paris
2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art: Special Projects: We Are Your Future Winzavod Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow (cat.)
Artists Books: Transgression/Excess Space Other, Boston
III Certamen Internacional De Pintura De Castellón Fundacion Astroc, Madrid (cat.)
Mixed Signals Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York
2006
III Certamen Internacional De Pintura De Castellón El Museo de Bellas Artes de Castellón, Spain (cat.)
Good Morning City Noise!!! Sound Art Project Galeri Soemardja, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia
Radicales Libres GE Galeria, Monterrey (cat.)
What War? White Box, New York
Show Off g-module, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris (cat.)
Year _06, g-module, Mary Ward House, London
Dieu Donné Papermill Inc., New York (cat.)
Pure Form, Solar, East Hampton, NY
The Sun in Uranus, Offspace Projects, London
States of Anxiety Punto Gris, CIRCA 06, San Juan de Puerto Rico
Group Exhibition d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn
2005
My Mother the Nazi the:artist:network, New York
Future Quake g-module, FIAC, Paris (cat.)
Barrocos & Neobarrocos (El Infierno de lo Bello) DA2 (Domus Artium 2002), Fundacion Salamanca
Ciudad de Cultura, Palacio de Abrantes, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain (cat.)
The Line Between Life and Death Karpio+Facchini Gallery, Miami
Out of Bounds Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY (cat.)
Happy Bithday To Me g-module, Paris
Jacob Karpio Galeria, ARCO ’05, Madrid (cat.)
2004
Art Basel Miami Beach: The International Art Show Jacob Karpio Galeria, Miami Beach (cat.)
31 Edition Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain g-module, Paris expo-Porte de Versailles, Paris (cat.)
Eigth Annual d.u.m.b.o. Art Under the Bridge Festival, Music: Experimental and Avant Garde Sound,
The Soundbox, organized by d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn
a small look at GIGANTICISM Gigantic Art Space, New York (cat.)
Topologies Solar, East Hampton, NY
Small Drawings by Big People Galeria Carlos Irizarry, San Juan de Puerto Rico
Mexico Arte Contemporaneo Jacob Karpio Galeria, Expo Reforma, Mexico D.F. (cat.)
Momenta Art Benefit White Columns, New York
Cartografia Americana Solar, East Hampton, NY
The Armory Show: The International Fair of New Art Jacob Karpio Galeria, New York
Voces y Visiones:Highlights from El Museo del Barrio’s Permanent Collection, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Art Rotterdam, g-module, Wilhelminakade, Rotterdam
2003
NADA Art Fair g-module, The Lincoln, Miami Beach
Voces y Visiones: Highlights from El Museo del Barrio’s Permanent Collection, El Museo del Barrio, New York (cat.)
White Box Benefit James Cohan Gallery, New York
Mexico Illuminated Freedman Gallery, Albright College/Center for the Arts, Reading, Pennsylvania (cat.)
Il Palazzo delle Liberta Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italia (cat.)
Ready for War University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal
Galeria Ramis Barquet, ARCO ‘03, Madrid
Art Rotterdam g-module, Wilhelminakade, Rotterdam
7 Walls 8 Views Arena, New York
2002
Secret Gulbenkian Galleries, Royal College of Art, London
Scratch Arena, New York
Save Our Senate Exit Art/The First World, New York
Candela Art + Music Festival Galeria Carlos Irizarry, San Juan
Ballpoint Inklings Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Deja Vu g-module, Paris
Recent Multiples Projects x 5-Inbox Vol. V 10038 Organization of Independent Artists, New York
Speaking Truths-Inbox Vol. V 10038 Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis
A Special Place Arena, Brooklyn
2001
FFWD>> Miami Contemporary Art: Fair Arena, Hotel Nash, Miami Beach
Refraction Arts Installations Project The Blue Theater, Austin
Drawings (selected) g-module, Paris
Crossing the Line Queens Museum of Art, New York (cat., CD)
Sthlm Art Fair Arena@Feed, Sollentunamassan AB, Stockholm
Think...1.2.3.Think: Rupert Goldsworthy, Jocelyn Taylor, Vargas-Suarez Universal im niL, Brooklyn (essay)
Emerging Archibald Arts, New York
2000
London Biennale 2000 Fleet Place, London (cat.)
Dona Nelson, Andreij Monastyrkij, Vargas-Suarez Universal, Tom Wood Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
Meat Market Art Fair Arena@Feed, New York
Good Business is the Best Art: Twenty Years of the Artist in the Marketplace Program The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx
S-Files: The Selected Files El Museo del Barrio, New York (cat.)
Lineage d.u.m.b.o. arts center, Brooklyn
Erratic Errand Archibald Arts, New York
Line Arena@Feed, Brooklyn
1999
Artist in the Marketplace: Nineteenth Annual Exhibition The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY (catalogue)
A Room With a View Sixth@Prince Fine Arts, New York
Linea Nigra-Drawing the Line Star 67, Brooklyn
1998
Fresh Blood: 13 Young Artists Archibald Arts, New York
Ruido (Noise): Sound Based Art Taller Boricua Gallery, Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, New York
The Calculus of Transfiguration: Meaning Form and Process in Late Twentieth Century Art
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn
1997
Young Latino Artists II Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin
Aberrations ACA Gallery, Austin
1996 Young Latino Artists Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin

Discography (collaborative)
2003 Vargas-Suarez Universal & DJ Chucky (CD): Any Number of Notes. Tenet Records, San Juan
2001 V-SU, Wilcox & Haynes (CD): Space Station: Dystopia. WishWash Communications, Austin
2000 V-SU, Wilcox & Haynes (CD): Mental Blueprints. WishWash Communications, Austin
1999 Lefty (CD, LP): Everybody Loves a Hero. WishWash Communications, Austin

Selected Collections
Ainsworth Collection, Sydney, Australia
Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
BaNorte Banco Comercial, Caracas, Venezuela
Boelsche Collection, Austin
Brooklyn Museum of Art Library, New York
Comunidad Autonoma de la Region de Murcia (CARM), Spain
DA2 (Domus Artium 2002), Fundacion Salamanca Ciudad de Cultura, Salamanca, Spain
Dieu Donne Papermill, Inc. Archives, New York
El Museo del Barrio, New York (commission)
LibertyHealth Foundation, Jersey City (commission)
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City
Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
Queens Museum of Art, New York
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence
UBS Art Collection
Villardell Collection, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Winzavod Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow, Russian Federation

Lectures, Panels and Symposiums
2011
School of Visual Arts, New York
New School University, New York
City University of New York, New York
El Museo del Barrio, New York
2010
City University of New York, New York
2009
UBS Art Collection, Washington DC
Louisiana ArtWorks, New Orleans
NACCS (National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies) Conference, New Brunswick, NJ
2008
School of Visual Arts, New York
Louisiana ArtWorks, New Orleans
Department of Art, The University of Texas at El Paso
2007
Louisiana ArtWorks, New Orleans
2003
CalArts Visiting Artist program, California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, CA
Visiting Lecturer, Escuela de Artes Plasticas, San Juan de Puerto Rico
2002
Department of Art History, Rhode Island School of Design
2000
Lehman College, CUNY, Department of Art History, Bronx
Association of Hispanic Artists, Guggenheim Museum, New York

Selected Bibliography
Angeline, John. “Ruido, Taller Boricua, New York” Art Nexus. No.32 (May-July 1999). 117, Ill.
“The ‘S’/Selected Files, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY” Art Nexus, No. 38. (Nov. 2000-Jan. 2001):109, 110
Aranda-Alvarado, Rocio. “Vargas-Suarez Universal” Bomb Magazine, No. 90. (Winter 2004/05) No. 90. p.32-39, Ill.
“Vargas-Suarez Universal” (exhibition brochure), Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, 2003
”Integrating the Museum:Contemporary Latino Art in Context” paper presented at “The Interpretation and Representation of Latino Cultures: Research and Museums”, Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, Nov. 20-23. 2002.
Barragan, Paco, Miguel Angel Muret, Martin Herbert, Javier Panera and the artists. “II Certamen Internacional de Pintura Expandida Castellon” (exhibition catalogue), Diputacio Provincial de Castello, Castellon, 2007 ISBN: 978-84-96372-32-0. pp. 60-61, Ill.
“Sustainabilities/Sostenibilidades-Preace: Thou Shall Not Fly/Prefacio: No Volaras!” (exhibition catalogue), Edizione Charta srl, Milano, 2008 ISBN 978-88-8158-676-9. pp. 12, 13, 15, 16, 19, Ill.
”Espiritu de Epoca/Spirit of the Epoch” (exhibition catalogue), Museo Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo, MIAC-Centros de Arte y Turismo del Cabildo de Lanzarote, 2011 ISBN 13 978-84-95938-74-9. pp. 17, 25, 78, 94, Ill.
Bischoff, Dan. “Inner Space: Jersey City Museum Muralist Draws Inspiration from the Heavens Above”
The Star-Ledger, Friday Sept. 19, 2003.
Callahan, Lori. “Six Artists Explore the Sights and Sounds of Silence in Atmospheres”. Montreal Gazette, April 3, 2010.
Chambers, Christopher. “A Twentieth Street Odyssey” New York Arts Magazine, Oct.-Nov. , 2002 (web)
Cotter, Holland. “Line”, The New York Times, May 12, 2000. p. E36
“Picking Out Distinctive Voices in a Pluralistic Chorus” The New York Times, August 18, 2000. p. E31
“Think...123,” Art Guide, The New York Times, Friday, February 2, 2001. p. E38
Cullen, Deborah and Yasmin Ramirez. “Cartographies: Notes from the War Years” and “Curatorial Statement” in The S-Files (exhibition catalogue), El Museo del barrio, New York, 2000, pp.3,4,6,7,33,36, Ill.
Droitcur, Brian, Jonathan Goodman, Fernando Castro Florez, the artists.
“We Are Yor Future - Special Project for the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art” (exhibition catalogue), John Isaacs Books, Art Star Books, Beijing, People’s Republic of China, 2007 ISBN: 0-9772971-2-8. pp. 83,118-119, 138, 149, Ill.
Fusi, Lorenzo. “Il Palazzo delle Liberta” (exhibition catalogue), Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea per l’edizione: Gli Ori Prato-Siena, 2003 ISBN: 88-7336-077-7. pp.30, 34,41,54,55,158-161, 258,259292,293, Ill.
Genocchio, Benjamin. “Treasures in the Attic” The New York Times, Sunday Sept. 7, 2003
“A View from Outer Space? No, It’s Just of Jersey City”, The New York Times,
Sunday December 28, 2003.p. NJ9
”Bringing the Outdoors Inside and Hanging It on the Walls”, The New York Times, Art Review, March 20, 2005. p. 17
Goddard, Donald. “Vargas-Suarez Universal” New York Art World Oct. 2002 (web)
Goleas, Janet. “Digital, Orbital, Electric” The East Hampton Star, October 7, 2010. Ill.
Gonzalez-Rosas, Blanca. “Arte: P.S. 1 Studio Visit” Revista Proceso, edición #1757 (July 4, 2010): 70. Ill.
Herrera, Adriana. “ Vargas-Suarez Universal: Una Nueva Clase de Arte” Nuevo Herald (Miami, FL), May 14, 2006, P. 8D
Helguera, Pablo. “Vargas-Suarez Universal, Thomas Erben Gallery” ArtNexus, No. 48. (Volume 2 Year 2003): 133, 134, Ill.
Johnson Ken. “Andreij Monastyrskij, Dona Nelson, Vargas-Suarez Universal, Tom Wood” The New York Times, July 14, 2000. p. E30
Landes, Jennifer. “Scary New World” Eat Hampton Star, Nov. 8, 2007.
La Rocco, Ben. “Out of Bounds”, The Brooklyn Rail, Art, May, 2005.
Laurence, Jean-Christophe. Le Silence Absolu, c'est le cosmos...” La Presse, Arts Visuels. (Samedi 27 Mars 2010) P.19, Ill.
Levin, Kim. “Vargas-Suarez Universal” Village Voice. No. 43 Vol. XLVII Oct. 23-29, 2002. p. 99
Lien, Fu Chia-Wen. “Poetics of Landscape : Out of Bounds and in Bounds” NY Arts Magazine (n° 7/8 July, 2005)
Molok, Nicolai. “2nd Moscow Biennale of contemporary art special projects” (exhibition catalogue), Moscow
Biennale Art Foundation, Art Chronika, Moscow, Russian Federation, 2007 ISBN 5-902996-04-X. pp. 142-145. Ill.
Mooney, Christopher. “Vargas-Suarez Universal: Next Green Sphere, g-module, Paris” Art Review Issue 18, (January 2008). p.127, Ill.
Palapa-Quijas, Fabiola. “Fusiona artista astronomia e historia del arte para conquistar los muros del Carrillo Gil” La Jornada, July 12, 2005. Ill.
Panera Cuevas, F. Javier, Paco Barragan and Omar Pascual-Castillo. “Barrocos y Neobarrocos: El Infierno de lo bello” and “Rizar el Rizo” (exhibition catalogue), Fundacion Salamanca Ciudad de Cultura, Salamanca, 2005 ISBN: 84934558-6-5. pp. 29, 72, 256, Ill.
Pascual-Castillo, Omar. “Fast Four-Footed Animal (Or... some notes and ideas on contemporary art originating in or circulating about-and for- Mexico)” art.es inernational contemporary art, No. 6-7 (February 2005): p. 35-44, Ill.
Reitz-Rakul, Ekaterina and Steve Schepens. “A trip to Baikonur with Vermeer: Vargas-Suarez Universal – Cosmodrome
Vectors at Think.21 Gallery, Brussels” ArtPulse Magazine No. 4 (Vol.1 Summer 2010) Ill.
Rodriguez, Jorge. “En SunCom Art Nites libros artesanales de Rafael Vargas-Suarez Universal”, El Vocero de Puerto Rico, Escenarios, October 18, 2007. Ill.
Sirmans, Franklin. “The S-Files” Time Out New York No. 255 (Aug. 10-17, 2000): 61.
Universal, Vargas-Suarez, Scott Wilcox and Eliot Haynes, “Blueprints: Sound Recordings of Experimental
Drawings” Leonardo, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA Vol.34 No. 4 (2001) p. 349-352, Ill.
“Structuring Mark Lombardi's Narratives: My Memories of His Possibilities in this World” essay in “THIS: A Collection of Artist's Writings” Jennings, Susan, editor.: Right Brain Words, New York, 2009 ISBN:978-0-615-24937-7. pp. viii, 75-80.
“Interview with Fabian Marcaccio” in “When A Painting Moves... Something Must Be Rotten!” Barragan, Paco & Wendt, Selene, editors. Edizioni Charta srl, Milano 2011ISBN 978-88-8158-816-9. pp. 49-52.
Van de Vel, Matthias. “Vargas-Suarez Universal” (exhibition catalogue), Existentie vzw, Labo 6, Ghent, 2008, pp. 2, 19, 20, Ill.
Velasquez De Leon, Mauricio. “#6 Artistas Emergentes En El Bronx” El Diario, July 22, 1999. p. 24, Ill.
Weinstein, Joel. “CIRCA 2007 San Juan” ArtNexus, No. 65 (Volume 6 Year 2007): 119
Weiss, Marion. “Vargas-Suarez at Solar” Art Commentary, Dan's Papers Issue #32, October 29, 2010. Ill.
Wilson, Michael. “First Take, New Art, New Artists: A Special Report, Michael Wilson on Vargas-Suarez Universal” Artforum International (Jan. 2003) p. 127, ill.
Zeits, Lisa. “Vogelhauschen mit Leder und Reissverschluss” Frankfurter Allgemeiner Zeitung October 13, 2002 p.41, Ill.