Born in 1943 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Memorias del subdesarrollo. Arte y el giro decolonial en América Latina, 1960-1985 = Memories of underdevelopment. Art and the decolonial turn in Latin America, 1960-1985. Exhibition catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA, September 17, 2017 - February 4, 2018, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, March 21 - September 9, 2018, Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru, November 20, 2018 - February 23, 2019. With texts by Julieta González, Sharon Lerner, Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, and Andrea Giunta. San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2018.
Manifestos and polemics in Latin American Modern Art. Edited and translated by Patrick Frank. Albuquerque, University of Mexico Press, 2017.
Horacio Zabala. La pureza está en la mezcla = Purity is in the mix. Exhibition catalogue, Colección de arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, Buenos Aires, Argentina, March - July 2016, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA, October 2016 - March 2017. With texts by Rodrigo Alonso, Vanessa Davidson, and the artist. Buenos Aires, Colección de arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, 2016.
Verboamérica. Collection catalogue, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires, Argentina. With texts by Agustín Pérez Rubio, and Andrea Giunta. Buenos Aires, MALBA, 2016.
Dark Mirror. Art from Latinamerica since 1968. Works from the Daros Latinamerica Collection. Exhibition catalogue, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, September 26, 2015 - January 31, 2016. Edited by Ralf Beil and Holger Broeker. Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2015.
Dark Mirror. Lateinamerikanische Kunst seit 1968. Werke aus der Daros Latinamerica Collection. Exhibition catalogue, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, September 26, 2015 - January 31, 2016. Edited by Ralf Beil and Holger Broeker. Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2015.
Alonso, Rodrigo. Elogio de la Low-Tech. Historia y estética de las artes electrónicas en América Latina. Buenos Aires, Luna Editores, 2015.
Monochrome undone. Exhibition catalogue, SPACE, Irvine, California, USA, October 24, 2015 - April 1, 2016. With texts by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, and Carlos E. Palacios. Fitch, Irvine CA, Sayago & Pardon / Barcelona, RM, 2015.
Barnitz, Jacqueline. Twentieth-Century art of Latin America. Revised and expanded edition. Austin, University of Texas Press, 2015.
Resistance performed. An anthology on aesthetic strategies under repressive regimes in Latin America. Exhibition catalogue, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland, November 21, 2015 - February 7, 2016. With texts by Heike Munder, Cristiana Tejo, Nelly Richard, Miguel A López, and Rodrigo Alonso. Zürich, JRP Ringier, 2014.
Arte de sistemas. El CAYC y el proyecto de un nuevo arte regional. 1969-1977. Exhibition catalogue, Espacio de Arte Fundación OSDE, Buenos Aires, July 25 - October 5, 2013. With texts by María José Herrera and Mariana Marchesi. Buenos Aires, Fundación OSDE, 2013.
Conceptual geographies. Frames and documents. Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros collection. Exhibition catalogue, Wallach Art Gallery, New York, USA, January 23 - March 23, 2013. With a text by Anne Bruder. New York, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, 2013.
Horacio Zabala. desde 1972. Exhibition catalogue, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 15 - June 28, 2013. With texts by Fernando Davis, Ana Longoni, Mario Perniola and Gonzalo Aguilar. Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, 2013.
Permission to be global. Latin American art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection = Prácticas globales. Exhibition catalogue, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA, December 4, 2013 - February 23, 2014, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA, March 19 - July 13, 2014. With a conversation between Jen mergel, Liz Munsell and Jesús Fuenmayor. Miami, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, 2013.
Horacio Zabala. 300 metros de cinta negra para enlutar una plaza pública. 1972-2012. Reconstruction of the instalation in the Group show "Arte de sistemas II. Arte e ideología. CAYC al aire libre" from 1972, 2012. With texts by Fernando Davis and the artist. Buenos Aires, Otra Casa, 2012.
Open work in Latin America, New York & beyond. Exhibition catalogue, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, February 8 - May 4, 2013. With texts by Harper Montgomery (et al.). New York, Hunter College of The City of New York, 2012.
Documentos para un futuro imperfecto. Una curadoría de Esteban Álvarez. Exhibition catalogue, El Parqueadero, Bogotá, April 2011. With a text by Esteban Álvarez. Bogotá, Fundación Gilberto Alzate Avendaño, 2011.
Frames and documents. Conceptualist practices. Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros collection. Exhibition catalogue, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA, November 30, 2011 - March 4, 2012. With texts by Jesús Fuenmayor and Philippe Pirotte. Miami, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, 2011.
Guide Malba collection. Collection catalogue, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires, Argentina. With texts by Marcelo Pacheco. Buenos Aires, Malba - Fundación Costantini, 2011.
Sistemas, acciones y procesos 1965-1975. Exhibition catalogue, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July - October 2011. With texts by Rodrigo Alonso, Andrea Giunta, Cristina Freire (et al.). Buenos Aires, Fundación Proa, 2011.
Transvisual #4. La revista anual del Centro Cultural Recoleta. Buenos Aires, CeDIP-Centro Cultural Recoleta, 2011.
Horacio Zabala. Anteproyectos & hipótesis. Exhibition catalogue, Carla Rey Arte Contempráneo, Buenos Aires, November - December 2010. WIth texts by Fernando Davis (et al.). Buenos Aires, Carla Rey Arte Contemporáneo, 2010.
Amigo, Roberto, Silvia Dolinko, and Cristina Rossi. Palabra de artista. Textos sobre arte argentino, 1961-1981. Buenos Aires, Fundación Espigas and Fondo Nacional de las Artes, 2010.
Farina, Fernando, and Andrés Labaké (eds.). Poéticas contemporáneas. Itinerarios en las artes visuales en la Argentina de los 90 al 2010. Apuntes y aproximaciones. Buenos Aires, Fondo Nacional de la Artes, 2010.
Subversive Praktiken. Kunst unter Bedingungen politischer Repression. 60er-80er /Südamerika Europa = Subversive Practices. Art under conditions of political repression. 60s-80s / South America / Europe. Exhibition catalogue, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany, May 30 - August 2, 2009. With texts by Iris Dressler, Hans A. Christ (et al.). Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz, 2010.
Oliveras, Elena. Cuestiones de arte contemporáneo. Hacia un nuevo espectador en el siglo XXI. Buenos Aires, Emecé, 2008.
Zabala, Horacio. Marcel Duchamp y los restos del readymade. Rosario, Laborde, 2008.
Horacio Zabala. Anteproyectos (1972-1978). Exhibition catalogue, Fundación Alon, Buenos Aires, May - June 2007. With texts by María José Herrera (et al.). Buenos Aires, Editorial Fundación Alon, 2007.
Transvisual #1. La revista anual del Centro Cultural Recoleta. Buenos Aires, CeDIP-Centro Cultural Recoleta, 2007.
Inventários 1988/2005. With a text by Lidia Blanco and an interview with Laura Buccelatto. Buenos Aires, Centro Cultural de España, 2006.
Anos 70: Trajetórias. With texts by António Risério, Paulo Sérgio Duarte, Cristina Freire (et al.). São Paulo, Iluminuras and Itáu Cultural, 2005.
Traba, Marta. Dos décadas vulnerables en las artes plásticas latinoamericanas, 1950 - 1970. Buenos Aires, Siglo Veintiuno, 2005.
La condesa sangrienta de Alejandra Pizarnik. A 29 años de la segunda edición. Exhibition catalogue, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September - October 2005. With texts by Sergio Baur and Guillermo Gasió. Buenos Aires, Corregidor, 2005.
Arte argentino contemporáneo. Collection catalogue. With texts by Fernando Farina, Roberto Echen, Nancy Rojas and Andrea Giunta. Rosario, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, 2004.
El modelo reducido. Exhibition catalogue, Centro cultural de España, Buenos Aires, November 3 - December 18, 2004. With a text by Horacio Zabala. Buenos Aires, Centro Cultural de España, 2004.
Entre el silencio y la violencia. Arte contemporáneo argentino. Exhibition catalogue, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, November 26, 2004 - March 13, 2005. With essays by Oscar Terán (et al.). Buenos Aires, arteBA Fundación, 2004.
Fin del mundo. Arte actual desde Argentina, no. 1, April 2002. Dossiers Horacio Zabala. With texts by Belén Gache and an interview with Horacio Zabala.
Horacio Zabala. Exhibition brochure, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, November 12 - December 31, 2002. With texts by Rodrigo Alonso and Mercedes Casanegra. Buenos Aires, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, 2002.
Trampas 02. Exhibition catalogue, Subte, Montevideo, Uruguay, May 3 - June 2, 2002. With a text by Graciela Taquini. Montevideo, Centro Municipal de Exposiciones Subte, 2002.
Noé, Luis Felip, and Horacio Zabala. El arte en cuestión. Conversaciones. Córdoba, Adriana Hidalgo, 2000.
Zabala, Horacio. El arte o el mundo por segunda vez. Rosario, UNR Editora, 1997.
Espartaco, Carlos. Arte y discurso. Buenos Aires, Ediciones de Arte Gaglianone, 1993.
Segunda Bienal de la Habana '86. Catálogo general. Exhibition catalogue, 2nd Habana Biennial, 1986. Edited by Mirta Yánez (et al.). La Habana, Ministerio de Cultura, 1986.
Glusberg, Jorge. Arte en la Argentina. Del Pop-Art a la Nueva Imagen. Buenos Aires, Ediciones de Arte Gaglianone, 1985.
Glusberg, Jorge. Retórica del arte Latinoamericano. Buenos Aires, Ediciones Nueva Visión, 1978.
Traba, Marta. Duas décadas vulneráveis nas artes plásticas latino-americanas, 1950 - 1970. Rio de Janeiro, Paz e Terra, 1977.
Art systems in Latin America. Exhibition catalogue, Institute for Contemporary Art, London, 1974, Centro de Arte y Comunicación CAYC, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1974. With a text by Jorge Glusberg. London, Nash House, 1974.
Arte conceptual frente al problema latinoamericano. Exhibition brochure, Museo Universitario de Ciencas y Arte, México, January-February 1974. With texts by Jorge Glusberg (et al.). Mexico City, Museo Universitario de Ciencas y Arte, 1974.