Oscar Murillo

Oscar Murillo

BornNationalityBased In
1986ColombianN/A
Biography

Oscar Murillo’s work is situated – or perhaps un-situated and unfixed – within the notion of cultural and geographical displacement. Through the scope of his own biography, ancestry and migratory passage, Murillo traces mercantile histories, contemporary trade procedures and the global exchange of people and goods. With the context of capitalism, globalisation, neoliberalism and trade seeping into every brushstroke or sculpture made from corn and clay, the realisation of Murillo’s artworks is an act of labour and accumulation which mirrors its own subject matter. His dynamic paintings are a representation of a layering process, of cumulative mark-making that can be considered a documentation of their own conception and an archive of the artist’s relationship with his materials. ...

Selected Artworks
(untitled) catalyst
Oscar Murillo(untitled) catalyst, 2018
260.05 x 254.97 x 3.5cm
(untitled) surge
(untitled) news
manifestation
manifestation
surge (poetics of flight)
(untitled) surge
Gallery Representation
Awards
Turner Prize2019
Biennals
Bienalsur2021 - San Juan
Industrial Art Biennial2018 - Labin
Berlin Biennial2018 - Berlin
Sharjah Biennale2017 - Sharjah
Kathmandu Triennial2017 - Kathmandu
The Biennale of Sydney2016 - Sydney
Marrakech Biennale2016 - Marrakesh
Aichi Triennial2016 - Nagoya
Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber2016 - Hangzhou
Venice Biennial2015 - Venice
Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts2015 - Ljubljana
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