BIOGRAPHY
Oscar Murillo leaves his calligraphic, mixed-media canvases on his studio floor to gather dirt and d...
Oscar Murillo leaves his calligraphic, mixed-media canvases on his studio floor to gather dirt and dust; the resulting paintings explore incompletion, transformation, and the realities of maintaining a studio practice. Murillo repurposes discarded scraps of previous works, turning his gestural abstractions into layered palimpsests that meditate on time and process. The artist’s inventive, itinerant practice also spans drawing, sculpture, installation, video, and performance and often considers notions of circulation and globalization. Murillo has exhibited in New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Hong Kong, Bogotá, and Los Angeles. His work has sold for six figures at auction and belongs in the collections of The Broad, Moderna Museet, Fondazione Prada, the Museum of Modern Art, the Rubell Museum, the S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
