The Colombian-born, London-based artist Oscar Murillo is known for an inventive practice that encompasses paintings, works on paper, sculptures, installations, actions, live events, collaborative projects, and videos.
By combining personal allusions with more universally recognizable references, Murillo aligns these paintings with preceding art-historical movements that conceptualized art not as a hermetic language but rather as a critical tool for interpreting a world outside of itself―comprising, as he notes, “an accumulation of thought, gesture, discourse, action, and motion.”.
His large-scale canvases, in turn, are a synthesis in both form and content of his experiences.
As a result, airplanes, which are able to move more or less freely and without regard to borders, and the contemplative isolation afforded by these long journeys, have become an important site of production for the artist.
Taken as a whole, his body of work demonstrates a sustained emphasis on the notion of cultural exchange and the multiple ways in which ideas, languages, and even everyday items are displaced, circulated, and increasingly intermingled.
In recent years, Murillo has traveled extensively throughout the world to research and prepare exhibitions and other projects, making works both in the studio and in unexpected locations.
The Colombian-born, London-based artist Oscar Murillo is known for an inventive practice that encompasses paintings, works on paper, sculptures, installations, actions, live events, collaborative projects, and videos
