Oscar Murillo

Oscar Murillo is a contemporary Colombian painter and installation artist. Through various media and techniques, Murillo questions intercultural ties in a globalized economy. Known for his use of text, recycled materials and fragments collected in his studio, he uses a method of scribbling looped lines and words like lit, pollo and yucca onto his canvases. They are then slowly covered with debris left outside his studio, a process the artist compares to aging cheese. Born in La Paila, Colombia in 1986, he moved to London, England at the age of 10. In 2012, he graduated from the Royal College of Art in London and joined the David Zwirner Gallery's stable of artists a year later. In his first major solo exhibition in New York in 2014, he transformed the Zwirner gallery space into a functional chocolate factory, replicating the factories of his native country where generations of families work together. Solo exhibitions have taken place around the world, including in London, Bogotá and Baku, Azerbaijan. His Frequencies project is a global initiative to cover computers with canvases to encourage children to paint and create a large international body of work. Murillo lives and works in London.

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