![]() Permanent Collections Exhibition, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL Together, at the Same Time, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL Sign and Substance, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL ![]() I Live Here Now, “It Can Change,” San Francisco, CAĭon’t Breathe Too Deep, Techoa Bruce Gallery, CCAC, San Francisco, CAįlorida Contemporary, The Baker Museum, Naples, FL You Better Be Pretty, Ambrosino Gallery, North Miami, FL To Hell and Back Again, Nada Art Fair, Locust Projects, Miami, FL Hunga Bunga, Freight + Volume, New York, NY My Mirrors, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL Pandemonium, The Art Gallery at Government Center, Miami, FL Shock Treatment, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL Raw Sewage, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL Who Needs Guitars Anymore?, White Flag Projects, St. TIme Bomb, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FLĩ Solos, Meet Me at the Underground (Starring Quentin Crisp), The Moore Building, Miami, FL Time Bomb: Extended Version, curated by Melissa Diaz, Miami Design District, FL The Eye, The Vessel, and The Spell, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FLīaby Dragon, P-R-I-M-E-T-I-M-E, Brooklyn, NY Pepe Mar 2005-2013, Young at Art Museum, Davie, FL Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, FLĪ Claw For An Eye, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL Parco dei Mostri, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX Versus, Miami, FL (The Andy Warhol Foundation/Cannonball Wavemaker Grant project) Man of the Night, Locust Projects, Miami, FLĮxcess of Sleep Produces Monsters, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL Varla TV, Art Basel Meridians, curated by Magali Arriola, director of Museo Tamayo, Mexico City Origin, The Miami Design District, Summer Residency and Exhibition, Miami, FLĭragonfruit, The Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, PA Mexipop, Insituto Cultureal de Mexico en Miami, Miami, FL Tesoro, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL Joanna Robotham, Ph.D., which will feature a comprehensive overview of the artist’s works and will be accompanied by a major scholarly publication. ![]() In 2023, the artist will have a 15-year career survey exhibition organized by the Tampa Museum of Art, curated by Dr. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Artforum, ARTnews, Art in America, The Artnewspaper, and Artnet among others. The artist’s work has been exhibited throughout the US and abroad and is included in major collections in the US, Europe, and Latin America including public collections such as the High Museum, Atlanta Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami Perez Art Museum, Miami Museum of Latin American Art, CA de la Cruz Collection Everson Museum Tampa Museum, among others. Mar’s work has been included in major publications such as, 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow (Thames & Hudson, 2019) and exhibitions such as, Woven at Deutsche Bank, New York and Philodendron at the Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach. Mar is a recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Wavemaker grant, the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, two Ellies awards and accompanying grants by Oolite Arts, and others. In 2019, the artist’s project Varla TV was one of the installations presented during the inaugural year of Meridians, a platform for large-scale installations at Art Basel Miami Beach the presentation was curated by Magali Arriola, Director of Museo Tamayo, Mexico City. Upcoming exhibitions include a solo exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse. Recent exhibitions include Tesoro: Pepe Mar’s Love Letter to the Frost, at The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum in Miami and solo exhibitions include Dragonfruit at The Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh (2019-2020) and You Never Should Have Crossed the Rio Grande (2021) at David Castillo Gallery. Current solo exhibitions include Rising Sun at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. The artist has completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2011), the Bronx Museum International Residency Program (2013), and The Artist-in-Residence Program at The Banff Centre (2015), among others. He received his BFA from California College of the Arts (CCA), San Francisco and received his MFA from Florida International University. Pepe Mar was born in Mexico and lives and works in Miami, Florida. The artist’s work is committed to a personal and universal exploration of cultural alienation. Mar heeds the call of Roland Barthes’ universal signifiers and answers with icons both appropriated and original. His rich, experiential process recalls the history of assemblage and painting. Mar excavates the ritual narratives inherent in secondhand stores, science fiction, celebrity, commercial design, and social media to create abstract and anthropomorphic barometers of contemporary culture. Pepe Mar is a cognoscente of materiality at the forefront of social fluency and personal obsession.
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