Born in Colombia in 1986, award-winning artist Oscar Murillo is known for an inventive and itinerant practice that encompasses paintings, works on paper, sculptures, installations, actions, live events, collaborative projects, and videos — a body of work that demonstrates a sustained emphasis on the notion of cultural exchange and the multiple ways in which ideas, languages, and everyday items are displaced, circulated, and increasingly intermingled.
Considered one of today’s most significant contemporary artists, Murillo’s works and projects have been the subject of solo and two-person exhibitions at prominent institutions worldwide. His exhibition Collective Osmosis, on view alongside the work of Claude Monet, was concurrently on view at DAS MINSK Kunsthaus and Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany in August 2026. His large-scale participatory installation The flooded garden was exhibited in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London in 2024. Serpentine Gallery, London (2012). Murillo was one of four artists to win the 2019 Turner Prize and received an accompanying exhibition at Turner Contemporary, Margate, England.
His work is included in institutional collections worldwide, including the Arts Council Collection, England; The Broad Museum, Los Angeles; Coppel Collection, Mexico; Dallas Museum of Art; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Fondazione Memmo, Rome; Fondazione Prada, Milan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; MoMA, New York; Rubell Museum, Miami; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Seattle Art Museum; Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent; Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo; and Tate, London.
Murillo has also developed an ongoing long-term project called Frequencies with members of his family, studio team, and collaborators around the world. Canvases are temporarily affixed to classroom desks in selected schools, encouraging students aged ten to 16 to create any kind of mark making—drawing, writing, doodling. Frequencies was shown at the 56th Venice Biennale, at the 2nd Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art in China, at the 3rd Aichi Triennial exhibitionin Japan, and around the world. The book Oscar Murillo: Frequencies, which catalogues the first year of the project, was published by David Zwirner Gallery. As a prelude to his major Paris exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery, October 19 – December 23 – Unfinished thinking: Paintings and Social Maps — and to Art Basel Paris, Oscar Murillo will be in conversation with Arts Arena Founder and Artistic Director Margery Arent Safir.
A coupe de champagne will follow.
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