Pepe Mar fuses color and form with techno music obsessions and consumer culture to create fetishistic, tribal-mechanical beings in sculpture and collage.
Pepe Mar was born in Mexico and lives and works in Miami, Florida. He received his BFA from California College of Arts (CCA), San Francisco. Mar participated in the Cooper Union Artist Residency, New York in 2007 and the Deering Estate at Cutler Artist Residency, Miami, 2007-2008. His work has been exhibited throughout the US and venues abroad and is included in major collections in the US, Europe, and Latin America. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Artnews, Art in America, Art + Auction, ArtNexus, the Artnewspaper, and Artnet. Recent exhibitions include a solo, site-specific show at White Flag Projects, St. Louis, and the permanent collection exhibition at Miami Art Museum.