Pepe Mar was born in Mexico (1977) and lives and works in Miami, Florida. He received his BFA
from California College of the Arts (CCA), San Francisco and received his MFA from Florida
International University. The artist has completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of
Painting and Sculpture (2011), the Bronx Museum International Residency Program (2013), and
others. Recent solo exhibitions include a 15-year career survey Myth and Magic at Tampa
Museum of Art (2023- 2024); Rising Sun at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (2022-
2023); Magic Vessel at Everson Museum of Art (2023); Pepe Mar at Baker Museum of Art
(2023-2024); Tesoro: Pepe Mar’s Love Letter to the Frost at Frost Art Museum in Miami (2020-
2022); Dragonfruit at The Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh (2019-
2020) 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 curated by Magali Arriola, Director of Museo Tamayo, Mexico City. 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.
An upcoming monograph on the artist will be published by Tampa Museum of Art and includes
scholarly essays by Larry Rinder, Evan Garza, Yuval Etgar, Joanna Robotham, and Amy Galpin.
Mar’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 Seattle
Art Museum; High Museum, Atlanta; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Perez Art Museum,
Miami; Everson Museum; Tampa Museum, among others. His work has appeared in The New
York Times, Artforum, ARTnews, Art in America, The Artnewspaper, Artnet, BOMB Magazine,
Burnaway, Panorama and numerous others.

Born in 1977 in Reynosa, Mexico, lives and works in Miami, FL

 

EDUCATION

 

2012
MFA, Florida International University, Miami, FL

 

2011
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

 

2000
BFA, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA

 

1999
Ècole d’Art, Aix-en-Provence, France

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2024
My First 25,000 Years on Earth, David Castillo, Miami

2022
Pepe Mar: Rising Sun, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

 

 

2019
Dragonfruit, The Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Varla TV, Art Basel Meridians, curated by Magali Arriola, director of Museo Tamayo, Mexico City

 

2017
Man of the Night, Locust Projects, Miami, FL

 

2016
Excess of Sleep Produces Monsters, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL

 

2015
Versus, Miami, FL (The Andy Warhol Foundation/Cannonball Wavemaker Grant project)

 

2014
Parco dei Mostri, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX

 

2013
The Transorientalist, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
A Claw For An Eye, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL
Pepe Mar 2005-2013, Young at Art Museum, Davie, FL
The Eye, The Vessel, and The Spell, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
Baby Dragon, P-R-I-M-E-T-I-M-E, Brooklyn, NY

 

2010
Time Bomb: Extended Version, curated by Melissa Diaz, Miami Design District, FL
TIme Bomb, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
9 Solos, Meet Me at the Underground (Starring Quentin Crisp), The Moore Building, Miami, FL

 

2008
Who Needs Guitars Anymore?, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
Raw Sewage, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL

 

2007
Shock Treatment, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL
Pandemonium, The Art Gallery at Government Center, Miami, FL

 

2006
My Mirrors, David Castillo Gallery, Miami , FL
Hunga Bunga, Freight + Volume, New York, NY

 

2005
To Hell and Back Again, Nada Art Fair, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
Guanajuato, Rocket Projects, Miami, FL

 

2002
You Better Be Pretty, Ambrosino Gallery, North Miami, FL

 

2001
I Live Here Now, “It Can Change,” San Francisco, CA

 

2000
Don’t Breathe Too Deep, Techoa Bruce Gallery, CCAC, San Francisco, CA

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2024
Celebrating Kenyon’s Bicentennial: Works from the Collections of Alumni, The Gund Museum at Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
En el interior del cielo, Collegium Art Museum, Castilla y León, Spain
10 From Florida, Orlando Museum of Art, FL

 

2023
Vessel and Veil, David Castillo, Miami, FL
House in Motion / New Perspectives, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL

 

2022
Sign and Substance, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
Together, at the Same Time, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL

 

2021
Permanent Collections Exhibition, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
CURRENTS, David Castillo, Miami, FL

 

2020
DC Triangle, David Castillo, Miami, FL
Rituals of Regard and Recollection, Law Warschaw Gallery, Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota

 

2019
Florida Prize in Contemporary Art 2019, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Big Ringer, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
Notices in a Mutable Terrain, curated by Adler Guerrier, Atchugarry Art Center, Miami, FL

 

2018
Deconstruction: A reordering of life, politics, and art, The Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
Many Visions, Many Versions, The Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
In terms of collage, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
Center to Center, Art and Culture Center/Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
The Strangeness Will Wear Off, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL

 

2017
South Florida Cultural Consortium Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
Bochinche, Creative Misunderstandings Performance series, Faena Forum, Miami Beach, FL
No burden as heavy, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL

 

2016
Two Years of Looking, New Arts Project, Curated by Erik Hanson, London, UK
Woven, Deutsche Bank, 60 Wall Gallery, New York, NY

 

2015
100+ Degrees in the Shade, A Survey of South Florida, Miami, FL
Philodendron: From Pan-Latin Exotic to American Modern, The Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach, FL
DCG Summer Show, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL

 

2014
Amerika, David Castillo Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
Metabolic Bodies, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL

 

2013
Discovery Gallery permanent installation, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
Pivot Points: 15 Years and Counting, MoCA North Miami, North Miami, FL
Annual Interest No. 1, Young At Art Museum, Davie, FL

 

2012
Dark Flow Lurking, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
This and That: Unconventional Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
Discrepant Modernism, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
Texas National 2012, curated by Dave Hickey, The Cole Art Center, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX

 

2011
Reformation 2011, Old County Jail, Skowhegan, ME
GOLDMINE: Works from the Collection of Sirje and Michael Gold, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA

 

2010
The Maginot Line, curated by Dennis Scholl, David Castillo Gallery
Double Take, Miami Design District, FL
Mystic Visage, World Class Boxing: Debra & Dennis Scholl Collection, Miami, FL
Gallery Projects, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
Spreading the Influence, Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, OH

 

2009
Heads Up, curated by Michael O. Gold, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA
TIME + TEMP: Surveying the shifting climate of current painting in South Florida, Hollywood Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL
Set to Manual, Girls’ Club, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
CUT: The Makings of Removal, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Chaffey College, San Bernardino, CA
Pivot Points 3, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
Express Yourself: International Pow Wow, Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Miami, FL
Gallery Projects, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
NEW/NOW: New Painting & Drawing, The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Fourth All-Media Juried Biennial, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL
BEAUTIFUL/DECAY: A TO Z, Kopeikin Gallery, West Hollywood, CA

 

2008
Troglodytes see better in the dark, David Castillo Annex
Under the Influence, Girl’s Club, curated by Michelle Weinberg, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Miami Art Museum
Refraction, loop gallery, Berlin, Germany
Glogauer Residency, Berlin, Germany
Cut, Vincent Price Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

 

2007
Expanded Painting, curated by Paco Barragan & Nina Arias, Miami, FL
Reverie + Revolt: contemporary collage, ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami
Real Time, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
All Is Well That Begins Well and Has No End, Eighty WSE Gallery, New York
Summer Residency exhibition, Cooper Union, New York, NY
All Media Juried Biennial, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL
CCA at 100: Alumni Looking Forward, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco

 

2006
Destroy this City, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
Native Seeds, Art Center South Florida, Miami Beach, FL
Searching for Love & Fire, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL

 

2005
La Frontera, Gescheidle, Chicago ,IL
For Everyone and No One, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
Op-ish, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
Labyrinth, The Newton Building, Curated by Tyler Emerson, Miami, FL

 

2004
Animal Farm, Rocket Projects, Miami, FL
Piñata Party, Gavin Brown Enterprise, Organized by “It Can Change,” New York, NY
Visions of Now, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
Young Miami, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
Delinquent Boys, Plush Gallery, Dallas, TX
Drawing Conclusions 2, Rocket Projects, Miami, FL
Miami in N.Y., Budman Studios, New York, NY
The Stray Show, Worm Hole Laboratory, Chicago, IL
The Skull Show, Hanna Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
If You Believe Hard Enough, Rocket Projects, Miami, FL
By the Woods, Miami Light Project, Miami FL
Dirty South, Worm Hole Laboratory, Miami, FL

 

2003
Pepelandia, Rectangle Space, Miami, FL
Haunted, Worm Hole Laboratory, Miami, FL
Butt Seriously, The Moore Space, Curated by Aja Albertson, Miami, FL
Gilligan’s Island, Ambrosino Gallery, North Miami, FL
Muestra 2, Adriana Schmidt Gallery, (Stuttgart, Germany) World Trade Center, Mexico
Shadow Cabinets, Kunstall Fridericianum, Organized by “It Can Change,” Germany
Cut and Paste 2, Ambrosino Gallery, North Miami, FL
Of Off Painting, Buick Building, Miami Design District, FL

 

2002
Art Basel Miami Beach, Ambrosino Gallery (North Miami, FL), Miami Beach, FL
Stomping Grounds I, ACSF, Curated by Carolina Salazar, Miami Beach, FL
The No Show Against Discrimination, Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
Slide Jam, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL

 

2001
Tent, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
Face 2 Face 2 Face, Pond Space, Organized by “It Can Change,” San Francisco, CA

 

2000
Point of Departure, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
Jardin, Curated by Chris Perez, San Francisco, CA

 

1999
All College Honors, Oliver Art Center, CCAC, Oakland, CA

 

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LECTURES

 

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
Florida International University, Miami, FL
Webster College, St. Louis, MO
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA
Painting & Drawing Lecture Series, California College of Arts, San Francisco, CA

 

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

 

2018
The Ellies Award, Oolite Arts, Miami, FL

 

2016
South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists

 

2015
Pollock-Krasner Award, New York, NY
Cannonball WaveMaker Grant, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Miami, FL
Benediktson Fellowship for International Artists, Banff, Alberta, Canada
The Banff Centre, Artist in Residency Program, Banff, Alberta, Canada

 

2013
The Bronx Museum International Residency Program
P-R-I-M-E-T-I-M-E, Brooklyn, NY

 

2008
Glogauer Artist Residency, Berlin, Germany

 

2007-2008
Deering Estate Residency, Miami, FL

 

2007
Summer Residency, Cooper Union, New York, NY

 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

 

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
The Baker Museum Artis-Naples, Naples, FL
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Craig Robins Collection, Miami, FL
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, FL
Art in Public Places, Miami, FL
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca, FL
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY 
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
MOLAA, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
Perez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL
Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Miami-Dade Public Library System, Miami, FL
Girls’ Club Foundation, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL