PEPE MAR

Pepe Mar was born in Mexico and currently lives and works in Miami, Florida.

This group of collages with acrylic on museum board titled Postcards was included in a solo show at Locust Projects, a progressive alternative arts space in Miami. The works are rich and colorful abstracts using items from second- hand stores, science fiction, celebrity, commercial design and social media as barometers of contemporary culture.

Bronx Museum International Residency Program, 2013.

• First institutional commission in the US at DiverseWorks, Houston, 2014.

• Banff Residency in Canada, 2015

• Andy Warhol Foundation Wavemaker grant for his project Versus, 2015.

• ISCP Residency in New York, 2016

• Pollock-Krasner grant, 2016

• Woven at Deutsche Bank, New York (exhibition) 2016

• Philodendron at the Wolfsonian Museum (exhibition), Miami Beach, 2016.

• Excess of Sleep Produces Monsters at David Castillo Gallery (solo), 2017.