b. 1986 in Valle del Cauca, Colombia
lives and works in London, UK
Murillo earned his BFA in 2007 from the University of Westminster in London, UK, followed by his MFA in 2012 from the Royal College of Art in London, UK.
Selected solo exhibitions
2022
Currents 121: Oscar Murillo, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, USA
Oscar Murillo: Ourself behind ourself concealed, David Zwirner, New York, USA
Oscar Murillo: A Storm Is Blowing From Paradise, Scuola Grande della Misericordia, Venice, Italy
2021
Oscar Murillo: Condiciones aún por titular, Museum of Art of the National University of Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
Oscar Murillo: Ética y Estética, Parroquia San Augstín, Tekantó, Yucatan, Mexico
Oscar Murillo: Frequencies, Cardinal Pole Catholic School, London, UK
Oscar Murillo: geopolitics (manifestations), Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Oscar Murillo: Spirits and Gestures, Fondazione Memmo, Rome, Italy
Oscar Murillo, KM21, The Hague, Netherlands
Oscar Murillo, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2020
Oscar Murillo: ética y estética, David Zwirner Offsite/Online: Parroquia Santa Barbara, La Paila, Colombia
Oscar Murillo: News, David Zwirner, Paris, France
2019
Oscar Murillo: Frequencies, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, UK
Oscar Murillo: Horizontal Darkness in Search of Solidarity, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
Oscar Murillo: Manifestation, David Zwirner, London, UK
Oscar Murillo: Social Altitude, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, USA
Oscar Murillo: trades hall & institute, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
OSCAR MURILLO: Violent Amnesia, Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Oscar Murillo | Zhang Enli, chi K11 art museum, Shanghai, China
Tony Cokes and Oscar Murillo: Collision/Coalition, The Shed, New York, USA
Turner Prize 2019: Oscar Murillo, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
Virus – Mimmo Rotella & Oscar Murillo, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
2018
Oscar Murillo: the build-up of content and information, David Zwirner, Hong Kong, China
Oscar Murillo: Catalyst, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Wilson Díaz and Oscar Murillo: Paradoxon Spirituale, Instituto de Vision, Bogotá, Colombia
2017
Capsule 07: Oscar Murillo, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Oscar Murillo. Estructuras resonantes, CAPC musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux and Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
2016
Oscar Murillo: through patches of corn, wheat and mud, David Zwirner, New York, USA
Oscar Murillo: land with lost olive trees, Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Oscar Murillo: meet me! Mr. Superman, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco
Oscar Murillo, Yarat Contemporary Art Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan
2015
Oscar Murillo: binary function, David Zwirner, London, UK
Oscar Murillo: Condiciones aún por titular, Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
Oscar Murillo: De marcha ¿una rumba?... no, sólo un desfile con ética y estética., Centro Cultural Daoíz y Velarde, Madrid, Spain
Oscar Murillo: Lucky dip, Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New York, USA
Oscar Murillo: A prophecy in the history of things, Artpace, San Antonio, USA
2014
Oscar Murillo: An average work rate with a failed goal, 40mcube, Rennes, France
Oscar Murillo: Distribution Center, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, USA
Oscar Murillo: A Mercantile Novel, David Zwirner, New York, USA
Oscar Murillo: we don't work sundays, Casa de la Calle Soledad, Cartagena, Colombia
Oscar Murillo: we don’t work sundays, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
2013
Oscar Murillo: Dinner at the members club? Yes! i’ll have a black americano first pls, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
Oscar Murillo: if I was to draw a line, this journey started approximately 400km north of the equator, South London Gallery, London, UK
Oscar Murillo: Ossie’s Bingo Boutique, Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Oscar Murillo: Ramón how was trade today? Have a break... Sit! Enjoy the food, but you’re not welcomed at the table, Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2012
Oscar Murillo: Breed like flies and die as fast, Saturday Seminars, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Oscar Murillo: The Cleaners’ Late Summer Party with Comme des Garçons, Park Nights, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Oscar Murillo: Seven Postures, Fundação Manuel Antonio da Mota, Porto, Portugal
Oscar Murillo: work, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
2011
Oscar Murillo: animals die from eating too much - bingo!, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
Oscar Murillo: animals die from eating too much - yoga, Hotel, London, UK
Oscar Murillo: Arepas y Tamales, Cole Contemporary, London, UK
Oscar Murillo: Boomerang, Hilary Crisp, London, UK
Selected Group exhibitions
2022
Black Abstraction: From Then ‘til Now, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, USA
Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora, Zeitz MOCAA, Capetown, South Africa
The “t” is Silent, 8th Biennial of Painting, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium
Opening Exhibition: Collection Hildebrand, G2 Schaulager, Leipzig, Germany
To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, USA
Todos Juntos (all together), Kurimanzutto, New York, USA
The Show is Over, South London Gallery, London, UK
2021
Aesthetics, Tank Shanghai Give and Give | BIENALSUR 2021, San Juan, Argentina
3 British Art Show 9, Aberdeen Art Gallery Aberdeen, Scotland
“Carte blanche” to Anne Imhof, Natures Mortes, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Desert X 2021, Coachella Valley, California, USA
Mixing it Up: Painting Today, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
sonsbeek20→24 Force Times Distance – On Labour and its Sonic Ecologies, Arnhem, Netherlands
The Space Between Classrooms, Swiss Institute New York, USA
2020
20/20, David Zwirner, New York, USA
Art Is Still Here: A Hypothetical Show for a Closed Museum, M WOODS, Beijing, China
BEINGS, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
It’s Urgent! – Part IV, Luma Arles, Parc des Ateliers, Arles, France
Summer Exhibition 2020, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2019
Fortuna: arte y reflexión sobre la extracción minera, Museo Universitario Universidad de Antioquia (MUUA), Medellín, Colombia
Grand Hotel Abyss, steirischer herbst, Graz, Austria
Group Exhibition, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
HERE AND NOW: Transcorporealities, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Highlights for a Future: De Collectie (1), Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent, Belgium
It’s Urgent! – Part II, Luma Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland
It’s Urgent! – Part III, Luma Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland
Unparalleled Journey through Contemporary Art of Past 50 Years, Rubell Museum, Miami, USA
2018
2nd Industrial Art Biennial: On the Shoulders of Fallen Giants, Industrial Art Biennial, Croatia
10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art: We don’t need another hero, Berlin, Germany
25th Anniversary Exhibition, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon
Actions. The image of the world can be different, Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Condo: Mexico City, Condo, LABOR Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Cry of Victory and Short Walks to Freedom, projects+gallery, Saint Louis, USA
David Zwirner: 25 Years, David Zwirner, New York, USA
Emerald City, K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong, China
Geographies of Imagination, Dis-Othering: Beyond Afropolitan and Other Labels, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
IN/SITU, Expo Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago The Joy of Color, Mnuchin Gallery, New York, USA
Work Marathon, Royal Geographical Society, London, UK
2017
The Absent Museum, Wiels Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels, Belgium
Archive: Commissions from Performa’s Archive, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Condo: A collaborative exhibition by 36 galleries across 15 London spaces, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
Everything we see could also be otherwise (My sweet little lamb), The Show Room, London, UK
Fragile State, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
Jerusalem Lives (Tahya Al Quds), The Palestinian Museum, Birzeit, Jordania
A Poet*hical Wager, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA
Sharjah Biennial 13: Tamawuj, Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates
4 Spots, Dots, Pips, Tiles: An Exhibition About Dominoes, Perez Art Museum Miami, USA
Stitch, Columbia College of Art & Design, Oslo, Norway
Thread Benefit Exhibition, David Zwirner, New York, USA
Yutaka Sone: Obsidian, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China
2016
2nd Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art 2016, Hangzhou, China
3rd Aichi Triennial. Homo Faber: A Rainbow Caravan, Aichi, Japan
5th Anyang Public Art Project (APAP), Anyang, China
6th Marrakech Biennale: Not New Now, Marrakech, Marocco
20th Biennale of Sydney: The future is already here—it’s just not evenly distributed, Sydney, Australia
Blackness in Abstraction, Pace Gallery, New York, USA
Room Services, Printed Matter New York, USA
Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, USA
Towards a Larger World, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
WORD, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, USA
2015
25th Anniversary Exhibition, London Gallery West, University of Westminster, London, UK
31st Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts: Over you / you, Ljubljana, Slovenia
56th Venice Biennale: All the World’s Futures, Giardini and Arsenale, Venice, Italy
Albert the kid is ghosting, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
Full of Peril and Weirdness: Painting as a Universalism, M WOODS, Beijing, China
Vom Grossen und Ganzen. Die Sammlung Haus N - Teil 1, Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, Germany
2014
4th Ateliers de Rennes - Biennale d’art contemporain: PLAY TIME / Work as Play, Art as Thought, Fonds régional d'art contemporain Bretagne, Rennes, France
Beware Wet Paint, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
dépendance at Carlos/Ishikawa: The Hawker, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
Don’t You Know Who I Am? Art After Identity Politics, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Fútbol: The Beautiful Game, Los Angeles, USA
Pangaea: New Art from Africa and Latin America, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
RE: Painted | ‘Painting’ from the collection, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent, Belgium
Surface(S)/Prise(S), Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, France
This Has Nothing To Do With Politics, The Function Room, London, UK
To Have and to Hold, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
transgression, Philara - Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst, Dusseldorf, Germany
2013
1986-2013 / An Artist Collecting Art, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Norway
Anamericana, American Academy in Rome Folk Devil, David Zwirner, New York, USA
GRUNDFRAGE (FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION), Centre Rhénan d’Art Contemporain Alsace, Altkirch, France
Transforming the Known: Works from the Bert Kreuk Collection, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
Xstraction, The Hole, New York, USA
2012
Glaze, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France
Into the Surface, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
Movement in Three Parts, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, USA
Vers la lune en passant par la plage/To the Moon via the Beach, Amphitheatre Arles, France
2011
[Galeria Regresso], Memorial do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Insurgencies, Angus-Hughes Gallery, London, UK
Interim Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Jessica Dickinson, Oscar Murillo, Cammie Staros, and Phil Wagner, Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Responsive Eye, London Gallery West, University of Westminster, London, UK
2010
Next/Episodes, Kingsgate Gallery, London, UK
Nothing gold can stay, 3YE Project Space, London, UK
Nothing gold can stay part II, Galerie Meinblau, Berlin, Germany
Ratios, Slade School of Fine Art Research Centre, London, UK
2009
mono-ha, Jonathan Viner/Fortescue Avenue, London, UK
RAW, Soup Gallery, London, UK
2008
A Gothic Story, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, UK
Zero de Conduite, Elevator Gallery, London, UK
Public collections
Arts Council Collection, London, UK
The Broad, Los Angeles, USA
Dallas Art Museum, Dallas, USA
Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent, Belgium
Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo, Japan