Aliento (Breath) (detail)
1996-2002
grease photoserigraph on steel disks
courtesy of the artist and Daros-Latinamerica Collection, Zurich
photo: the artist and Fernell Franco, Cali

OSCAR MUÑOZ Colombia
Auckland Art Gallery - NEW Gallery

Background

Born in Popayán, Colombia in 1951, Oscar Muñoz currently lives and works in Cali, Colombia. A senior figure in Colombian art, he has been exhibiting since the early 1980s. Recent solo exhibitions include Oscar Muñoz, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 2003; Eclipse, Sala Comfandi, Cali, 2003; Proyecto para un memorial, Galería Sante Fe, Planetario Distrital, Bogotá, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles and Feria de video arte, LOOP Barcelona, 2005; Oscar Muñoz: disolvencias y fantasmagorías, Museo Municipal de Guayaquil, 2006; and Oscar Muñoz, Pori Art Museum, Finland, 2006. In 2004 he received first prize at the Salón Nacional de Artistas, Colombia. Muñoz's work was included in the Latin American pavilion in the 51st Venice Biennale, 2005 and the Prague Biennale of the same year. Other recent group exhibitions include Stretch, Powerplant, Toronto, 2003; Slowness, Dorsky Gallery, New York, 2003 and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, 2004; O.K. America! Apex Art, New York, 2004; Retratos: 200 years of Latin American portraiture, Museo del Barrio, New York, San Diego Museum of Art, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC and San Antonio Museum of Art, 2004; The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2005; Cantos Cuentos Colombianos, Daros-Latinamerica, Zurich, 2005; and Biennale Cuvée: Weltauswahl der Gegenwartskunst, OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, 2006. His work is discussed in Hans-Michael Herzog, ed., Cantos Cuentos Colombianos: Contemporary Colombian Art, Daros-Latinamerica, 2004.