Born 1986 in La Paila, Colombia
Lives and works in London, UK

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2024 —Oscar Murillo: The flooded garden, Tate Modern, Turbine Hall, London
• —Oscar Murillo: Marks and Whispers, Gagosian, Rome
• —Oscar Murillo: Masses, WIELS, Brussels
• —Rene Matić / Oscar Murillo. Jazz, Kunsthalle Wien [two-person exhibition]
• 2023 —Oscar Murillo: Casa Tomada, anessa and Arturo Filio Home, Mexico City
• —Oscar Murillo: catarata social, Iglesia de San Antón, Madrid Oscar Murillo: Frequencies, Javett Art Centre, University of Pretoria
• —Oscar Murillo: Together in our spirits, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves Museum, Porto
• 2022 —Currents 121: Oscar Murillo, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
• —MAM Project 029: Oscar Murillo, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
• —Ourself behind ourself concealed, David Zwirner, New York
• —Spirits and Gestures, Fondazione Memmo, Rome
• —A Storm is Blowing From Paradise, Scuola Grande della Misericordia, Venice
• 2021 —geopolitics (manifestations), Taka Ishii, Tokyo
• —Condiciones aún por titular, Museum of Art of the National University of Colombia, Bogota
• —Ética y Estética, Parroquia San Augstín, Tekantó, Yucatan
• —OFrequencies, Cardinal Pole Catholic School, London
• —Spirits and Gestures, Fondazione Memmo, Rome
• —Oscar Murillo, KM21, The Hague
• —Oscar Murillo, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
• 2020 —News, David Zwirner, Paris
• 2019 —Social Altitude, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen Colorado
• —Horizontal Darkness in Search of Solidarity, Kunstverein in Hamburg
• —Tony Cokes and Oscar Murillo, The Shed, New York
• —Violent Amnesia, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK
• —Oscar Murillo | Zhan Enli, chi K11 art museum, Shanghai, China
• —Virus - Mimmo Rotella & Oscar Murillo, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
• 2018 —Catalyst, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
• —‘Paradoxon Spirituale’, Wilson Díaz, Oscar Murillo, Instituto de Visión, Bogotá, Colombia
• —The build-up of content and information, David Zwirner, New York, USA
• 2017/18 —Capsule 07, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
• 2017 —Estructuras resonantes, Satellite 10: une proposition de Osei Bonsu, Concorde, Paris, France
• 2016 —through patches of corn, wheat and mud, David Zwirner, New York, USA
• —land with lost olive trees, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
• —meet me! Mr. Superman, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco
• 2015 —binary function, David Zwirner, London, UK
• —A Prophecy in the History of Things, Artpace, San Antonio, USA
• —Lucky dip, Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, New York, USA
• —Condiciones aún por titular, Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
• —De marcha ¿una rumba?... no, sólo un desfile con ética y estética., Centro Cultural Daoíz y Velarde, Madrid, Spain
• 2014 —An average work rate with a failed goal, 40mcube, Rennes, France
• —we don't work Sundays, Marian Goodman, Paris, France
• —A Mercantile Novel, David Zwirner, New York
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• —Distribution Center, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, USA
• 2013 —if I was to draw a line, this journey started approximately 400km north of the equator, South London Gallery, London, UK
• —Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Switzerland
• —Ramón how was trade today? Have a break… Sit! Enjoy the food, but you’re not welcomed at the table, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
• —Dinner at the members club? Yes! i'll have a black americano first pls, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
• —Ossie‘s Bingo Boutique, MAMA Showroom, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• 2012 —Work, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
• —Eduardo's 45th Birthday Party at the Vedovi's Paris apartment, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi at FIAC, Paris, France
• —The Cleaners' Late Summer Party with COMME des GARÇONS Park Nights, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
• —Breed like flies and die as fast, Serpentine Gallery Saturday Seminars, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
• 2011 —animals die from eating too much – bingo!, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK
• —animals die from eating too much – yoga, Hotel, London, UK
• —Arepas y Tamales, Cole Contemporary, London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2024 —A Model, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
• —Translations: Afro-Asian Poetics, The Institutum, Singapore
• —What Matters: A Proposition in Eight Rooms, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art [collection display]
• 2023 —Let Me Tell You a Story…Part I, Akara Art, Mumbai
• —O Quilombismo. Of Resisting and Insisting. Of Flight as Fight. Of Other Democratic Egalitarian Political Philosophies, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
• —Philosophies, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
• —The Reason for Painting, MEAD Gallery, University of Warwick
• —Taguchi Art Collection: Your Compass in the “Incredible” Contemporary Art World, Nariwa Museum, Okayama
• —To bend the ear of the outerworld—Conversations on Contemporary Abstract Painting, Gagosian, London
• 2022 —Black Abstraction: From Then ‘til Now, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas
• —Indigo Waves and Other Stories: Re-navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora, Zeitz MOCAA, Capetown [itinerary: Gropius Bau, Berlin and SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin]
• —MOCAA, Capetown [itinerary: Gropius Bau, Berlin and SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin]
• —The “t” is Silent, 8th Biennial of Painting, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium [curated by Gabi Ngcobo and Oscar Murillo]
• —Opening Exhibition: Collection Hildebrand, G2 Schaulager, Leipzig
• —Scenorama, Javett Art Centre, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa [itinerary: KZNSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa]
• —The Show is Over, South London Gallery, London
• 2021 —Aesthetics, TANK Shanghai
• —Mixing it up, Hayward Gallery, London
• —Carte Blanche, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
• —GIVE AND GIVE, Bienalsur, Museo Franklin Rawson, San Juan
• 2019 —Collision/Coalition, The Shed, New York, USA
• 2018 —2nd Industrial Art Biennial: On the Shoulders of Fallen Giants, Industrial Art Biennial, Croatia
• —Actions. The image of the world can be different, Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, England
• —Condo Mexico City, LABOR Gallery, Mexico City
• —We don’t need another hero, 10th Berlin Biennale, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
• —Emerald City, K11 Art Foundation Pop Up Space, Hong Kong
• —Geographies of Imagination, Dis-Othering: Beyond Afropolitan and Other Labels, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
• —IN/SITU, Expo Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago
• —The Joy of Color, Mnuchin Gallery, New York
• —Work Marathon, Royal Geographical Society, London [organized by Serpentine Galleries]
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• 2017 —Condo: A collaborative exhibition by 36 galleries across 15 London spaces, Carlos/Ishikawa, London
• —The Absent Museum, Wiels Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels
• 2016 —5th Anyang Public Art Project (APAP), Anyang, Korea
• —2nd Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art 2016, Hangzhou, China
• —3rd Aichi Triennial. Homo Faber: A Rainbow Caravan, Japan
• —Towards a Larger World, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
• —6th Marrakech Biennale: Not New Now, Marrakesh
• —20th Biennale of Sydney: The future is already here–it’s just not evenly distributed, Sydney, Australia
• 2015 —Albert the kid is ghosting, David Roberts Art Foundation, London
• —31st Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts: Over you / you, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• —56th Venice Biennale: All the World’s Futures, Giardini and Arsenale, Venice
• —Vom Grossen und Ganzen. Die Sammlung Haus N - Teil 1, Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, Germany
• 2014 —The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• —1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Cartagena, Colombia
• —Beware Wet Paint, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; travelling to Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
• —dépendance at Carlos/Ishikawa: The Hawker, Carlos/Ishikawa, London
• —Don’t You Know Who I Am? Art after Identity Politics, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp
• —Fútbol: The Beautiful Game, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

• —Justin Matherly, Oscar Murillo, David Ostrowski, Tobias Pils, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
• —Made by Brazilians...Creative Invasion, Cidade Matarazzo, São Paulo
• —Pangaea: New Art from Africa and Latin America, Saatchi Gallery, London
• —RE: Painted | ‘Painting’ from the collection, S.M.A.K., Ghent
• 2013 —GRUNDFRAGE (FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION), CRAC Alsace, Altkirch
• —Folk Devil, David Zwirner, New York
• 2012 —R4 Curated by Raphael Gygax, Ile Seguin, Paris
• —Seven Postures. Oscar Murillo & Andre Sousa, Fundação Manuel Antonio da Mota, Porto
• —To the Moon via the Beach, curated by Tom Eccles, Liam Gillick, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Philippe Parreno, Beatrix Ruf, LUMA Foundation, The Amphitheatre, Arles
• —Glaze, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris

• —Movement in Three Parts, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
• —Into the Surface, Brand New Gallery, Milan
• 2011 —Jessica Dickinson, Oscar Murillo, Cammie Staros and Phil Wagner, Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• —Insurgencies, Angus Hughes Gallery, London
• —Boomerang, Crisp Gallery, London
• —Responsive Eye, London Gallery West (University of Westminster), London
• 2010 —Next/Episodes, Kingsgate Gallery, London
• —Ratios, Slade School of Fine Art Research Centre, London
• —Nothing gold can stay part II, Galerie Meinblau, Berlin, Germany
• —Nothing gold can stay, 3YE Project Space, London
• 2009 —mono-ha, Jonathan Viner/Fortescue Avenue, London
• —RAW, Soup Gallery, London
• 2008 —A Gothic Story, Shoreditch Town Hall, London

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