PEPE MAR

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. He participated in the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2011). Current & upcoming exhibitions include a large-scale solo exhibition at the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH; The Atrium Project: 10 Years and 10 Stories at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Something Borrowed, Something New at the Sarasota Art Museum. 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 (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. Mar’s work has been exhibited widely and is included in major collections including the Seattle Art Museum; High Museum, Atlanta; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Perez Art Museum, Miami; Kemper Museum; Tampa Museum, among others. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Artforum, ARTnews, Art in America, The Artnewspaper, BOMB Magazine, Burnaway, Panorama and numerous others.