ARTIST 004 SEASON 3

Pepe Mar

Pepe Mar was born in Mexico and lives and works in Miami, Florida. He received his BFA from California College of the Arts (CCA), San Francisco; attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine; and received his MFA from Florida International University.

Upcoming solo exhibitions include David Castillo Gallery (December 2021-January 2022) and a 15-year career survey at the Tampa Museum of Art (opening September 2022). Pepe’s current exhibition is Tesoro at The Frost Art Museum in Miami, and recent solo shows include Dragonfruit at The Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh.

In 2013, the artist participated in the Bronx Museum International Residency Program, and the following year, had his first institutional commission in the U.S. at DiverseWorks, Houston. In 2015, Pepe was awarded an Andy Warhol Foundation Wavemaker grant for his project Versus. In the same year, he was part of the exhibition Woven at Deutsche Bank, New York and Philodendron at the Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach. He is also included in 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow (2019, Thames & Hudson).

Pepe’s work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and venues abroad, and is included in major collections across the country, Europe, and Latin America as well as public collections such as the ICA Miami, Tampa Museum of Art, and Pérez Art Museum. His work has appeared in The New York Times, ARTnews, Art in America, The Artnewspaper, and Artnet.

Learn more about Pepe on his website here.