Oscar Muñoz (artist)

Oscar Muñoz
Born 1951
Popayán, Colombia
Nationality Colombia
Occupation Visual artist

Oscar Muñoz is a visual artist born in 1951 in Popayán, Colombia.

Early life and education

Muñoz grew up in Cali, Colombia where he attended the Escuela de Bellas Artes.[1] He studied art and filmmaking[2]

Career

Muñoz has several works in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, including "Untitled" from the series Dried Narcissus (Narciso seco) (1996) a screenprint on acrylic and The Game of Probabilities (2007) a series of chromogenic color prints.[3] Muñoz founded a cultural center and art residency program in Cali, Colombia, Lugar a Dudas.

Muñoz work, Aliento (Breath),1995, consists of seven small oval mirrors screen-printed with grease. It is intended to be installed at eye level for viewers to blow on. Through the breath's vapor, an image of a deceased person (taken from obituary photographs) is revealed. This work was analyzed in the article, Assisted Breathing: Developing Embodied Exposure in Oscar Muñoz's "Aliento."[4]

Selected exhibitions

Selected works

References

  1. Ramirez, Mari Carmen, ed. (2015). Contingent Beauty: Contemporary Art from Latin America. New Haven: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Distributed by Yale University Press. p. 235. ISBN 978-0-300-21481-9.
  2. King, Sarah S. "Oscar Muñoz: Paris at Jeu de Paume". Art in America.
  3. "Oscar Muñoz | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2016-10-27.
  4. Graham, Amanda Jane (May 2002). "Assisted Breathing: Developing Embodied Exposure in Oscar Muñoz's "Aliento"". Latin American Perspectives. 39 (3): 63–73.
  5. "XL: 19 New Acquisitions in Photography". Museum of Modern Art. 2013.

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