Emilio Perez
The Invention of Nature
September 6 – October 5, 2024
Emilio Perez (b. 1972, New York) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Drawing on memories and fleeting imagery, Perez creates dynamic compositions that evoke the forces of nature and invite open-ended narratives. Influenced by the color and composition of Renaissance painting as well as Surrealist automatism, his work combines abstraction and figuration through meticulous brushwork, conjuring mystical landscapes and imaginary worlds. Perez attended Pratt Institute and the University of Florida’s New World School of the Arts.
Perez’s work is held in the permanent collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami; Fundación ARCO, Madrid; Matsuri Art Collection, Tokyo; and the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, as well as numerous corporate collections internationally. His public commissions include a permanent mosaic installation for New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, a large-scale site-specific video installation for Times Square Arts’ Midnight Moment, and, most recently, a large-scale mural for the Art Museum of West Virginia University.
Selected exhibitions include Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY (2026); White Cube, London, UK (2025); Pérez Art Museum Miami (2017); the Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba (2015, 2019); and Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL (2009).
