Emilio Perez

Born 1972, New York, Emilio Perez lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. By layering memories and fleeting imagery, the artist evokes a visual experience that seduces the viewer via the dynamic forces of nature together with a desire to understand how the narrative unfolds and where it is destined to go. Influenced by the hues and compositions of classical Renaissance paintings, and surrealist unconscious automatism, Perez’s stylistic hybridity plays through in meticulous brushstrokes with elements of abstraction and figuration, recalling mystical landscapes and imaginary worlds. Perez attended Pratt Institute and University of Florida's New World School of the Arts.

Perez's works can be found in the permanent collections of the PAMM - Perez Art Museum, Miami; Fundación ARCO, Madrid, Matsuri Art Collection, Tokyo and Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock; and in corporate collections, internationally. Public commissions include a permanent mosaic installation for New York City’s Metro Transit Authority and a large-scale site-specific video installation for Times Square Arts Midnight Moment. Select exhibitions include: Critical Gestures, PAMM, Miami (2017); 12th Havana Biennial (2015, 2019); Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago (2009).