Emilio Perez
The Invention of Nature
September 6 – October 5, 2024
Born in 1972 in 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 through the dynamic forces of nature and a desire to understand how a narrative unfolds and where it is destined to go. Influenced by the hues and compositions of Renaissance painting and the unconscious automatism of Surrealism, Perez’s stylistic hybridity merges abstraction and figuration through meticulous brushwork, recalling mystical landscapes and imagined 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 (PAMM); Fundación ARCO, Madrid; Matsuri Art Collection, Tokyo; Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock; and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, as well as numerous corporate collections internationally. Public commissions include a permanent mosaic installation for New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority and a large-scale site-specific video installation for Times Square Arts’ Midnight Moment. Select exhibitions include Alien Shores, White Cube, London (2025); Critical Gestures, Pérez Art Museum Miami (2017); the 12th Havana Biennial (2015, 2019); and Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago (2009).
