México
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Javier Peláez was born in Mexico City in 1976. For more than fifteen years he has developed a practice that has led him to the limits of representation and the possibilities in which the pictorial image is configured, transited and reconstructed in today’s world.
Between 2012 and 2015 he was co-director of the independent platform DIAGRAMA (CDMX), he has been an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center (Vermont, USA, 2016), Casa NaNo (Tokyo, Japan, 2017). His works are part of the Yaco García Collection, the Pinto Mazal Collection, the S + A Collection, the Chancery Museum Collection and the MUSAS Collection. Of his individual exhibitions, Reconfiguraciones (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Sonora, Hermosillo, 2020), Broken Tree (William Turner Gallery, LA, USA, 2019), A place to name (Galería Libertad, Querétaro, 2018; Galería Facultad de Estudios Superiores, del Estado de México, UNAM, 2017), Satori (Galería 123, CDMX, 2018), Indeterminate Nature (Drexel Galería, Monterrey, 2015), Vanitas (Museum of the City, Querétaro, 2013), Sacred Objects (Toca Galería, CDMX , 2010), Objects and Metaphors (Arcadia Gallery, NY, USA, 2008) stand out. Likewise, his work has been present in national and international group exhibitions such as Confluence (William Turner Gallery, LA, USA, 2021), Geometric Abstraction in Latin America (George Mason University, VA, USA, 2019), Floating Landscapes (Collective Archive, CDMX, 2019), Lightning rod: Twelve contemporary painters from Mexico (Embassy of Mexico in Berlin, Germany, 2015), XVI Tamayo International Painting Biennial (Museo Rufino Tamayo / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, 2014-2015), 6th Miradas Biennial (Centro Cultural Tijuana, Baja California, 2014), Death Nature (The Laundromat Gallery, NY, USA, 2011).
His work has been published in Art In America, American Art Collector, Art News, Fahrenheit and Punto de Partida, as well as in the volume Pintura: México (Vol. I); recently the first monograph about his work appeared, Javier Peláez: High Performance (Saenger Editores, 2020).
