
Oscar Muñoz, El Coleccionista, 2014-2015. 5HD synchronized video projections with sound, 52 minutes [detail].
Oscar Muñoz, El Coleccionista. [Ed. of 5 + 2 AP], 2014-16. HD synchronized video projections, sound, Video: 52 min. Solo Exhibition El Coleccionista, Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino, 2016.
Oscar Muñoz, Re/trato, Exhibition at Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino, 2002.
Oscar Muñoz, Distopía (Edition of 5+2 AP), 2014. Video: FHD single channel / no sound, 15 minutes
Oscar Muñoz, Proyecto para un memorial [Ed. of 5 + 2 AP], 2004-2005. 5 videos, no sound, 7:30 min. 52nd International Venice Biennale, 2007.
Exhibition Oscar Muñoz: Documentos de la Amensia, Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo [MEIAC], Spain, 2008.
Oscar Muñoz, Proyecto para un memorial [Ed. of 5 + 2 AP], 2004-2005. 5 videos, no sound, 7:30 min. Exhibition Silent, Hiroshima City Culture Foundation, Hiroshima, Japan, 2009.
Solo exhibition Imprints for a Fleeting Memorial for Oscar Muñoz, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada, 2008.
Oscar Muñoz, La Mirada del Cíclope #3 (Ed. 3+2 A/P), 2005. Digital color photograph, 19.7 x 19.7 in. each
Oscar Muñoz, Narcisos en proceso, 2007/2012. Coal dust over paper and Plexiglas - 9 pieces, 20 x 20 in. each. Solo exhibition Crónicas de la ausencia, Museo Tamayo, 2009.
Oscar Muñoz, Narciso 6 of 6, 1999. Coal dust over paper, Plexiglas - 1 piece, 13 3/4 x 13 3/4 x 1 1/4 in.
Installation of Oscar Muñoz's Narcisos en proceso in LIFT: Contemporary Printmaking in the Third Dimension, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2015.
Oscar Muñoz, Exhibition at Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino, 2002.
Oscar Muñoz, Serie Pixeles, set of 9 unique pieces (#1), 1999-2000. Sugar cubes, coffee, Plexiglass, 13 3/4 x 13 3/4 in. Indelible Images exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2006.
Oscar Muñoz, Solo exhibition at Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino, 2012.
Oscar Muñoz solo exhibition The Disappeared/Los Desaparecidos at SITE Sante Fe, 2007-2008.
Oscar Muñoz, Aliento [12 discs], Ed of 3 + 2AP, 1995. Photo-serigraph impression with grease on 12 steel disks. Solo exhibition Oscar Muñoz: Mirror Image, Iniva London, 2008. Photo courtesy Thierry Bal.
Oscar Muñoz, Eclipse [Ed. of 3 + 2AP], 2000-2002. Concave mirrors. Solo exhibition Oscar Muñoz: Mirror Image at Iniva, London, 2008. Photo courtesy Thierry Bal.
Oscar Muñoz, Eclipse [Ed. of 3 + 2AP], 2000-2002. Concave mirrors [detail]. Solo exhibition Oscar Muñoz: Mirror Image at Iniva, London, 2008. Photo courtesy Thierry Bal.
Oscar Muñoz, Horizonte, 2011. Impression with coal dust on methacrylate, 33.5 in. x 28.9 in.
Oscar Muñoz, Libro abierto (con manos) (1 piece) Ed. 1/3 (Ed. of 3+2 AP), 2011. Impression with coal dust on methacrylate, 19 x 16 in.
OSCAR MUÑOZ (1951, Colombia/Lives in Colombia)
“How can one construe a notion of time in this immemorial setting? How can one assimilate and articulate in one’s memory all these events that have been happening for so many years now?”
Born in Popayán, Colombia, Oscar Muñoz studied art at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Cali in the 1970s. As an art student, he began making drawings based on photographic images, and although his studies did not specifically include photography or audiovisual media, these media and their relationships to reality and meaning-making have subsequently become central to his artistic practice.
Muñoz is also known for his use of ephemeral materials in poetic reflections upon memory and mortality. For example, Aliento (1995-2002) consists of a series of seemingly blank mirrors. However, when the viewer comes close to them and breathes on them, subtle obituary portraits emerge momentarily on the surface. Muñoz’s video Re/trato (2004) shows the artist painting a self-portrait with water. As the water makes contact with the hot pavement Muñoz is painting on, the portrait vanishes. Muñoz often bridges the media of film, video, photography, installation, and sculpture.
In the 1980s and 1990s, Colombia was wracked with a war between feuding drug cartels and the Colombian government. Muñoz’s installation, Ambulatorio consists of a large aerial photograph of that city printed on a sheet of shattered security glass. Viewers walk on top of the glass floor, looking down upon the city. The work was inspired by a bombing; walking through Cali after the bomb exploded, Muñoz was fascinated by the prevalence of fragments of glass encrusted into the pavement. The work has subsequently been re-made in Belfast and in Monterrey. “My work today,” Muñoz writes, “is based on my endeavor to understand the mechanism developed by a society which has ultimately suffered the routinization of war… A past, a present and in all likelihood a future full of violent events on a daily basis, which are stubbornly repeated, in a practically identical fashion.”
In 2006, Muñoz founded lugar a dudas, a cultural center and residency program for artists. Located in Cali, lugar a dudas (space for doubts) has become a center for young artists to work through ideas and participate in a dialogue and public debate about art and politics.
Oscar Muñoz’s works are represented in several major collections including Quai Branly Museum, Paris, France; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia; Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, USA; Daros Latinamerica Collection, Zürich, Switzerland; Fundación “la Caixa”, Barcelona, Spain; Higashikawa Photo Festival Collection, Higashikawa town, Hokkaido, Japan; Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia; Hasselblad Foundation Collection, Gothenburg, Sweden; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, USA; Los Angeles County Museum (LACMA), Los Angeles, California, USA; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina; Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida, USA; Fundación JUMEX Arte Contemporáneo, México City, México; Fundación Sorigué, Lleida, Spain; Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Medellín, Colombia; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA; Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Texas, USA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, USA; UBS Art Collection, New York, NY, USA; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), San Francisco, California, USA.
2022
Intentos / Attempts, Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino, Houston, TX, USA
Oscar Muñoz: Invisibilia, The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, USA
2021
Oscar Muñoz: Invisibilia, Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ, USA
2018
Oscar Muñoz. Hasselblad Award 2018. Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden
2017
Oscar Muñoz: A Traves Del Cristral, Mor Charpentier, Paris, France
Oscar Muñoz: des/materializaciones. Fundación Sorigue, Lleida, Spain
Oscar Muñoz, Antología - Museo Rayo - Museo de dibujo y grabado latinoamericano, Roldanillo
2016
Oscar Muñoz: El Coleccionista (The Collector), Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2015
Oscar Muñoz: Sedimentaciones, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Institute for Research in Art, College of the Arts, Tampa, FL, USA
Oscar Muñoz: Atramentos, Tabacalera, Promoción del Arte, ARCO Madrid 2015, Madrid, Spain
2014
Oscar Muñoz: Biografías, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM, USA; Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife, Brazil
Oscar Muñoz: Protographies, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Oscar Muñoz: Protografías, Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia
Oscar Muñoz: Sedimentaciones, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL, USA
Oscar Muñoz: Protographies, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Oscar Muñoz, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico
Oscar Muñoz: Sedimentaciones, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL, USA
Portrait(self)portrait, Prince Claus Fund Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2013
Oscar Muñoz: Protografías, Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia; Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Lima, Peru
Oscar Muñoz: Eclipse, Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Oscar Muñoz: Re/trato, High Line Art, New York, NY, USA
2012
Oscar Muñoz, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Oscar Muñoz: Protografías, Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Oscar Muñoz: Imprints for a Fleeting Memorial, The Visual Arts Center of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA
Oscar Muñoz: Ambulatorio Belfast, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, UK
2011
Oscar Muñoz: Protografías, Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia; Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia
Oscar Muñoz: Imprints for a Fleeting Memorial, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, NC, USA
Oscar Muñoz: Biografías (Biographies), The Mandes & Arts Festival, Johan Deumens Gallery, Haarlem, The Netherlands; Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
Oscar Muñoz: Impresiones débiles, La Fábrica, Madrid, Spain
2010
Oscar Muñoz: Videoworks 2005-2008, Stiftelsen 3,14, Bergen, Norway
Oscar Muñoz: Volverse aire, PhotoEspaña 2010 / PHE10, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Sala Goya, Madrid, Spain
Oscar Muñoz: Anarchive, mor.charpentier, Paris, France
2009
Oscar Muñoz: Mirror Image, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth, Australia
The Disappeared, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY, USA
Crónicas de la ausencia, Oscar Muñoz y Rosângelo Rennó, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
Oscar Muñoz: Biografías, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Oscar Muñoz, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
Oscar Muñoz: Imprints For a Fleeting Memorial, La Galerie de I’UQAM, Montreal, Canada
Oscar Muñoz, OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria
2008
Oscar Muñoz: Mirror Image, Institute of International Visual Arts, Rivington Place, London, UK
Oscar Muñoz: Imprints for a Fleeting Memorial, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
Documentos de la Amnesia, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain
Inmemorial, Korea Foundation, Seoul, South Korea
2006
Oscar Muñoz, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
Oscar Muñoz: Biografías, Claustro del Convento de Santa Clara, Cartagena, Colombia
Oscar Muñoz, Disolvencias y Fantasmagorías, Museo Municipal de Guayaquil, Ecuador
2005
Proyecto Para un Memorial, Galería Santa Fe, Planetario Distrital, Bogotá, Colombia; Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA; LOOP Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2004
Ambulatorio & Re/trato, FotoFest 2004, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Oscar Muñoz, Tres video proyecciones, Galería Alcuadrado, Madrid, Spain
El Puente, Dos video-proyecciones, Galería Alcuadrado, Madrid, Spain
Cámara de Comercio de Cali, Puente Ortiz, Cali, Colombia
The Ends of Process, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2003
Eclipse, Sala Comfandi, Cali, Colombia
Oscar Muñoz, TEOR/éTICA, San José, Costa Rica
Oscar Muñoz. Re/trato, Alianza Colombo Francesa, Bogotá Colombia
2002
Oscar Muñoz, The Ends of Process, Sicardi Gallery Houston, TX, USA
Trans-figuraciones, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Eclipse, Galeria Santa Fé, Planetario Distrital, Bogotá, Colombia
Oscar Muñoz, Narcisos, Aliento, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura (Centro MEC), Montevideo, Uruguay
1999
Oscar Muñoz, Throckmorton Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
1997
Oscar Muñoz, Galería Metropolitana de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Oscar Muñoz, Museo de Arte de Pereira, Pereira, Colombia
1995
Narcisos, Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
Narcisos, Galería Garcés Velásquez, Bogotá, Colombia; Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
Oscar Muñoz, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
1994
Narcisos, Ledisflam Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1993
Oscar Muñoz: Estudios y Proyectos, Galería de Bellas Artes, Cali, Colombia
1991
Superficies al Carbón, Galería Garcés Velásquez, Bogotá, Colombia
1990
Superficies al Carbón, Sala Suramericana de Seguros, Medellín, Colombia; Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia. Cali, Colombia
Superficies al Carbón, Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
1987
Oscar Muñoz, Fundación Banco del Estado, Popayán, Colombia
Oscar Muñoz: 15 Años, Cámara de Comercio, Cali, Colombia
Oscar Muñoz, Segundo Festival de Arte 1987, Cali, Colombia
Oscar Muñoz, Galería Época, Santiago, Chile
Oscar Muñoz, Centro de la Municipalidad de Miraflores, Lima, Peru
1986
Oscar Muñoz, Galería Quintero, Barranquilla, Colombia
Arco’86, Galería Quintero, Madrid, Spain
Oscar Muñoz, Galería Arte Autopista, Medellín, Colombia
Oscar Muñoz, Galería Garcés Velásquez. Bogotá, Colombia
1985
Oscar Muñoz, Museo de Arte Moderno la Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
1983
Oscar Muñoz, Cámara de Comercio, Cali, Colombia
1982
Oscar Muñoz, Centro de Arte Actual, Pereira, Colombia
1981
Carbones, Galería Garcés Velásquez, Bogotá, Colombia
Oscar Muñoz, Galería 7, Lima, Peru
1978
Oscar Muñoz, Alliance Franco-Colombienne, Cali, Colombia
1971
Dibujos Morbosos, Ciudad Solar, Cali, Colombia
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, USA
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C., USA
Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, USA
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Centro Cultural Cajastur, Caja de Asturias Gijón, Spain
Colección Arco, Madrid, Spain
Colección Cisneros, Caracas, Venezuela
Colección Sofia Imber, Caracas, Venezuela
Daros Latinamerica Collection, Zürich, Switzerland
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain du Centre, Amiens, France
Fundación El Monte, Caja de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
Fundación JUMEX Arte Contemporáneo, México City, México
Fundación “La Caixa”, Barcelona, Spain
Fundación Sorigué, Lleida, Spain
Hasselblad Foundation Collection, Gothenburg, Sweden
Higashikawa Photo Festival Collection, Higashikawa town, Hokkaido, Japan
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA
Los Angeles County Museum (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA, USA
Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia
Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Medellín, Colombia
Museo de Arte Moderno de Pereira, Pereira, Colombia
Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
Museo de Arte Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia
Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, USA
Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Extremadura, Spain
Museo Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), Los Angeles, CA, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Houston, TX, USA
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY, USA
Orange County Museum, Orange County, CA, USA
Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL, USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Quai Branly Museum, Paris, France
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), San Francisco, CA, USA
Tate Modern, London, UK
Teor/etica, San José, Costa Rica
The Carl and Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
The University of Colorado Art Museum, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
UBS Art Collection, New York, NY, USA
Curated by Natalia Brizuela, Ph.D. and Jodi Roberts, Ph.D.
Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino is honored to have worked with Oscar Muñoz for the past sixteen years. His work continues to amaze and humble us. We look forward to future projects.