Mexico – Artist
Oscar
Contreras Rojas
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Name artworks
Genius Loci
Starting from sketches I made during various trips, mind maps and landscape impressions, I tried to reconstruct a scene, a landscape that included them all in some way. For some time now I have been thinking about the fact that we are only partially able to perceive elements that are repeated a lot, we are too accustomed, and we take too many things for granted, now we hardly notice the grass that sprouts from the corners of the floor, or the animal shapes of clouds.
We travel very far with the ambition of seeing something very different. We look outside for a reflection of what we have inside.
Oscar Contreras Rojas
Year
2020
Genius Loci
Biography
Oscar Isaias Contreras Rojas was born in 1986 in Toluca, Mexico. Currently lives and works between Florence and Venice. He graduated at the painting course of the Fine Arts Academy of Venice, Italy and completed his MA fine arts exchange in Middlesex University, London, UK.
Art career
2019
Cairo Award, Exhibition of the finalists, Palazzo Reale, Milan.
Etna & Paricutin, Ex Colegio Jesuita cultural center, Pátzcuaro, México.
Etna & Paricutin, Centro Cultural de Uruapan, México.
Appocundria, Testori house, Milan.
2018
The bad twin, Malutta Foundation, Santa maria della scala, Siena.
Torre Maluttona and Babelico Market, Monitor Gallery Rome.
Passion and vision
2017-2018 End of Residence Exhibition, Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Galeria in Piazza San Marco, Venice.
777 in the bottom right, School for Curatorial Studies Venice in collaboration with Venice Art Projects, Fondamenta Sant’Anna 992 / a, 994, 996 Venice.
Sounds from society, Romanian Cultural Institute, Venice.
2017
Maluta & Black-Market Foundation, Monitor Gallery, Rome.
Perpendicular, project by Malutta Foundation, Parallel Vienna Art Fair, Vienna, Austria.
Trigger Party, Malutta’s talks Foundation, curated by Siliqoon and promoted by Marsèlleria Permanent Exhibition, Milan.
Passengers That Come and Go, project by Malutta Foundation, Tulla Culture Center, Tirana, Albania.
Luis Nishizawa Biennial of Painting, Toluca, Mexico.
Open laboratory, Forte Marghera, Venice.
2016
A Heap of Language, Gasworks Gallery, London.
Esto no es Arte, Fundacion Simon I. Patiño, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Atelier Austmarka residence, Austmarka, Norway.
Open laboratory, Forte Marghera, Venice.
2014
Academic Landscapes and not, MUPA, Museum of the landscape of Torre di Mosto.
Open laboratory, Forte Marghera, Venice.
2013
97th Group of Young Artists, Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation, Venice.
INNESTI residence, Trento.
Dormiveglia, Grigno (TN).
Surfacing, Griffin Gallery, London.
Art Stays Art Affair, Ptuj, Slovenia.
AAM Milano Art Fair
Awards
2017
Biennial finalist Luis Nizhisawa, Mexico.
Member of the Paolina Brugnatelli Foundation
Jury mention, Combat Award
2013
Artist selected for the 97th collective of Young Artists, Bevilacqua la masa Foundation, Venice.
Winner of the AOP Award
Artist selected for the mock-up paintings by Mark Grotjahn, Prima Materia, Punta della Dogana, Venice.