OSCAR MURILLO

A balancing act between collapse and spirit David Zwirner 9 October–16 November 2024 London

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Darkness a place of radical freedom

Markings, reading and sending telegrams... constellations of thoughts and gestures

Untraceable landscapes. Concealed - irrational!

Fields of despair—scarred.

The playhouse of imperiled spirits

As our world becomes ever more hostile I must go home and be safe—I send to you these telegrams—telegrams of sympathy.

bruised and bleeding.

These words started with the untimely departure of my mentor Okwui Enwezor, in 2019—it was also the first time I thought of Manifestations. Manifestations now need to be Protests...

A decade ago on the eve of All the World’s Futures we spoke of The Artist as Producer in Times of Crisis, a devastating crisis.

We miss you

—Oscar Murillo, July 2024

About the Artist

Oscar Murillo’s large-scale paintings imply action, performance, and chaos, but are in fact methodically composed of rough-hewn, stitched canvases that often incorporate fragments of text as well as studio debris such as dirt and dust. His paintings, video works, and performances are tied to a notion of community stemming from the artist’s cross-cultural ties to London, where he currently lives and works, and Colombia, where he was born in 1986.

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GROUP EXHIBITION In Solidarity: A Benefit for the American Immigration Council and Journey’s End Refugee Services David Zwirner 1–31 July 2026 New York: 19th Street

STEVEN SHEARER My Moody Muse David Zwirner 4 June–31 July 2026 London

GROUP EXHIBITION California Light and Space (The 21st Century Version) David Zwirner 4 June–1 August 2026 Los Angeles

DAN FLAVIN Grids David Zwirner 28 May–8 August 2026 Hong Kong

About the Gallery

Since opening its doors in 1993, David Zwirner has been home to innovative, singular, and pioneering exhibitions across a variety of media and genres. The gallery has helped foster the careers of some of the most influential artists working today, and has maintained long-term representation of a wide-ranging, international group of artists and estates. Based in New York with spaces in Chelsea and the Upper East Side, David Zwirner expanded to Europe in 2012 with a gallery in an eighteenth-century Georgian townhouse in London’s Mayfair district, and opened its first gallery in Asia in January 2018 in Central Hong Kong.

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David Zwirner

24 Grafton Street, London, United Kingdom

+44 203 538 3165
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Tuesday – Thursday
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