Oscar Murillo Archives

Oscar Murillo at Gagosian Burlington Arcade

23 July 2024 • Mark Westall

Gagosian to open an exhibition by Oscar Murillo at its gallery in London’s Burlington Arcade, and the artist’s takeover of the Gagosian Shop.

UNIQLO Tate Play: Oscar Murillo: The flooded garden.

20 July 2024 • Mark Westall

Tate Modern has unveiled UNIQLO Tate Play: The flooded garden, part of Tate Modern’s free programme of art for all in partnership with UNIQLO.

This Summer help paint Oscar Murillo’s The flooded garden at Tate

10 June 2024 • Mark Westall

This summer, artist Oscar Murillo will invite visitors of all ages to make their mark on a vast, layered painting in the Turbine Hall.

Yoko Ono & Oscar Murillo’s participatory artworks to form part of UNIQLO Tate Play.

18 January 2024 • Mark Westall

As part of UNIQLO Tate Play, the gallery’s free programme of commissions and playful art-inspired activities for all ages

Frieze Masters: Gagosian to present works on paper by Franz West chosen in collaboration with Oscar Murillo

22 September 2023 • Mark Westall

Gagosian to present paper-based works by Franz West at Frieze Masters that span his career from the early 1970s through… Read More

The Top 6 Exhibitions to see in London in late August

15 August 2021 • Tabish Khan

Get away through virtual reality and be guided by poets.

Mixing It Up: Painting Today

6 August 2021 • Mark Westall

Mixing It Up: Painting Today is the Hayward Gallery’s big Autumn exhibition bringing together 31 contemporary painters whose work freely… Read More

Oscar Murillo unveils 40,000 canvases by more than 100,000 school children in new large installation ‘Frequencies’ at his old school.

23 July 2021 • Mark Westall

Turner Prize-winning artist Oscar Murillo has brought together over 40,000 canvases by more than 100,000 school children from around the world in a large installation at his former secondary school, Cardinal Pole, in Hackney, east London.

Art Angel presents Frequencies – A major global project by artist Oscar Murillo

17 June 2021 • Mark Westall

Up to 40,000 canvases by more than 100,000 school children across the world will be brought together by Turner Prize-winning artist Oscar Murillo in a major installation marking the culmination of his eight-year project Frequencies.

do it- let art expand your horizons- do something.

15 May 2020 • Mark Westall

Four international partners, the Serpentine Galleries in London, Independent Curators International (ICI) in New York, Kaldor Public Art Projects in Sydney and Google Arts & Culture team up to connect people across the globe via instructions for DIY artworks.

NEWS

Turner Prize Shortlist just announced

1 May 2019 • Mark Westall

Tate Britain today announced the four artists who have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2019: Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo and Tai Shani. An exhibition of work by the four shortlisted artists will be held from 28 September 2019 to 12 January 2020 at Turner Contemporary in Margate.

NEWS

Oscar Murillo: Violent Amnesia

8 April 2019 • Mark Westall

This new exhibition will include painting, installation, sound and live performance, taking place in the galleries and across Kettle’s Yard.

PREVIEW: Oscar Murillo binary function

7 October 2015 • Mark Westall

This will be Oscar Murillo’s first exhibition at David Zwirner in London

PREVIEW: Oscar Murillo @40mcube

5 August 2014 • Mark Westall

Oscar Murillo is a painter, a sculptor and a video artist.

Art Previews

Daniel’s Value and Ideas #9: Rising Stars: Part I – The Simulacrum of Success

21 March 2014 • daniel barnes

There is a new generation of artists who are realising staggeringly high prices. This group of rising stars is an all boys club of young, middle-class men. It is a perfect demonstration of the perennial confusion between price and quality, where buyers’ voracious habits steer the consensus towards judgments of artistic worth. But the market, in its inexorable whim, is not always right.