Oscar Murillo (b.1986, La Paila, Colombia) is an artist whose practice encompasses painting, video, sound, installation, and collaborative projects. His work explores collectivity, shared culture, and contemporary society, often engaging with social dynamics through performance-like events. Murillo invites collaboration in projects such as painting black swathes of linen in community centers, hosting a cleaners’ party at Serpentine Gallery, and running a public performance in Venice. His ongoing global project, Frequencies (2013–present), involves students drawing on raw canvas, which is later transformed into new works such as paintings, sculptures, sound pieces, and animations. Murillo earned his BFA from the University of Westminster (2007) and his MFA from the Royal College of Art (2012). In 2019, he was one of four artists to collectively win the prestigious Turner Prize, and in 2023 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Westminster. His solo exhibitions include Masses (WIELS, Brussels, 2024) and A Storm Is Blowing From Paradise (Venice, 2022). Murillo’s works are held in major museum collections worldwide.

Oscar Murillo, signalling devices in now bastard territory, 2015 (detail view).
All the World’s Futures, 56th Venice Biennale, 2015.
Photo: Maris Mezulis. Courtesy: the artist.