January 6–February 3, 2024
Installation Views
Works
Steve Turner is pleased to present My Colors, a solo exhibition by Mexico City-based Omar Mendoza which features his highly distinctive paintings that utilize the artist’s homemade pigments and his handmade textured cotton supports. His processes are highly labor-intensive and personal as he painstakingly extracts pigments from plants, flowers and barks found in his parents’ home state of Puebla. The resulting works have a mystical quality, one that blends pre-hispanic imagery and processes with the artist’s own ideas, dreams, interests and experiences. They are embedded with history but also encompass contemporary ideas and objectives.
Omar Mendoza (born 1993, Mexico City) earned a BA at UNAM, Mexico City (2016) and a diploma from Academy of San Carlos, Mexico City (2018). His most recent solo exhibition was at the Museum of Anthropology of Xalapa, Veracruz (2023) and has been presenting his works in Mexico since 2015. My Colors is Mendoza’s debut solo exhibition with Steve Turner and his first outside of Mexico.
Born 1993, Mexico City
Lives and works in Mexico City
Education
2018
Diploma, Museums Creativity and Vanguard, Academy of San Carlos, Mexico City
2016
BA, Faculty of Arts and Design, UNAM, Mexico City
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2024
Material Art Fair, Mexico City (with Steve Turner) My colors, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
2023
Eekzamen “Invocaciones,” Museum of Anthropology of Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico City
2022
Eekzamen “Between two lights,” Estudio Marte, Mexico City
2020
Relámpagos y Delirios,Collaboration with Fabian Ramirez, CasaEquis, Mexico City
2019
SUUT, Radio 28, Mexico City
2018
SAJAK, Mashimón, Mexico City5
Group Exhibitions
2023
Untitled, Miami Beach (with Steve Turner)
Blurred Lines, GAMA, Mexico City
2021
PANORAMA, LaNao Gallery, Mexico City Espacio FAMA, Monterrey, Mexico
2016
XXXVI Encuentro Nacional Arte Joven, Casa de la Cultura Víctor Sandoval, Aguascalientes, Mexico
2015
Parámetro, Carrillo Gil Art Museum, Mexico City
Residencies and Awards
2024
A Studio in the Woods, Tulane University, New Orleans
2023
Adhesivo Contemporary, Mexico City
2022
Radio 28, Mexico City
2021
Solos, Mexico City
2020
Cobertizo, Jilotepec, Mexico
2019
Radio 28, Mexico City
2015
Centro de Artes de San Agustín (CASA), Oaxaca, Mexico