Alfredo Marquez

Alfredo Marquez is a visual artist, architectural designer, and cultural operator. He studied of Architecture and Urbanism, Ricardo Palma University (1980-1987). From 1984 to the present he has been developing self-taught experiences in art and collective work in design, drawing, photocopy art, photo-serigraphy, painting, computer-assisted design, scenography, ephemeral architecture, settings, installations, photography and video in independent workshops. His work is inscribed within the subway movement, urban pop art, and Lima’s counterculture; concerned with the politics of image and symbolic power.

He has actively participated in the formation of independent creation and work collectives such as BESTIARIOS (1984-1987), TALLER NN (1988-1991), MADE IN PERU (1992-1994), PERUFABRICA (1999-2003) and in the gestation and development of collective projects such as Tupac*Caput (2001-2002), A Imagen y Semejanza (2001-2003) and Vestigio Barroco (2005-2011).

He has also participated and participates in local exhibition projects in different cities of Peru and in international projects such as the 3rd Biennial of Havana, Cuba (1989); II National Biennial of Lima and 3rd Ibero-American Biennial of Lima, Peru (2000 and 2002); 7th Biennial of Cuenca, Ecuador (2001); I Encounter between two Seas Biennial of Sao Paulo – Biennial of Valencia (2007); V International Biennial of Art SIART La Paz, Bolivia (2007); 1st Biennial of Latin American Art of the Bronx, USA (2008); 1st Biennial of Latin American Art of La Paz, Bolivia (2007); 1st Biennial of Latin American Art of the Bronx, USA (2008); 1st Biennial of Latin American Art of the Bronx, USA (2008); 1st Biennial of Latin American Art of the Bronx, USA (2008). UU. (2008); 1st Triennial of Chile (2009); III Biennial of Engraving of the ICPNA Lima, Peru (2010); URRA Art Residency, BBAA (2011); Contemporary Art Collection of MALI, Lima, Peru (2011). He participated in Histórias Indígenas at MASP (Sao Paulo).

Alfredo Marquez
Born in Lima, Peru 1963

Education
Architecture and Urbanism, Ricardo Palma University, Lima (1980-1987).

ARCHITECTURE AND ART COLLECTIVES

BESTIARIOS (1984-1987), TALLER NN (1988-1991), MADE IN PERU (1992-1994), PERUFABRICA (1999-2003).

COLLECTIONS
Micromuseum “al fondo hay sitio” [Lima, PE]
TEOR/ética FOUNDATION [San José, C. RICA]
Museum of Art of Lima, MALI [Lima, PE]
Museum of Contemporary Art, MAC  [Lima, PE]
Hochschild Collection [Lima. PE]
Juan Carlo Verme Collection [Lima, PE]
Alfredo Barreda Collection
Armando Andrade Collection
Susana de la Puente Collection
The Permanent Collection of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies of Harvard University. Cambridge [Massachusetts, USA]
Itinerant Museum art for the memory [PE]
Salvador Allende Solidarity Museum [Santiago, CH]
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía [Madrid, SP]

COLLECTIVE PROJECTS
TUPAC*CAPUT (2001-2002), A Imagen y Semejanza (2001-2003), Vestigio Barroco (2005-2013).
Solo exhibitions, two-person exhibitions and curatorships:
BLACK BOX. Bipersonal exhibition with Ángel Valdez, Cultural Center of the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos UNMSM. Lima, 2002.
INKARRI / Vestigio Barroco. Curatorship. Cultural Center of Spain CCE – Lima, 2005.

FOR I[NN]ICIATES ONLY. Solo exhibition. 80m2 Gallery. Lima, 2007.
BESTIARY (1984-1987) DOCUMENTA. Co-curatorship. Anthological Exhibition. CCORIWASI Cultural Center, Ricardo Palma University. Lima, 2012.
BOX 3D / THE LAST SUPPER. Two-person exhibition with Alejandro Ángeles. Museum of Contemporary Art, MAC Lima, 2013.
3 PROJECTS. Solo exhibition. Room 770, Municipality of Miraflores. Lima, 2015.
3 PROJECTS. Solo exhibition. Ministry of Culture -DDC Junín. Huancayo, 2016.
WORTH A PERU. Solo exhibition. Santo Domingo Convent – Qoricancha. Cusco, 2017.

KATATAY AND OTHER ACTS OF COLLABORATION / ALFREDO MÁRQUEZ (1983-2018). Anthological Exhibition. ICPNA of Miraflores. Lima, 2018.

EXHIBITIONS

3rd Biennial of Havana, Cuba (1989).
II National Biennial of Lima, Peru (2000).
7th Biennial of Cuenca, Ecuador (2001)
3rd Iberoamerican Biennial of Lima, Peru (2002)
VIEWS OF THE END OF THE CENTURY I, III and IV. Lima Art Museum MALI, Peru (2005-2007)
URBE & ARTE, Imaginaries of Lima in Transformation. Museum of the Nation. Lima, Peru (2006)
I Encounter between two Seas Sao Paulo Biennial / Valencia Biennial (2007)
V International Art Biennial SIART La Paz, Bolivia (2007)
1st Latin American Art Biennial of the Bronx, USA (2008)
1st Chile Triennial (2009)

SOCIAL AFFECTS: Art as a Social Resource in Latin America, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Boston Center for the Arts, Mills Gallery. Boston, USA (2009-2010)
SUBVERSIVE PRACTICES. Art Under Conditions Of Political Repression 60s-80s / South America / Europe. Württembergischer Kunstverein Sttugart, Germany (2009)
3rd and 4th Biennial of Printmaking ICPNA Lima, Peru (2010, 2013).
URRA Art Residency, BBAA (2011)
ABOUT CHANGE in Latin America and the Caribbean. World Bank Art Program, Cultural Center of the Inter-American Development Bank and AMA | Art Museum of the Americas, Washington DC, USA (2011-2012).
ART AT THE STEP. Contemporary Art Collection of the Museo de Arte de Lima, MALI. Pinacota de Sao Paulo, Brazil (2011) and Museo de Arte Banco de la República. Bogota, Colombia (2013)
THE RIGHT TO THE CITY, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA). Netherlands (2013)
LOSING THE HUMAN FORM, A Seismic Image Of The Eighties In Latin America. Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid (2012). MALI, Lima (2014) and MUNTREF, Buenos Aires (2014).
MALI CONTEMPORARY COLLECTION 2012-2014. Lima Museum of Art, Lima, Peru (2015-2016)

PONER EL CUERPO, Llamamientos del arte y la política en los años ochenta en América Latina. Salvador Allende Solidarity Museum (MSSA). Santiago, Chile (2016).

NEXT STOP. PERUVIAN ARTISTS IN THE HOCHSCHILD COLLECTION. Sala Alcalá 31, Comunidad de Madrid. Madrid, Spain. 2017.