Eliel David Pérez Martínez (B. 1998 Oaxaca, Mexico) lives and works in Venice, Italy, where he recently graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts (2017-2021), he completed his studies at the Escuela de Bellas Artes de Oaxaca (2015-2017) and he participated at a very young age in exhibitions and art fairs.
At the age of eighteen he moved to Italy where he is currently collaborate with Suburbia Contemporary Gallery (Barcelona, Spain) and Ethra Gallery (Mexico City, Mexico), he is attending aslo the master degree in Visual Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice.
SELECTED PRIZES AND RESIDENCIES:
Atelier 2021-2022, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzo Carminati, Venezia. -IN-EDITA 2, art residence, Forte Marghera, 2021
STUDIO, art residence, Palazzo Poli, Firenze, 2021
Rotary Artprize 2020 "Be the difference with art!" finalist, organized by Rotary Asolo e Pedemontana del Grappa, Bassano del Grappa, Italy. (2020)
102ma Collettiva Giovani Artisti, Finalist, organized by Bevilacqua la Masa Fondation, Venice, Italy. (2019)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
- Condotto 44, Rome, Italy, 2023
- Eliel David Pérez Martínez: Huir del destino, Wizard Gallery, Milan, Italy, 2023.
-SOTTOSOPRA, solo show curated by Rodrigo Borrás, curatorial text by Ana Piquer, Ethra Gallery, Mexi- co City, Mexico, 2022.
-Lluvia sobre el campo de magueyes, solo show curated by Maya de Martin Fabbro, Suburbia Contem- porary, Barcelona, Spain, 2022.
-Poison Green - Gli artisti degli atelier 2021-22 curated by Eva Comuzzi, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, 2022
-Humo y banderas rotas, two-person show curated by Mónica Pacheco, Satellite, Florence, Italy, 2021.
-In-Edit2Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy, 2021
-Humo y banderas rotas, Suburbia Contemporary Barcelona, Spain, 2021