Miguel Osuna

Miguel Osuna

Works

Biography

Miguel Osuna has been painting and drawing from an early age. He studied architecture in Mexico, and a year after graduating, moved to Los Angeles. He practiced architectural design in diverse industries through 2001. In 2002 he started painting full time while visiting Buenos Aires. Upon return, he engaged in an exploration of Los Angeles, his adopted hometown, through an extensive series of abstract landscape paintings that still continues. His studio practice frequently involves investigations on different techniques, applications and materials. He presented a new body of abstract work, ‘SPIN’, in Los Angeles in November of 2012. He was invited by the California Department of Transportation to present a solo exhibition at the CALTRANS District 7 Headquarters on November 2013. Works from his series “The Bends” were included in the 2015 Ping Pong Exhibition in Basel, Switzerland during 2015 Art Basel Art Fair, and in Miami Beach when Ping Pong “bounced” to Miami Beach during Art basel Miami, December 2015. His work was included in the exhibition “Work Over School” at the Craft Contemporary Art Museum of Los Angeles in September 2016. His work was included in the exhibition “Ambiguous Reality”, showing in Naples, Italy in December 2017, where

he was subsequently invited to a three month art residency, by the Art 1307 Institution, culminating in a solo exhibition in May of 2018. His work is now on permanent collection and display at Pio Monte della Misericordia Museum in Naples, Italy.

Osuna lives and works in Los Angeles.

 

SELECTED SOLO SHOW

2022 Abstract Landscape Paintings by Miguel Osuna 2005 – 2008, Sin Título Gallery

2018 Return, Quotidian

Continuum, ART 1307

RETURN, Quotidian, L.A., CA

2017 CONTINUUM, ART 1307, Naples, ITALY

2012 GARBOUSHIAN GALLERY, SPIN, Los Angeles, CA

2006 MUSEUM OF ART, MAZATLÁN, MEXICO, PAISAJE-LANDSCAPE

CASA DE LA CULTURA ZACATECAS, POSTALES DESDE ZACATECAS, Zacatecas, Mexico

 

SELECTED GROUP SHOW

2023 STRINGS OF DESIRE: A group exhibition at Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles CA

2022 ADORNMENT/ARTIFACT, Transformative Arts, Los Angeles

2021 Images of the Interior, Sin Título Gallery, LAUNCH Gallery Collection List, LAUNCH LA

INSPIRATIONAL: the Influence of Place, Centro Musa –Reggia di Portici, Naples, Italy

STUDIO WINDOW DISPLAY: Installation pieces are on permanent window display at the artist studio on Main Street in Downtown Los Angeles

2020 MOJO RISING, Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery, L.A., CA

LIVES THAT BIND – Santa Monica City Hall, CA

Exhibition will be open to the public bearing on pandemic prevention measures by The City of Santa

2019 TRAVELING WITH ZAHA – Afragola High Speed Train Station, Naples, Italy

COLLAPSE, Quotidian – L.A. , CA

IMMIGRATION CELEBRATION, L.A.

THE TRAVELING CANVAS PROJECT ART 1307, Naples, Italy

CONTINU[A] / AXRT Contemporary – Curated by Cynthia Penna, Avellino, Italy

2018 BETWEEN TWO SEAS / LA INTERNATIONAL, ARENA 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2017 Ambiguous Reality, ART 1307, Naples, Italy

ORDER & CHAOS, Orange county center for contemporary art (OCCCA)

2016 Work Over School, Craft Contemporary, Craft & Folk Art Museum

2015 GALLERY 825: PING PONG – LOS ANGELES, BASEL AND MIAMI

2013 CALTRANS MUSEUM DNTN LA / GARBOUSHIAN GALLERY, L.A.

2011 GALLERY 825, Open Show, L.A.

LONG BEACH MUSEUM OF ART, Long Beach, CA

2008 CEARTE MUSEUM, State Center of the Arts of Ensenada, ART EXCHANGE MEXICO-USA 2008/2009

“Building Bridges”, Ensenada, BC, Mexico

CONSULATE GENERAL OF MEXICO SAN FRANCISCO, EXONOME, San Francisco, CA

2007 MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART [MOLAA], Long Beach, CA

2006 CLAREMONT MUSEUM OF ART, VELOCITY, Claremont, CA

2006 KATZEN ARTS CENTER AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY IBERO-AMERICAN ART, Washington DC,

2005 CULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MEXICO IN WASHINGTON, MIRRORS: CONTEMPORARY MEXICAN ARTISTS IN THE US, Washington DC

BORNICKE CULTURE PALACE, KÜNSTLER ZU KÜNSTLERAUSSTELLUNG, Berlin, Germany