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Born 1972, New York, New York
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
B.F.A., University of Florida, New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida, 1995
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, 1990-1992
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
The Invention of Nature, Bienvenue Steinberg & C, New York, NY
2022
The Land Of In Between, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
2018
Sombras Silvestres, John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Washington D.C ; Multi-Channel video installation commissioned for Artes de Cuba Festival
2017
Emilio Perez & Leonardo Drew - Jacob Lewis Gallery, New York, NY
2016
Dream Season; Midnight Moment - Times Square , New York, NY
2014
Footprints On the Ceiling, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2013
J.Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, Florida
2012
Unique Prints , Pace Prints, New York, New York
Perpetual Motion, Château Lynch-Bages, Pauillac, France
2011
Rivers Always Meet the Sea, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, California
2010
More Reasons Than One, CTRL Gallery, Houston, Texas
Breakfast by the Light of the Moon, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2008
dreaming out of season, FILIALE, Berlin, Germany
2007
Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
2005
Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas
LUXE Gallery, New York, New York
Too Tall To Get Over And Too Wide To Get Around, project room, LUXE Gallery, New York, New York
2004
Rocket Projects, Miami, Florida
2003
LUXE Gallery, New York, New York
2001
Confection, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida
1998
Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
In the Mind’s Eye, Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
2019
Project Detras Del Muro II, 13th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
2017
Routes Of Influence - Critical Gestures, PAMM, Miami, FL
2015
Project Detras Del Muro II, 12th Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
2014
Appropriate Disruption, Jacob Lewis Gallery, New York, New York
Drawings & Works on Paper, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Cuban America: An Empire State of Mind, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, New York
2011
Forces of Nature: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
2010
Elements of Nature: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, California. Traveled through 2011 to Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery, Lancaster, California; Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
2009
Topographies, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Recent Acquisitions, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois
Toil and Trouble, CTRL Gallery, Houston, Texas
Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Curvilinear, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2008
A Year in Drawing, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
Remix: Recent Acquisitions, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2007
Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Eclectic Eye: Pop and Illusion – Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado
abstract 2.0, FILIALE, Berlin, Germany
2006
About Light, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York
New York Style, Angell Gallery, Toronto, Canada
More is More – Maximalist Tendencies in Recent American Painting, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
2005
Scene Stealers, Ingalls & Associates, Miami, Florida
Neo-Baroque, Byblos Art Gallery, Verona, Italy
Opening Bloom, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas
Caution On Fire, AR Contemporary, Milan, Italy
2004
Taste Test, Rocket Projects, Miami, Florida
Young Americans, Galleri SE, Bergen, Norway
Landing Off, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas
Simply Drawn, LUXE Gallery, New York, New York
Mixed Minds, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas
Drawing Conclusions II, Rocket Projects, Miami, Florida
Stop & Store, LUXE Gallery, New York, New York
2003
Painting & Beyond, Galleri SE, Bergen, Norway
Beautiful Pressure, Rocket Projects, Miami, Florida
STREAM, Rare, New York, New York
Inside the Paper, Centro Cultural Español, Miami, Florida
Drawing Conclusions, Miami, Florida
2002
Peculiarly Pink, LUXE Gallery, New York, New York
2001
Globe>Miami
COMMISSIONS
2018
Beacon Capital, Glendale, CA
2017
Equity / JIA, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Equity Residential, San Francisco, CA
2006
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham, Washington, D.C.
2005
Lime Rock Partners, Houston, Texas
AWARDS
2018
2011
Artist Residency, Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, California
2007
Nikola Duravcevic Fellowship, Publishing Residency, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, New York, 2007-08
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Fundación ARCOmadrid, Madrid, Spain
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Bank of America Art Collection
Fidelity Corporate Art Collection, Fidelity Investments, Boston, Massachusetts
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California
PAMM - Perez Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Sal. Oppenheim, Köln, Germany
PUBLICATIONS
Emilio Perez: Rivers Always Meet the Sea, 2011
Text by Veronica Roberts
Published by Galerie Lelong, Paris
ISBN 9782868820983