Egar Murillo, ganador del Premio Nacional a la Trayectoria Artística
Formas de estar solos en las redes sociales II Tinta sobre papel reciclado de carteleria callejero 93 x 130 cm
Salida
Atardecer en la red social Tinta sobre wall paper 85x88cm
Fisiologia de las emociones Oleoy perforaciones sobre tela 150x120cm
We congratulate our Mendocino artist, Egar Murillo, part of the CRUDO staff, who was honored with the National Award for Artistic Career at the 2023 National Visual Arts Salon, granted by the Ministry of Culture of the Nation.
He is the second artist from Mendoza to receive this distinction — the first being Carlos Alonso in 2018. The award includes a lifetime pension and the addition of one of his works to the National Museum of Fine Arts.
“I believe more than ever in persistence in one’s work,” he said upon hearing the news — as quoted by Diario Los Andes.
Egar will donate El misterio del capitalismo (2018).
Painting, engraving, drawing, photography, objects, and installations are among the disciplines Murillo — Second Prize in Painting at the National Visual Arts Salon, Palais de Glace (2012) — has been exploring since the mid-1980s, leading a generation of local artists including Eduardo Hoffmann, Daniel Bernal, Bernardo Rodríguez, Carlos Sisinni, and Marcelo Navarro, with whom he began his studies at the Faculty of Art and Design, UNCuyo.
About Egar:
Born in Jujuy in 1957. Between 1981 and 1986, he studied at the Faculty of Art and Design, Universidad de Cuyo.
He was a grantee of the Antorchas Foundation’s Creation Stimulus Program (1993–1994) and the Proa Foundation’s Training and Development Grant directed by Guillermo Kuitca (1994–1995).
In 2010, he participated in Entre campos Mendoza held at the ECA, directed by Fernando Castro Florez and Patricia Hakim, and joined the Visual Poetry Workshop led by Juan Carlos Romero.
He took part in ArteBa, Arte Américas – Latin American Art Fair (Miami), Interfaces: Visual Dialogues between Regions, Contemporary Argentine Art (Salta–Buenos Aires–Mendoza, 2006), Expotrastienda (2007), EGGO Art Fair (Buenos Aires, 2007), and CHACO Contemporary Art Fair (Chile, 2011), among other exhibitions.
In 2012, he received the Second Prize in Painting at the National Visual Arts Salon.
