Martín Verges Rilla
Born at 5:25 am on January 22nd 1975 in Montevideo, he lives and works in Montevideo.
Solo Exhibitions: 2016 ”El bosque Ensimismado” Galeria del Paseo, Lima. 2014 “La Nostalgia de los Materiales” (The Nostalgia of Materials) National Museum of Visual Arts (MNAV), Montevideo. 2012 “Os Lazaros” Museu do Trabalho, Porto Alegre. 2009 “Plan Fenix 2: Los Medios” (The Media) M.E.C. Platform, Montevideo. 2007 “Cézzanne” Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. 2003 “La Apoteosis de Homero según Ingres” (The Apotheosis of Homer by Ingres). Galería Lezlan Keplost. Montevideo.1999 “MVR” Cultural City Center. Asunción, Paraguay.
Group Exhibitions: 2017 “Panorama IV, Narrativas marginales” Municipal Exhibition Centre, Montevideo. 2013 “Gvaerrcgieas” with Nathalia García. Galeria Gestual. Porto Alegre. 2012 “TDUEPURC #6” 1st. Biennale of Montevideo, Banco Republica, Montevideo. “El Ojo Colectivo” (The Collective Eye) Municipal Exhibition Centre, Montevideo. 2010 “Variaciones Sobre el Destino” (Variations on Destiny), with Rita Fischer, Galeria del Paseo, Manantiales 2009 “TDUEPURC#3” Experimental Micropolis, Educational Project 7th Biennial of MERCOSUL, Porto Alegre. 2008 “Noces de Papier” Maison des Auteurs, Angouleme. 2007 Associazione Culturale Spiazzi, Venecia 1997 1st Visual Arts Biennial of Mercosul in Porto Alegre.1996 5th International Painting Biennal of Cuenca in Ecuador.
Residences: 2018 Made in Roath, Cardiff. 2018 Art Camp 6, Andorra. 2009 Riozinho, Brasil. 2008 Maison des Auteurs, Angouleme. 2007 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris.
First Prizes: 2016 Fondo Concursable para la Cultura. 2010 Zonamerica. 2006 Paul Cézanne. 2004 Banco Republica, 51st National Hall of Plastic and Visual Arts. 2002 Ministry of Education and Culture, 50th National Hall of Plastic and Visual Arts. 1996 Banco Hipotecario del Uruguay. In 2002 he co-founded the Genuflexos art collective and in 2006 the art collective “Traspuesto de un Estudio para un Retrato Común” (Transposed Study for a Common Portrait).