A Brief Biography
Victor Hugo Pérez is a Mexican painter and sculptor born January 17, 1975 in Guadalajara Jalisco. His professional training began in 1990 at the Visual Arts Workshop at Cabañas Cultural Institute.
Victor Hugo Pérez intensified his pictorial and sculptural production over the next decade. In March 2014 he presented his solo exhibit El pájaro de los deseos (Bird of Desires) at the University of Guadalajara’s Museum of the Arts (MUSA). In April 2015 the National Museum of Tequila (MUNAT) in the city of Tequila, Jalisco launched another important exhibit by him with the title El tequila es un pájaro que vuela dentro de mi (Tequila Is a Bird that Soars Within Me). In 2015 he also created and disseminated his editorial project Mi perro bravo (My Fierce Dog), an expertly edited monograph consisting of a little more than five years of creative work and more than 200 pieces developed using a broad range of techniques. During 2018 he completed the project HEMBRAS (FEMALES), a large-scale joint project of collaborative work created with artist Juan Carlos Macías which was exhibited at the University of Guadalajara’s MUSA. Likewise, he exhibited selected work for the dual project Plasma with painter Raúl Cerrillo at the Ex Convent of Carmen in June 2018. This same year he presented the solo exhibit Instinto (Instinct) that was displayed at the Museum of Contemporary Art of San Luis Potosí (MAC) and subsequently at the Museum of Oaxacan Painters (MUPO) in the city of Oaxaca from February 9 to April 28, 2019. He also presented the exhibit Lo ritual y lo habitual (Ritual and Habitual) comprising a collection of more than 50 gouaches created on artisanal paper that were exhibited October 25 to December 1.
Today Victor Hugo Pérez resides in his native city of Guadalajara. His visual production is currently characterized by the incorporation of simple representations of his day-to-day environment that paraphrase and reference art from the historical canon. In his paintings and sculptures he has depicted and alluded to loved ones, friends, acquaintances and family members. His iconographic universe includes reference to symbolic fauna from his imaginarium: dogs, cats and birds that live with him at his home, in his studio, and in his mind. His images express a sui generis expressionist density imbued with heavy and obsessive strokes. His compositions depict an evolution of saturated pictorial material that enables him to imbue the figures in his paintings with his enrapture with the phenomenon of life. The provocative and disturbing representations of everyday life that Victor Hugo Pérez achieves in his pieces has been validated through their presence in significant art collections, among them the Collection Pago en Especie (Payment in Kind) at the Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit, the MUSA collection, the People of Jalisco Collection at Cabañas Cultural Institute and Black Coffee Gallery Foundation’s International Museum of Art Collection.
