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Aporia at TOA Presents
Lindsey Scharold on the exhibition by Esteban Ramón Pérez
NEW REVIEW
TOA Presents is pleased to announce Aporia, a solo exhibition featuring new work by Los Angeles-based artist Esteban Ramón Pérez.
Working primarily with leather, Pérez creates objects that place painting in dialogue with textiles and sculpture, expanding how we consider the history and possibilities of painting as a medium. While drawing has always been central to Pérez’s practice, Aporia is the first exhibition to center his works on paper.
Esteban Ramón Pérez (b. 1989, Los Angeles; MFA, Yale University, 2019; BFA, CalArts, 2017). Pérez's practice involves a process of self-excavation, engaging with themes of hybridity, materiality and the interplay between visibility and obscurity. He examines his subjectivity in relation to familial histories of migration, labor and inherited cultures, while responding to his lived experience, fluidly shifting between past and present issues. His work operates within the borderlands where multiple systems of meaning converge, negotiating identities and histories through layered, at times abstract forms.
Esteban Ramón Pérez was awarded the NXTHVN Fellowship in 2020-2021 and the Artadia: Los Angeles Grant Award in 2022. His first solo institutional exhibition, Distorted Myths, opened at Staniar Gallery, Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA, in 2022. In 2023, he presented new works in the Hammer Museum's biennial Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living.
His work is held in the permanent collections of the Pérez Art Museum Miami and the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. In 2024, Pérez held his first international solo exhibition at Galleria Poggiali in Milan, Italy. His work has also been exhibited at galleries such as Lehmann Maupin (New York), Charles Moffett Gallery (New York), James Cohan (New York), The Mistake Room (Los Angeles), Various Small Fires (Los Angeles), Honor Fraser (Los Angeles) and Rebecca Camacho Presents (San Francisco), among others.
—TOA Presents