Marnie Pérez
San Juan, PR, 1970
Biography Details
Printmaker, designer and creator of installations. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Printmaking and Art Education at Escuela de Artes Plásticas in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1993 and in 1997 she earned her Master's degree in Graphic Design at the Academia San Carlos of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. She also took courses at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia in Spain and a multidisciplinary workshop on graphics at Fundación Pilar y Loan Miró in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Upon returning to Puerto Rico after completing her master's degree in 1997, she develops an interest in the integration of graphics into other mediums to achieve more possibilities of expression in her artistic work, attaining several solo exhibitions and acquisitions of her works. She has taught courses in graphics, drawing and painting to children, adolescents and adults. In 2004 she created a Public Art Project for Urban Train of the city of San Juan. The use of grids, patterns and textures of maps as a result of explorations and travels to different cities, are the most common elements in her artistic work. Fascination with the translation or urban displacements, the addresses and life gestated in each of them, end in an internal reflection on the passage of time, the transformation of living spaces, the preservation of memories and the different perspectives of human thought.
Artist Statement
"What do we know? Where are we?
My work is the recreation and appropriation of cartographic language to make up urban landscapes, grids, routes, networks that form new designs nostalgically reminiscing cities, roads and streets traveled (lost paradise).
Furthermore with a more intimate perspective, I turn to the household theme for an exploration of the human condition in its fragility and its social behavior."
Marnie Pérez
Formation
Education
2007
- Mamori ArtLab, Manaus, Brazil
2001
- Multidisciplinary projects in Graphics. Fundación Pilar y Joan Miró, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
- Aluminum plates and their versatility in artistic lithography. Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
1995-1997
- Master of Graphic Design. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
1993
- Bachelor of Fine Arts, major in Graphic Arts and Art Education. Escuela de Artes Plásticas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Professional Experience
2009- presente
- Assistant to the Register. Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2002-presente
- Art teacher. Art Students League, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2004-2009
- Assistant to the Register. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2002-2004
- Graphic Designer. Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1998-2002
- Graphic Designer. Grupo Santillana and Alfaguara, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Computer Design Professor. Escuela de Artes Plásticas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Exhibitions
Solo Shows
2008
- Érase una vez…, Sala Lexus, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2004
- The Dream House, Galería Delta Picó, Art Students League, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2002-2004
- Proyecto de Arte Público: “Viandante”, Piñero Station, Tren Urbano, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2002
- Fragmentos, Galería Raíces, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1999
- Mapas, Art Students League, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Group Shows
2007
- Persistencia en el grabado en Puerto Rico, Museo de las Américas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2006
- Muestra Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Circa 06, Centro de Convenciones de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Mondial de l’Estampe et de la Gravure Originale, Chamalières, France
2003
- Muestra Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Espejo, Espejito, Universidad Politécnica, Valencia, Spain
2001
- 15 minutes, Galería Raíces, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Sentidos Gratis, Oporto, Portugal
2000
- 10x10x10, Galería Raíces, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Espejo, Espejitos, Galería Fósil Arte, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- IV Certamen Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Pre-apertura de Galería Raíces, Galería Raíces, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- 10ma Bienal de Cerveira, Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal
1998
- Mínimos Secretos, Galería Sargadelos, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Mínimos Secretos, 13 mujeres artistas, Tallería Espacio Cultural, Mexico City, Mexico
- 1997
- ECOS, Biblioteca Nacional de Educación, Centro Cultural del SNTE, Mexico City, Mexico
- III Festival de la Muerte, Exlibris, Cultural Center, Zacatecas, Mexico
- XVII Feria Internacional del Libro Infantil y Juvenil, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
- Legio in Trotsky, La Casa Museo León Trotsky, Mexico City, Mexico
- International Exlibris Competition, Sint Nyklaas, Belgium
- 7th International Biennale Exhibition of Small Forms an EX-Libris, Ostrow Wielkopolski, Poland
1996
- D.F. 1996, Centro Cultural San Ángel, Mexico City, Mexico
- Jornadas Puertorriqueñas, Casa de Lago, Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico City, Mexico
- Uniones Distantes, Galería Gotay, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1995
- Decenio, Art Students League, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- 4to Certamen de la Academia de Artes y Ciencias, Museo de Arte e Historia, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1992
- Certamen de Artes Plásticas, I Bienal Casa Roig, Museo Casa Roig, Humacao, Puerto Rico
Awards, Distinctions and Achievements
2000
- First Prize. IV Certamen Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Collections
- Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito de Arecibo, Arecibo, Puerto Rico
- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California, United States
Bibliography
Catalogues
“Mapas: Marnie Pérez Molière”. Liga de Estudiantes de Arte, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 5 al 7 de octubre de 1999.
Newspapers
Alves Otero, Tanya. “¡Vive el grabado!”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 5 de noviembre de 2007.
“Marnie Pérez Molière”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 10 de noviembre de 2002, p.3.
Torres, Torres, Jaime. “Arte para la familia”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 2008, p. 57.