Museo Moderno
Murillo Egar

Mendoza. (Born in San Salvador de Jujuy)
His work is developed between the disciplines of painting, engraving, drawing, photography, objects
and facilities. Between 1981-1986, he studied at the Faculty of Art and Design of
UNCuyo, with a specialization in painting. Since 1984 to date he has been part of the group of
“Bean Group” experimentation. He was a scholarship recipient in the “Stimulation of the Creation of the
Antorchas Foundation” (1993-1994) and “Proa Foundation Training and Development Scholarship”
directed by Guillermo Kuitca (Buenos Aires, 1994-1995), where he participated in talks and
seminars with prominent cultural figures such as Alan Pauls (writer), Anina Nosei
(New York gallery owner) and Achille Bonito Oliva (Italy curator), among others.
In 2010 he participated in the “Bodegas Chandon” programs coordinated by the Patricia Collection
Phelps de Cisneros and “Entrecampos” Mendoza program carried out in Space
Contemporary Art, directed by Fernando Castro Florez (curator Spain) and by Patricia
Hakim (Buenos Aires curator). Also in 2010, he was part of the Visual Poetry Workshop
dictated by Juan Carlos Romero (Buenos Aires artist), coordinated by the Fundación del
Interior in the Municipal Museum of Modern Art of Mendoza.
He participated in Fairs such as ArteBa (Argentina), “Arte Americas” Latin American Art Fair
(Miami) in 2005, “Interfaces Visual Dialogues between Regions” Contemporary Art
Argentine (Salta-Buenos Aires-Mendoza) in 2006, “Expotrastienda” (Argentina) in 2007, Fair
EGGO (Buenos Aires) in 2007, CHACo Contemporary Art Fair (Chile) in 2011,
Affordable Art Fair México in 2014, “Interfaces: A possible anthology” (Buenos Aires) in

2015. He was invited to participate in “El Arte Signala” Argentine Contemporary Art Biennial
in 2010 and the IV Biennial of the End of the World in Mar del Plata in 2014-1015.
His works are part of important collections: Municipal Museum of Modern Art of
Mendoza, Provincial Museum of Fine Arts Emiliano Guiñazú-Casa de Fader in Mendoza,
Bicentennial Cultural Center-Gómez Cornet Museum in Santiago del Estero, Urban Museum
Poggi in Rafaela Santa Fe, MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art of Rosario), CFI (Council
Federal Investment) Buenos Aires, FNA (National Fund for the Arts) Buenos Aires,
Professional Council of Economic Sciences in Mendoza, Interior Foundation in
Mendoza, Women’s Foundation in Mendoza, Zaldivar Foundation in Mendoza, Foundation
Patagonia Arte y Desafío in Buenos Aires, SAPM (Society of Plastic Artists of Mendoza),
Municipality of Guaymallén Mendoza, and national and international private collections.
In 2012 he received the second prize in painting from the National Salon of Visual Arts, Palais de
Glace.
The artist born in San Salvador de Jujuy, resides and works in the province of Mendoza to
where he arrived with his family of swallow workers at the age of one year old.