Oscar Murillo: Unfinished thinking: Paintings and Social Maps

Oscar Murillo, manifestation, 2026

Now Open

October 19–December 19, 2026

Opening Reception

Monday, October 19, 6-8 PM

Location

Paris

108 Rue Vieille du Temple

75003 Paris

Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri: 10 AM-7 PM

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David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by Oscar Murillo (b. 1986) at the gallery’s Paris location, Unfinished thinking: Paintings and Social Maps. 

Murillo writes:

Speed of flight, 600mph, the sea, geographies, terrain.

Labor! repetition, people, many, more public, more people, profound statements

buried—utterance of love, protest, an emoji, a sea of marks, condensed time—the harnessing

of thoughts, energies, spirits, all manifestations in color. frenetically! Awareness of places.

Time defaults thought into a stream of unconscious scores.

Scars of people as well as terrain... surface residue, euphoric emotion, color, line, more

scars, Colombia, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Philippines, UK, Poland, Germany so much

more—the collective is a field of Spirits.

Perpetually.

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Footage by Finn Blythe, animation by Oscar Murillo in collaboration with Friendred Peng

“It started with a very simple desire to draw, and I think for me, at the core of it was something like refuge.... Art is this universe that is infinite. I mean, quite literally, like a water well. And in this very profound time of crisis, I think about how I can think of art as something that everybody can be part of in a very simple way.”

—Oscar Murillo, 2026

Installation view, Oscar Murillo: Unfinished thinking: Paintings and Social Maps, David Zwirner, Paris, 2026

Oscar Murillo, disrupted frequencies (Germany, Lebanon, Kenya, Morocco, India, Georgia, Japan, Ghana, Colombia, China), 2013–2025 (detail)

Oscar Murillo, flight #74, 2019 (detail)

Installation view, Oscar Murillo: Unfinished thinking: Paintings and Social Maps, David Zwirner, Paris, 2026

Oscar Murillo, Nothing gold can stay (portraits of our current selves), 2026 (detail)

Oscar Murillo, Where there’s gold there are chains, 2026

Oscar Murillo, Where there’s gold there are chains, 2026 (video still)

Oscar Murillo, Where there’s gold there are chains, 2026 (video still)

Oscar Murillo, Where there’s gold there are chains, 2026 (video still)

 

Installation view, Oscar Murillo: Unfinished thinking: Paintings and Social Maps, David Zwirner, Paris, 2026

Oscar Murillo, manifestation, 2025-2026 (detail)

Installation view, Oscar Murillo: Unfinished thinking: Paintings and Social Maps, David Zwirner, Paris, 2026

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