Javier Peláez was born in Mexico City in 1976. He studied Architecture at La Salle University, and between 2012 and 2015 he was co-director of Diagrama, an independent platform dedicated to promoting contemporary painting in Mexico City.
Likewise, he has been a resident artist at Vermont Studio Center (Vermont, USA, 2016), Casa NaNo (Tokyo, Japan, 2017) and Casa Wabi (Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, 2021).
Among his individual exhibitions stand out, Intervalos (Saenger Gallery, Mexico City, 2022), Al borde de un pliegue (Antonio López Saenz Art Gallery, Culiacán, Sinaloa, 2021), Reconfigurations (Museo de Arte de Sonora, Hermosillo, 2020), Broken Tree (William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 2019), Satori (Galería 123, Mexico City, 2018), Un lugar para nombrar (Galería Libertad, Querétaro, 2018), Naturaleza indeterminada (Drexel Galería, Monterrey, Nuevo León , 2015), At the Front Door of a Stone (William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, 2017), Vanitas (Museo de la Ciudad, Querétaro, Qro., 2013), Objetos sagrados (Toca Galería, Mexico City, 2010 ) and Objects and Metaphors (Arcadia Gallery, NY, USA, 2008). Likewise, his work has been present in national and international group exhibitions at the Rufino Tamayo International Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art of Querétaro, Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca, Tijuana Cultural Center, Embassy of Mexico in Berlin, Cultural Institute of Mexico in Miami and George Mason University.
His works are part of the Casa Wabi Foundation collections, Sonora Art Museum, Treasury Secretariat Museum, Chancellery Museum, Bulltick Bank Collection, Bastidores Collection, Gaspar Collection, Baco Collection, Kuroda Collection, Pinto Mazal Collection, Collection S+A, among others. His work has been published in Art In America, American Art Collector, Art News, Fahrenheit and Punto de Partida; It has also been featured in the book Pintura: México (Vol. I). In 2020, his first monograph, Javier Peláez: High Performance, appeared under the Saenger Editores label, with texts by Shana Nys Dambrot, Michel Blancsubé and Christian Barragán.
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Un posible jardín by Javier Peláez
at Casa Siza, curated by Christian Barragán November 7 - 30, 2024Similar to the Kleingärten in Berlin, which were built with the aim of having a refuge separate from the home to rest from the daily routine, the exhibition Un posible jardín [A Possible Garden] has been designed by Javier Peláez with the purpose of having an additional place to his studio in which he has, in his words, “the opportunity to assume [another] part of my nature”, and even more, a physical and mental place where the choice to paint flowers expresses “a shameless position in the face of my interest in the threatening beauty of poisonous flowers, which have at the same time the potential to heal and to make sick”.Read more -
Blue Lotus by Javier Peláez
Curated by Christian Barragán at Main Room September 21 - November 4, 2023Saenger Galería is pleased to present BlueLotus, a solo exhibition by artist Javier Pelaéz. The exhibition, curated by Christian Barragán, will be open to the public from September 21 to November 11, 2023 in the gallery's Main Hall; Javier Peláez is a Mexican artist represented exclusively by Saenger Galería.Read more -
Intervalos by Javier Peláez
February 8 - April 16, 2022Saenger Galería is pleased to present the first individual drawing exhibition by the artist Javier Peláez (Mexico City, 1976).Read more
Composed of a short set of works done on paper in different formats, including a large-scale polyptych, Intervalos displays four recent series by the artist: Loop, Grecas, Broken Line and Dust in the Shadow. -
ON/OFF. Siete aproximaciones a la pintura
Collective show by Fernanda Brunet, Robert Janitz, Javier Peláez, Nicole Chaput, Rodolfo Díaz Cervantes, Madeline Jiménez and Santiago Merino October 14 - November 20, 2021A central component of Saenger Galería is its exhibition program; evidence of this is the first show in the Main Hall, On/Off. Seven approaches to painting, which brings together works that approach painting today from different fields, from the tradition of two-dimensionality to the exploration of volume, reminiscent of sculpture, installation and object.Read more -
Work, Story, Pleasure
Collective show by Fernanda Brunet, Robert Janitz & Javier Peláez. Curated by Christian Barragán April 27 - May 2, 2021Work, Story, Pleasure exhibition is made up by Fernanda Brunet (Mexico City, 1964), Robert Janitz (Alsfeld, Germany, 1962) and Javier Peláez (Mexico City, 1976), with a selection of works in...Read more
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ZsONA MACO 2024
February 7 - 11, 2024SAENGER Galería is pleased to present for Zona Maco's 20th anniversary, a group show by both local and International artists presenting striking big format abstract and figurative paintings, that explore the possibilities of abstraction by extracting the expressive potential of materials and the emergence of different narrative events as tools to address contemporary visual communication.Read more -
Art Collaboration Kyoto 2023
SAENGER Galería (Mexico City) + EUKARYOTE (Tokyo) October 28 - 30, 2023SAENGER GALERÍA (Mexico City) in alliance with EUKARYOTE (Tokyo) are pleased to present for the third edition of Art Collaboration Kyoto (2023), the work of four contemporary artists: Alfredo Gallegos Mena (Mexico City, 1991), Haruna Shinagawa (Tokyo, 1995), Yoab Vera (Mexico City, 1985 ) and Javier Peláez (Mexico City, 1976), represented by Saenger Galería.Read more -
Dallas Art Fair 2023
April 20 - 23, 2023SAENGER Galería is pleased to present the work of Alfredo Gallegos Mena, Mark Hagen, Robert Janitz, Javier Peláez, Ale de la Puente, Scott Reeder, Víctor Rodríguez, Eduardo Sarabia, Haruna Shinagawa, Iván Trueta and Yoab Vera.Read more -
Estación Material Vol. 2
November 11 - 13, 2022SAENGER Galería is pleased to present the work of Robert Janitz, Javier Peláez, Haruna Shinagawa, Mark Hagen, Gregor Hildebrandt, Benjamín Torres and Rodolfo Díaz Cervantes.Read more -
Dallas Art Fair 2022
April 21 - 24, 2022PH. Evan SheldonRead more -
ZsONAMACO 2022
February 9 - 13, 2022For this occasion, SAENGER Galería presents the work of Fernanda Brunet, Rodolfo Díaz Cervantes, Mark Hagen, Robert Janitz, Javier Peláez and Eduardo Sarabia.Read more