Oscar Morel

CV | Exhibitions

Oscar Morel is a figurative collage artist from the Bronx who constructed narratives of the afro surreal. Iconographic scenes of the afro Caribbean experience unfolding in the landscape of urban living. He has received residencies such as the Studios at  MassMOCA, MacDowell Colony, The Arrowmont Penticulum, and will be attending the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Oscar earned his MFA from Boston University and his BA at DePauw University.

​He provides a small dissection of cultural breaths, fleeting and reconstructing through the only way self is created; through an amalgamation of surroundings. As a child of immigrants, Oscar explores the loss of agency in one's history and the alterations needed to adapt to spaces unknown to him and his caretakers. Stewing these factors into the melting pot of New York City provides acute moments of childhood and growth distinct to his displaced populous.

​The work provides a feeling of repurposing through its materiality and decision-making in figuration. His sampling of other's works provides a visual language that lives and interconnects the work to one another, like physical ancestry. Oscar cultivates different textures and colors to build murals and landscapes. Places where the things he creates can live and breathe in an active display. By relocating fragments of former things and mixing them to create something new, seeing displays of himself in the worlds created