Title: Untitled

Year: 2017

Media: Oil paint and fabric collaged on paper

Size: 34.29 x 25.4 cm

Bio: Angel Otero was born in 1981 in Santurce, Puerto Rico, where he resided until moving to Chicago in 2004. He currently splits his time between New York and Puerto Rico. In 2009, Otero was included in the exhibition ‘Constellations’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, shortly after receiving his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

With a practice that spans painting, collage, and sculpture, Otero experiments with innovative techniques to create abstract works about memory, identity, and his lived experiences. Otero is best known for his Oil Skin works, where he applies oil paint onto glass and peels them off to create layers that he reassembles into new images. His works are included in the collections of the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago, Istanbul Modern, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, among other institutions.