Angel Otero (b. 1981, Santurce, Puerto Rico; lives and works in Brooklyn, New York) is a visual artist best known for his process-based paintings. While much of his works have been influenced by memories based in photographs and other family memorabilia combined with the gestures of 20th century painting, his latest works highlight the artist's unique process as a form of narrative in itself. Through his innovative process of oil paint scraping, Otero venerates historical oil painting while confronting it head on. Otero's 'deformation' approach to painting his works, first across glass and then once dry, flaying the dried paint and reconstructing the composition anew across large canvasses, is representative of how the artist perceives the process of reconfiguring both personal and historical narratives. Otero’s work sometimes uses process as a way of confronting deep, personal memories. Instead of representing his life through art, he archives moments within it by creating opportunities of surprise and discovery. His work is a constant negotiation between the individual and art history.
Otero received his MFA in 2009 and his BFA in 2007 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Solo exhibitions of his work have been organized at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (2017); Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX (2016); Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain (2015); SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2013); and Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC (2012). Select groups exhibitions and biennials featuring his work include Inherent Structure, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (2018); Surface Area, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2016); Nexo / Nexus: Latin American Connections in the Midwest, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago (2016); 6th Prague Biennale (2013); El Museo Bienal The [S] Files, El Museo del Barrio, New York (2011) and Queens International 2012: Three Points Make a Triangle, Queens Museum, New York (2012), among others. Otero is the recipient of the Leonore Annenberg Fellowship in the Visual Arts. His work can be found in collections at DePaul University Museum, Chicago; Istanbul Modern, Istanbul; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA.
安吉爾·奧特羅(1981生於年波多黎各桑圖爾塞)是一位著重繪畫過程的視覺藝術家。雖然他的作品大多采用20世紀的繪畫技巧,並以照片及家庭紀念相冊為題,但他最近的一系列作品則突出了繪畫過程獨有的敘事性。奧特羅透過他創新的刮畫技術向油畫致敬,同時挑戰它的歷史和傳統。他首先在玻璃上繪畫,待乾後刮出顏料,垂掛及拼貼在布面上。他不會直接在作品中呈現生活,而是記錄日常中的驚喜和發現。作為當代畫家,他與繪畫的歷史進行對話,通過新的過程和技巧探索繪畫的界限。奧特羅現於美國紐約布魯克林定居及從事藝術創作。
奧特羅先後在2007年和2009年在芝加哥藝術學院獲得藝術學士及碩士學位。他曾在眾多美術館及博物館舉行個人展覽,包括美國紐約的布朗克斯藝術博物館(2017年)、美國休斯頓當代藝術博物館(2016年)、西班牙拉斯帕爾馬斯大西洋現代藝術中心(2015年)、美國薩凡納設計學院藝術博物館(2013年)及美國北卡羅萊納州羅利當代藝術博物館(2012年)。他亦曾參與多個群體展覽,包括哥倫布現代藝術學院的「Inherent Structure」(2018年)、紐約哈萊姆工作室博物館的「Surface Area」(2016年)、芝加哥德堡藝術館的「Nexo / Nexus: Latin American Connections in the Midwest」(2013年)、紐約第六屆拉丁美洲博物館雙年展(2011年)、紐約皇后博物館的「Queens International 2012: Three Points Make a Triangle」(2011年)及其他展館。奧特羅曾獲頒奧洛.安納伯格視覺藝術獎金。其作品可見於美國芝加哥德堡大學博物館、土耳其伊斯坦布爾現代藝術博物館、美國堪薩斯尼門當代藝術博物館、美國北卡羅萊納州羅利當代藝術博物館及美國弗吉尼亞藝術博物館。