Guadalupe Maravilla
Guadalupe Maravilla was born in 1976 in El Salvador.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Maravilla is a transdisciplinary visual artist, choreographer, and healer. At the age of eight, Maravilla was part of the first wave of unaccompanied, undocumented children to arrive at the United States border in the 1980s as a result of the Salvadoran Civil War. In 2016, Maravilla became a U.S. citizen and adopted the name Guadalupe Maravilla in solidarity with his undocumented father, who uses Maravilla as his last name. As an acknowledgment to his past, Maravilla grounds his practice in the historical and contemporary contexts belonging to undocumented communities and the cancer community.
He has presented solo exhibitions at numerous institutions, including REDCAT, Los Angeles (2025); Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (2024); The Contemporary, Austin (2024); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2023); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO (2022); the Brooklyn Museum, New York (2022); Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo (2022); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2021); Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY (2021); the Institute of Contemporary Art of Virginia, Richmond (2019); and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2019), among others.
He has also participated in the Venice Biennale, Venice (2026), the Diriyah Biennale, Riyadh (2026); the 14th Gwangju Biennale (2023); the 12th Liverpool Biennial (2023); and the 35th Sao Paulo Biennial (2025). A new series of works will be presented in the international exhibition at the 2026 Venice Biennale.
Guadalupe Maravilla has performed and presented his work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Queens Museum, New York; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; El Museo del Barrio, New York; Museum of Art of El Salvador, San Salvador; X Central American Biennial, Costa Rica; New York; Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, New York; and the Drawing Center, New York, among others.
His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami.
Awards and fellowships include the 2021 Joan Mitchell Fellowship; LatinX Fellowship 2021; Lise Wilhelmsen Art award 2021; Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship 2019; Soros Fellowship: Art Migration and Public Space 2019; Map fund 2019; Creative Capital Grant 2016; Franklin Furnace 2018; Joan Mitchell Emerging Artist Grant 2016; Art Matters Grant 2013; Art Matters Fellowship 2017; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship 2018; Dedalus Foundation Grant 2013 and The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Award in 2003.
