"I fabricate the chaos from which the viewer's eye interprets the macro, the micro, and the epic idiosyncratic. Through the repeated marriage of surface and tool, something emerges from nothing, and I begin to form small universes, each a relic of the arduous performance of repeated gestures. I create to reinforce the un-deniability of my own existence. I create to subvert the impermanence of life.
Physically, my wrist is the fulcrum upon which the marks churn forth, a direct line from the mind to the page. Compositionally, the work is pushed right to the radiant edge where creation becomes destruction. Naturally, this is a practice based on endurance. In an endless quest to harness the sublime power of the infinite, I fall ever short. I accept this as a condition of my limitations even as I continue to push those limitations. My work stands as evidence of both my Quixotic ambitions and Sisyphean labor. The energy embedded in each piece is self-evident."
Trejo was awarded a Root Division Grant to build birdhouses for the Cohen Alley and has shown at the Luggage Store Annex in May 2008 and is the Founder of Ways and Means, An Independent Student Art Exhibition. Trejo interned for Lance Fung who curated the Site Santa Fe 2008 Biennial, Lucky Number Seven. Trejo received his MFA from The San Francisco Art Institute in May of 2008 and has been chosen from the numerous San Francisco Bay Area graduating MFA students to showcase his work in Arts Benicia's Cream from the Top exhibition. He has been included in The Arts Benicia artist panel moderated by Kenneth Baker in August of 2008 and in 2009 Mario became the Exhibitions director of the museum of Pocket Arts (www.mopaonline.com ).
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Education:
2008 M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2005 B.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Selected Exhibitions:
2011
Gallery Artist exhibition, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010
Mario Trejo –Firat Erdim- New Works, Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
Mario Trejo—New Works, The Metropolitan Gallery, Saint Louis, MO
In Space of Color, Chesterfield Arts, Saint Louis, MO
2009
Museum of Pocket Art Retrospective, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
New American Paintings, No 83, Juried by Lynne Warren, Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Flat Files, Saint Louis Contemporary Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
Mario Trejo: Catharsis, Bruno David Gallery, Saint Louis, MO
2008
Cream from The Top, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA
Site Santa Fe Biennial 2008, Lucky Number Seven, collaboration with Scott Lyall, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Site Santa Fe Biennial 2008, Lucky Number Seven, collaboration with Hiroshi Fuji, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Vernissage, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
Ways and Means, W.A.M. Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Shelters I, Luggage Store Annex, San Francisco, CA
Shelters II, Luggage Store Annex, San Francisco, CA
2007
Entropic Wisdom, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Evolution The Exhibition, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
One Million, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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"New" |
"Harbinger" |
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"Cathartic Diptych" |
"Study for Dauntless II" |
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"Untitled X" |
"Absolute Catharsis I" |
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"Absolute Catharsis III" |
"Study for Neo Promethean XIII" |
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