about
My work unfolds between the pictorial, the installative, and the narrative, fusing irony with an imaginary that crosses the absurd and the fantastic. My practice arises from an interest in transforming the everyday into fiction, where painting, film, storytelling, and installation intertwine as a single language to build a universe of their own. I work on the edge between satire, abstraction, and autobiography, seeking for the work to be not just an image, but a stage where the symbols of luxury, power, and consumption coexist with the grotesque, the popular, and the openly absurd.
In this universe, reality unfolds into masks and characters that reveal both the beauty and the decay of our time. My work moves as a play between laughter and discomfort, a space where excess becomes fragile and the unsettling turns into symbolic revelation.
Education
(2019- 2020) Post Graduate Degree, Illustration, BAU School of Design, Barcelona, Spain
(2016-2018) Associate Degree, Fine Arts , Chavon School of Design, La Romana, Dominican Republic
Solo Shows
(2023) Volta Artfairs , Catalysta Digital Platform , Metropolitan Pavilion , Chelsea New York , USA
(2021)”Multirealidad”, National Fine Arts Palace, Santo Domingo , Dominican Republic
Group Exhibition
(2024) MECA Art Fair , Catalysta Digital Platform , Santo Domingo Dominican Republic.
(2023) “Independientes” , Centro Cultural Banreservas , Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
(2023) “Los Futuros del Lenguaje”, Catalysta Digital Platform ,Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
(2022) “Far away yet so Close” , Edge Zones Gallery , Miami , USA
(2022) “Pero no Roba Motol”, Manuel Mera & Andreas Blom , Santo Domingo Dominican Republic.
Residencies
(2023) Curatorial Program for Research (CPR) , Brooklyn , New York , USA
Publications
(2024) Friends of the Artist Volume 18
Press
https://hyperallergic.com/820957/no-nonsense-guide-to-nyc-may-2023-art-fairs/
https://hyperallergic.com/817175/volta-art-fair-returns-nyc-cutting-edge-contemporary-art/
https://whitewall.art/art/volta-new-york/
https://thepyramidmag.com/MANUEL-MERA
https://hoy.com.do/la-multirealidad-de-manuel-mera/
https://www.holapardo.com/inicio/desborde-de-data-sobre-la-pintura-fresca?rq=Manuel%20Mera
https://hoy.com.do/pero-no-roba-motol-retrato-de-la-cultura-popular-dominicana/
CONTACT
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manuelmerastudio@gmail.com