Simón Vega

Simón Vega creates drawings, ephemeral sculptures and installations inspired in the informal, self-made architecture and vendor carts found in the streets and marginal zones of El Salvador and Central America. These works, assembled with wood, cardboard, plastic and found materials often parody famous Modernist and mythological buildings and cities, surveillance systems as well as high-tech robots and satellites developed by NASA and the Soviet Space Program during the Cold War, creating an ironic and humorous fusion between first and third world, while commenting on the effects of that conflict in today’s Central America as well as exploring the concept of circular time and the re occurrence of events in history.

Born in El Salvador in 1972, Simon Vega graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Veracruz in Mexico in 2000 and received a Master´s degree in Contemporary Arts from the Complutense University in Madrid in 2006. 

He has exhibited his work extensively in Europe, the United States and Latin America, including the 55th Venice Biennial in Italy (2013), the IX Havana Biennial, in Cuba (2006), at the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, California (2018), at the Bronx Museum in New York (2019) and at the Centre Pompidou, París (2019). He has had solo exhibitions at the Parrish Art Museum in New York (2024); at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in Costa Rica (2026), at Locust Projects, Miami (2015), at Liliana Bloch Gallery, Dallas (2018 & 2022) and at Hilger Next Gallery in Vienna (2016 & 2020) amongst others. 

Selected Works