Daily Inspiration: Meet Urmeer

Today we’d like to introduce you to Urmeer.

Hi Urmeer, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I was born in Mexico City. During my childhood, I lived in Zitácuaro, Michoacán, a small town surrounded by mountains, volcanoes, and forests that fill each year with monarch butterflies. I spent my childhood and adolescence there, marked by one of the most difficult periods of drug-related violence in the country. Much of that time was spent indoors, where I filled my days playing PlayStation, watching music videos on MTV, consuming cartoons and films, and exploring the internet in its early years. I also spent many hours drawing everything I saw; this accumulation of images and experiences later shaped the way I understand and think about the world through art.

When I entered higher education, I moved to Mexico City after being accepted into UNAM. Over time, drawing became central to my practice, especially as I came into contact with the city’s art scene, which led me to consider art as a professional path. I studied a BA in Arts at the Faculty of Arts and Design at UNAM and later participated in independent study groups focused on contemporary art. During this period, I met collaborators with whom I developed projects in autonomous spaces, including Biquini Wax, a venue dedicated to experimentation and critical reflection on artistic practice in Latin America.

Over the years, my work expanded into other media such as sculpture, painting, and animation, building a broader visual universe through which I critically reflect on my relationship with the environment and time, shaped by a colorful and *cute* culture that treats nature as a vast supermarket, pushing us toward a state of hyper-exhaustion. This process has led me to present my work in spaces such as the Palais de Tokyo, the 14th Mercosur Biennial, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, the Museo de Arte Moderno, as well as in various galleries and independent initiatives in Mexico and abroad.

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
It has not been an easy path. I work from a context like Mexico, shaped by social hierarchies that influence how artistic production circulates and is validated, and my trajectory has developed slowly but steadily (jejeje). In this process, I have chosen to build relationships and dialogues with people whose practices sustain a critical and imaginative engagement with culture as a space for thought.

This path has led me to take care of my ideas and to maintain my own vision, prioritizing the questions and modes of working that I consider necessary, beyond the immediate logics of the market or certain forms of validation.

Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I am a multidisciplinary artist who creates colorful works where humor, the cute, and the sinister coexist, articulated through non-linear narratives shaped by a geotraumatic perception. My work is influenced by the omnipresent force of mass culture, which shapes how we understand the world, our environment, and everyday experience.

Drawing is, above all, a form of writing—the language through which I relate to reality. During my drawing sessions, recurring motifs and characters begin to emerge, and over time they become central figures in my projects. I research them over extended periods until they integrate, almost parasitically, into my imaginary. I am known for creating original worlds that would not otherwise exist.

I am also known for letting my coffee go cold, for collecting Godzillas, and for sustaining a holistic, entangled way of thinking that travels to the center of the Earth to reach the edge of space-time.

We’d love to hear about any fond memories you have from when you were growing up?
collecting Pokémon tazos that came in Sabritas potato chip packages

Contact Info:

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