Simon Vega

El Salvador

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. Simón Vega creates drawings, objects, sculptural installations and happenings inspired in local markets, self-made-architecture and vendor carts found in the streets and beaches of Central America.
His sculptures are Third World replicas of the sophisticated capsules and satellites developed by NASA and the Soviet Space Program during the 'Space Race they comment on the effects of the Cold War in contemporary El Salvador. 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).

Graduated from Musashino Art University Graduate School.
Since the beginning of the 1980s, he has been fascinated by the material iron, and has been creating works by repeating fusing and welding.
It is also free from the concept of the material's original sense of rigidity, weight, and sculpture = lump, transforming the space.
Observing the “place” deeply, capturing what is there, visible or invisible,
Build your own world.
In recent years, he has also announced works of different materials such as plaster and glass.
Major awards include the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Newcomer Award, Mainichi Art Award, and Teijiro Nakahara Award.

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. Simón Vega creates drawings, objects, sculptural installations and happenings inspired in local markets, self-made-architecture and vendor carts found in the streets and beaches of Central America.
His sculptures are Third World replicas of the sophisticated capsules and satellites developed by NASA and the Soviet Space Program during the 'Space Race they comment on the effects of the Cold War in contemporary El Salvador. 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).