Born in San Vicente, El Salvador, 1989.
Lives in Dolgellau, Wales, UK.
His work investigates memory structures: the material, visual, and ritual systems through which experiences are encoded, transmitted, transformed, and reconstructed across time. Drawing on personal and collective histories, he explores how memory exceeds individual recollection and becomes embedded in forms of notation, repetition, and cultural practice.
Using scalpels, drawing, photography, text, and ephemeral materials, he creates works that occupy a space between image and score, archive and abstraction. Through processes of incision, accumulation, and transcription, information is translated into visual structures that resemble maps, scripts, instructions, or mnemonic devices. These forms do not seek to represent memory directly, but to examine the mechanisms through which memories are organised, preserved, displaced, and reactivated.
Central to his practice is an interest in transformation. He approaches memory as a dynamic process of continual reconstruction, shaped by migration, ritual, transmission, and loss. Recent work expands this enquiry through vernacular and devotional forms, exploring how collective memory is embodied in material practices and how systems of belief are sustained through repetition. Across media, his work traces the movement of information between bodies, objects, and cultural traditions, revealing the fragile structures through which meaning survives and changes over time.
Education
Visual Arts, Universidad Nacional de Artes (UNA), Buenos Aires, AR. 2011-2016.
Art Restoration and Cultural Heritage Conservation, UNA, Buenos Aires, AR, 2011-2016.
Estudios Independientes V, Chile, 2024 -
Solo
2018 Intimate Spaces, Birmingham, UK.
2021 one by one to one million, Birmingham, UK.
2025 to tie a knot [Carlos Violante], San Salvador, SV.
Group
2016 Lo Otro, Buenos Aires, AR.
2019 La Piel Hacia Afuera, Buenos Aires, AR.
2019 Something’s Brewing, Birmingham, UK.
2021 Ikon for artists, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK.
2022 Mutant Materialities, Wolverhampton, UK.
2023 Los Futuros del Lenguaje, Santo Domingo, DR.
2023 el blanco va de fondo [Sebastián Cobo], Piramidón Centre D’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, ES.
2024 YES Group Exhibition, San Salvador, SV.
2024 Draw a line. Erase a line, Denver, CO.
2025 Volver, San Salvador, SV.
2025 Thresholds [Adam Wynn], Birmingham, UK.
2025 Sensorial Fusion: Relationship Art & Architecture, NYLAAT, NY, USA.
2025 Paper, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK.
2025 Passengers, London, UK.
2025 Aquí, otra vez: Origins Revisited, Santo Domingo, DR.
2025 At Hand, At Present: Collage and the Practice of Making Do, MACAA, IL, US.
2026 Artificiales, Vienal 2.0, Santiago de Chile, CL.
2026 Un pensamiento minúsculo, Centro Párraga, Murcia, ES.
Residencies
Piramidón Centre D’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, 2022.
Piramidón Centre D’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, 2023.
LEA, Laboratory of Experimental Art, Madrid, 2026.
Art Fairs
2024 MECA, Santo Domingo, DR.
2024 Art on Paper, NY, USA.
2025 Art on Paper, NY, USA.
2026 PINTA, Lima, PE.
Prizes
2024 Pardon Prize.
Collections
Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK.
Pardon Collection, USA.
Cleveland Clinic, NY, USA.
Other
Flat 8 New concept of art apartment arrives in Birmingham. ↗
Anything but flat. An other-realmly food-based art experience. ↗
Revue Collé, Issue No. 74 Mau Samayoa ↗
Contact
art@mausamayoa.com