Javier Marín was born in 1962 in Uruapan, Michoacán.
Javier Marín has developed a solid career as a visual artist for the last 30 years, holding over 90 solo exhibitions and more than 200 collective shows in Mexico, the USA, Canada, and several countries in South America, Asia and Europe. At the beginning of his sculptural work he exclusively used clay; later on he developed pieces in bronze and in last years he has gone beyond traditional methods, experimenting and innovating with polyester resin combined with organic materials.

The human as a whole is the center around which Javier Marín’s artwork revolves; he shows living human beings, palpitating, with bodies that present themselves with dignity, proud yet hurt and decomposed. Not fragile, but strengthened individuals. On their skin and flesh they carry the marks and scars of their own existence: a continuous confrontation of apparent opposites, a de- and reconstruction of fragments. His choices of materials as well as his working process, which leaves evident marks on each piece, are substantial elements of the way he conceptualizes his art.

~ Citlali Bernhardt