Marco Bizzarri

Marco Bizzarri (Santiago, 1988) is a Chilean artist based in West Sussex, UK. His work reflects on landscape as an archive of time, shaped by his upbringing in Chile and a deep attentiveness to its rural and desert regions, where light, dust, and vast horizons cultivate a practice rooted in silence and contemplation. Relocating to the UK sharpened his sensitivity to shifting light and perception, reframing how colour and atmosphere shape our emotional relationship to place. ​ In Bizzarri’s paintings, dust becomes both material and metaphor. Layered, splattered, and partially erased surfaces echo the desert’s suspended particles, softening images while preserving traces. This tension between concealment and revelation holds the work in a state between presence and disappearance, where absence persists rather than vanishes.

Working from memory and displacement, Bizzarri returns to abandoned interiors and rural spaces as sites where time slows and light reveals what endures. Painting becomes an act of translation, transforming photographs and recollections into atmospheres of stillness, where decay, resistance, and latent histories quietly surface.

He holds a BA in Fine Arts from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2014) and later completed the Studio Painting Programme at Turps Art School, London (2021–2022). Between 2007 and 2009 he studied Architecture. In 2017 he co-founded Centro ARC, an artist residency located in the Humboldt Archipelago in the Atacama Desert.

In Bizzarri’s paintings, dust becomes both material and metaphor. Layered, splattered, and partially erased surfaces echo the desert’s suspended particles, softening images while preserving traces. This tension between concealment and revelation holds the work in a state between presence and disappearance, where absence persists rather than vanishes.

He has presented solo exhibitions at Megan Mulrooney Gallery (Los Angeles, 2025), Night Café Gallery (London, 2025), Galería Patricia Ready (Santiago, 2024), INCUBATOR (London, 2023) and Unit 1 Gallery (London, 2020). His work has been included in group exhibitions and international fairs such as Actual Notes, Galerie Rolando Anselmi ( Rome , 2026), The flesh of space at The Sunday Painter (London, 2025), Marking Time at Cooke Latham Gallery (London, 2024), NADA Paris, Art Brussels, Art Antwerp and Zona Maco (Mexico City, 2025), as well as projects in Milan, Taipei, Paris, Rome, Portugal and Santiago, including the XIV MAVI Young Art Prize at Museo de Artes Visuales.

His awards include the The de Laszlo Foundation Award and the Gilbert Bayes Award (Royal Society of Sculptors, London, 2021), as well as being a finalist for the First Plinth Public Art Award (2021). He has undertaken residencies including IM Art Residency (Suffolk, 2025), The Fores Project (London, 2024), High House Residency (Norfolk, 2021) and Unit 1 Gallery (London, 2020), in addition to his foundational work with Centro ARC (Atacama, Chile).