Marcello Mercado is a contemporary artist associated with Post Internet art- Process Art – Virtual Art – A.I. -Paintings – Drawings – Artist’s books – BioArt – New Media Art – Sound Art and Time Based Media

His artwork is research as practice. He explores the relationship between technology, biology and art, with special interest in the interaction between digital, virtual and organic materials. Mercado ́s artistic perspective uses unlike technologies like Data gathering with drones, topological-mappings, satellites; DNA extractions; Code language; 3D printing and Music notations written by robots.

Biological theories, mathematical principles, and technology are founding elements in his work. He straddles the boundaries between video art, performance, net.art, music, and painting. An amalgam of nuances from a world ruled by data overload.

Fellowships:
1996 at The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation and The Lampadia Foundation;

1999 at The Academy of Media Arts Köln. Germany;
1993 at Fundación Antorchas. Buenos Aires Argentina and The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation.
2014 Grant from the Digital Synesthesia Group, Department of Digital Art, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
2013 Grant for Media Art from the Foundation of Lower Saxony at the Edith-Russ- Haus for Media Art
2012 Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica in Interactive Art;
2009 His work “Das Kapital” was selected in the exhibition “40 Years Videoart Germany” by Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Technologie. Karlsruhe. Germany;
 2005 Nominated at The 50 Best, International\Media\Art\Award 2004, by Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Technologie, ZKM
2001 La Biennale di Venezia, Special Projects: Bunker Poético, curated by
Marco Rotelli;
Premio Konex, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2000 Post-Production Residence in Centre International du Creation Vidéo Pierre Schaeffer Montbéliard Belfort France;
Wie mann sieht…Museum Ludwig, Cologne; curated by Siegfried Zielinski and Jürgen Klauke
The First Prize Videobrasil;
1999 Grand Prix de La Création Vidéo. Vidéoformes, Clermont-Ferrand. France;
 Wand5 – Stuttgart: Nominierungen Best Netart, 1999
1999-2001 Fellow at The Academy of Media Arts Köln. Germany;
1998 and 2001 The First Prize Videobrasil;
1997 Achievement Award. Melbourne International Film & Video Festival, Australia;

He participated in the Goethe Institutes Global Bodies, Global teleconference, 
Opening of Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany 1996 Fellow at The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation and The Lampadia Foundation;

1995 Main Prize 22nd EKOTOPFILM’95. Bratislava. Slovak Republic;
Nominated for the best video of the year, Internationaler Videokunstpreis, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie 
ZKM, SWF, ORF, Karlsruhe, Germany
1994 The Main Prize Videofest Berlin

Grand Prix de Toutes Categories. 4a Mondial de la Video. Bruxelles, Belgium
 1993 Grant at Fundación Antorchas and The Rockefeller Foundation and The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Exhibitions:

2022 Lo próximo y lo extraño – The next and the strange
curated by Celeste Massin, Solo Show
MUBA – Museo de Bellas Artes René Brusau, Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina

REVIRAVOLTA
Curated by Solange Farkas, Group Show, Galeria Homero Massena, ES, Brasil

2021 Marcello Mercado: Sense and Sensitivity I Galerie Bernet Bertram, Berlin, Germany

Confinamentos
Curated by Videobrasil, On-line /Group Show

2020/2021 Beethoven bewegt/ Beethoven moves,
curated by Andreas Kugler, Jasper Sharp, Stefan Weppelmann and Andreas Zimmermann
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria