His work is part of important public and private collections in Mexico and abroad, among them: the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, in Mexico City, the Museum of Contemporary Art Monterrey, the Museo del Barro, in Caracas, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, in California, the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston, the Boca Raton Museum of Art and the Latin American Museum, in Florida, the Blake-Purnell Collection, in New York, the Costantini Collection of the Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires, the Ersel Collection, in Turin, and the Art Collection of the Prince of Monaco.
Likewise, he has carried out projects and shows in public spaces, such as Lange Voorhout Square, in The Hague (2010), Piazza del Duomo, Chiesa e Chiostro di Sant’Agostino, in Pietrasanta (2008), Casa de América, in Madrid (2007), the Convent of San Francisco de Asís, in Havana (2006), the Plaza Juárez and the former Temple of Corpus Christi, in Mexico City (2005), the Church of Santa Catarina, in Lithuania (2003 ), the Espace Bellevue, in Biarritz (2001), and the Casa de América in Madrid, on the main façade of which he created the monumental piece Chalchihuites (2008).
He has been invited to leading international events, such as the Exhibition for the World Art Treasures, opening exhibition of the China Art Museum, Shanghai (2012); In addition, his work has been exhibited twice during the Venice Biennale: in Larga Ascensione at the entrance of Piazza de San Marco, in the 49th edition (2001), and in the Sala Santo Tommaso, Campo dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, in issue 50 (2003).
Javier Marín has received various awards and distinctions, including the First Prize at the Third International Biennial of Beijing (2008) and the competition for the main altarpiece and the presbytery of the Basilica Cathedral of Zacatecas (2010). In recognition of his traveling exhibition De 3 en 3, which toured seven European cities (Pietrasanta, Milan, The Hague, Brussels, La Baule-Escoublac, Luxembourg and Rome), the Queen of the Netherlands awarded him the title of Knight of the Order from Orange-Nassau (2009).
