The 1990s had a major influence on Fernando Otero. The 1990s creative movement was shaped by a group of British painters who became known as the YBAs, or Young British painters. Their age and nationality served as loose links to bring this diverse group of practitioners together. Many of the YBAs were favored by Charles Saatchi, the "super collector" of the day, and attended Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art in London. Damien Hirst is the group's most well-known member; other participants included Sam Taylor-Johnson (née Sam Taylor-Wood), Chris Ofili, Tracey Emin, Marc Quinn, Gavin Turk, and Sarah Lucas. The YBAs gained notoriety for their use of sensationalism and shock techniques in addition to their disposable materials, crazy lifestyles, and rebellious yet enterprising mindset. The British art scene of the 1990s was dominated by them due to the widespread media coverage they received; the group show "Sensation" served as a perfect example of their work.

Developed by curator Nicholas Bourriaud to refer to the process of creating art based on human relations and their social environment, the term "relational aesthetics" gained use in the 1990s. It was stated that important artists who adhered to this objective were Liam Gillick, Douglas Gordon, Gillian Wearing, and Philippe Parenno.
Throughout the decade, a number of movements shaped the art world, but two particularly noteworthy ones were Felix Gonzalez-Torres's sensitive, conceptual breakthroughs and Maurizio Cattelan's mocking sculptures.

In reaction to the explosion of materialism and advertising in the 1980s, a tendency started to take shape in Japan. Manga comic book culture emerged as a kind of art that was connected to movements in graphic design and advertising. The word "Superflat," which refers to a theory influenced by the aesthetic qualities of manga and the characteristics of post-war Japanese culture, was first used by Takashi Murakami, one of the most prominent modern Japanese painters. Motivated by his encounters in mid-1990s New York City, Murakami founded the important group Kaikai Kiki, an international artist collective that won recognition in several nations.

German concepts and artists served as a major source of inspiration for conceptual photography, which started to acquire prominence. German artists such as Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, and Wolfgang Tillmans became well-known, and as a result, other artists—like the Canadian Jeff Wall—created works that have a cinematic character, drawing inspiration from the German artists. Albert Oehlen and Martin Kippenberger became well-known painters in the community of artists.

Fernando Otero (b. 1972, Lima, Perù) graduated in Fine Arts at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru in 1994. Otero's main reccuring topics include architecture and collected objects which become the raw materials for the production of his art. The artist works within a large range of media including painting, sculpture, installation, and light installation. He had his first solo show in South America in 2004 and most recently at LAMB in 2015 with 'The Building and its Artifacts'. He has presented works at meany revered institutions such as Museo de Bellas Artes in Santiago de Chile, MAC in Lima, the Museum of Latin American Art in California, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago de Chile. Otero has also won the first prize at PADIS, Lima 2008.