Paintings
Paintings
Inject Print on Hahnemühle paper - Photo Rag Bright® White Matt FineArt, 310 gsm, 100% cotton
Size: 50 cm x 70 cm
Statement
Thinking how our mind generates spaces where the dream is mixed with the subjectivization of reality, reproducing a new state of things. Carlos Sebastiá investigates different ways of representing the shapeless, blurry matter that is memory and the images we perceive.
He uses heterogeneous and in many cases opposing artistic resources to propose pictorial/photographic installations with non-linear, even absurd narratives. Narratives that make sense from an intimate personal look. He likes to bring geometries closer and combine them with lines of expressive drawings, complementary colours are common and the back and foreground are interrelated, breaking fixed positions, all seeking to stress the dialogues and generating vibration.
Sebastiá's work has also a spiral tendency where the pieces represent snapshots of the work processes. The materials used, collages, acrylics, drawings and digitized photographic images are reused at different times, constantly moving from the physical to the digital in a continuous transformation process.
Bio
Carlos Sebastiá is an international artist currently residing in Valencia. He received a Fine Arts Degree from the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain, he studied also at CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing) for one year, and moving finally to London for his MFA at UAL (University of Arts of London) which finished with distinctions.
His works have been exhibited in Spain, Portugal, France, USA, China, Austria, and the UK, in different festivals, art fairs or galleries, like most recently the Museum Angerlehner in Wels (Austria), or Imaginaria Photo Festival in Castellón (Spain.)
Sebastiá was selected in the International Festival of INCUBARTE and awarded by the Prize (Club Levante Special Award), also nominated to the BEST PHOTOGRAPHY at DALI INTERNATIONAL PHOTO FESTIVAL in China.
He has completed artist residencies in Iceland on the occasion of the Fresh Wind International Art Biennale, Austria, Spain, the United Kingdom and China.
Some of his works are in important private collections as for instance, DKV Collection is considered one of the best collections of young artists in Spain
Curriculum Vitae
Academic Training
2020 » DEGREE IN ANTHROPOLOGY - UNED, Madrid (ES) - in progress
2018 » MASTER IN FINE ARTS - UAL, London (GB) - Distinction
2013 » FINE ARTS DEGREE - UPV, Valencia (ES) - Distinction
PROMOE - CAFA, Beijing (CN) - Distinction
1999 » DEGREE IN BUSSINESS - Universitat Jaume I, Castellón (ES) 1998 »
ERASMUS - Paris XII Val de Marne, Paris (FR)
Collections
JJCC Foundation, Valencia (ES)
Raiffeisen Wels Süd, Wels (AT)
DKV collection, (ES)
Venancio Blanco, Salamanca (ES)
UPV Permanent Collection, Valencia (ES)
Awards and Collaborations
2023 » “Cultura Online del CMCV”, Consorci de Museus, Valencia (ES)
Finalist “Casa Velázquez” art residency award, Ayuntamiento de Valencia (ES)
“Beca Habitat” internacional mobility, Castellón TownHall (ES)
2022 » Finalist “Casa Velázquez” art residency award, Ayuntamiento de Valencia (ES)
Selected work “Senyera” Award, Valencia (ES)
Selected work “Cañada Blanch” Award, Valencia (ES)
Selected work “ III Bienal M Isabel Comenge”, Las Atarazanas, Valencia (ES)
Selected work “Premio Nacional de Pintuta Juan Francés Fira D’Agost”, Xàtiva (ES)
2021 » Finalist “Casa Velázquez” art residency award, Ayuntamiento de Valencia (ES)
Selected work “La Rural” Award, Jaen (ES)
2020 » Selected work “Q-Art” Award, Quart de Poblet (ES)
Selected work “ II Bienal M Isabel Comenge”, Las Atarazanas, Valencia (ES)
Pre-selected work “Lopez-Villaseñor” Award, Ciudad Real (ES)
2015 » Nomination Best Photography Dali International Photo Festival, Dali (CN)
2014 » Chair in Art and Diseases, Fine Arts Faculty, UPV of Valencia (ES) in collaboration with CAFA Beijing, (CN)
2012 » Special Award - Club Diario Levante, Valencia (ES)
Residencies
2023 » GlogauAIR Art Residency, Habitat Awards, Berlin (DE)
2021 » Art Diagonale, Wels (AT)
Istambul Art Residency, Istanbul (TR)
2020 » QUARANTINE International Art Res, On-line (CN)
2018 » TIAC y ICCI Residency (Jiao Tong University), Shanghai (CN)
FRESH WINDS International Art Biennale, Gardur (IS)
First Floor Space Art Residency, London (GB)
Art Diagonale, Wels (AT)
2017 » CWND (Canary Wharf Group), London (GB)
Art Fairs and Festivals
2023 » ESTAMPA Art Fair, with Shiras Gallery, Madrid (ES)
2022 » ESTAMPA Art Fair, with Shiras Gallery, Madrid (ES)
MARTE, Art Fair sellection, Castellón (ES)
2021 » ESTAMPA Art Fair, with Shiras Gallery, Madrid (ES)
2020 » ABIERTO VALENCIA at Shiras Gallery, Valencia (ES)
2019 » “5’ of Harmony” - NEW MEDIA FESTIVAL, Miami (US)
2018 » DIGITAL MAKER COLLECTIVE Tate Modern London (GB)
“Beijing Walks” - IMAGINARIA PHOTO FESTIVAL, Castellón (ES)
2015 » SUMMER ART NIGHT, TopRed Gallery, 798 Art District, Beijing (CN)
DALI INTERNATIONAL PHOTO FESTIVAL, INPUT: 10 years of Spanish photography, Dali (CN)
“Construcción del Cariño” IMAGINARIA, Museo Casa Polo, Villa-Real (ES)
2014 » SLICK ATTITUDE Paris (FR), with Jiali Gallery, Beijing, (CN)
2012 » HYBRIDA ART FESTIVAL, (art-sound concert), Las Naves, Valencia (ES)
4º SONS CREATIVOS Musica E Naturaleza (art-sound concert), Lugo (ES)
INCUBARTE International Festival, Valencia (ES)
Main Solo Shows
2022 » “El Tiempo Suspendido”, Shiras Gallery, Valencia (ES)
2020 » “La evanescencia de lo cotidiano”, Shiras Gallery, Valencia (ES)
2017 » “Beijing Walks”, Public Photo Installation, Rise Gallery, London (GB)
2016 » “Carlos Sebastiá”, Qingdao Art Museum, Qingdao (CN)
2015 » “Rostros”, Confucio Art Institut at Octubre Gallery, Valencia (ES)
2014 » “Abandon”, Jiali Gallery, Beijing (CN)
2013 » “Zai Hui”, Galería Espacio 40, Valencia (ES)
2012 » “Vínculo de lo Cotidiano” Onda Townhall, Castellon (ES)
2011 » “Superaciones”, Nadir Gallery, Valencia (ES)
“Presentaciones”, Nadir Gallery, Valencia (ES)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 » “Cultura Online”, Centro del Carmen, Valencia (ES)
“Colectiva”, Espacio Corner, Madrid (ES)
2022 » “Un Pocket de Marte”, Organized by Marte Art Fair at Galería Nueva, Madrid (ES)
“Colectiva”, Galería Shiras, Valencia (ES)
2021 » “Those remote days”, Sunning Art Museum, Shanghai (CN)
“Parallel Universes”, The Artling, Shanghai (CN)
2020 » “Selección de obras de los artistas de la galería”, Galería Shiras, Valencia (ES)
2018 » “Art Diagonale”, Museum Angerlehner: Museum Wels - Thalheim (AT)
“Capas”, IVAM (Valencia Institute of Modern Art), Valencia (ES) collaborative video
“Capas”, Morgue Gallery at UAL, London (GB) collaborative installation
“Xhibit 2018”, Bermondsey Project Space, Londres (GB)
“Collecting Time”, Shanghai Art Gallery, Shanghai (CN)
2017 » “With Each Passing Moment”, Rise Gallery, London (GB)
“One That Holds Everything”, The Crypt Gallery, London (GB)
“Life In A Shoe Box”, Back Room Gallery, London (GB)
2016 » “Carlos Sebastiá”, Qingdao Art Museum, Qingdao (CN)
“Vis-À-Vis”, F.C.N. Art, Shanghai (CN)
“SHÍ CHĀ - Equation of Time”, Art-More Space, Beijing (CN)
2015 » “Encounter”, CCD Show Room, Cao Chang Di Art District, Beijing (CN)
“Bierlosky”, Railowsky Photo Gallery, Valencia (ES)
“Building Endearment”, See+ Gallery, Beijing (CN)
“Perspectives-Art, Liver Diseases And Me”, Reed Messe Congress Center, Viena (AT)
2014 » “Desmaterialización del Ser”, Instituto Cervantes, Beijing (CN)
“Artworks”, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (CN) 2013 »
“La Ciudad”, Espacio Gallery, Valencia (ES)
2010 » “Fundación Dasyc” charity exhibition, Puchol Gallery, Valencia (ES)
“Fundación Five” charity exhibition, Madrid (ES)
2009 » “Reflexiones sobre la Soledad” Aeon Logic Art Gallery, New York (US)
“Reflexiones sobre la Soledad” Geraldes da Silva Gallery, Oporto (PT)
ICCI and TIAC Art Residency with Open Studio and Show - Shanghai (China)
Art Diagonale and Exhibition Museum Angerlehner - Wels (Austria)
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Fresh Winds Art Biennale - Gardur (Iceland)
IMAGINARIA PHOTO FESTIVAL, “BEIJING WALKS”, Castellón (Spain) - 30m public photo installation at Castellon Central Market (Spain)
Triptych from the Festival 2018
Antonio Gascó. Els trasters al sol de Beijing. Diario Mediterráneo 20 Mayo 2018.
Xhibit at Art Bermondsey Project Space - London (UK)
