Lives and works in Cholula, México.
Sebastián Hidalgo (Mexico, 1985) explores through various media and materials the relationship between the natural forces that inhabit us and the natural forces that surround us. your practice originates from painting and works by groupings of individual statements with specific interests, which combined, constitute multiple layers of relationships. the universes that exist within each piece are built by the game of scales and dimensions between representations, objects or concepts, and by the possibilities offered by the interaction of various iconographies. In this sense, he develops a mutable and eclectic aesthetic. he has like main influences primitive art, Taoism, Zen Buddhism, mysticism, comics, cartoons, science fiction and cyber-aesthetics.
He carried out his studies in Visual Arts between Spain and Mexico. His work was part of the
XV Rufino Tamayo Biennial of Painting, the VII National Biennial of Visual Arts Yucatán and the Biennial Artemergent Monterrey; and has been exhibited in Oaxaca, Puebla, Yucatan, Monterrey, Ciudad de Mexico, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA. He was a beneficiary of the PECDA Puebla scholarship 2017-2018.
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En octubre brota el amarillo
Curated by Eduardo Luque & Christian Barragán February 1 - April 12, 2025As part of Mexico City's Art Week 2025, Saenger Gallery presents the group exhibition on landscape, En octubre brota el amarillo [In October, Yellow Blossoms], the first contemporary art project hosted by Casa Limantour, curated by Eduardo Luque with assistance from Christian Barragán. With this new exhibition, Saenger Gallery reaffirms its program of showcasing works in architecturally significant spaces of historical and cultural relevance. This time, twenty artists from Mexico, North America, Spain, Germany, and Japan have been gathered to create a temporal arc of over thirty years of artistic production, allowing for an exploration of the multiple singularities in approaches, processes, materialities, and questions employed by the invited artists, all centered around a classic theme in art history: landscape.Read more -
Under Forty
December 5, 2024 - January 25, 2025Under Forty, presented by Saenger Gallery at Casa Siza, marks the culmination of a curatorial program that has been running since August 2024. This group show brings together over 50 works by 25 artists from diverse parts of the world, all born between 1982 and 1995. It offers a renewed perspective on the transformations in contemporary international art, showcasing the cultural and conceptual diversity of its participants.Read more -
Pueblo de pesca by Sebastián Hidalgo
at Main Room, curated by Christian Barragán November 14, 2024 - January 17, 2025Pueblo de pesca happens in the present tense. It is not the overflow of the past that Marías resorts to in his stories, but the imminent now in which we travel through this critical vehicle.Read more -
Radio Solar by Sebastián Hidalgo
at Project Room April 26 - June 25, 2022SAENGER Galería presents Radio Solar, the first solo exhibition by Mexican artist Sebastián Hidalgo (Puebla, 1985) at the gallery's current location in the historic neighborhood of Tacubaya. The exhibition is made up of a group of unpublished works, including paintings, drawings and a small installation, created during the last few years, from 2019 to the present; a period that includes the appearance of the Covid-19 pandemic and its still-present consequences, events that provide the background to the core story outlined in Hidalgo's exhibition.Read more
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Material Art Fair 2026
February 5 - 8, 2026For the 12th edition of Material (Art Week Mexico City, 2026) Saenger Galería- for the second consecutive year in collaboration with COHJU-presents a group exhibition...Read more -
Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2025
December 3 - 7, 2025SAENGER Galería, in collaboration with COHJU, is pleased to present for the upcoming edition of UNTITLED Miami a group exhibition featuring Shinya Azuma, Sebastián Hidalgo,...Read more -
Estación Material Vol. 4
September 25 - 28, 2025For the 4th edition of Estación Material, the Saenger Galería team presents a solo show by Mexican artist Sebastián Hidalgo (Mexico, 1985). The exhibition takes the form of a journey through a rocky river—a small stream for fishermen—brought to life through contrasts between the blurred and the defined, between the smoke of dreams and the weight of the earth itself, and through the interplay of large and small formats.Read more -
Material Art Fair 2025
February 6 - 9, 2025SAENGER Galería and COHJU (Kyoto, Japan), are pleased to present a joint project for the upcoming edition of Material Art Fair, held at Expo Reforma, in Mexico City from February 6th to 9th, 2025. The project will feature a curated selection of works by four talented young artists form Japan, Mexico and Germany —Shinya Azuma, Fu Nagasawa, Sebastián Hidalgo, and Alexander Wertheim—. Together, their works though distinct in style and approach, converge around the exploration of human experience, cultural history, and the relationship between the self and the external world.Read more