Sebastián Espejo
b. 1990

chapter five
january 2026 - april 2026
london

Sebastián Espejo. Photo by Stella Grigor McGarvey.

Sebastián Espejo (b. 1990, Chile) lives and works in London. He studied at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (BA, 2014) and completed the Turps Off Site Programme (2024–25). Espejo’s practice approaches painting as a form of phenomenological enquiry by using still-life motifs - vases, fruit, cuttings in jars - and intermittent landscape glimpses to examine how items and environments come into being through light, surface, and objecthood. Across these two registers, he constructs pictorial situations in which intimacy is produced through repetition, restraint, and calibrated shifts in tone. 

Sebastián Espejo. Photo by Stella Grigor McGarvey.

Recent solo and duo exhibitions include Interval (Plaster + Artist Room Gallery, London, 2025), What is less or more than a touch (Des Bains Gallery, London, 2025), Occasional Blue (The Dot Project x HeritageXplore, Drumlanrig Castle, Scotland, 2025), and Celestial Mechanics (Draper & Co., Paris, 2025). He was shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize (2025) and twice a finalist for Jackson’s Art Prize. Upcoming solo exhibitions in 2026 include Union Pacific (London) and Sun Gallery (Seoul). 

selected artworks

Sebastián Espejo, Street scene, Oil and pencil on birch wood panel, 25.3 x 20.2 cm, 2025. Photo by Jack Elliot Edwards. Courtesy of Interval.

Sebastián Espejo, Dog Star, Oil and pencil on birch wood panel, 60 x 50 cm, 2025. Photo by Jack Elliot Edwards. Courtesy of Interval.

Sebastián Espejo, The Woodcutter, Oil and pencil on birch wood Panel, 35.5 x 27.6 cm, 2025. Photo by Jack Elliot Edwards. Courtesy of Interval.

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