Sebastián Espejo
Born in Viña del Mar, Chile, 1990
education
2025 | Turps Off Site Programme, London, UK
2014 | Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
selected solo and duo exhibitions
2025 | Occasional Blue, The Dot Project x Heritagetxplore, Drumlanrig Castle, Scotland, UK
2025 | Celestial Mechanics (duo), Draper & Co., Paris, France
2025 | What Is Less Or More Than A Touch, Des Bains Gallery, London, UK
2025 | Shorelines, Draper & Co., Montauk, USA
2025 | Interval, Plaster and Artist Room Gallery, London, UK
2024 | Pinturas, Corporación Cultural Viña del Mar, Chile
2023 | Pacífico Poniente (duo), Galería Animal, Santiago, Chile
2023 | The Edge of The Water, Piloto Pardo Gallery, London, UK
2023 | Balneario, Al Cubo Gallery, Valparaíso, Chile
2022 | Carta, 550 Gallery, Santiago, Chile
2022 | 500 Días Del Año (duo), Oma Gallery, Santiago, Chile
2022 | Reflejos Menores, Tarquinia Gallery, Concón, Chile
2021 | Mockingbird, Piloto Pardo Gallery, London, UK
group exhibitions
2025 | Atmósferas Del Paisaje, Viento Norte, Teatro Zapallar, Zapallar, Chile
2025 | Madeleine Moments, Union Pacific, London, UK
2025 | The Way We Live Now, Sun Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2025 | Chappy, Slip House Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, USA
2025 | Drift, Slip House Gallery, New York, USA
2025 | Jackson’s Art Prize Finalists, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
2025 | Inside Out II, Scroll Gallery, New York, USA
2025 | Shifting Sands, CCA Galleries, Jersey, UK
2025 | Colectiva Vi, Galería NAC, Santiago, Chile
2025 | The Irving Open, Irving Gallery, Oxford, UK
2025 | Myriad, Ocean Apart Gallery, Manchester, UK
2025 | Viejos Medios, Galería NAC, Santiago, Chile
2024 | Vs, Lea Bridge Library, London, UK
2024 | Every Day We Play, Glasshouse Contemporary Gallery, London, UK
2024 | Kairos, Spira9 Gallery, London, UK
2024 | Jackson’s Art Prize Finalists, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
2024 | England is a forest, Sluice, Colchester, UK
2024 | Bloom, Outhouse Gallery, London, UK
2024 | 27 Estrellas en El Firmamento, Museo Palacio Vergara, Viña del Mar, Chile
art fairs
2025 | 7 Rue Froissart, Slip House, Paris, France
2025 | Kiaf, Sun Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2025 | Korea Art Fair, Sun Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2025 | Affordable Art Fair, Jackson’s, London, UK
2025 | One Art Taipei, Matthew Beaux-Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
awards and residencies
2025 | Recipient, brave Projects, chapter five, London, UK
2025 | Recipient, Drumlanrig Castle Residency, HeritageXplore and The Dot Project, Scotland, UK
2025 | Shortlisted (stage 2), John Moores Painting Prize
2025 | Finalist, Jackson’s Art Prize
2024 | Finalist, Jackson’s Art Prize
2024 | Longlisted, BTA Prize
press
2025 | Dialogue, Interview by brave Projects, London, UK
2025 | On Attention, Nature And The Act of Painting, Interview by Mia Funk, The Creative Process
2025 | Interview by Adela Blanco, Blanco Gallery, London, UK
2025 | On The Radar, Interview by Plaster Magazine, London, UK
other projects
2025 | Co-organiser of The Rest Has All Been Dreams, Sommers Gallery, London, in collaboration with CVAG, the Chilean Embassy in the UK, and ProChile
2025 | Organiser of Gathering South, London
2024–2025 | Illustrator for Biografías de artesanías, mujeres creando en prisión, funded by Fondart, Chile
2022–2023 | Illustrator for pedagogical materials for the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, Chile
teaching
2025 | Deconstructing The Painting Practice Workshop, Dulwich Art Group, London
2025 | Body, Practice And Creativity Workshop, Curriculum Development and Teaching Artist, Pennsylvania Studio School of Art, Philadelphia, USA
2018–Present | Mentor for painting and art projects
