Sergio Sotomayor creates virtual scenes and digital settings in the form of walk-through landscapes or small dioramas. His work deals with the relationship between biology and technology, theories of the evolution of consciousness and cognitive processes, as well as advances in the exploration of the subatomic world, artificial intelligence and the expansion towards new dimensions such as cyberspace and virtual reality.
...“For Sergio Sotomayor, art is a workshop for visual experimentation, and the experiments enquire into biological science and technology. His chiselled monochromatic works stem from the artist’s earlier study of agrotechnology. Many of his works are never fabricated and remain in the virtual realm”… Piotr Sikora
...”Interested by patterns that nature gave us- reproducing it over and over again throughout an infinite scale- just like the infinity of potential drifts of events, Sergio Sotomayor create worlds that respond to each other in a unique way. Real time simulations, algorithms processes and cognitive sets are carrying us to a psychedelic trip throughout dioramas, secret gardens and immersive architectures”… Elena Azzedin
GRANTS, AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2016
Fellowship Grant, Artist Residency, AADK Spain + Centro Puertas de Castilla. Murcia, ES
2015
Linoleum International Contemporary Animation and Media-Art Festival (Nominated video) Moscow, RU 2011
Winner of Cool Stories for when the planet gets hot III. International art video contest on Climate Change, ES
2010
Production Grant. Parallel Events. Manifesta 8 . Murcia, ES
Honorable Mention. IV Concurso de Creación Artística. Fundación José García Jiménez. Murcia, ES
2009
First Prize Production Award PHOTOGRAPHICA 09. Madrid, ES
Master Gold Award EXPOSÉ 7. Ballistic. Adelaide, AU
Fellowship Grant, Artist Residency, Casa de Velázquez in Madrid. French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, ES
Training and Production Grant at Fundación Pilar y Joan Miró. Mallorca, ES
2008
Best Emerging Artist Prize 2008 by Asociación Madrileña de Críticos de Arte, ES
Selected project for Tentaciones 08. Madrid, ES
Finalist at Rendibú. Biennial Video Art Festival. Murcia, ES
2006
Winner at International Animation Contest 3D Sicarm 2006. Murcia, ES
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Spyhole. Galería Blanca Soto. PhotoEspaña. Madrid, ES
2018
Spyhole. Galería Blanca Soto. Madrid, ES
2016
Blanca#01. Museo Teatro Romano Cartagena, ES
2014
Onírica molecular. Galería Blanca Soto. PhotoEspaña. Madrid, ES
2011
Madera. Centro Párraga. Manifesta 8. Murcia, ES
2010
Madera. Muralla Bizantina. Manifesta 8. Cartagena, ES
Neurocosmos. El espectro de la realidad. Galería Blanca Soto. Madrid, ES
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
36 Aniversario Galería Blanca Soto. Madrid, ES
2021
Concrete House VR Exhibition. Ars Electronica. WEB
NFTsART. Arteinformado. WEB
2020
GeoMag CubeArt. JustMadrid, ES
2017
Franqueados JustMadrid, ES
2016
Cool Stories. Socrates Sculpture Park. New York, US
Blanca#01. AADK MMM - Museo Teatro Romano Cartagena, ES
Open Studios. AADK Centro Negra. Blanca, Murcia, ES
CeC - Carnival of e-Creativity. AnimateCologne4. Shillong, IN
2015
PRISM 18. Eyre Street Studios. Sheffield, UK
Linoleum International Contemporary Animation and Media-Art Festival. Moscow, RU
Deslocalización. COAM - Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid, ES
Starlite Art Fire. Marbella, ES
2014
Pinta London. Galería Blanca Soto, UK
Muestra internacional de videoarte NIO 3. Auditorio Jorge Roa, CO
2013
InMediTerraneum. Festival Internacional Simultáneo de Videoarte. Madrid, ES
Filmambiente. International Environmental Film Festival. Museu do Meio Ambiente. Rio de Janeiro, BR
Deliciós. Parque Príncipe de Girona. Barcelona, ES
Green Screens. Film Society of Lincoln Center. New York, US
AIVA Temptations.Fonlad Festival. Coimbra, PT
New Media Room. Gallery Aferro. New Jersey, US
2012
Proyector Videoart Festival. Intermediae. Matadero. Madrid, ES
AIVA. Belgrade Art Fair, RS
Cool Stories III. Global Eco Forum. Barcelona, ES
Ionian International Digital Film Festival. Lefkas, UK
Sesión ChillOut. Galería ApuntodFuga. Santiago de Compostela, ES
FILE Anima+ Electronic Language International Festival. Sao Paulo, BR
Linoleum - Animation and Media Arts Festival. Solyanka. Moscow, RU
Freedom of Memory. Meta House Phnom Penh. German-Cambodian Cultural Center, KH
Cool Stories III. Museo Centro del Carmen. Valencia, ES
AIVA. Angelholm International Video Art Festival, SE
Generation Loss Festival Manila, PH
The 7th annual CeC - Carnival of e-Creativity. Sattal, IN
Imagery Affairs. Matadero. Madrid, ES
2011
They don´t know why, but they keep doing it. Ideas after ideology. Galería Blanca Soto. Madrid, ES
CologneOff VII. Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes. Museo ExTeresa Arte Actual. Ciudad de México, MX
Cool Stories for when the planet gets hot III. SJDC at Parsons The New School for Design. New York, US
CologneOff VII Baltic Sea. FloatingArt Centers Noass & Betanovuss. Riga, LV
Cool Stories III. Film Society of Lincoln Center. The Walter Reade Theater. Furman Gallery. New York, US
Cool Stories III. Swiss Architecture Museum. Basel, CH
CologneOff 2011 International Videoart Festival. Le Musee di-visioniste - the global museum of networked art
El Quirófano. Murcia, ES
Private Lives. Centro Cultural de Cascais, PT
Híbridos. Filmakers #12. Galería H20. Barcelona, ES
Híbridos. Niu Espacio Artístico Contemporáneo. Barcelona, ES
JustMad 2. Galería Blanca Soto. Madrid, ES
PINAS The 1st Philippine International Animation Series, PH
Wallpaper. Galería A&D. Barcelona, ES
II Festival de Videoarte. El cuarto Simpático. Madrid, ES
2010
10 años. Galería Blanca Soto. Madrid, ES
FILE Electronic Language International Festival. Sao Paulo, BR
ArteBA. XIX Internacional Art Fair. Galería Blanca Soto. Buenos Aires, AR
IV Concurso de Creación Artística. Fundación José García Jiménez. Murcia, ES
IV Feria de Arte Contemporáneo de Arévalo. Ávila, ES
Network (xapox) Centro Párraga. Murcia, ES
2009
Scope Art Fair. Galería Blanca Soto. Miami, US
Estampa. Frame. Photographica. Madrid, ES
Estampa. Galería Factoría Compostela. Madrid, ES
Estampa. Casa de Velázquez. Madrid, ES
Zoom In. XIX Bienal de Zamora, ES
Becarios de la Casa de Velázquez. Madrid, ES
Loop The Video Art Fair. Barcelona, ES
Puertas Abiertas Arco 2009. Casa de Velázquez. Madrid, ES
2008
Estampa. Feria Internacional de Arte Múltiple Contemporáneo. Tentaciones. Madrid, ES
El eco de la creación (xapox) Auditorio Víctor Villegas. Murcia, ES
Optica. Festival Internacional de Vídeo Arte. Paris, Madrid, Gijón. Galería Espora. Madrid, ES
Rendibú. Concurso de Artes Multimedia. Murcia, ES
2003
Elements (xapox) Espacio Xtra. Murcia, ES 2001
II Muestra Internacional de Videoarte España-México Galería T20. Murcia, ES