Life in Series
Series of paintings that reflect on technology and its power over our lives, especially around our freedom, independence and autonomy.
Man's search for meaning.
Man's search for meaning.
Sebastián Picker (1956) is a Chilean artist with an extensive international career in the world of painting and visual arts. During the 1970s, he began painting and moved to the United States, where he studied at the Art Institute of Boston and later at the Massachusetts College of Art. Since then, Picker has participated in various exhibitions, individually and collectively, in various galleries and art spaces in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Over the years, his work has stood out for containing endless reflections and questions about man, society, and our current way of living. Some of his works are part of important private and museum collections, such as the Vila Casas Foundation in Barcelona, The Museum of Latin American Art in California, and The Museum of Art and History in Albuquerque, among others.
He currently works and lives in Santiago de Chile.
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART, MOLAA, Long Beach, California, U.S.A.
MUSEUM OF ART AND HISTORY, Albuquerque, U.S.A.
EL MUSEO CULTURAL DE SANTA FE, Santa Fe, U.S.A.
FUNDACIÓ VILA CASAS, Barcelona, SPAIN.
MUSEO DE CANTERA A CIELO ABIERTO, Degollado, Mexico.
WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT INC., Boston, U.S.A.
AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS
1997 Juried Exhibitions in Print, Catalog of the Twelfth Open Studios Competition, U.S.A.
1991 Massachusetts Artist Fellowship Program, Boston, U.S.A.
1990 Grant "Artist Fellowship Program," Boston, U.S.A.
1988 Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities Grant, U.S.A.
1985 Macworld Art Contest, First Prize, U.S.A.
1984 Barcelona Sister City Travel Grant, Boston, U.S.A.
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2022 Life in Series, Galería Espacio en Tránsito, Santiago, Chile.
2017 Antídotos Contra la Guerra, Las Condes Design Gallery, Santiago, Chile
2016 Homo Sapiens ou pas?, Galerie De Buci, Paris, France.
2015 Encuentros, Museo Nacional del Tequila, Tequila, Mexico.
2014 Galerie De Buci, Paris, France.
2013 Examination of Dystopia, Gallery One, Nashville, U.S.A.
2012 Galerie De Buci, Paris, France.
2011 Allégories sarcastiques, Maison Du Chevalier, Carcassonne, France.
2010 Pinturas y esculturas, Galería Juan Soriano, Guadalajara, Mexico.
2009 Escultura, Galería Pablo Guerrero, Guadalajara, Mexico.
2008 Sebastian Picker, Mason Murer, Atlanta, U.S.A.
2007 Soliloquio, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Colima, Mexico.
2007 Arden Gallery, Boston, U.S.A.
2006 Soliloquio, Galería Pablo Guerrero, Guadalajara, Mexico.
2005 Arden Gallery, Boston, U.S.A.
2004 Conscientia, Arden Gallery, Boston, U.S.A.
2002 Arden Gallery, Boston, U.S.A.
2000 Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, U.S.A.
2000 Laberinto, Arden Gallery, Boston, U.S.A.
1999 At the Table, Brewster Arts, New York, U.S.A.
1998 Istoria, Brewster Arts, New York, U.S.A.
1997 Meredith Kelly, Santa Fe, U.S.A.
1997 Old Child Visions, Arden Gallery, Boston, U.S.A.
1996 Meredith Kelly, Santa Fe, U.S.A.
1995 Spiritual Souls, Arden Gallery, Boston, U.S.A.
1991 Instalación: En el Baúl de los Sueños, The Space, Boston, U.S.A.
1990 Talking Walls, The Space, Boston, U.S.A.
1988 Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, U.S.A.
1985 Van Buren/Brazelton/Cutting/Gallery, Boston, U.S.A.
1983 Galería D'Art Mestral, L'Escala, Spain.
1980 Gallery 355, Boston, U.S.A.
1979 Galería Skandia, Bogotá, Colombia.
1977 Gallery 355, Boston, U.S.A.
1976 Gallery 355, Boston, U.S.A.
1975 Gallery 355, Boston, U.S.A.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Dictators and the Disappeared, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, U.S.A.
2016 Centro Cultural Gabriel García Marquez, Bogotá, Colombia
2013 Galerie De Buci, Paris, France.
2012 Pétalos y Espinas, Centro Cultural José de Jesús González Gallo, Guadalajara, Mexico.
2010 Festival Cultural de Mayo, Museo Regional, Guadalajara, Mexico.
2010 Instalación, Galería Exconvento del Carmen, Guadalajara, Mexico.
2006 Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Mexico.
2005 Brea Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
2004 Arte América, Miami, U.S.A.
2000 International Drawing Exhibition, Turner Carroll Gallery, U.S.A.
2000 Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela.
2000 Museo Carlos Cruz Diez, Caracas Venezuela.
2000 Instalación: Mil Novecientos Setenta y Tres, The Artist's Museum, Washington DC., U.S.A.
1999 Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, U.S.A.
1999 IX Bienal de Pintura y Escultura, Galería 1-2-3, San Salvador, El Salvador.
1999 Art Miami 99, Art Miami Pavilion, Miami, U.S.A.
1999 University Of Central Florida Library, Florida, U.S.A.
1994 Mills Gallery, Boston, U.S.A.
1993 Harriet Tubman, Boston, U.S.A.
1990 Artists Foundation, Boston, U.S.A.
1990 Optica Gallery, Montreal, Canada.
1990 Wellesley College, Boston, U.S.A.
1990 Bank Of Boston, Boston, U.S.A.
1987 Massachusetts College Of Art, Boston, U.S.A.
1987 Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, U.S.A.
1987 Northeastern University, Boston, U.S.A.
1986 Cleveland Museum Of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, U.S.A.
1986 Laughlin/Winkler, Boston, U.S.A.
1986 Galería Alemán, Boston, U.S.A.
1979 Kunstamt Kreutzberg, Berlin, Germany.
1978 Centre Culturel de Villeparisis, Paris, France.
1977 Galería Fondo del Sol, Washington DC., U.S.A.
1977 Boston Visual Artists Union, Boston, U.S.A.