Sergio Avello was born in Mar del Plata in 1964. He studied Visual Arts at the Martín A. Malharro School of Visual Arts in his hometown. In 1983 he settled in Buenos Aires; Between 1984 and 1985 he participated in group exhibitions in La Zona, along with Rafael Bueno, Alfredo Prior, Martín Reyna and José Garófalo, among others. In 1985 he traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he studied Textile Design. He had his first individual exhibition, titled Argentine Decorative Art: New Exponent, at the Adriana Rosenberg Gallery, in 1989. That same year he organized, together with Roberto Jacoby, the legendary Decada Offer party at the Eros Club in the Palermo neighborhood. . In 1992 he held an exhibition at the Gallery of the Rojas Cultural Center that he called Avello and his friends, where he exhibited works by all his friends. During the eighties and early nineties, he exhibited and organized exhibitions in nightclubs and alternative spaces in the city of Buenos Aires such as Cemento, La Age of Communications and Garage H. Between 1997 and 1999 he participated in the Scholarship Program for Young Artists directed by Guillermo Kuitca, at the Borges Cultural Center. Since 1996 he was Head of Assembly at Fundación PROA, where he also organized, since 1999, the DJ’s Concerts, electronic music recitals. That same year he created the PROA (Rec) label with which he released three albums. In 2000 he obtained subsidies for the creation of the National Arts Fund, and that of the Antorchas Foundation in 2003. Among his individual exhibitions the following stand out: Paintings and light boxes, (Galería Van Riel, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1998); Semana (Dabbah Torrejón Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2002); S/T (National Arts Fund, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2003); In situ (Dabbah Torrejon Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2006); Meta (Timoteo Navarro Museum of Fine Arts, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, 2008); (((VOLUME))) (Esplanade of the Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from November 2006 to March 2010). He also participated in group exhibitions such as: Sortilegio and Transliminares (both at the National Fund for the Arts, 2001 and 1999 respectively); Vertigo (Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, 1997); Chromophagy (Borges Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, 2003); Illuminations (Contemporáneo 17, Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires, 2006). In 2003 he participated in the 4th Mercosul Visual Arts Biennial, in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where he presented his work Bandera. Sergio Avello died in Buenos Aires, on May 24, 2010.