Bogotá, Colombia, 1982
Sebastián Camacho works in oil paint, watercolor, paper cutout, and graphite—a breadth of media that enables him to interrogate the relationship between images and their supports. One of his primary interests is the specific moment when an artistic event takes place. From the moment of the work’s production through its reception, Camacho finds situations that can be narrated and described, but rarely predicted. For that reason, he chooses to work with legible images that do not bear grand narratives, images before which we have the space to ask ourselves what it is that we are seeing. Sebastían studied art at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá and media and technology in pictorial production at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes in Buenos Aires. In 2013, he was selected to participate in the yearlong Proyecto PAC at Galería Gachi Prieto. Exhibitions of his work in Argentina and abroad include: Incidencias I-IX (Galería Gachi Prieto, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2017); C A P A S (Galería El Museo, Bogotá, Colombia, 2016); Los embajadores (AMA – ArteMercadoArte, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2013), and Melgart, Arte de paseo (Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia, 2013). He was featured in BIENALSUR 2017 as part of the TURN Project coordinated by Japanese artist Katsuhiko Hibino. He currently teaches at the university level; he has formed part of education departments at museums and other art institutions.
He lives and works in Buenos Aires.