Eduardo Sarabia

Artist

Eduardo Sarabia (Los Angeles, CA, 1976) uses narrative as the raw material in his artwork. The language he has developed through the years, and his very personal aesthetic code, comes from his own life experience, but also from a type of fiction that is always accompanied by the construction of a story. The autobiographical references in his works and series are developed to define his experimentation, but are suppressed or veiled to make way for an open interpretation and an emphasis on that which frames the cultural and social-political events in his life. This is most evident in his paintings: personal photographs that are covered by floral-like smears, that not only incite a tautological reflection, but also reference the inner stories that configure his reality, and a process with which we can all relate to, something hovering between oblivion, fiction and live memory. 

Eduardo Sarabia is currently part of Desert X 2021 with The Passenger, a site-specific project built with hand made mexican petates. He has had many individual exhibitions in museums such as the Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City; The Mistake Room, LA; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Instituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO), Oaxaca, Mexico; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado; Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan; ASU Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona; Santa Monica Museum of Art, California, among others.  Sarabia’s artwork is part of various public and private collections internationally. He currently lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico.