Oscillating between sensory experience and conceptual inquiry, Hidalgo’s practice merges psychedelia, dream memory, and contemplative states into an ever-expanding visual cosmos.
Sebastián Hidalgo (b. 1985, Mexico) is a contemporary visual artist whose practice is rooted in painting and drawing, yet expands across multiple mediums including oil, charcoal, ink, colored pencil, and a variety of supports such as canvas, paper, and wood. His eclectic, mutable aesthetic is anchored in an exploration of the relationships between the natural forces that inhabit us and those that surround us. Hidalgo’s compositions often combine diverse scales and dimensions, layering representations, objects, and concepts to construct immersive universes rich with visual and symbolic interplay.
Influenced by anthropology, Archaic art, mysticism, Taoism, Zen Buddhism, comics, cartoons, science fiction, and cyber-aesthetics, Hidalgo weaves together iconographies from disparate worlds. Psychedelia, dream memory, and contemplative states are recurring undercurrents in his work, serving as connective tissue between sensory immediacy and conceptual depth. His pieces oscillate between abstraction and figuration, inviting the viewer into a state of both wonder and reflection.
Hidalgo studied Visual Arts in Spain and Mexico. His work has been included in significant exhibitions such as the XV Rufino Tamayo Biennial of Painting, the VII National Biennial of Visual Arts Yucatán, and the Biennial Artemergent Monterrey, as well as shows in Oaxaca, Puebla, Yucatán, Monterrey, Mexico City, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. In 2017–2018, he was awarded the PECDA Puebla grant in recognition of his artistic practice. Hidalgo lives and works in Cholula, Mexico.