ABOUT
Raúl Sisniega.I was born in 1980, Mexico City, Mexico.
I currently live and work in Roswell, New Mexico.
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Photo by Tonee Harbert, courtesy of Roswell Artist-in-Residence Foundation.
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Throughout my artistic journey, I have been drawn to the intersection of spirituality, technology and organic systems, seeking to explore the ways in which these seemingly disparate realms merge and inform one another. My work is rooted in an ongoing fascination with branching patterns—vascular structures, tree growth, mycelium networks, and electrical circuits—which I interpret as conduits of information, energy, and intelligence. This curiosity informs my approach to a multidisciplinary practice that includes painting, mural, ceramics and installation: mediums where I use repetition patterns, ancestral symbols, oneiric characters and organic forms to construct images that question the relationship between tradition and technology, between past and future. I see the material world as a collective hallucination composed of data, memory, matter, and code—and my work aims to materialize that idea
My artistic experimentations navigate the fusion of apparently opposite spaces, processes and techniques. The interaction between the digital and the analog, the transition between my studio and the streets, the unique and the multiple, the individual and the collective, are the spaces where I play and experiment.
My current artistic practice is rooted in a desire to to weave bridges between past and future, organic and artificial by merging traditional techniques, materials and cultural references with contemporary technologies, creating hybrid works that navigate the space between the organic and the synthetic.
As an artist-in-residence at RAiR (Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program) in New Mexico, I am using this time as a research laboratory to investigate embedded electronics and new material integrations, to experiment with ceramics,sculpture and soundscapes. This period of focused exploration is allowing me to push the conceptual and technical boundaries of my work, integrating interactive elements, ritualistic aesthetics, and speculative technology into my artistic language.
My mural work has been published in two books documenting art in public spaces: Make your mark, the new urban artists, by Thames and Hudson in the United Kingdom; and in Mexico in the book: Muros Somos, the new Mexican muralists, by La Cifra Editorial.
During this time I have been trusted to develop art for brands such as Sony, Kleenex, Wahaca, Mercedes Benz, Converse, Vans, Dark Matter Coffee and Phillips.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2022 “Wild Mystique”, Indiana University Northwest, Indiana.
2021 “Malkuth”, Gallery19, Chicago.
2020 “The duration of eternal things”, We Are Todos Gallery, Mexico City.
2017 “Ad nauseam”, University of Communication, Mexico City.
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024 “Everything but the kitchen sink", La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
2023 "Hola: An introduction to Latin American street art", Juicy Juicy Gallery, London.
2023 "Year Zero", Estudio Mezquite, Mexico City.
2021 “L’éclaireur”, Calaveras Gallery, Brussels.
2019 “Wall of Contemplation”, Modern and Contemporary Art Museum, Lebannon.
2018 “Transit”, GAMA Gallery, Mexico City.
2016 "Present absence", GAMA Gallery, Mexico City.
2015 “New Mexican muralism”, Arte Hoy Gallery, Mexico City.
2015 “4 equal to 1”, Celaya Brothers Gallery, Mexico City.
2015 "Colors, smells and flavors...", Tequila and Mezcal Museum, Mexico City.
2014 “Crossroads”, University of Palermo, Buenos Aires.
2013 "Sacred Duality" ARCA Gallery, Mexico City.