“Suárez’s work is deeply thought provoking and expansive. The way he translates such complex themes across material and form is impressive. I enjoyed the various dimensions of their work and his desire to keep experimenting.” – juror Lauren Cross, Gail-Oxford Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts, The Huntington.

Sergio Suárez (B.1995) is a Mexican-born, Atlanta-based visual artist and printmaker. His work, prompted by an interest in translation, examines porosity, the body, and materiality as a way to shape and reimagine cosmology. Recent solo exhibitions took place at Pale Fire Projects, Vancouver BC; KDR, Miami FL; Stove Works, TN; THE END Project Space Atlanta & Whitespace Gallery, GA. His work has been included in the Haugesund International Relief Festival in Norway and the Woolwich Print Fair in London. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2023 and has held residencies at The Bemis Center in Omaha, NE; The Penland School of Craft, NC; Stove Works, TN & The Hambidge Center, GA. He is a 2024-2025 MoCA GA Working Artist Project Fellow. Forthcoming solo exhibitions in 2025 will take place at Casa Wabi Sabino, Mexico City and MoCA GA, Atlanta. He is the director of Eso Tilin Projects and was part of the Studio Artist Program at Atlanta Contemporary from 2021-2023. He lives and works in Atlanta. 

His practice is informed by past and present codes of visual representation such as Theological Iconography in baroque painting, Mesoamerican material culture, and contemporary telescope imagery, Synthesizing large scale woodblock carving, painting, and ceramic installation, his practice constructs a visual language concerned with syncretism, porosity, and the influence of time and distance over shared notions of material, historical, and metaphysical realities. Meditating over the filtration, preservation, and organization of memory, the work is suspicious of narratives that make time and entropy implicit agents in eroding alternative cosmologies and histories, reducing and essentializing them. Instead, it proposes a cosmo-vision where the present is understood as a metaphysical surface where entities float, emerge, sink, and possess a buoyancy linked to attention/care.