Sebastian Fund

Fund’s work is deeply inspired by nature, and the intersection between the human and the animal. His pieces often depict dreamlike landscapes inhabited by hybrid beings and symbolic flora, reflecting a sensitive and intuitive visual language. Through the use of organic lines, rich textures, and vibrant colors, he constructs poetic ecosystems that evoke emotional and sensorial experiences, blending scientific curiosity with artistic exploration.

ABOUT

Sebastián Fund (Argentina, 1985) is a visual artist based in Mexico, recognized for his technical mastery and profound conceptual exploration of contemporary printmaking. Trained at the Faculty of Arts of the Universidad Veracruzana, he specialized in printmaking under the guidance of renowned artists such as Per Anderson, Osmeivy Ortega, and Carla Rippey, developing a language that integrates collography, woodcut, and lithography.

In 2010, he co-founded the printmaking studio Médula Negra together with artist Javier Arjona, establishing a space dedicated to graphic experimentation. He has been awarded grants from the Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura (2010, 2012, and 2015) and has been a member of Mexico’s National System of Art Creators since 2021. His work has been recognized in biennials such as Shinzaburo Takeda, José Guadalupe Posada, and the Bienal de Arte Veracruz, earning honorable mentions.

Influenced by German Expressionism and by artists such as Siqueiros, Cuevas, and Toledo, Fund has developed a personal style that dialogues with the human, the animal, and the symbolic. His work has been featured in over 40 solo and group exhibitions, including Bestias Negras (Centro Cultural Atarazanas, 2017), Tren Eterno (Biblioteca Henestrosa, Oaxaca, 2019), and El sendero alucinado del nahual (Buenos Aires, 2023).

Currently, Fund dedicates his energy to La máscara habitada (The Inhabited Mask), a project comprising a series of works that explore, through various printmaking techniques, the multiple facets of being. It delves into the human condition, its complexities and contradictions, and its connection to the animal dimension. In this series, in addition to employing the techniques he has mastered over the years (collography, woodcut, and chine-collé), Fund embarks on a complex exploration of color through stone-lost lithography, as well as the intersection between printmaking and photography through photolithography and heliogravure. Starting from photographs that explore the performative dimension of the mask, he transforms these images into heliogravures, later intervening them with aquatint and etching.

ARTWORK

Camotal, 2023

Stone lithograph, 9 colors
56 x 75 cm | 22 x 30 in

Chuchumbe II, 2020

Collagraph and woodcut
110 x 120 cm | 43.3 x 47.2 in

BIOGRAPHY

2024

Solo exhibition “La máscara habitada: un recorrido por los abismos del ser” at the Galería de Arte Contemporáneo in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. From April 11 to June 23.
Honorable Mention in the Third Edition of the Printmaking Competition with Traditional Printing Techniques “OpenArt 20x20 Miniprint International Barcelona 2024.”
Donation of the artwork “El extranjero” to the collection of the Biblioteca Carlos Fuentes in Xalapa, Veracruz, on the occasion of its twentieth anniversary. Artwork details: El extranjero; holography, woodcut, chine-collé, watercolor, and ink; 160 x 120 cm; 2015. (Donated on June 13.)
Solo exhibition “La verdad de las máscaras” at the Museo Nacional de la Estampa (MUNAE) in Mexico City. From July 13 to October 20.

2023

Solo exhibition “El sendero alucinado del nahual” at the Casa de la Cultura of the Ministry of Culture of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. From July 20 to August 15, 2023.
Artistic production residency at the Fundación 'ace para el Arte Contemporáneo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. From July 28 to August 18, 2023.
Solo exhibition “Salpicón. Una década de arte gráfico” at the Centro Cultural del Sotavento in Tlacotalpan, Veracruz. December 2023.
Workshop on collography, woodcut, and chine-collé at the Centro Cultural del Sotavento in Tlacotalpan, Veracruz. From November 28 to December 1, 2023.
Group exhibition representing Mexico at the “Biennale internationale de la gravure” in Sarcelles, France. 21st edition of the Biennale, from November 25 to December 10, 2023.
Finalist in the “Luxembourg Art Prize 2023.”

2020

Honorable Mention at the Bienal de Arte Veracruz, held at the Galería de Arte Contemporáneo in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.

2019

Solo exhibition “La noche es de los gatos” at Cervecería El Naufragio, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.
Group exhibition “Veracruz en Alto” at Domínguez y Buis Galería, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
Solo exhibition “Tren Eterno” at the Galería de la Biblioteca Andrés Henestrosa, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Solo exhibition “Boca Sorda” at Galería Brújula, Zoncuantla, Coatepec, Veracruz.

2018

Group exhibition “Movimiento” at the Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura (IVEC), Xalapa, Mexico.
Illustrator for the dossier of the magazine La Palabra y El Hombre, published by the Universidad Veracruzana.
Exhibition of the Taller Médula Negra, titled “Bestia Clínica”, at the Museo de Antropología de Xalapa (MAX), Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
Cover illustrator for the book Brava y navaja by Alejandra Castro, published by the Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro (FETA), Secretaría de Cultura, INBA.
Illustrator for the dossier of the magazine Tierra Adentro of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA), Secretaría de Cultura.

2017

Taught the Collagraphy Workshop at La Madriguera Gráfica, Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico.
Solo exhibition “Bestias Negras”, Biblioteca Carlos Fuentes Gallery, Xalapa, Mexico.
Solo exhibition “Bestias Negras”, Atarazanas Cultural Center, Veracruz Institute of Culture (IVEC), Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico.

2016

Winner of the 2016 Jóvenes Creadores Grant from the Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura (IVEC), Veracruz, Mexico.
Special Guest at the Bienal Miradas Fundación CODET, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.
Solo exhibition “La Sagrada Familia” at El Bigote, French Bakery, Xalapa, Mexico.
Publication in La Culturosa, supplement of the newspaper La Jornada Veracruz, Xalapa, Mexico.
Group exhibition “Festival La muerte es vida” at the Biblioteca Carlos Fuentes Gallery, Xalapa, Mexico.
Honorable Mention at the Bienal de Arte Veracruz, held at the Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, Xalapa, Mexico.

2015

Solo exhibition “Realidades Ocultas” at Galería Arte Actual, Xalapa, Mexico.
Selected for the XII Biennale Internazionale per l’Incisione - Premio Acqui, Italy.
Selected for the I Bienal de los Volcanes, Fundación Noval, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
Solo exhibition “Diacronía” at Galería Muzgo, Xalapa, Mexico.
Solo exhibition “Tres cuadras para un beso” at Casa del Lago, Xalapa, Mexico.
Solo exhibition “Médula Negra” at Galería 47, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico.

2014

• Group exhibition Médula Negra, “Del café a la tinta”, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, January.
Selected for the IV Bienal Nacional de Artes Gráficas Shinzaburo Takeda, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Opening: June 6.
Contemporary art auction “Movimiento de Arte y Cultura 43+11”, INBA/CENART, Mexico City, Mexico.
Group exhibition for the 8th anniversary of Taller La Imagen del Rinoceronte (TIR), Tlalpan, Mexico City, Mexico.
Solo exhibition “Golem” at the headquarters of the Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura (IVEC), Veracruz, Mexico.
Solo exhibition “Periodo Especial” at the Institute of Fine Arts, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico.
Solo exhibition “50 cucharas para un postre” at Galería Ramón Alva de la Canal, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico.

2013

“In-house Art Show” of Mexico’s Médula Negra, The Johnson House, Alberta, Canada. September 10.
“Médula Negra: Small Prints from Xalapa”, Rohrbach Library, Kutztown University, Kutztown, USA. September 15.
Honorable Mention at the José Guadalupe Posada International Graphic Arts Biennial, Aguascalientes, Mexico.
Honorable Mention at the XXII University Theater Festival, Xalapa, Mexico. October.
Production residency at the Universidad de las Artes (ISA), Havana, Cuba. September – December.
Group exhibition “Combination Press”, Havana, Cuba. October.
Group exhibition “A tiro de fuego”, Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico City, Mexico.

2012

Group exhibition of the Médula Negra Graphic Arts Workshop at Galería 910, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico.
Solo exhibition “Días de Tinta” at the Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
Selected for the III Bienal Nacional de Artes Gráficas Shinzaburo Takeda, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Opening: June 8.
Group exhibition “Noches de Humo” by the Médula Negra Graphic Arts Workshop at Galería Cuarto Contemporáneo, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico.
Solo exhibition “Piedra, Papel y Madera” at the Casa de la Cultura de Coatepec, IVEC, Mexico.
Selected for the Printmaking Biennial Portugal, Portugal.
Selected for the International Miniature Art Exhibition “Umetnost u minijaturi”, Serbia.
Selected for the group exhibition “Emergencia Gráfica” at Galería Thomas Flechel, Mexico City, Mexico.
Group exhibition “Anniversary of Taller Gabinete Gráfico”, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico.
Group exhibition “Affordable Art Fair” at Expo Reforma with Galería Thomas Flechel, Mexico City, Mexico.
Group exhibition “Nuestros muertos serán vengados”, Espacio Zapata, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico.
Day of the Dead group exhibition “Q.D.E.P.” at Galería AP, Faculty of Fine Arts, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
Selected in the Homenaje a José Guadalupe Posada competition, Galería Ramón Alva de la Canal, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
Invited to participate in the portfolio Color Gráfica Joven Veracruzana, Ceiba Gráfica and Taller Médula Negra, hosted by the Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura (IVEC), Veracruz Puerto, Mexico.
Participation in the portfolio Gráfica Karwinskii Effectus, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Group exhibition “Aff-Off”, featuring artist Sebastián Fund with Taller Médula Negra, Galería Thomas Flechel, Mexico City, Mexico.
Winner of the 2012 Jóvenes Creadores Grant from the Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura (IVEC), Veracruz, Mexico.

2011

Solo exhibition “Grafos” at Espacio Cultural El Paliacate, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas. January 21 – March 21.
Solo exhibition “Espacios Internos” at Galería Bar Perfidia, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas. January 28 – March 28.
Group exhibition of the Printmaking Workshop of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Universidad Veracruzana, as part of Corredores Culturales UV, USBI, Veracruz. April 7 – May 7.
Exhibition-sale “Apoyemos a Japón” at Galería del Ágora de la Ciudad, Xalapa, Veracruz. April 29 – May 8.
Cover illustrator for the first issue of the university magazine Somorgujo, presented on April 8 at the Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, Xalapa, Veracruz.
Group exhibition “Claro oscuro” at Galería Cuarto Contemporáneo, Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca. July 20.
Illustrator for the album Mixtli Guitarra Latinoamericana, presented at Galería AP, Faculty of Fine Arts, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.
Publication in La Palabra y el Hombre, No. 17, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Summer 2011.
Selected for the First International Printmaking Triennial of ULUS, Serbia, with three works.
Selected for the José Guadalupe Posada Graphic Arts Biennial, Aguascalientes, Mexico.

2010

Group exhibition of the Printmaking and Lithography Workshop of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Feria de las Artes, Galería Holos, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. May 15 – 24.
Illustrator of the commemorative book El señor de los hongos by Sergio Galindo, Editorial de la Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, May.
Illustrator for the magazine La Ciencia y el Hombre, Editorial de la Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, August.
Selected for the II Bienal Nacional de Artes Gráficas Shinzaburo Takeda, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Opening: June 4.
Solo exhibition “Pasos Retrospectiva” at the Main House, Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura (IVEC), Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico. August 4 – October 4.
Group exhibition with Grupo Triángulo at Galería Carlos Fuentes, Xalapa, Veracruz. August 14 – September 14.
Group exhibition “Tres Miradas” at the Gallery of the General Directorate of the Academic Area of Arts, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz. November 11 – December 17.
Winner of the 2010 Jóvenes Creadores Grant from the Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura (IVEC), Veracruz, Mexico.

SEBASTIAN FUND

ABOUT

ARTWORK

BIOGRAPHY

2024

2023

2020

Honorable Mention at the Bienal de Arte Veracruz, held at the Galería de Arte Contemporáneo in Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.

2019

Solo exhibition “La noche es de los gatos” at Cervecería El Naufragio, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.

Group exhibition “Veracruz en Alto” at Domínguez y Buis Galería, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.

Solo exhibition “Tren Eterno” at the Galería de la Biblioteca Andrés Henestrosa, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Solo exhibition “Boca Sorda” at Galería Brújula, Zoncuantla, Coatepec, Veracruz.

2018

2017

Taught the Collagraphy Workshop at La Madriguera Gráfica, Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico.

Solo exhibition “Bestias Negras”, Biblioteca Carlos Fuentes Gallery, Xalapa, Mexico.

Solo exhibition “Bestias Negras”, Atarazanas Cultural Center, Veracruz Institute of Culture (IVEC), Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico.

2016

Winner of the 2016 Jóvenes Creadores Grant from the Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura (IVEC), Veracruz, Mexico.

Special Guest at the Bienal Miradas Fundación CODET, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.

Solo exhibition “La Sagrada Familia” at El Bigote, French Bakery, Xalapa, Mexico.

Publication in La Culturosa, supplement of the newspaper La Jornada Veracruz, Xalapa, Mexico.

Group exhibition “Festival La muerte es vida” at the Biblioteca Carlos Fuentes Gallery, Xalapa, Mexico.

Honorable Mention at the Bienal de Arte Veracruz, held at the Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, Xalapa, Mexico.

2015

Solo exhibition “Realidades Ocultas” at Galería Arte Actual, Xalapa, Mexico.

Selected for the XII Biennale Internazionale per l’Incisione - Premio Acqui, Italy.

Selected for the I Bienal de los Volcanes, Fundación Noval, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.

Solo exhibition “Diacronía” at Galería Muzgo, Xalapa, Mexico.

Solo exhibition “Tres cuadras para un beso” at Casa del Lago, Xalapa, Mexico.

Solo exhibition “Médula Negra” at Galería 47, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico.

2014

• Group exhibition Médula Negra, “Del café a la tinta”, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, January.

Selected for the IV Bienal Nacional de Artes Gráficas Shinzaburo Takeda, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Opening: June 6.

Contemporary art auction “Movimiento de Arte y Cultura 43+11”, INBA/CENART, Mexico City, Mexico.

Group exhibition for the 8th anniversary of Taller La Imagen del Rinoceronte (TIR), Tlalpan, Mexico City, Mexico.

Solo exhibition “Golem” at the headquarters of the Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura (IVEC), Veracruz, Mexico.

Solo exhibition “Periodo Especial” at the Institute of Fine Arts, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico.

Solo exhibition “50 cucharas para un postre” at Galería Ramón Alva de la Canal, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Mexico.

2013

“In-house Art Show” of Mexico’s Médula Negra, The Johnson House, Alberta, Canada. September 10.

“Médula Negra: Small Prints from Xalapa”, Rohrbach Library, Kutztown University, Kutztown, USA. September 15.

Honorable Mention at the José Guadalupe Posada International Graphic Arts Biennial, Aguascalientes, Mexico.

Honorable Mention at the XXII University Theater Festival, Xalapa, Mexico. October.

Production residency at the Universidad de las Artes (ISA), Havana, Cuba. September – December.

Group exhibition “Combination Press”, Havana, Cuba. October.

Group exhibition “A tiro de fuego”, Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico City, Mexico.

2012

Group exhibition of the Médula Negra Graphic Arts Workshop at Galería 910, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico.

Solo exhibition “Días de Tinta” at the Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.

Selected for the III Bienal Nacional de Artes Gráficas Shinzaburo Takeda, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico. Opening: June 8.

Group exhibition “Noches de Humo” by the Médula Negra Graphic Arts Workshop at Galería Cuarto Contemporáneo, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico.

Solo exhibition “Piedra, Papel y Madera” at the Casa de la Cultura de Coatepec, IVEC, Mexico.

Selected for the Printmaking Biennial Portugal, Portugal.

Selected for the International Miniature Art Exhibition “Umetnost u minijaturi”, Serbia.

Selected for the group exhibition “Emergencia Gráfica” at Galería Thomas Flechel, Mexico City, Mexico.

Group exhibition “Anniversary of Taller Gabinete Gráfico”, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico.

Group exhibition “Affordable Art Fair” at Expo Reforma with Galería Thomas Flechel, Mexico City, Mexico.

Group exhibition “Nuestros muertos serán vengados”, Espacio Zapata, Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico.

Day of the Dead group exhibition “Q.D.E.P.” at Galería AP, Faculty of Fine Arts, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.

Selected in the Homenaje a José Guadalupe Posada competition, Galería Ramón Alva de la Canal, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.

Invited to participate in the portfolio Color Gráfica Joven Veracruzana, Ceiba Gráfica and Taller Médula Negra, hosted by the Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura (IVEC), Veracruz Puerto, Mexico.

Participation in the portfolio Gráfica Karwinskii Effectus, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Group exhibition “Aff-Off”, featuring artist Sebastián Fund with Taller Médula Negra, Galería Thomas Flechel, Mexico City, Mexico.

Winner of the 2012 Jóvenes Creadores Grant from the Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura (IVEC), Veracruz, Mexico.

2011

Solo exhibition “Grafos” at Espacio Cultural El Paliacate, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas. January 21 – March 21.

Solo exhibition “Espacios Internos” at Galería Bar Perfidia, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas. January 28 – March 28.

Group exhibition of the Printmaking Workshop of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Universidad Veracruzana, as part of Corredores Culturales UV, USBI, Veracruz. April 7 – May 7.

Exhibition-sale “Apoyemos a Japón” at Galería del Ágora de la Ciudad, Xalapa, Veracruz. April 29 – May 8.

Cover illustrator for the first issue of the university magazine Somorgujo, presented on April 8 at the Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, Xalapa, Veracruz.

Group exhibition “Claro oscuro” at Galería Cuarto Contemporáneo, Oaxaca de Juárez, Oaxaca. July 20.

Illustrator for the album Mixtli Guitarra Latinoamericana, presented at Galería AP, Faculty of Fine Arts, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.

Publication in La Palabra y el Hombre, No. 17, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Summer 2011.

Selected for the First International Printmaking Triennial of ULUS, Serbia, with three works.

Selected for the José Guadalupe Posada Graphic Arts Biennial, Aguascalientes, Mexico.

2010

Group exhibition of the Printmaking and Lithography Workshop of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Feria de las Artes, Galería Holos, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. May 15 – 24.

Illustrator of the commemorative book El señor de los hongos by Sergio Galindo, Editorial de la Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, May.