RAIR | 2024-25

Raúl Sisniega

Raúl Sisniega was born in Mexico City, where he attended the Faculty of Arts and Design and studied design and visual communication from 2000 to 2004.

Sisniega has spent the last 15 years exploring mediums, from painting and ceramics to silkscreen, engraving, and street art, his work captures the complexity of urban life in one of the most densely populated cities in the world, often blending traditional elements with religious philosophy, consciousness and psychedelia.

He has presented 2 international individual exhibitions, various national and international group exhibitions and has painted murals in Chicago, New York, Manchester and Beirut.

His 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; We are walls, the new Mexican muralists, by La Cifra Editorial in Mexico.

He has developed art for brands such as Sony, Kleenex, Wahaca, Mercedes Benz, Converse, Vans, Dark Matter Coffee and Phillips.

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“Throughout my artistic journey, I have been drawn to the intersection of spirituality and science, seeking to explore the ways in which these seemingly disparate realms intersect and inform one another.

My work is the result of creative exercises that are fueled by the interaction between the ancient and the modern, the material and the immaterial. 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.

Through the conjunction of repetition patterns, ancestral symbols and dreamlike figures, I build images that are an invitation to the viewer to immerse themselves in a psychedelic journey where they can disconnect from everyday life and embrace the doubt about whether that enigma we call the material Universe is real or nothing more than a complex fabric made up of computer codes and pixels that form a collective hallucination.”

See more of Raúl Sisniega’s work here.

Instagram: @biosisniega