Daniela Rivera Visual Artist

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Cristobal Cea

Cristóbal Cea is a Chilean artist that works across a variety of mediums -from 3D

animation to sculpture and drawing-, motivated by a need to materially fill in the gaps

that separate us from complex historical events, which are often haunting, ideologically

loaded, and are therefore abundant in human contradictions.

His work has been part of group shows in spaces like Lunds Konsthall (Sweden), Alcalá

31 (Spain), National Museum of Fine Arts (Chile), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Denmark),

Boston Center for the Arts (USA), and several solo exhibitions at museums and

galleries in Chile and elsewhere.

He has been awarded the Fulbright Grant, the RISD Bridge Research Grant, the

National Endowment for the Arts (Chile, 2010-2016-2019), the Museum of Visual Arts

(MAVI) Contemporary Art Prize, CCU Art Prize, and several research and creation grants at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Tufts University: where he is currently teaching courses on Digital Media at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.

“I work around mediums, with undead archives whose presence is often unseen, but cannot be forgotten. My tool of choice -to mediate among these histories and to write my own-, is digital media: A technology of absence, that I use to thread a connection between my promiscuous interest in sculpture, painting and storytelling, in order to -hopefully-, create some meaningful presence.”

Forma Carente de Contenido I - Gallina Feliz, 2025

Resins and wax

20in x 5in x 5in

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Una Mano da La Mano, 2025

Resin, wax, and encaustic

8in x 2in x 4in

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Confabulación I, 2025

Resin, wax, and encaustic

8in x 2in x 4in

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