Eduardo Sarabia

Through paintings, ceramic objects, textiles, murals, and immersive installations, Eduardo Sarabia draws connections between his personal narrative and the history of Mexico, the land of his cultural heritage and his chosen home. Since the early 2000s, the artist has made artwork that co-mingles references to the Los Angeles of his youth and the economies and folk history of Mexico. Using materials and imagery often associated with craftspeople and street culture—ceramic tiles, hand-woven textiles, spray paint—he creates sculptures and installations that prompt questions about varying definitions of taste and legality.

Eduardo Sarabia creates objects and scenarios that are vivid yet dreamlike through the repetition of charged personal and national symbols and exaggeration of scale. The results embrace fine arts, craft, and commerce, as well as ancestral structures and mystical knowledge, to explore the consequences of economic forces in Mexico and beyond.

Eduardo Sarabia (b. 1976, Los Angeles, CA; lives and works in Guadalajara, Mexico), received his BFA from Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California. Solo museum exhibitions of his work have been mounted at Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, Texas (2023); Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico (2019); Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico (2016); ASU Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona (2014); and Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado (2013).