Sébastien Grimbaum (B. 1999 Cancún México, resides in New York)

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group exhibitions 

2025 / Christie’s Inside Job, Christie’s, New York (NY).
2022 / Art Bath at The Blue Building, New York (NY).

Grimbaum’s practice is rooted in the continual reimagining of the human figure, rendered through fractured forms, shifting planes, and distorted proportions that evoke both movement and memory. Working with bold shifts in palette, from subdued monochromes to vivid, saturated hues, his paintings oscillate between figuration and abstraction, echoing influences from Cubism and Expressionism while rejecting the stability of either.

Alongside these modernist lineages, Grimbaum draws from antiquities and archetypal forms, reinterpreting them through a contemporary gaze. Figures emerge and dissolve across the surface, their bodies stretched, dismantled, and reassembled into dreamlike states that carry the weight of both presence and disappearance.

In an era marked by a renewed attention to figuration, Grimbaum’s work stands apart for its interrogation of what it means to picture the body today. His layered, restless compositions probe the boundaries between identity and perception, history and imagination, asking how much of the human condition can be held in a single form, or whether it must be perpetually fractured to be true.