"Often, when I see my image reflected in the mirror, I don't recognize myself, I imagine I have emerged from a mysterious twist, as if from a strange love affair. I will always be the son of my shoemaker grandfather and a little box of watercolors."
Self-portrait (Fragment) by Santiago Carbonell.
Santiago Carbonell was born in 1960 in Quito, Ecuador with Spanish nationality. He emigrated to Mexico in 1986 where he married María Gabriela. He is the father of four Mexican children and currently resides in Querétaro, Mexico.
He began painting at the age of 6 and during his youth he lived in Ecuador, Spain, the United States and Italy, later arriving in Mexico. His iron discipline, tenacious study and refined self-taught talent have led him to travel the world, surprising the viewer with a personal perception of painting. He is an outstanding representative of the hyperrealist movement, although, as he himself declares, his aesthetics are not based on reproducing what reality or photography represent, but on inventing from them. Some of the awards he has obtained are: 1982, from the Catalan American Institute of Cooperation and in 1980 the Queen Sofia Scholarship of Fine Arts. In 2019 he received the Presea German Patiño for his contributions to culture and art awarded by the municipality of Querétaro in the framework of the 488th anniversary of the founding of the city.
BACK TO BASICS 2018
Center for the Arts, Fundidora Park, Monterrey, Mexico
MIRRORS OF REALITY 2016
SANTIAGO CARBONELL MUSEUM 2014
Inauguration of the Foundation Museum, Querétaro, Mexico
UNTITLED, BY SANTIAGO CARBONELL 2013
Alfredo Ginocchio Gallery, Mexico City
ARCHEOLOGY OF THE GAZE 2013
Diego Rivera House Museum of Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
FROM BEAUTY TO DISENCHANTMENT 2012
Museum of Oaxacan Painters (MUPO), Oaxaca, Mexico
FROM BEAUTY TO DISENCHANTMENT 2011
2010
MURAL COMMEMORATING THE BICENTENNIAL OF MEXICO'S INDEPENDENCE AND CENTENNIAL OF THE
MEXICO AND CENTENARY OF THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION 2009 /2010
Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, Mexico City
2009
- Arteamericas, Miami, Florida, USA
- FIA, Caracas, Venezuela
- Pinta, New York, USA
- Scope, Miami, USA
ARTEAMERICAS 2008
- Miami, USA
- Bridge Art Fair, Chicago, USA
- Pinta, New York, USA
- Artbo, Bogotá, Colombia
SIBILAS 2008
- Metropolitan Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina
SIBILAS 2007
- Museo jardín Borda, Cuernavaca, Mexico
- Museo de las Artes de la Universidad de Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
2006
- Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, USA
2005
- Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, Mexico
- Museo Regional de Querétaro, INAH, Querétaro, Mexico
2003
- Art. Miami, Florida, USA
- Museo Metropolitano de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
- Galería Universitaria Arte Contemporaneo, Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro,
Querétaro, Mexico
- Centro Cultural Universitario, Universidad San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia,
Mexico
- Praxis Arte Int, Mexico City, Mexico
2002
- Casa de la Cultura San Luis Potosí, SLP, Mexico
- Museo del Pueblo, Guanajuato, Mexico
PRIVATE COLLECTION 2001 - PERMANENT ROOM
- Queretaro Museum of Art, Queretaro, Mexico
2000
- FIAC, Caracas, Venezuela
- Praxis, Lima, Peru
1999
Miami International Art Exhibition'99, Miami, USA
1998
- Praxis Arte Int., Mexico City, Mexico
- Palm Beach International Art Fair'98, Miami, USA
- Feria Iberoamericana de Arte, Caracas, Venezuela
1997
- Praxis Int.Art, New York, USA
- Iberoamerican Art Fair, Caracas, Venezuela
1996
- Galería Universitaria de Arte Contemporaneo, Universidad Autónoma de
Querétaro, Querétaro, México.
- Miami International Art Exhibition'96, Miami, USA
1995
- Praxis, Arte Int., Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Casa Lamm, Mexico City, Mexico
1994
- Museo de la Ciudad de León, Guanajuato, Mexico
- Latin American Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium
- ARAFI 94, Miami, USA
- Miami International Art Exhibition'94, Miami, USA
1993
Miami International Art Exhibition'93, Miami, USA
1992
- Praxis Art Int., Mexico
- Museo de Arte Moderno, Querétaro, Mexico
- Miami International Art Exhibition'92, Miami, USA
1988
Misrachi Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
1986
1986 DuLose Rein Galleries, Houston, USA
1985
- Sosa Nesle Gallery, Quito, Ecuador
- Centro Español, Quito, Ecuador
1998
- Galería Universitaria de Arte Contemporaneo, Querétaro, Mexico
- Miami International Art Exhibition'98, Miami, USA
1997
- Salon Bancomer, Mexico City, Mexico
- Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
- Amot Museum, New York, USA
- Feria Iberoamericana de Arte'97, Caracas, Venezuela
1996
Salon Bancomer, Mexico City, Mexico
1995
Miami International Art Exhibition'95, Miami, USA
1994
Texas Art Fair, Dallas, USA
1993
Praxis Arte Int., Mexico City, Mexico
1992
Praxis Arte Int., Mexico City, Mexico
1991
- Praxis Arte Int., Mexico City, Mexico
- Qualli Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
1990
Museo de Arte Moderno, Querétaro, Mexico
1989
Praxis Arte Int., Mexico City, Mexico
1987
Misrachi Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
1986
- Fifth Iberoamerican Biennial of Painting, Mexico City, Mexico
- International Biennial of Printmaking, Lima, Peru
- Dubois-Rein Galleries, Houston, USA
1985
- La Caixa Collective, Barcelona, Spain
- Manzana Verde Gallery, Guayaquil, Ecuador
1983
Galena College of Architects Collective, Quito, Ecuador
2011
Arte al Día, Mexico. Text: Roberto González "From Beauty to Disenchantment".
2009
The Painting of Santiago Carbonell in Contemporary Realism. Text: Andrea
Avedaño Macedo. Master's Thesis, Faculty of Fine Arts, UAQ.
2006
Book Santiago Carbonell, La Pintura. Texts: Ignacio Padilla, Roberto González,
Teresa del Conde, José Manuel Springer and Carol Demian. Impresiones Aéreas S.A.
2001
Carbonell Book. Text: Jorge Juanes. Impresiones Aéreas S.A.
2000
- Destino y Encuentro, Querétaro. Santiago Carbonell, The language of the brush. Text: Andrea Avedaño.
- Tips, Aeromexico. Santiago Carbonell, I have my suitcase always ready to travel
Text: José Luis Solana.
- Escala, Aeromexico. Santiago Carbonell, A Lyrical Painting. Text: Minerva Vació.
- El Comercio, Lima. Santiago Carbonell, Women of Truth. Text: José Gabriel
Chueca.
- Opinion La República, Perú. Santiago Carbonell, Painting is a mirror. Text:
Pedro Escribano.
1999
- Latin American Art, Year 19, No.74, Arte al Día, Buenos Aires Argentina. Santiago
Carbonell, Simulacros y Alegonas. Text: Fermin Feure.
- Art Nexus, No.31. The nexus between Latin American and the rest of the world,
Santiago Carbonell. Art Miami 99.
- Latin American Art. Directory Arte al Día 3rd Edition. Art Directory
Latin America.
1998
- Casa y Estilo Internacional, A or III, No.13. Santiago Carbonell, La emoción en la
painting.
- Art International N.Y.
- Art Miami. Modern Contemporary Art Projects, Santiago Carbonell.
- Aquí escogimos vivir, México, vol.1. Secretaría de Gobernación.
1997
- Fia 97. Iberoamerican Art Fair VI Edition, Santiago Carbonell.
- Art News 2000. Volume 96, No.7. Top 2000 Collectors, Santiago Carbonell.
1996
- Images of Latin American art. Arte al día, Ao.16, No.58. Santiago Carbonell,
Exhibition in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Autorretrato en México años 90 Arabi, Sala José Juan Tablada, Museo de Arte
Moderno
