Sergio Plata

Sergio Plata was born in Mexico. He obtained a degree in Visual Arts at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and Academia de San Carlos. Sergio worked on the restoration of the Metropolotan Cathedral in Mexico City, built and situated on top of the former Aztec precinct and widely considered the pinnacle of viceregal and colonial art architecture and craftsmanship

Plata, years later, moved to Vancouver, Canada. In 2010 he won a scholarship and was one of 30 artists selected from around the world to exhibit in the Space Gallery in Toronto Canada, with his installation “Between the sky and the earth”.

“(Plata’s) artwork is strong and evocative and some of his paintings remind me Cy Twomblys flowers" -Edmund Capon, former director of the AGNSW.

In 2020 he was invited by the Australian Museum to participate with his Day of the Dead installation, that same year he was sponsored by NSW government for it’s “Skulls” exhibition, again in the Australian Museum.

In 2023 Sergio Plata won the People's Choice award for the Blake Prize, for his sculpture, “First Communion”, made with more than 60 kg. of wax.

Plata in his paintings obsessively tortures, breaks, scrapes and folds his images, as part of his creatives process, using many layers of paint until finally he decides to create a different image to the original. In his sculptures he does the same but with different materials.

Sergio Plata in one interview from Casula Powerhouse Art Centre commented that he likes changing peoples minds with his paintings and sculptures even for a short time.

At the moment he lives in Sydney.