Guru Seva Khalsa

Guru Seva is a Chilean artist who lives and works in Mexico.

Khalsa uses different mediums such as sculpture, photography, New Media, video and installation to honestly address his concerns about the environment, as well as the political and aesthetic relationship between the micro and the macro. Through his work, the artist generates narratives in which it is possible to reflect on the sympathetic and unsympathetic relationships between human beings and nature, within an increasingly ambivalent world.

Since 2015 he has been part of "Los Salvajes" collective, made up of him and the artist Pablo Ramírez. Appropriating the concept of the “savage”, a Eurocentric construction that justifies the domination over “others”, the collective questions the concept of progress and its link with the use of power.

He studied his bachelor’s degree in visual arts at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Graphics of Mexico "La Esmeralda" (2010-2012) and graduated from an exchange program at Universidad Mayor in Chile (2013-2014).

He has participated in numerous collective exhibitions such as: “Naturae”, Chance Encounters Project, Mexico City (2020); “Burning Palm”, Miguel Salinas Library, curated by Helena Lugo, Mexico (2019); “...

Bachelor’s degree in visual arts at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Graphics of Mexico "La Esmeralda" (2010-2012) and graduated from an exchange program at Universidad Mayor in Santiago, Chile (2013-2014).

GROUP SHOWS

2020

Naturae – Chance Encounters Project, With you at the distance program, Xochimilco, Mexico City.

2019

As LOS SALVAJES collective: Palm Tree Burning –Miguel Salinas Library, Cuernavaca, Mexico.

As LOS SALVAJES collective: Unity Project – Terraces of San Antón Unit, Cuernavaca.

2018

As LOS SALVAJES collective: #ATÓPIC – Intramurs art festival 2018, Rector Peset Gallery, Valencia, Spain.

Droits De L'Homme – Arts and Society IYGU Project,
Philosophy and Human Rights Week, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France.

2017-2018

Snap to Grid – Los Angeles Center for Digital Art LACDA, LA.

2017

Mémoire del’avenir – Arts and Society IYGU Project, World Humanities Conference, UNESCO-CIPSH, Liege, Belgium.

As LOS SALVAJES collective: Break sedentarism –Main Gallery, Faro de Oriente, Mexico.

As LOS SALVAJES collective: Co-incidence 2017 – “El Amate” Cultural Center, Cuernavaca, Mexico.

2016

15th metropolitan and cultural craft fair of Chimalhuacán, Mexico.

2014

Objectual Self-Portrait – Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile.

2011

FOCUSES Cities and climate change – Center for Architecture and Design, Mexico City.

19th International Navachiste Art Festival, Guasave, Sina...