Zuyva Sevilla is a semi-sentient collection of atoms feebly trying to understand everything around them. As an interdisciplinary artist, his work aims to compose, collect and culminate in an interpretation for the inherent chaos of the universe, inspired by everything from the proto-scientific to the metaphysical. Methods within digital fabrication, sculpture and physical computing are key research tools.
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Selected Press:
El Palacio
Glasstire
Texas Signal
Albuquerque Journal
Southwest Contemporary
Hyperallergic
D Magazine
iARTA Spotlight
Univision
Glasstire
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Selected Exhibitions:
Woven Skies - 2025, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe
CityBrights II - 2025, City of Albuquerque Public Arts, ABQ
New Tableau - 2025, 516ARTS, ABQ
River On Fire, Texas Biennial 2024 - DiverseWorks, Houston
Assemblies: SURFACE Solo Exhibition - 2024, Harwood Art Center, ABQ
Currents New Media Festival 2024 - El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe
LightSpace - 2023, Inpost! Art Space, ABQ
Exchanges: Solo Exhibition - 2023, Old Walls Gallery, ABQ
All watched over by machines of loving grace - 2023, InterAccess, Toronto
12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now - 2023, 516ARTS, ABQ
Vibrant Pool - 2022, Currents 826, Santa Fe
Mass - 2021, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA), South Korea
Area 3 - 2020, AURORA Dallas
full harvest - 2018, gardenblock, Denton
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Artist Statement:
My work delves into the fundamental infrastructure of existence and the intricate ways we perceive our surroundings. Through a combination of sculpture, video, and digital media, I seek to create new interpretations of the universe's chaos, while also addressing concerns around energy consumption. In particular, I am interested in the paradox of creating work about energy while basically wasting energy in the process. Ultimately, my work is an auto-didactic approach to concepts beyond my understanding; it is an experimental and experiential self-study using instruments of perception and creation.
My sculptural work dissects the movement of light and heat, often through site-specific installations that activate presentation spaces. I use common industrial materials and repurposed tools to create stages that amplify simple physical actions. I leverage physical computing and digital fabrication to create works that explore the conversion of energy throughout our existence.
In physics, inefficiencies in a system often manifest as ‘waste’ energy that doesn't contribute to the intended task but instead dissipates into the environment. Heat is the most common form of this waste. In virtually all systems, from the intricacies of machinery and electronics to the complexities of biological processes, heat consistently surfaces as a direct consequence of imperfect productivity. Such occurrences can be seen as completely irreversible choreographies.
Information systems operate with similar ‘inefficiencies,’ converting human actions into data energy that dissipates as economic heat. My work explores how we assign arbitrary values to labor, productivity, and human worth through alternative forms of measurement and counting. Pervasive datafication becomes another form of waste energy, systems that generate computational heat by measuring everything while sharing little about the fundamental value of what is being quantified. Endless cycles burn energy to mine meaning from human behavior, yet the extracted value remains as ephemeral as heat itself, captured momentarily by shareholders seeking profit before dissipating into digital abstractions servered from lived experience. These digital processes mirror our physical ones, transforming the simple act of measurement into meditations on existence and value.
Through my installations, I construct choreographies of de-constructed energy diffusions, concentrating on the fundamental action of dispersing heat and the unidirectional flow of time through space.
Follow current work on my Instagram
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Selected Press:
El Palacio
Glasstire
Texas Signal
Albuquerque Journal
Southwest Contemporary
Hyperallergic
D Magazine
iARTA Spotlight
Univision
Glasstire
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Selected Exhibitions:
Woven Skies - 2025, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe
CityBrights II - 2025, City of Albuquerque Public Arts, ABQ
New Tableau - 2025, 516ARTS, ABQ
River On Fire, Texas Biennial 2024 - DiverseWorks, Houston
Assemblies: SURFACE Solo Exhibition - 2024, Harwood Art Center, ABQ
Currents New Media Festival 2024 - El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe
LightSpace - 2023, Inpost! Art Space, ABQ
Exchanges: Solo Exhibition - 2023, Old Walls Gallery, ABQ
All watched over by machines of loving grace - 2023, InterAccess, Toronto
12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now - 2023, 516ARTS, ABQ
Vibrant Pool - 2022, Currents 826, Santa Fe
Mass - 2021, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA), South Korea
Area 3 - 2020, AURORA Dallas
full harvest - 2018, gardenblock, Denton
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Artist Statement:
My work delves into the fundamental infrastructure of existence and the intricate ways we perceive our surroundings. Through a combination of sculpture, video, and digital media, I seek to create new interpretations of the universe's chaos, while also addressing concerns around energy consumption. In particular, I am interested in the paradox of creating work about energy while basically wasting energy in the process. Ultimately, my work is an auto-didactic approach to concepts beyond my understanding; it is an experimental and experiential self-study using instruments of perception and creation.
My sculptural work dissects the movement of light and heat, often through site-specific installations that activate presentation spaces. I use common industrial materials and repurposed tools to create stages that amplify simple physical actions. I leverage physical computing and digital fabrication to create works that explore the conversion of energy throughout our existence.
In physics, inefficiencies in a system often manifest as ‘waste’ energy that doesn't contribute to the intended task but instead dissipates into the environment. Heat is the most common form of this waste. In virtually all systems, from the intricacies of machinery and electronics to the complexities of biological processes, heat consistently surfaces as a direct consequence of imperfect productivity. Such occurrences can be seen as completely irreversible choreographies.
Information systems operate with similar ‘inefficiencies,’ converting human actions into data energy that dissipates as economic heat. My work explores how we assign arbitrary values to labor, productivity, and human worth through alternative forms of measurement and counting. Pervasive datafication becomes another form of waste energy, systems that generate computational heat by measuring everything while sharing little about the fundamental value of what is being quantified. Endless cycles burn energy to mine meaning from human behavior, yet the extracted value remains as ephemeral as heat itself, captured momentarily by shareholders seeking profit before dissipating into digital abstractions servered from lived experience. These digital processes mirror our physical ones, transforming the simple act of measurement into meditations on existence and value.
Through my installations, I construct choreographies of de-constructed energy diffusions, concentrating on the fundamental action of dispersing heat and the unidirectional flow of time through space.