Latin Focus
Portraiture, Nostalgia, and the Public: An Interview with Culeybo, Resident Artist at Espacio Cabeza
Sebastián Gutiérrez, better known as Culeybo, the nickname his family gave him as a child, explores the relationship between the personal, the public, and the desirable in his painting practice. The interview begins in one of the exhibition rooms at Espacio Cabeza, temporarily converted into the artist's studio and workshop, as he was completing an artist residency with the independent space at the time of recording. His reflections on the personal and the intimate stem from the Puerto Rican artist's long-standing interest in portraiture and in tactile materials such as oil paint and unusual or "vintage" objects.
November 4, 2026