Salón ACME
February 5-8. 2026
Calle General Prim 30-32. Col Juárez Mexico City
Saelia Aparicio uses installation, sculpture and murals to weave together narrative, science fiction and ecological speculation.
Saelia Aparicio (b. 1982, Ávila, Spain).
Selected exhibitions
2026
A Joyful Parasite at The Southwark park gallery, London,and the Burton Bideford, UK.
Tiempo de Barro curated by Javier Calderon, Somers GallerySalon ACME, CDMX, Mexico.
2025
A Joyful Parasite curated by Niomi Fairweather at The Baltic Newsgate, Newcastle, UK
In the Blink of Collapse The Oracle: curated by Chus Martinez at Mestna gallerija, 36th Ljubljana Biennial, Slovenia
Between The World Below And The World Above curated by Benjamin Orlow, St Chads, London, UK
Ad Libitum curated by Fumi gallery, Mariane Ibrahim gallery, Chicago, USA.
Trust Issues curated by Nina Chkareuli Mdivani, Kornfeld gallery, Berlin, Germany.
educational workshop Harris academy of girls East Dulwich, with Bold Tendencies educational programme London, UK
2024
Les Fleurs du Mal part of the programme Communion curated by Charlie Mills at Bold Tendencies, London, UK
Alice, still in Wonderland duo show with Jongwan Jang, Cylinder 2, Seoul, South Korea
Creatures of Comfort OMM,Eskişehir, Turkey
Take a Seat Lamb Gallery, London, UK
The Equal Right to Live And Blossom Kate McGarry, London, UK
Apple of Discord Louis Alexander, Porto Cervo, Italy
Material Girls and Their Muses curated by Marcelle Joseph at Vitrine Gallery, London, UK
FUMI LA Sized Studio, LA, USA.
Contested Bodies , The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds,
Leeds, UK
La giganta amable Coster art i natura, Mallorca.
Earth Monsters curated by Shirin Fati at Sarabande, the Lee Alexander McQueen foundation, London, UK
2023
Liquid Intelligences curated by Chus Martinez at Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Madrid, Spain
Collab with the fashion brand Chopova Lowena, London, UK.
Studio Response 4 , Curated by Dominic Beattie, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.
Trickster Figures curated by Jes Fernie at Milton Keynes gallery, UK.
Digesting the Past, Processing the Future curated by Huma Kabacki at Badr El Jundi, Madrid, Spain.
Collective Healing curated by Ayca Okay at Metro Han, Istanbul, Turkey.
El que come y canta… Encanta! workshop, Ca2m and residencia infantil de Mostoles, Spain . Education*
2022
When the World looks Back at You Lead artist a Open School East, Margate. Education*
Paraíso extraño curated by Eneas Bernal, MUSAC, Leon, Spain.
We Belong To Each Other curated by Chus Martinez at Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, Germany.
Testament, Goldsmith CCA, London
a New Figuration curated by Glenn Adamson, Friedman Benda, New York
Now I am a lake curated by Rose Nestler, Public gallery, London
A sentient space FUMI, London.
Design Miami, with FUMI gallery, Miami, US.
Salon, with FUMI gallery, New York, US.
Feet of Clay, curated by Rebecca Lewin, Kestle Barton, Helston, UK.
Survey 2, site gallery. Sheffield, UK
2021
Bio-speculations For An Expanded Cohabitation, Liste with The Ryder, Basel.
Touch Me Not, The Ryder, Madrid
Survey 2, Jerwood Space, London. G39, Cardiff.
Ferine, collab with Paloma Proudfoot, TJ boulting, London
Host, Edel Assanti, London
The Beautiful Grain, FUMI, London
In the castle of my skin, participative show with Sonia Boyce, MIMA, Middlesbrough
From Creatures to Creators, Kunsthaus Hamburg. Hamburg,.
My Friends and other animals, Curated by Elena del Rivero, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid
2020
Our Ashes Make great Fertilizer, Public Gallery, London.
Podium Design Miami, with FUMI Gallery) Miami, US
It’s good to be home, Fumi gallery, London
Clay ™, Tj Boulting gallery, London
Dancing at the edge of the world, curated by Marcelle Joseph, Sarah Zanin gallery, Rome, Italy.
2019
The shape of a circle in the mind of a fish, with plants curated by serpentine gallery and Filipa Ramos, Earth Hackney, London
Prótesis para invertebrados, casa encendida, generaciones 2019, curated by Ignacio Cabrera, Madrid.
Planta, alzado, raiz, The Ryder Projects, Madrid.
People of imagination, collaboration with Craig green, Frieze and Carlos Place, matches fashion, London.
Salon Acme, with Chalton gallery (UK), México city
Sarabande, a family tree, Joyce, Hong Kong.
In a World Where immortality is the norm, the future is my future, Galeria Duarte Sequeira.
2018
Cadena Atrofica collaboration with Attua Aparicio, Centro puertas de Castilla, Murcia, Spain.
Flipside,FOLD gallery, London
S/Mv, curated by Sans titre 2016, Art o Rama, Marseille
Chambre 10v, curated by Sans titre 2016, Hotel Louisiana, Paris.
2017
Your Consequences have actions The Tetley, curated by Bryony Bond, Leeds
Peaks & Troughs, , TURF projects, Croydon.
Retour Sur Mulholland Drive, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, La Panacee, Montpellier.
ZOINKS! , curated by Sabel Gavaldon, San Andreu Contemporan, barcelona.
2016
New Contemporaries, ICA, London, UK.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Bluecoat, bienal de Liverpool, Liverpool
A Mysterical Day, evento co-curated by Serpentine galleries public programme and Tai Shani, London UK.
Burning With Joy, ASC gallery, London.
2015
Espeleologia epidermica, Domus Artium (da2) Art Centre, Salamanca, Spain.*
Grants, awards and residencies (selection)
2023
Nominated Recipient of the Henry Moore Foundation Artist Award Henry Moore Foundation , UK.
High House Artist Residency the Foundation Foundation , UK.
2020
Emerging artists residency at Porthmeor studios, funded by wilhelmina Barn-Graham, St Ives
Jerwood Survey 2
Paul Hamlyn COVID Grants Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
2019
generaciones 2019, fundación montemadrid.
Residency at the Bluecoat, Funded by Creart, Liverpool.
2017
Studio residency by Bloomberg New Comtemporaries at Sarabande: The Lee Alexander McQueen Foundation London.
workweek art price, funded by ARTQUEST.
2016
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, UK
RBS Bursary Awards, Royal British society of Sculptors, UK
Encontro de Artistas Novos-Argentina, financiado por el ministerio de cultura de Argentina, Cordoba, Argentina.
Sema Nanji Residency, seoul Museum of art, South Korea
2014
Salzamt Atelierhaus residency, Linz, Austria. Funded by Creart.
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