murcia,1976

He is a visual artist and researcher. He graduated in agricultural engineering from the UMH Miguel Hernández University of Alicante. Having been attracted to art and science from an early age, he began researching drawing, image synthesis, photography and video. His time at the university enriches his reflective and technical capacity, which allows him to investigate the search and exploration of new means of visual expression from a multidisciplinary and conceptually transversal artistic practice.

Sotomayor is interested in the intersection between biology and technology, focusing his projects and research on theories about the evolution of consciousness and cognitive processes, the extension to new dimensions such as cyberspace and virtual reality, as well as advances in exploration. of the subatomic world, quantum physics, genetic engineering and the derivations of all this on the development of life and artificial intelligence. His scientific spirit does not dispense with a fundamentally poetic approach: it allows us to see a metaphor for the subconscious submerged in an environment of infinity, of the eternal, in which consciousness becomes a cog in the gear between the microcosm and the macrocosm.

His work has obtained various awards, such as being selected in the Tentaciones 08 call promoted by Estampa, the 2008 Award for the best emerging artist from the Madrid Association of Art Critics, a residency grant at the prestigious French institution Casa de Velázquez in Madrid, a grant from training and production at the Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation in Palma de Mallorca, production prize in the Photographica 09 competition.

His work has been exhibited at art fairs such as SCOPE (Miami), ARTEBA (Buenos Aires) and ESTAMPA (Madrid), as well as at international festivals specialized in video and digital creation such as FILE (Sao Paulo), ZOOM IN (Zamora), OPTICA (Paris, Madrid, Gijón) and LOOP (Barcelona). He has recently been invited to participate in the MANIFESTA 8 European Biennial of Contemporary Art, within its program of parallel projects, with a solo exhibition at the Centro Párraga in Murcia.