artist/ Inigo

Iñigo Sesma is a Basque painter born in San Sebastián in 1987. He lives and works between Madrid and the Basque Country. Trained in Fine Arts in Barcelona and at the University of the Basque Country, he also developed his practice through studies and residencies between New York and Europe, shaping a diverse artistic background.

His work belongs to contemporary figurative painting and explores social norms, perception, and mechanisms of representation. His compositions often resemble open scenes, where narrative action is suspended, creating a sense of ambiguity and visual tension.

Influenced by a cinematic approach, Sesma constructs his images like still frames or sequences, placing the human figure at the center while keeping meaning partially unresolved. His visual language moves between realism and distortion, incorporating elements of landscape, architecture, and everyday life.

His work develops atmospheric settings often marked by darkness or melancholy, blending absurdity, poetry, and dramatic tension. Through this, he creates a painting of in-betweenness, both narrative and open-ended, inviting the viewer to actively reconstruct meaning