Sergio Mendoza (b. 1989 Guayaquil, Ecuador) found fascination with drawing characters from a young age. Despite the family’s financial struggles, he got a Fine Arts scholarship in a local university which allowed him to afford his BFA. After becoming an art teacher and borrowing money, he attended art workshops in New York and Europe where he would refine his techniques and realize how different were the point of views and behaviors of developed countries towards global events and how this affected art.

In his work, Sergio is drawn to darker aspects of human nature which he proposes we understand, confront, and challenge. His work channels raw and uncomfortable energy, which explores psychological tension, social unrest, and the emotional weight of internal conflict related to current social environments. Aspects that he, as a struggling artist in Ecuador where artists have little to no voice, familiarized with and learned to live with. He managed to find beauty in confronting the uncomfortable in human nature and finds art to be the most honest way to portray it.

In Ecuador he has exhibited with solo shows in museums, and collective exhibitions with renowned national artists. By still having a love for portraiture, he was commissioned a painting by the President of the Republic of Ecuador for the Ecuadorian Presidential Palace. Currently, Sergio moved to Antwerp, Belgium and was invited to take part in a collective exhibition in Geneva, Switzerland.