Sequoia Scavullo

Sequoia Scavullo (born in 1995, Baltimore) lives and works in Paris. She studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris with Mimosa Echard.

The artist creates figurative paintings in varying formats that exist on the edge of abstraction. Elements of fantastic creatures, body parts, or flying insects blur in a superimposition of layers representing textures such as water, hair, or transparent fabric. The artist also experiments with video and sculpture, developing similar formal processes and blurring the frontiers between these mediums.
Scavullo’s compositions repeatedly refer to her personal history and dreams. In the Taino culture from which her family is originated, dream and waking states are not distinguished; the artist draws significant inspiration from the traditional techniques of dream analysis and the culture’s holistic approach to the world at large. Where Western medicine conventionally considers the health of the mind and body separately, Taino healing practices consider the constitution of the human being as a whole. For Scavullo, a recurring theme of water represents a fluidity between reality and dream, between life and death, past and present, and non-human and human worlds.
Central to her work is a reflection on non-verbal communication. The artist created her own symbolic alphabet, elements of which appear in the majority of her paintings. In this way, the artist generates a new language while reminding us that painting, as an artistic language, has the ability to convey emotions more complex than words can express.

Sequoia Scavullo has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Kunstverein Bielefeld (2022); Pigment Sauvage, Baltimore (2019). In June 2023, she will have a solo show at Sans titre, Paris and a solo presentation at Paris+ by Art Basel with Sans titre.

Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at FRAC Corsica (2023); After Hours, Paris (2023); Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris (2022); Exo Exo, Paris (2022); POUSH - Manifesto, Paris (2021); Haimney Gallery, Barcelona (2020); La Volonté, Paris (2020); Dorchester Art Gallery, Boston (2019); Piano Craft Gallery, Boston (2019); High Zero Foundation, Baltimore (2019); Barbara and Steve Grossman Gallery, Boston (2019); Yale Norfolk Galleries (2019).

The artist received the Diptyque price for contemporary art, curated by Jérôme Sans (2022); the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Prize (2021); the Dean’s Research Award (2019); the Dona Pond Painting Award (2019) and the Will and Elena Barnet Painting Award (2017).

She has participated in the KHIAL NKHEL residency program, Morocco (2018) and the Yale Norfolk program, Ellen Battell Stoeckel (2017).

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Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
Sequoyah’s Doubled Edged Sword, 2021, oil on canvas, moths, 150 x 200 cm, unique
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
exhibition view, The Taste of Your Fireplace, 2022, Kunstverein Bielefeld
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
Bride, 2022, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 cm, unique
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
exhibition view, The Taste of Your Fireplace, 2022, Kunstverein Bielefeld
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
Horseboy II, 2022, oil on canvas, 70 x 60 cm, unique
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
Eye Open at the End, 2022, oil on canvas, collage, 40 x 40 cm, unique
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
exhibition view, The Taste of Your Fireplace, 2022, Kunstverein Bielefeld
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
Shh!, 2022, oil on canvas, 120 x 120 cm, unique
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
exhibition view, The Taste of Your Fireplace, 2022, Kunstverein Bielefeld
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
My Own Private Perfection, 2022, oil on canvas, 160 x 130 cm, unique
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
I Stepped Into the Water, Thick Dusk, Knowing I Could Never Leave (detail), 2022, oil on canvas, 160 x 130 cm, unique
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
Le Voile d’Iris, 2022, oil on canvas, 60 x 60 cm, unique
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
Bride II, 2022, oil on canvas, 60 x 60 cm, unique
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
exhibition view, The Taste of Your Fireplace, 2022, Kunstverein Bielefeld
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
Mouth Tunnel Illuminated, 2021, oil on canvas, 120 x 140 cm, unique
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
Buchstaben, die in den Räumen verteilt sind, 2022, aluminium, variable dimensions, unique
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
Sifting, 2022, oil on canvas, 160 x 130 cm, unique
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
Téléphone / Telephone (video still), 2022, 16mm video, 3’32’’, edition of 3 + 1 AP
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
Téléphone / Telephone (video still), 2022, 16mm video, 3’32’’, edition of 3 + 1 AP
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
exhibition view, Night Sweats Too Sweet To Eat, 2022, degree show, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
exhibition view, Night Sweats Too Sweet To Eat, 2022, degree show, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
My Desk, 2022, oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cm, unique
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
Heavens Stick Shifter, 2022, oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cm, unique
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
Heavens Taxi Driver Named Nicole, 2022, oil on canvas, 150 x 150 cm, unique
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
exhibition view, Night Sweats Too Sweet To Eat, 2022, degree show, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
Poison Cure, 2022, aluminium, wood, 15 x 90 cm, unique
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
exhibition view, Night Sweats Too Sweet To Eat, 2022, degree show, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
5 Nights Of Your Lull, 2022, oil on canvas, 140 x 150 cm, unique
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
exhibition view, Night Sweats Too Sweet To Eat, 2022, degree show, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
exhibition view, Pour en finir encore - Félicités 2022, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
exhibition view, Pour en finir encore - Félicités 2022, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
A Second Skin, 2021, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 cm, unique
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
The Seecret’s Secret, 2021, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 cm, unique
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
Aphrodite’s Ersaer, 2020, oil on canvas, collage, 182 x 165 cm, unique
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
Luck-less Battle, 2020, oil on canvas, collage, 172 x 165 cm, unique
Sequoia Scavullo - © sans titre
Who’s Tear, 2021, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 cm, unique

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