Self-portrait of Adrián Coto. Framed from the chest up, showing both arms, wears make up and has blue hair.
Adrián Coto is a Latin American visual artist with a photography-based multidisciplinary practice. His work is the convergence of a complex academic reflection about subjectivity, gender, culture and economic concerns, interrogated through an unorthodox mixture of artistic strategies, material exploration and theoretical research.
As a visual artist, his work interrogates the materiality of the body and the gendered subject as a political construct. This complexity is represented in the multi-layered and experimental interventions in various media, exploring performance, installation, staged photography and other contemporary artistic strategies.
He graduated from the University of Westminster’s distinguished Masters in Art Photography with a first-class degree. His previous studies include a Psychology Licenciate degree from the University of Costa Rica, where he also studied fine arts and had an honorary dissertation thesis about masculinities and discourse analysis. He also studied fine art and painting, finally becoming a commercial photographer.
Adrián is a London-based artist and he is currently available for artistic commissions, portraiture and teaching.
Señor Babe is part of the series Queering Action and has become part or the artist’s lexicon and recurring artistic strategies.
You can reach Adrián at
adriancoto@senorbabe.com
Exhibitions and awards
Cyborg Reptile. Part in collective exhibiton, Madrid, 2022.
Artist resident, Karstica. Cañada, Spain, 2022.
Exegesis. Self-organized exhibition, Costa Rica. 2022.
Temporal shift. Collective degree show at Ambika P3 Gallery, London 2021.
Residency, Performance Space Gallery, Folkstone, England 2021.
Winners exhibition, House building Pirie City, Cartago, Costa Rica, 2020.
First place winner, fine art photography at Expofoto Central America and Caribbean 2019.
Photography solo exhibition, Port City Java, San José, Costa Rica, 2009.
Participant, Performance PlayFair, San José, Costa Rica, 2009.
Collective MenteGrafica exhibition, Cartago, Costa Rica 2007.