09/30/2026
Artist Talk: Paloma Contreras Lomas in conversation with Gabriela Salgado
📅 Monday, October 5, 2026
⏰ 6 PM - 7:30 PM
📍 Sotheby’s Institute of Art-London
We are delighted to introduce this talk between artist Paloma Contreras Lomas and curator Gabriela Salgado, organised by the MA in Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art-London.
This talk is organised on the occasion of Paloma Contreras Lomas' exhibition at Gasworks in London (1 October - 13 December 2026).
Paloma Contreras Lomas’s work actively moves across the territories of writing, video, drawing, and performance, alongside collective production that runs parallel to her personal research. Her practice addresses a range of problematics such as class displacement, literary fiction as a tool, landscape as context, costume, and witness, Latin American science fiction, and the terrors of the middle class.
Throughout her career, Contreras Lomas has created, populated, and expanded a “pantheon” of characters that, whether representing paradigmatic or specific entities, originate from sources as varied as major geopolitical events and pop culture. This cast of characters first unfolds through texts that intertwine fantasy with autobiography, and later manifests in formats that contend with their own monumentality, heightened vigour, and baroque narrative.
Paloma Contreras Lomas (b. 1991, Mexico City, where she lives and works) began her artistic training in the Visual Arts program at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda” (2011–2015). Shortly thereafter she joined the multidisciplinary collective Biquini Wax EPS (2015–2022), and that same year entered the SOMA educational program (2016–2018).
Her work has been exhibited at Museo Tamayo, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, and Museo Anahuacalli in Mexico, as well as at the Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA) in New York, the Seattle Art Museum, and Desert X in Palm Springs, among others internationally. Her work is included in the collections of Museo Tamayo, Seattle Art Museum, CIFO, the Estrellita B. Brodsky Collection, Kadist, Fundación M, and Yuyito.
This conversation is free to attend with RSVP through Eventbrite and will be followed by a drinks reception. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/artist-talk-paloma-contreras-lomas-in-conversation-with-gabriela-salgado-tickets-2001884955792
Image credits:
Paloma Contreras Lomas, Amar a Dios en Tierra de Indios, Es Oficio Maternal, 2023, textiles, vehicle. Installation at Desert X, California, USA. Courtesy the artist and Pequod Co., Mexico City.
Paloma Contreras Lomas portrait by Yvonne Venegas.
Gabriela Salgado portrait by Emma Blau
