Artwork by Gustavo Díaz Sosa, De la serie "Humanidad s. XXI" (2018)
about Gustavo Díaz Sosa
Cuba, 1983
Gustavo Díaz Sosa (Cuba, 1983) is a contemporary painter, graduated with a Gold Medal from the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts (2002), where he later worked as a painting professor. After his period in Cuba, he moved to Spain through a residency grant at Arteleku (San Sebastián), beginning a key formative stage between 2004 and 2007 in printmaking, lithography, and screen printing workshops, which consolidated his technical and conceptual language.
His work is rooted in a critical and narrative contemporary practice, focused on the human condition and its social tensions. Through urban landscapes, impossible architectures, and symbolic structures, he reflects on the fragility of the individual, power, and systems of control. Influenced by Kafka and Central European existential thought, his work addresses themes such as alienation, faith, death, and the search for meaning, constructing distopic universes where the human figure appears displaced within monumental spaces that overwhelm it. Among his artistic references are Joseph Beuys and Anselm Kiefer, from whom he draws a sense of gesture freedom, materiality, and the expressive power of painting as a conceptual tool.
Díaz Sosa has developed an extensive international exhibition career, with presence in major galleries, fairs, and public and private collections, establishing himself as one of the most recognizable voices in contemporary figurative painting with a critical and symbolic dimension.
Gustavo Díaz Sosa's works
Gustavo Díaz Sosa
Otoño 2025 y el destino incierto del hombre, 2025
Técnica mixta sobre papel entelado en lino
146 x 114 cm
Gustavo Díaz Sosa
De la serie "de burócratas y padrinos", 2024
Mixed media on paper
22 x 28.5 cm
€570.00
Gustavo Díaz Sosa
Egregor II, de la serie Gente Maravillosa, 2023
Técnica mixta sobre papel Guarro
75 x 115 cm
Gustavo Díaz Sosa
De la serie "Historia de mi trono allá en la Tierra", 2020
Mixed media on paper
29 x 23 cm
€570.00
Gustavo Díaz Sosa
Open Sky, de la serie Wrong way to Heaven, 2020
Mixed media on linen
150 x 244 cm
Featured works
Alejandro Pastor
A la luz de la luna, 2025
Óleo, espray y lápices de colores sobre lienzo
41 x 33 cm
€1,280.00
Richard García
Postmemoria del Edén, 2025
Acrílico, rotulador, lápices, spray sobre tabla
140 x 100 cm
€6,050.00
Ángel Celada
Superposiciones, 2025
Acrílico, óleo, spray, collage, pintura y resina sobre tabla
80 x 60 cm
€1,700.00
Isabela Puga
M_CB_13, 2024
Caseína, cola de conejo y oro 22 quilates sobre madera
120 x 100 x 4 cm
€4,900.00
Lantomo
Fur collar, 2025
Grafito, carbón, lapices de color y agua cola sobre papel montado en panel de madera
73 x 54 cm
€3,030.00
Lantomo
Flash, 2023
Grafito, carboncillo y acrílico sobre papel montado en panel de madera
73 x 54 cm
€2,790.00
Fernando Bellver
Caravaggio & Lichtenstein (frutero), Serie Bodegones, 1988
Aguafuerte iluminado
117 x 97 cm
€1,580.00
Jaume Plensa
Reflejos VIII, 2024
Grabado sobre plancha de polímero fotosensible y Chine-collé sobre papel
65 x 71 cm
€2,750.00
Jaume Plensa
Reflejos II, 2024
Grabado sobre plancha de polímero fotosensible y Chine-collé sobre papel
65 x 71 cm
€2,750.00
