Sebastian Spreng

• Born in Esperanza, Santa Fe (Argentina) is a self-taught artist and music journalist. He spent his childhood in Esperanza, in the Argentinian countryside (the Pampas) and in the Atlantic Coast in Mar del Plata moving to Buenos Aires in 1973. At age 17 his works were exhibited in Buenos Aires in a group exhibit Artists from Esperanza at the Fundación Lowe. The next year he had his first solo exhibit at Martina Cespedes Gallery in the San Telmo district of the Argentinean capital. The show was sold out on opening night and the gallery held his work exclusively for the next seven years. In 1978 he was the stage-designer for a theater production of Jean Cocteau‘s The Eagle Has Two Heads in Buenos Aires. During the 1980s, he settled in Miami (Florida) and has been a vital presence in the Florida art scene ever since. Since moving to Florida he had solo and group exhibitions in Boston, Seattle, Atlanta, Toronto, Caracas, Düsseldorf, Essen, Munich, Osaka, Tokyo, Panama, Italy, Buenos Aires, Sarasota, Key West and Miami. His works were included in the University of Miami Lowe Art Museum in the Paradise Lost exhibition, in the Miami-Dade Public Library System and in the show Latin-American Artists from Florida in the Palazzo Mediceo (Medici), Seravezza, Tuscany, Italy in 2002. His awards include the Hortt Competition at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale and the 1995 Personal Achievement Award from the Muscular Dystrophy Association for the State of Florida. In 1994, he was commissioned by Metro-Dade Art In Public Places to create a permanent exhibition at the Miami-Dade Government Center. The series Nonet for the Long Journey, is a memorial tribute to the American with Disabilities Trailblazers.

  In 2009 his work Daphne was selected for the book “Speak for the Trees” along 70 other artists including David Hockney, Christo, April Gornik, Yoko Ono, Julie Heffernan, Robert Longo, Mark Ryden, the Starn Brothers, etc.

  Music is usually present in his work and whole series were based on musical structures titled: Liederkreis Opus I and II, Ring Landscapes on Wagner‘s Der Ring des Nibelungen, Sinfonietta, Impromptus, Chamber Music and Reverberations. His paintings graced the covers for the Florida Philharmonic Orchestra Playbills, the New World Symphony 1995-96 Season Program Book, the Florida Grand Opera 1998-99 Season Program and CD covers (Henryk Gorecki, Ildebrando Pizzetti and the Grammy Award Da Pacem with works by Arvo Pärt ).

  Since 1988 Spreng writes about classical music for magazines and newspapers and is a member of the Music Critics Association of North America.

   

  Solo Exhibitions

   

  2011- Salad Bar – Kelley Roy Gallery, Wynwood, Miami, Florida

   

  2009 – Handmade Horizons & Songs – Kellley Roy Gallery, Wynwood, Miami, Florida

   

  2008 – Liederkreis / Op. II – Friesen Gallery, Seattle, Washington

   

  2007 – Liederkreis – The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Florida

   

  2006 – Arden Gallery, Boston, Massachussets

   

  2005 – Ring Landscapes – Friesen Gallery, Seattle, Washington

  Kent Gallery, Key West, Florida

   

  2004 – Chamber Music Opus 3 – Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho

   

  2003 – The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Florida

  Anthony Ardavin Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

  Arden Gallery, Boston, Massachussets

   

  2002  – Seeking Light – Friesen Gallery, Seattle, Washington

  Paths – Galeria Arteconsult, Panama, Panama

   

  2001 – Witness – Anthony Ardavin Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

   

  2000 – Inner Island – Friesen Gallery, Seattle, Washington

   

  1999 – Reverberations – The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Florida

  Anthony Ardavin Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

   

  1997 – Oasis – The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Florida

  Anthony Ardavin Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

   

  1996  – Galeria Arteconsult, Panama City, Panama

   

  1995 – Chamber Music – Anthony Ardavin Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

  Chamber Music – The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Florida

   

  1994 – Centro de Arte Euroamericano, Caracas, Venezuela

   

  1993 – Anthony Ardavin Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

  Galeria Arteconsult, Panama City, Panama

   

  1992 – Sinfonietta/Impromptus – The Americas Collection, Coral Gables, Florida

   

  1991 – Metro-Dade Cultural Resource Center, Government Center, Miami, Florida

  Water:inspiration & image -West Kendall Library, Miami, Florida

   

  1990 – Park Gallery, Fort Lauderdale / Boca Raton, Florida

  Known/Unknown – Interamerican Art Gallery – MDCC, Miami, Florida

   

  1989 – Silent Voyages – Galerie Helene Grubair, Miami, Florida

  Galeria Atica, Buenos Aires, Argentina

   

  1988  – Spanisches Kulturinstitut in Residenz, Munich, Germany

  Galerie in Burgermeisterhaus, Essen-Werden, Germany

   

  1987 –  Galeria Atica, Buenos Aires, Argentina

   

  1986 – Veranos – Galeria Martina Cespedes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

   

  1982  – Galeria Financiera  San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina

   

  1981 – Casa de la Cultura, Esperanza, Santa Fe, Argentina

   

  1980 – Interiores – Galeria Martina Cespedes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

   

  1979  – Casa de la Cultura, Necochea, Argentina

   

  1977 – Variaciones sobre un tema – Galeria Martina Cespedes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

   

  1976 – Pueblos blancos – Galeria Martina Cespedes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

   

  1975 – Galeria Martina Cespedes, Buenos Aires, Argentina