Sebastián Montalvo Gray is a franco-peruvian visual artist mainly oriented to the photographic and audiovisual medium. Dedicated much of his time to the photojournalism profession , his work ranks between investigative journalism and contemporary visual arts. Through his projects, he explores how power, identity, and history are constructed, contested, and experienced, focusing on the fragmentation of land and the psychological impacts of conflict. His practice has evolved as he increasingly recognized the potential of visual arts as a space to combine journalistic integrity and practices with artistic expression. Focusing his work in Latin America, he investigates themes related to the territory and the socio-political structures that emerge from it.
Having obtained his MFA from the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles, France, Montalvo Gray continues to develop projects that bridge artistic experimentation with rigorous documentary inquiry, offering a lens that is both deeply personal and critically engaged with broader tensions.
Education.
École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie. Arles, France 2024. Masters Degree in plastic expression.Photography.
International Center of Photography. New York, 2014. Photojournalism and Documentary certificate Program.
Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas. Lima, Perú. Facultad de Comunicación y Periodismo.
Solo Shows.
2023 Detonante. Cortona on the Move Festival.
2021 Cajamala. Vigil–Gonzales Galería.
2020 Allá. Vigil–Gonzales Galería.
2017 Sinapsis. Sala Luis Miró Quesada Garland.
Shows and Awards.
2023 Detonante; Cortona on the Move Festival. Solo show.
2021 Image Based Strategies For Social Change – Screen Arts School.
2017 Sinapsis. Sala Luis Miró Quesada Garland. Solo show
2017 World Press Photo Joop Stewart Másters Class Nominee.
2016 Bajo Un Mismo Ruido.Crisis Galería.
2016 Y Generation : 30 Peruvian Artists. Y Gallery.
2016 Cage Rage. Bushwick Open Studios.
2015 Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation Fellowship.
2015 World Press Photo. Joop Stewart Master Class Nominee.
2015 Foam Paul Huf Award 2015 Nominee
2014 Getty Reportage Emerging Talent award.
2014 “The View From Here” at the Rita K. Hillman Education Gallery. International Center of Photography.
2012 cuerpo contemporáneo. Centro de la imagen. Lima,Perú.
Monographs
Cajamala - 2023.
Press | Catalogs
La Mirada Persistente – Fotografía Peruana Siglos XIX-XXI. Fondo Editorial de la Universidad de Lima. The Persistent Gaze – Peruvian Photography from the 19th to the 21st Century. Editorial Fund of the University of Lima.
Colección Jan Mulder – Fotografía Contemporánea. RM Ediciones. Jan Mulder Collection – Contemporary Photography. RM Ediciones.
A View From Here – International Center of Photography.
Blind Magazine.
More or Less – Cortona On The Move.
Comissions
Agencia EFE
CNN
Dein Spiegel
Diario El Comercio
Folha de Sao Paulo
Gazeta Newspaper
Society Magazine
The Washington Post