Artist Bio

Petroc Sesti is a British artist, born in London where he currently lives and works. His work pushes the boundaries of art and science, exploring in particular the ever-changing relationships between artwork, the viewer and the environment in which they are placed.

Both sculptures and paintings perform an interactive role by engaging the location and movement of the viewer by way of vast optical lenses and Moire geometries, reconfiguring the landscape and providing the viewer with a unique and responsive interaction with the artwork.

He has collaborated with scientists from space programs to forestry scientists laser scanning trees in the rainforests.

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Exhibitions and Permanent Collections of Note Include:

  • CARBON II 2024 - Palazzo Experimental. Venice

  • Art As A Tool For Change, The Reefline, Miami Art Week. Heart Of Okeanos

  • Royal Academy Summer Exhibition - Tree Beacon.

  • Faena Art, Miami Art Week - Heart Of Okeanos

  • 13th Manifesta Biennale France

  • 9th Shanghai Biennale, Vanishing Point

  • Paul Kasmin Gallery NY, Turbulence

  • Espace Louis Vuitton Foundation Paris, A Shot In The Head

  • Lisson Gallery, British Art Today

  • Etemad gallery Dubai, Turbulences

  • Beyond Museum S Korea

  • ICA London, Sculpture in the City in London

  • New Shanghai Museum Of Contemporary Art

Permanent Collections Including:

The Kistefos Museum Norway, MONA Museum Tasmania, the Boghossian Foundation Brussels, the Rockefeller Collection New York, the Sheikha Moza Collection - Rem Koolhaas’s Qatar Foundation, Norman Foster’s Yacht Club Monaco, SOM’s Manhattan Loft Gardens Stratford - International London, YUZI Museum China, H-66 Aedas LWK & Partners Architects Shanghai.

Philanthropy:

As founding director he created Platform Earth with co-founders Ruth Ganesh and Mollie Dent Brocklehurst, an environmental arts charity bridging the divide between the arts and sciences, mitigating climate change by protecting and restoring kelp forests and blue-carbon habitats, a marine capture focussed initiative uniting all the arts in countering the industry’s carbon emissions. The organization became a charity in 2021.

He is a member of the AON Community Art Award judging panel at the Cheese Grater tower in London and the Prudential Eye Art Awards, a member of their contemporary art awards selection committee and co-presenter of their sculpture prize.

Curatorial:

CARBON II 2024 - Palazzo Experimental. Venice.

Frieze Art Fair 2021 - As founder and trustee of Platform Earth, co-curated Carbon Exhibition at Frieze Art Fair London.

Super Blue at the Royal Academy Of Arts - On Valentine’s evening in 2022, Platform Earth, held the cultural programme, co-curated the ‘Ode To The Oceans’ exhibition.