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Specialising in contemporary & ultra-contemporary art with a keen focus on performance art and time-based media, Sebastian has accrued over fifteen years combined curatorial experience as an independent curator, curatorial fellow at Whitechapel Gallery (2023-24), and artistic director at both ]performance s p a c e [ (2011-23) and VSSL Studio (current). 

‘Archipelago: Visions in Orbit’ at Whitechapel Gallery - including works by: Jakob Rowlison, Jade de Montserrat, Daniella Valz Gen, Cameron Ugbodu, Esther Teichmann and Güler Ateş - London. Photography courtesy of Whitechapel Gallery - 2024
They hold an MA in Curating Art & Public Programmes (distinction) from Whitechapel Gallery & London South Bank University, as well as a BA Fine Art (HONS, 1st Class) from the University of Lincoln.

Sebastian has forged a unique curatorial voice foregrounding the often time-based practices of international queer, global majority, neurodivergent, and womxn artists - reflecting in part their own lived experience as a neurodivergent & disabled, queer British-Settler-Australian. 

Installation shots of ‘Biolytic Daughter’ by artists Bassam Issa Al-Sabah and Jennifer Mehigan - as part of Entanglements of the Apocalypse - at VSSL Studio, London. Photo documentation by Baiba Sprance and Marco Berardi. 2025-26
At the core of their curatorial strategy is an acknowledgment that such practices act as critical & speculative agents, imbued with boundless potential to unearth alternative socio-cultural narratives, while generating emergent discourses capable of shaping our futures.

Installation shots of June Lam’s solo exhibition - as part of FACET - at VSSL Studio, London. Photographed by Marco Berardi - 2023
Sebastian has collaborated with artists such as: Carlos Martiel, Bassm Issa Al-Sabah and Jennifer Mehigan, Sin Wai Kin, Anne Bean, Jade de Montserrat, Ron Athey, Kira O’Reilly, Maria José Arjona, Martin O’Brien, Rocío Boliver, Keioui Keijaun Thomas, Alastair MacLennan, Rubiane Maia, Daniella Valz Gen, Poppy Jackson, Julie Tolentino, selina bonelli, Sandra Johnston, Jakob Rowlinson, Güler Ates and Cameron Ugbodu.

They have built partnerships with stakeholders such as: Goldsmiths University, Inspire Lewisham, Atelier Public Relations, FUTRERITUAL, Queer Art Projects, Abstrakt Publicity, Centre for the Study of the Networked Image (CSNI), Live Art Development Agency, Horse Hospital, Deptford X and Ugly Duck - as well as having secured regular and repeat funding from: Arts Council England, British Council, The Legacy List, Creative Folkestone, Roger De Haan Charitable Trust, Lewisham Council and Kent County Council - to mention but a few.

‘PSX: A Decade of Performance Art in the U.K.’ at Ugly Duck - including works by: Rubiane Maia, Ron Athey, Martin O’Brien, Poppy Jackson, Alastair MacLennan, Anne Bean, Joseph Morgan Schofield, Elvira Santamaria Torrés, selina bonelli, Jade de Montserrat, Benjamin Sebastian, Nina Arsenault, Keioui Keijaun Thomas, Nicholas T, Hancock and Kelly, Kris Kanavan & Elizabeth Short (performing as Nick Kilby) - London. Photographed by fenia kotsopoulou - 2021
Their curatorial practise is deeply rooted in an analytic consideration of their field, exemplified by critical and creative writings on contemporary artistic practice (a selection of which can be read here).

Below is a comprehensive list of Sebastian’s curatorial projects to date, which can be navigated by clicking individual links or through endless scroll.
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