Sebastian Di Mauro was born in Innisfail and currently lives and works between Brisbane and the United States. Since the late 1980s, he has presented more than 45 solo exhibitions and participated in over 100 group exhibitions across Australia and internationally. His diverse practice—encompassing painting, sculpture, artist books, and installation—is represented in major Australian collections, including the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Bendigo Art Gallery, the Besen Collection, Artbank, the University of Queensland Art Museum, and Deakin University.
Recent exhibitions include Throw (2021) at Bundaberg Regional Art Gallery, GREENBACK (2019) at MARS Gallery, Melbourne, and the survey Always and Altered at Benalla Art Gallery, Victoria. Collective Labour marks his first solo exhibition in Australia since relocating to the United States. In 2023, he was a finalist in the Hadley Art Prize, and his GREENBACK series was featured in Personal Structures – Reflections, presented by the European Cultural Centre alongside the 59th Venice Biennale (2022).
Recognized as a leading Australian sculptor, Di Mauro’s work has been the subject of two monographs: Between Material (1998) and Footnotes of a Verdurous Tale (2009). His national reputation has been shaped by key milestones such as inclusion in the National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia (2001), artist residencies with Parks Victoria and the British School at Rome (2002), and selection as a finalist in The McClelland Survey and Award (2003). He received the Montalto Sculpture Prize (Mornington Peninsula, Victoria) and participated in the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award and Exhibition in 2003, 2005, and 2008. In 2009, he was awarded the Australia Council’s Barcelona Studio residency, and the Queensland University of Technology Art Museum presented a major survey of his work.
Di Mauro has completed numerous public art commissions for prominent sites, including Drift at 33 Charlotte Street, Brisbane (2004), and blur between for the Brisbane Magistrates Court (2004). In Adelaide, he completed a commission in 2006 for Taylor Cullity Lethlean Landscape Architects, followed by The Reel Project, an ephemeral public artwork for Adelaide City Council (2011). His international public artworks include Drifter (2011) in Ningbo, China; Bloom and Scatter (2012) in Hong Kong; and Rapture (2013) in Suzhou, China. Most recently, in 2020, his sculpture Bloom was installed at the Ritz-Carlton, Fari Islands, Maldives.
Dr Sebastian Di Mauro is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.
