A solo exhibition by Artist-in-Residence Raúl Sisniega (RAiR 2024-25) at the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art
Algo Nos Esta Soñando (Sometihng is Dreaming of Us)
July 25 to September 7, 2025
Artist Talk and Opening Reception
Friday July 25, 5:30-7:00 P.M.
Stay for the public catered dinner in honor of the artist
Friday July 25, approximately 7:00 P. M. | $10 Adult | $5 Child
Museum hours Monday-Friday 9-4, Saturday and Sunday 1-5
Raúl Sisniega is a multidisciplinary artist from Mexico City. Throughout his practice, he’s navigated the tension between opposites: the analog and the digital, the unique and the multiple, the studio and the streets, the individual and the collective.
His visual language has been shaped by a wide range of influences, beginning in childhood with video games and animated cartoons, which continue to inform his aesthetic in both conscious and intuitive ways. As a teenager, he became deeply influenced by the Mexican muralist movement—especially the works of Siqueiros, Camarena and Arnold Belkin—as well as animated music videos from the ’90s. He studied Visual Communication and Design at the Faculty of Arts and Design of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In his adult life,he’s been strongly drawn to ancient art from different parts of the world and to psychedelia—both have played a big role in pushing him to question and make conscious efforts to unlearn many of the colonial and Western ideas he grew up with.
His mural work has been published in two books documenting art in public spaces: "Make your mark, the new urban artists," published by Thames and Hudson in the United Kingdom; and in Mexico in the book: "Muros Somos, the new Mexican muralists," published by La Cifra Editorial.
He’s been trusted to develop art for brands such as Dark Matter Coffee, Sony, Kleenex, Wahaca, Flix, Mercedes Benz, Converse, Vans and Phillips.
“There is a latent unease in each of these works: the feeling that we are not alone, as if an intelligence (not necessarily human, not necessarily benevolent) is dreaming us, weaving us together, imagining us from a plane we can’t quite name.
This exhibition is built from that vertigo, from the suspicion that what we call "I" is simply a transient node within a vaster network, both organic and technological.
This body of work is composed of installations, drawings, paintings, and sculptures that function as fragments of visual rituals. Hidden languages that make up an ecosystem of symbols.
The viewer is invited to move around the exhibition as they would in a lucid dream: recognizing fragments, intuiting connections, exploring without any rules.
Each artwork is the material residue of a vision of that something which is dreaming of us.”
