Christian Salablanca Díaz's artistic practice is based on personal memories that explore orality to construct stories and narratives that relate to different knowledge based on family traditions and practices. Through this process, the works seek to generate connections between nature and the body, plants and seeds, wind and birds. Salablanca has recently been nominated for the Rolex Mentor & Protegé Arts Initiative 2022-23 and has received the Fondo Concursable Nacional del Museo de Arte Costarricense 2022 award, the Gasworks 2023 Residency Program and is working on two projects for 2023 in CAMPO GARZON, Uruguay as well as 2024 in TABAKALERA, Basque Country.
Christian has a degree in Arts and Visual Communication from the National University of Costa Rica, Cum Laude in Sculpture. He has participated in solo exhibitions at Sagrada Mercancía (Santiago, Chile) and Kiosko Galería (Bolivia), both 2019; FLORA ars+natura and Valenzuela Klenner Galería (Bogotá, Colombia), 2018; and Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo (San José, Costa Rica), 2014. She has participated in group shows such as Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Campo Art fest (Garzón, Uruguay), Virreina Space (Santander, Colombia), Galería LaNAO CDMX, IL POSTO, Segunda parte de "Ya no había más orilla". (Santiago, Chile), Unfinished camp Vitrine gallery Program 01. Pivo Sao Paolo, Brazil, El pasado Adelante, Casa de America (Madrid, Spain), Unfinished Camp + Pivo for Unfinished at The Shed, New York and HEK Basel, La parte Maldita IL POSTO (Santiago, Chile), KM 0. 2, Puerto Rico 2021, Museo Mestni Muzej Ljubljana (Slovenia), Museo Nacional Thyssen Bornemisza TBA21 (Madrid, Spain), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá (Panama), Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz (Berlin, Germany), Biquini Wax (Mexico City, Mexico), TEOR/ética ( San José, Costa Rica), Gasworks (London, United Kingdom),
Sagrada Mercancía (Santiago, Chile), Espacio Odeón (Bogotá, Colombia), Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (Medellín, Colombia), Centro Cultural de España (Tegucigalpa, Honduras), Galería T20 (Murcia, Spain), Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Quito (Quito, Ecuador) and Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade (São Paulo, Brazil), among other venues. In 2016 he exhibited at the X Central American Biennial (San José and Puerto Limón, Costa Rica) and at the Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti (Buenos Aires, Argentina) as part of BIENALSUR 2019.
Lives and works in Guararí, Costa Rica.