Sean Seto is a multidisciplinary artist that grew up in Canada. Sean has always been drawn to cartoons, video games, and brightly illustrated worlds. These brightly colorful narratives influenced Sean’s illustrative style. During their time at the University of Victoria, Sean would start to explore their own identity through their art work. Wrestling with coming of age in a queer body and their biracial identity, slowly accepting themselves through their artwork. During their time at UVIC Sean was elected to be the Vice Chair of the University Visual Arts Student Association (2024 - 2025), and the Co-Chair of the UVIC BFA Exhibition (2025 - 2026). Throughout their education they have been selected to be featured in multiple group shows, including; Introception 2024, Starting Small 2025, Spillways 2025, From The Livingroom, 2026.
Sean Seto is a queer chinese canadian artist, practicing on the unceded territories of Lək ʷəŋən people. Seto’s practice primarily focuses on oil painting. Through paint they explore experiences that have had a strong connection to. These experiences focus on the interactions of the people closest to them. Paint lets them reflect on the moments they have with people and abstract it, twisting, reshaping and recreating experiences in order to better understand them. These moments range from people opening up about their experiences and letting the community better understand them through their work, to unburdening themselves about their queerness and mixed-race identity. Once these experiences are put into paint and paint is put on to a canvas, all elements come together to create a window into an abstracted reality. The abstract realities let them twist, re-shape, re colors and reinvent experiences or link them together with other ones. They find themselves continuously intrigued in either pushing things into an abstract reality, and having the abstract reality invade our own. The paintings and sculptures allow them to explore patterns in relation to themselves and their queerness. The feeling of entering and exiting certain spaces, times, rooms, and versions of their past inspires much of their work. When working with heavy textures they can feel the weight of the emotion of an experience. They find it easy to associate textures with intense emotions. These textures vary from scrapes, dash bruises, jagged edges to thick globs and beads that flow from their work.
