ABOUT

BIO

Luis Gabriel Sanabria (1993) is a dynamic multidisciplinary artist from San Juan, Puerto Rico. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Acting and Performing Arts and a Master’s degree in Cultural Management and Administration from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. Growing up between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic sparked an early exploration of identity and culture in him. Since 2014, he has been a key member of the renowned Bread and Puppet Theater in Vermont, where he serves as an artist, performer, instructor, and operations manager. His work with the theater has taken him across the United States, Canada, Central America, and Europe, including a notable participation in the Festival Mondial des Théâtres de Marionnettes in Charleville-Mézières, France, in 2019.

Luis co-founded the multimedia art collective Kuniklo Collective, which presented the solo exhibition Bohíque at Roberto Paradise art gallery in San Juan in 2016. His most recent solo exhibition, Carnaval Carnal, was held in 2022 at Souvenir 154 in San Juan. In the fall of 2023, he launched an internship program titled Wild Clay Pots, focused on traditional pottery through a series of workshops that culminated in a presentation at Moos Space in Berlin. In the winter of 2023, he took part in the Rewilding the Body Eclectic residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Alberta, Canada.

Since March 2024, he has participated annually in the Casa Muyska residency program in the Amazon, where he studies Indigenous crafts, ceramics, and ceremonial costume-making. In May of that year, he launched, presented, and defended his master’s thesis Criollas, a project centered on creating kitchen utensils from local clay with an emphasis on mindful nutrition. That same year, together with artist Santiago Alvarez, he established Cálido Laboratorio, a platform that generates experiences and gatherings through the creation of interactive dinners.

In March 2025, he took part in the Ponce Carnival in Puerto Rico with his first individual parade titled “Vejigante Gigante: Vehículo de Protesta Llamativa,” sponsored by Beta-Local and the Autonomous Municipality of Ponce. Luis was also one of the artists in El Puente, a group exhibition at the John & Robyn Horn Gallery at the Penland School of Craft in North Carolina, USA, shown between April and June 2025.

In June and July 2025, he participated in the SARP Residency Program in Sicily, Italy, alongside Santiago Alvarez. During the residency, the two collaborated on Earthborn, a site-specific installation and exhibition presented at the SARP gallery. Luis collaborated with artist Rauw Alejandro, creating costume designs and masks for the music videos Carita Linda and Besito en la Frente, his world tour Cosa Nuestra, and other projects including the performance at the 2025 Latin Grammy Awards. Luis was also an artist-in-residence at San Juan 721 in Puerto Rico during July and August 2025, where he began developing new works for his upcoming solo exhibition in 2026.

From January to February 2026, Luis Gabriel Sanabria & Santiago Álvarez present their project: Del Barro a la Soberanía, as part of a commission by the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico under their program MAC EN EL BARRIO.