Gregorio Sabillón was born in 1945 in Chamelecón, Honduras. From 1964 to 1967, he studied painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, graduating as a professor from the National School of Fine Arts in Tegucigalpa. From 1964 to 1968, he held solo exhibitions at the IHCI, the Honduran Institute of Inter-American Culture, where he received the grand national prize at the Fifth Annual Salon in 1966. His creative work is a kind of synthesis between the new and the old, the past and the present, Europe and America. Techniques, themes, and style converge in an art that combines and integrates, in a personal way, elements from diverse origins. As critic Daniel Giralt Miracle noted, "his work is born from the purest stylistic roots of Central American indigenous painting, that of Siqueiros, Orozco, and Tamayo."
Gregorio Sabillón lived in Barcelona for over 20 years, where he established his artistic career by exhibiting in prestigious and renowned galleries. He participated in countless group exhibitions in Spain and other European countries. He also exhibited in Brazil, the United States, Venezuela, Japan, and Central America. Among his most important distinctions are the Second Prize at the XII Provincial Exhibition of Barcelona and an Honorable Mention at the Sala Clara Prize in Olot, Girona, Spain.
Sabillón's success as a Honduran artist in Spain can be seen through the following words of critic Angel Marsa: "Surrealist painting has in Gregorio Sabillón its undisputed current master. This finds full confirmation in a meticulous and irreproachable technique, bordering on hyperrealism. Gregorio Sabillón incorporates into his painting the peremptory postulates of the theory propagated by Breton and activated with varying intensity by Dalí, Masson, and Max Ernst."
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1964. IHCI Gallery. Honduras
1968. La Botija Gallery. Honduras
1969. Art and Studio Gallery. Barcelona, Spain
1971. Picasso Workshop Gallery. Barcelona, Spain
1974. Gallery 7 and ½. Barcelona, Spain
1976. Gallery 13. Barcelona, Spain
1977. Gaudí Room - Gaudifond Arte, Barcelona, Spain
1978. Gaudí Room - Gaudifond Arte, Barcelona, Spain
Layetana Savings Bank. Mataró, Spain
Kamp Gallery. Amsterdam, Netherlands
Mataró Public Library. Barcelona, Spain
Gastón Room. Zaragoza, Spain
1980. Palau de Caramany. Girona, Spain
San Lluc. Olot, Gerona, Spain
1981. Gaudí Hall - Gaudifond Art, Barcelona, Spain
1985. Art 3 Gallery. Figueres, Spain
1986. Arambol Gallery. Madrid, Spain
1987. Vayreda Hall. Olot, Girona. Spain
Xarxa D'Art Room. Tossa de Mar, Spain
1990. Portales Gallery. Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Sampedravo Cultural Center. San Pedro Sula, Honduras
1992. Xarxa D'Art Gallery. Tossa de Mar, Spain
Palafrugell Art Gallery. Palafrugell (Costa Brava) Spain
1995. The Embassy Gallery. Miami, Florida, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
1967. Esso Salon of Young Artists from Central America
1968. Sao Paolo Biennial. Brazil
“Four young artists from Central America” San Salvador, El Salvador.
In several US cities, Miami, New York, New Orleans, etc., at the third, fourth, and fifth IHCI Halls
1970. “Contemporary Painting of Central America” Through various cities in Italy
1971. “Three Honduran Painters” Iván Spence Gallery. Ibiza, Spain
First Marbella Biennial. Spain
First Congress of Latin American Visual Arts. Gaudifond Arte, Barcelona, Spain
1972. Zaragoza Biennial. Spain
XXVI Badalona Fine Arts Exhibition Prize. Spain
1973. Homage to Torres Garcia. Gaudí Hall - Gaudifond Arte. Barcelona, Spain
First Exhibition of Visual Arts by Spanish-Speaking Artists. Caracas, Venezuela
1975. II Meeting of Young Ibero-American Literature.
II Visual Arts. Caracas, Venezuela
1976. Art-expo 76. Sala Gaudí - Gaudifond Arte. Barcelona, Spain
100 Years of Art. Gaudí Room - Gaudifond Arte. Barcelona, Spain
1977. Basel International Art Fair with Sala Gaudí - Gaudifond Arte, Switzerland
One hundred years of nudity in L'Art. Layetana Savings Bank. Mataró, Spain
1978. Basel International Art Fair with Sala Gaudí - Gaudifond Arte, Switzerland
1979. “Four Faces of Reality, Marí, Capozzoli, Sabillón, Alcoy” Rua Gallery. Santander, Spain
Basel International Art Fair with Gaudí Room - Gaudifond Arte, Switzerland
1980. “Presence of Realism” Parque 15 Gallery. Pamplona, Spain
“Aspects of Contemporary Realism in Spain” International Art Gallery. Ibiza, Spain
Basel International Art Fair with Gaudí Room - Gaudifond Arte, Switzerland
1981. “M. Juliá – Rodriguez Guy – G. Sabillón” International Art Gallery, Ibiza, Spain
1982. “Spanish Realist Painters” International Art Gallery, Ibiza, Spain
“Spanish Painters” Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Osaka and Nagasaki. Japan
1983. Arco 83. Madrid. Spain
1984. “Engravers of Girona” Palau de Caramany Gallery. Girona, Spain
1985. “M. Juliá, G. Sabillón” Art 3 Gallery. Figueres, Spain
Montreal International Fair, Canada
2008. “Our Roots” Hotel Honduras Maya, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
2012. “Contemporary painting in San Pedro Sula” Central Bank of Honduras.
San Sula, Honduras
