A look at: Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: Viewing room at C24 Gallery available by appointment

March 5, 2026
  • Gabriel Barcia-Colombo at the Neon Museum in Las Vegas, NV
    Gabriel Barcia-Colombo at the Neon Museum in Las Vegas, NV

    C24 Gallery is please to present celebrated multi-media artist Gabriel Barcia-Colombo.  He is known for creating immersive, interactive projects that combine technology and light, either through video, projections or most recently, neon. With roots in filmmaking and influenced by the rise of social media programs, Barcia-Colombo’s work ranges from small sculptures to large-scale interactive installations that focus on memorialization, and the digital and cultural imprints we leave behind for future generations. Barcia-Colombo's first solo exhbition, Business as Usual, is currently on view at C24 Gallery.

     

    C24 Gallery first exhibited Barcia-Colombo’s work as part of our 2019 group exhibition, Transfigured, where he presented a series of sculptures incorporating videos of people inside glass tubes set into fire boxes and an enormous ceramic egg, and on top of televisions and employee time clocks. The works channeled his documentation of life cycles and relationships, and honoring his mother’s Mexican heritage, implemented a novel technical update to the Central and South American folk art form of nicho boxes, traditionally used to display representations of saints and other religious icons.

  • Gabriel Barcia-Colombo, Oracle, 2024
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  • Barcia-Colombo has also completed work inspired by the Neon Museum in Las Vegas, NV where he was the 2021 Artist in Residence. While in residence he developed an exhibition, Simulations of the Sacred, drawing on the museum’s vast collection of neon signs, the centerpiece was a ten-foot neon sculpture of Adam and Eve holding cell phones, titled, Temptations in Paradise Pink. The show also included his signature nicho boxes depicting Las Vegas luminaries as modern day saints, as well as works that served as an homage to the dopamine rush of both slot machines and the constant refresh of our social media streams.

     

    One of his more ambitious projects, The Hereafter Institute was created with the Art + Technology Lab at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Designed as an exploration of what happens to the legacy of online data we leave behind, the walk-through experience included a series of installations allowing visitors the opportunity to plan their own digital afterlife. Another of Barcia-Colombo’s major conceptual works, DNA Vending Machine, was shown at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum as part of their exhibition, What is Luxury? It contained human DNA samples packaged as collectibles, bringing to light legal issues over the ownership of DNA, designer babies and other related implications. 

  • Barcia-Colombo often tempers his obsession with memorialization and memory through his use of humor, as he tackles serious issues in works of all sizes.

     

    More works from Gabriel Barcia-Colombo are currently on view at C24 Gallery.

  • Temptation in Paradise (Pink), 2022 Neon, Acrylic, Aluminum (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    DNA Vending Machine (detail), 2015 Delrin, Acrylic, Human DNA, Alcohol (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    New York Minute, 2014 52 Digital Videos TRT (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    GABRIEL BARCIA-COLOMBO, TEMPATIONS IN PARADISE PINK, 2022