BIO

Carlos Bellido is a RCA-trained painter and filmmaker. Guided by personal curiosity and self-expression, his work engages with the essential acts of everyday life. These ideas emerge through depictions of the mundane, captured in a spontaneous, unfiltered way that embraces the raw vulnerabilities of the ordinary.

Memory is central to Carlos’s process. Focusing on individual figures highlights not what the characters possess, but what they relinquish, creating a quiet sense of absence and vulnerability. Subjects are framed in moments of searching, seeking meaning and grounding amid the uncertainties of everyday life. The emotional states that arise - raw, complex and sometimes undefinable - form a continuous cycle throughout his body of work.

Through minimalist settings and an uncontrived approach, Carlos’s invites viewers to see themselves in the work, leaving space for subjective and personal interpretations, even confusion. His practice is unapologetic in its embrace of the mundane, revealing both the beauty and complexity woven into the fabric of day to day life and lived experience.

SHOWS

SOLO
Stuides of the Figure, 14 Hay Hill (2025) - appear[here] Artist in Residency Program
Stuides of the Figure, 81 Goldsmiths Row (2025)

GROUP
The Door Way Effect, ASC Gallery, London (2025)
Whitechapel Gallery, London (2019)
Southwark Park Gallery, London (2018)
LAFRESH Gallery, Madrid (2015)
LesGaiCineMad LGBTQA Film Festival, Spain (2015)

SELECTED WORKS

PRESS & PUBLICATIONS

DAZED
SHADOWPLAY
NOWHERE

CONTACT

Email - info@carlosbellido.com
Instagram - @carlosbellido