Sebastian Hyde was born in Cincinnati Ohio in 1965 and grew up in the Pacific Northwest near Seattle Washington.

He attended Central Washington University, in Ellensburg, Wa, from 1983-85 (and got all those pesky, none-art related, yet still required classes out of the way)

Sebastian moved to San Francisco in 1986 to enroll at the Academy of Art College where he studied Illustration and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1989.

He received several awards at the school's spring shows: Best experimental illustration - 1988. Best experimental illustration/best of show(tie) - 1989.

Since college Sebastian has continued to paint and draw from the live model, holding weekly figure study sessions in his Oakland Studio since 1996. He has also begun to paint landscapes.

Sebastian has also been working as an artist and Illustrator for computer gaming and multimedia companies since 1994. (gotta pay the bills till the painting sell!)

Sebastian has had several exhibitions starting in the early 1990's and has Participated in Open Studios in both San Francisco and Oakland:

~Current Shows: March/Aril 2001~

Cafe Abo: San Francisco - Solo show

Base Art Gallery - Group show (Figurative)

~Past Shows~

Somar Gallery: Group show sponsored by Bay Area Models Guild SF, CA 2000

Gallery 101: San Francisco CA 2000

Open studios: San Francisco - Hunter Point 1998

Open Studios: Oakland - home Studio 1997

Open studios: San Francisco - Home Studio 1992

Vesuvio's cafe: North beach 1991

Tart to Tart: Irving st. 1991

The Metro Hotel & Cafe': Divisadero st. 1990

At the current time I don't have much of an ARTIST'S STATMENT.

I never really have. I have always seen them as self serving and misleading, not to mention overbearing and obnoxious. But then again I don't think I have ever really been trying to do anything more than make nice pictures that make me happy. I love to paint, and I especially love to paint the human figure. There are no absolutes in life, but for me, my absolutely favorite thing to draw and paint is the human figure. I hope it shows.

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