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Light artist, engineer, and transdisciplinary designer. States of México.

Omar Gómez González operates at the confluence of design, art, and technology, exploring light as a language of social transformation within physical and virtual environments. His practice seeks to turn the observer into a protagonist—through sensorial experiences that awaken creativity, nurture collective connection, and expand perception toward shared identity.

He holds a degree in Communications and Electronics Engineering from the Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) and a specialization in Architectural Lighting Design from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). In 2020, he completed the Ibero‑American Diploma in Lighting Design (IBEROILUM). His technical expertise is deepened by a philosophical inquiry into the unknowable, the retinal, and the poetic nature of luminous experience.

In 2018 he was a finalist in the national competition Ideas Made in Mexico with his project +Cosecha. His technological innovation projects have been recognized in entrepreneurship contests, showcased on national television, and exhibited at Mexico’s National Entrepreneurship Week.

He has received multiple grants, including the Young Creators Fellowship from the National System for the Support of Creation and Cultural Projects (formerly FONCA) for 2019–2020 in interdisciplinary scenic creation in interactive environments, and fellowships from the Carlos Slim Foundation’s Center for Technology and Innovation (2015–2016).

Since 2016 he has carried out more than 170 social light art interventions across museums, festivals, universities, cultural centers, and public spaces nationally and internationally as part of the long‑running initiative "Omsim Onures Seroma Public Project."

He received the Audience Choice Award at the Construlita Lighting Awards 2018 and won the Light Art category there in 2021. His work appears in the official catalogues of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Ibero‑American Biennial of Architectural Lighting Design by ILUMINET magazine.

His permanent installation “Luminario Público,” on a pedestrian bridge in Naucalpan de Juárez, fuses light, art, and technology to re‑signify urban space and evoke collective memory. The piece was recognized in the Youth Category of the Estévez Lighting Awards 2022, and he was named "Talento Naucalpense" by the local Ministry of Culture.

In 2024 he was a finalist at LUX FUTURUM (China). In 2022 CODAWORX honored him as one of the most outstanding emerging artists worldwide during CODAsummit in Denver, Colorado.

Since 2016 he has been a member of The Global Creative Alliance by Platoon and participated in their Garden of Unity exhibition in Seoul (2021). He currently leads the lighting design studio "Arquitectura Social de la Luz," developing architectural lighting concepts focused on sustainability, sensory narrative, community engagement, and dark‑sky protection. He has taught Design, Technology, and Robotics at CENTRO University and led workshops, lectures, and interviews across cultural forums, public venues, national radio, and digital platforms. In 2020 he served as a judge for New Media in "Contigo en la distancia" (Ministry of Culture, Mexico City).

Omar is an active member of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) and has presented light art projects at international seminars organized by the institution.

I am interested in researching light as an artistic medium, specifically in its potential for social transformation and human consciousness. I believe that the use of light guides perception through visual and sensory phenomena in borderline areas, where ambiguous experiences are created and ordinary perception of time and space is suppressed.

by Omsim Onures Seroma