Sebastian Di Mauro was born in Innisfail, and he currently lives and works between Brisbane Australia and Lewes, Delaware, USA. Since the late 1980s he has held over 50 solo exhibitions and his work has been included more than 100 group exhibitions in Australia and overseas. His paintings, sculptures, artist books and installations are collected by many of Australia’s key art institutions, including: the Queensland Art Gallery I Gallery of Modern Art, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Bendigo Art Gallery, Besen Collection, Artbank, University of Queensland Art Museum and Deakin University.

Recognised in 2004 as one of Australia’s sculptors to watch in terms of investment, his work has been celebrated in two monographs, Between Material (1998) and Footnotes of a Verdurous Tale (2009). Di Mauro’s work has risen to national prominence through a number of achievements namely: an Australia Council ‘New Work’ grant in 1999; winning the Inaugural Woollahra Sculpture Prize; inclusion in the National Sculpture Prize and Exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia in 2001; awarded residencies with Parks Victoria, Melbourne and later the British School, Rome in 2002; being judged a finalist in The McClelland Survey and Award in 2003; winning the Montalto Sculpture Prize (Mornington Peninsular, Victoria); selection for the Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award and Exhibition in 2003, 2005 and 2008; awarded the Australia Council’s Barcelona Studio in 2009; and a survey exhibition of his work mounted at Queensland University of Technology Art Museum in 2009. His work Greenback was exhibited in the European Cultural Centre exhibition Personal Structures - Reflections, 59th Venice Art Biennale in 2022.

During the last ten years Di Mauro has also completed a number of major public art commissions in high profile buildings including: Chat at 175 Eagle Street, Brisbane (2002); Drift for 33 Charlotte Street, Brisbane during the Year of the Built Environment (2004); blur between for the Brisbane Magistrates Court (2004). He has collaborated with innovative architects such as Alice Hampson on several public art projects including Undulant at the Logan Community Health Centre (2005) and Greener Fields at the Gabba Members Area (Gabba Cricket Ground). In Adelaide Di Mauro completed a commission in 2006 for Taylor, Cullity and Lethlean Landscape Architects and in 2011 he installed The Reel Project, an ephemeral public artwork for the Adelaide City Council. Di Mauro has completed a number of international public art commissions including Drifter in 2011 in Ningbo, China and Bloom and Scatter 2012 Hong Kong, and Rapture, 2013 in Suzhou, China. In 2020 his work Bloom was installed at Ritz Carlton, Fari Islands, Maldives.

Dr Sebastian Di Mauro is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Queensland College of Art Griffith University.