I been a professional automata maker for 25 years at first working for Cabaret Mechanical Theatre in Covent Garden, London, My work is in many private collections and museums around the world.
For the last 25 years I have been living and creating in Cornwall, making one of a kind pieces and commissioned automata.
No two works are the same as each one is uniquely hand carved and painted.
Some of my work is now available on Etsy or this website and I am happy to discuss commissions for coin operated automatons for institutions or if you’ve a special person or position in mind. Instagram @carloszapataautomata
2022 – 23 Develop Your Creative Practice Grant, Arts Council England
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Natural History Museum, London
The American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, USA
The Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco, USA
The Arima Museum, Kobe, Japan
Falmouth Art Gallery, Falmouth
The Franklin Institute Science Museum, Philadelphia, USA
The Gumma Museum, Japan
Hyunggi-do, Heyri Artvalley, Paju, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
Museo Parque De Las Ciencias, Granada, Spain
The Wrexham County Museum, Wales
Gloucester Museum, Gloucester
Tudor House Museum, Southampton
The Museum of Cornish Life, Helston
RESIDENCIES
2004 July-September, The Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco, USA
2005 May, The Visionary Arts Museum, Baltimore, USA
2017 November, The Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco, USA
PUBLICATIONS
The Telegraph news paper, Summer Exhibition Royal Academy 2023
The Mestizo Art of Carlos Zapata, By Dennison Smith, Publish by Blackwell’s
Sagrado y Profano, Millennium
Raw vision magazine, RV # 49, pg. 66
Raw vision magazine, RV # 50, pg. 88
Times Newspaper (Monday 5th July 2004)
Carlos Zapata by Andrew Lanyon, 2009
Carlos Zapata, Blurb, 2008