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Composer of integrative social lighting, States of México.

Omar Gómez González (Naucalpan de Juárez, State of Mexico.) is a light artist, engineer, and transdisciplinary designer. He explores light and darkness as languages of social transformation and human consciousness, creating experiences that make the observer a protagonist and expand perception toward a shared identity.

He holds a degree in Communications and Electronics Engineering from the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), a specialization in Architectural Lighting from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), and the Iberoamerican Diploma in Lighting Design (IBEROILUM). His technical training is complemented by philosophical research into the sensorial and poetic dimensions of luminous experience, shaping an artistic sensibility that values both darkness and light for their impact on perception and consciousness.

Since 2016 he has carried out hundreds of social light-art interventions in museums, festivals, universities, cultural centers, and public spaces in Mexico and abroad through his initiative Omsim Onures Seroma Public Project. In each project he applies creativity in the face of material or economic constraints, generating experiences where light and darkness become instruments of community, reflection, and cultural change.

He directs the studio Arquitectura Social de la Luz, developing projects across the full spectrum of applied lighting—architecture, urban space, performing arts, and experimental projects. His vision integrates sustainability, inclusion, and the protection of dark skies, transforming light and darkness into compositions that transcend the aesthetic and the functional, opening paths to innovation and global impact.

His work has been recognized with national and international awards: Construlita Lighting Awards (Audience Choice, 2018; Light Art, 2021), Estévez Lighting Awards (2022), finalist in LUX FUTURUM (China, 2024), and selections in the catalogs of the III, IV, and V Iberoamerican Biennial of Architectural Lighting. In 2022, CODAworx named him one of the most notable emerging artists worldwide at CODAsummit in Denver, Colorado. He was also named Talento Naucalpense by the Naucalpan Secretariat of Culture for his local impact with international projection. In 2025 he received the Richard Kelly Grant from IES NYC, becoming the first Mexican recipient of this award.

He was a fellow of the Jóvenes Creadores program of the Sistema de Apoyos a la Creación y Proyectos Culturales (FONCA) for 2019–2020 in the discipline New Technologies where he deepened his research on light and darkness as drivers of consciousness and social transformation. He also received grants from the Center for Technology and Innovation of the Carlos Slim Foundation (2015–2016) and the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Scenic Creation in Interactive Environments (LICEIN) (2017), and was a finalist in the national Ideas Made in Mexico competition with the +Cosecha project (2016).

Beyond his artistic practice, he has taught Design, Technology, and Robotics at CENTRO University and delivered workshops, lectures, and interviews in cultural forums, public spaces, national radio, and digital platforms. In 2020 he served as a juror in the New Media category for the Contigo en la distancia program organized by the Mexico City Secretariat of Culture.

A member of the Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) and the Global Creative Alliance by Platoon, he has presented light-art projects at international seminars and gatherings. His career is distinguished by the ability to turn any circumstance into a creative opportunity, demonstrating that light and darkness are more than visual phenomena: they are instruments of awareness, inclusion, sustainability, and social transformation with global impact.

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.

“Light and darkness are integrative forces: they compose shared attention, reveal invisible narratives and expand human consciousness. My mission is to compose luminous experiences that function as means of social transformation, sustainability and collective identity, demonstrating that even in the face of limitations creativity can illuminate and transcend borders.”

“The social art of light lies in the intrinsic structure of communication that exists between light, space and society; its primary aim is to provoke in the perceiver actions of collective value that generate sociocultural progress and improve quality of life.”

by Omsim Onures Seroma ___