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CURRICULUM VITAE

01 · Educación

Education

2015 European PhD in Fine Arts, Complutense University of Madrid in association with Akademie de Künste Berlín and the Saarbrücken University.
2004 Professional Piano Degree.
02 · Docencia

Actividad Profesional

Docencia universitaria, clases magistrales, conferencias y seminarios.

2016 — 2019 Profesora de Fotografía · Escuela Universitaria de Artes y Espectáculos TAI, Madrid.
2010 — 2011 Profesora de Fotografía · Facultad de Bellas Artes de Cuenca, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha.
2005 — 2009 Profesora de Fotografía · Escuela Superior de Imagen y Sonido CES, Madrid.
2005 — 2026 Clases magistrales, conferencias y seminarios (selección) otorgados en Master Photoespaña, Facultad de Bellas Artes de Cuenca, Centro andaluz de Fotografía, Museo San Telmo, Museo MACA de Alicante, Fundación Mapfre, Con L de Cáceres, Encuentros de Gijón, C.I.F.P. Rodríguez Fabrés Salamanca, Escuela de Profesiones Artísticas SUR, Escuela LENS, Escuela Internacional de Fotografía PIC.A, Cursos anuales CSF, La Máquina Escuela de Fotografía, Universidad de Abidjan, Corcoran School of the Arts & Design (Washington), Fundación Nirox (Sudáfrica), Hochschule für Gestaltung Universiadad de Offenbach (Frankfurt), Cornell University (Roma), Escuela Superior de Imagen y sonido CES, Universidad de Murcia, Universidad de Málaga, Universidad de Almería.
03 · Solo Shows

Solo Exhibitions (Highlights)

2025
  • «Arbor» · Flora Festival, Archaeological Museum, Córdoba.
  • «Akouedo» · Daniel Cuevas Gallery, Madrid.
  • «Landscapes o Resistance» · curated by Ana Berruguete. Torreón Fortea, Zaragoza.
  • «Akouedo» · curated by Illa Donwahi. Donwahi Fundation, Abiyán, Costa de Marfil.
2024
  • «Thermal Nature» · curated by Sara Arjona. Es Blank, Palma de Mallorca.
  • «Akouedo» · curator Marta Soul. África House, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
2023
  • «Series» · Pilar Citoler Award Exhibition, Vimcorsa Cultural Centre, Córdoba.
  • «Wanderungen» · Exhibition on the Boulevard Salvador Allende, Alcobendas Art Center, Madrid.
  • «Uproot. DC.es / A gaze of Washington by Spanish photographers» · Residence of the Ambassadors of Spain, Washington, USA.
2022
  • «Knots: Topologies of Memory» · Emotiva22 Festival. Seu d’Ègara Museum, Terrassa.
  • «Jaam rek» · curator Nerea Ubieto. Daniel Cuevas Galley, PHotoESPAÑA, Madrid.
2021
  • «Khamekaye» · Mallorca Council Photography Award, Sa Nostra Cultural Centre, Palma de Mallorca.
  • «Khamekaye» · Tabacalera Centre, Contemporary Art Centre of the Culture Ministry, Madrid.
  • «In-Limits» · curated by Rodrigo Carreño. Molinos del Río Museum, Murcia.
2020«Knots: Topologies of Memory» · curated by Ana Berruguete. Villanueva Palace, Royal Botanic Garden, Madrid.
2019«Knots: Topologies of Memory» · PHotoESPAÑA International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, Alcobendas Art Centre, Madrid.
2018«Kanzel» · Pilar Serra Gallery, Madrid.
2017«Rêver le noir, rêver une absence» · La Laboral Ciudad de la Cultura, Gijón Photography Encounters.
2014
  • «In Black» · PHOTOALC Festival, Aural Gallery, Alicante.
  • «Readers» · Women’s Outlook Festival, Blanca Soto Gallery, Madrid.
04 · Group Shows

Group Exhibitions (Highlights)

2026
      • «Hortus Inconclusus. Garden of Exchange» · Rupert Museum, South Africa.
      • “Ihlathi Lepulasitiki” · curated by Ashraf Jamal. Black Brick Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa.
      • «Mirrored Futures» · curated by Ashraf Jamal, Rolls-Royce Showroom, Johannesburgo, South Africa.
      • «I’m Just a Tree Branch» · curated by Tomeu Simonet, Xalet 3, Mallorca.
      • «Vulnerable» · curated by Friederike Schmid, White Space Black Box Fundation, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
      • «Rewilding» · curated by Ashraf Jamal, Artily Gallery, Johannesburgo, South Africa.
      • «Superlight Vicenza Photo Festival» · curated by Massimo Sordi and Stefania Rössl, Church of San Vincenzo, Vicenza, Italy.
      • «Ecologies of Collapse» · curated by Adonay Bermúdez, Maruja Mallo Cultural Center, Madrid.
      • «Alart Festival» · curated by Tomeu Simonet, video projection of the “Khamekaye” project, Mallorca.
      • «Living Natures: Art and Wine» · curated by Frenesí Fine Arts, The Craft Gallery, Madrid.
      • «Solidarity Perspectives» · cRonald McDonald House, Emilia Pardo Bazán Cultural Center, Madrid.
      • «Cheaper Than Therapy» · curated by Frenesí Fine Arts. Centro Abierto Psychology, Centre, Madrid.
2025
      • «Soil & Water» · curated by Johan Thom and Basak Senova. Nirox Foundation, South Africa.
      • «14 Million Eyes» · curated by Olga Fernández López. Canal de Isbel II Centre, Madrid.
      • «10 Years of Photography» · Aurora Vigil Gallery, Gijón.
      • «Art & Gavarres», 8th edition. Installation at the Calvary Chapel, Girona.
      • «Iphulastiki Yezihihlahla» · Bolit Contemporary Art Centre, Girona.
      • «Pilar Citoler International Biennial Prize for Contemporary Photography» · Cajasol Fundation, Córdoba.
      • «Perpetuum Mobile» · curated by Alejandro Castellote. Amós Salvador Gallery, Logroño.
2024
        • «MESH SGI» · Former convent of El Carmen. Festcomarcasphoto Festival, Trigueros, Huelva.
        • «Über die Grenzen» · curated by Miguel Cereceda. Quintanar Palace, Segovia.
        • «Colección Pilar Citoler 2006-2023» · Rafael Botí Center, Córdoba.
        • «Erotismo(s)» · curated by Francisco Carpio. Daniel Cuevas Gallery, Madrid.
        • «Perpetuum Mobile» · curated by Alejandro Castellote. PHotoESPAÑA, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid.
        • «Art, an algorithm at the service of society» · DKV Collection. Athenaeum of Madrid.
        • «Artificial Paradises» · curated by María Millán. International Festival of Photography Castilla y León, Palencia.
        • «Some green lightning near the earth» · curated by Julia Levstein. CCPE Galleries, Rosario,Argentina.
        • «Parallel Landscapes. Images of Washington and Rome from the Janiculum Hill» · Spanish Academy in Rome.
        • «A vision of one’s own» · curated by Marta Soul. El Greco Museum, Toledo.
        • «Conciencia2. Enaire Collection» · Naves de Gamazo, Santander.
        • «Dones per l’art. DKV Collection» · Sala de las Atarazanas, Valencia.
        • «DC.es / A gaze of Washington by Spanish photographers» · Former Residence of the Ambassadors
          of Spain, Washington, USA.
2023
  • «Listening to the Deepness» · curated by CSF, LagosPhoto, Lagos, Nigeria.
  • «Connections. Dialogues on the legacy of Ramón y Cajal» · curated by Miguel Cereceda. Lázaro Galdiano Museum, Madrid.
  • «Khamekaye» · Photographic Encounters of Gijón. Aurora Vigil Gallery, Gijón.
  • «The Footprint of Rome. 150 years of the Spanish Academy in Rome» · Museum of Fine Arts,Valencia.
  • «Rome: Indexing the landscape” · curated by Suset Sánchez-Sánchez. 150 Royal Academy of Spain in Rome. Cerezales Foundation, Leon.
  • «Rome, always Rome. Infinite looks, infinite forms. Women of the Academy in the visual arts» · 150 Royal Academy of Spain in Rome. Gamazo Cultural Center of Enaire Foundation, Santander.
  • «Una Visión Propia» · curated by Marta Soul. Lazaro Galdiano Museum, Madrid.
  • «After the fog, first flowers» · curated by Menene Gras, Casa Asia initiative. Casa Vicens, Barcelona.
  • «Inlocus» · curated by Sema D’Acosta. Berlin Gallery, Seville.
  • «X Rafael Botí Arts Biennial Exhibition» · Rafael Botí Art Center, Córdoba.
2022
  • «Flowers and Fruits» · Bank of Spain Collection. curated by Yolanda Romero. Madrid.
  • «Thermal Nature» · Art D’Égypte, Founders Spaces, El Cairo, Egypt.
  • «The laughter of flowers» · curated by the director of Culture and Exhibitions of Casa Asia, Menene Gras Balaguer. Royal Botanical Garden, Madrid.
  • «Transversia Project» · Boribana Museum, Dakar Biennale, Senegal.
  • «Crystal Choir» ·René Francisco studio, curated by Luis Sicre and Dayneris Brito, Madrid.
  • <«Encounters. A multiplicity of views on contemporary photography» · Alcobendas Art Center, Madrid.
2021
  • «XI International Biennial Prize for Contemporary Photography Pilar Citoler» · UCOcultura Center, Córdoba.
  • «Landscapes of Resistance» · Baró Gallery, Palma de Mallorca.
  • «Synapser. Science and Art in Spain, from Ramon y Cajal to the s. XXI» · Nobel Prize Museum. Stockholm, Sweden.
  • «IV International Photography Award Santiago Castelo» · Traveling Exhibition. Exhibiting Gallery of Regional Cultural Council of Alentejo, Evora. Arts and Entertainment Center, Figuera de Foz.
  • «The Trip to Rome. Photographers of the Rome Prize at the Spanish Academy of Rome» · Traveling Exhibition. Spanish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentine. Santiago de Chile, Chile.
    Montevideo, Uruguay.
  • «Anthropology» · New Pilar Citoler Collection. Valentin de Madariaga Foundation, Seville.
  • «In the leaves of the trees» · Alcobendas Photography Collection, Madrid.
2020
  • «Aurum» · International Photography Award «Santiago Castelo». Unesco Center of Extremadura,
    Cáceres.
  • «Imagined Herbarium» · curated by Toya Legido, Complutense Art Centre, Madrid.
2019
  • «The trip to Rome. Scholars photographers of the Academy of Spain in Rome» · América House,
    Madrid. Niemeyer Centre, Aviles.
  • «Passion Landscape» · Städtische Collection Galerie Viersen, Germany.
  • «At night» · Projections PhotoEspaña, Royal Botanic Garden, Madrid.
  • «Without borders: beyond the image» · Alcobendas Public Collection, Royal Palace of La
    Magdalena, Santander.
  • «Photography: personal mirror of a generation» · New Pilar Citoler Collection, Las Cigarreras Cultural Centre, Alicante.
  • «25 years Alcobendas Collection» · Alcobendas Art Centre, Madrid.
2018
  • «Nature and Fiction”» · Pilar Serra Gallery, Madrid.
  • «Contemporary Figurativism» · Aurora Vigil Gallery, Gijón.
2017
  • «Kunsttage Hennef. Arbeiten von Paula Anta» · Initiative Kunst Hennef, Germany.
  • «Banca March International Photography Prize» · Calcografía Nacional, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid.
  • «Retrátate» · (Portray yourself!), a project within the programmed activities of PHOTOESPAÑA 2017, Casa de la Panadería, Madrid.
  • «Slow revenge of the immobile» · La Gran Gallery, Valladolid.
  • «Collection XIV: Public» · CA2M “Dos de Mayo” Art Centre, Madrid.
2016
  • «Open Work» Extremadura Savings Bank, Culture Centre “Las Claras”. Plasencia.
  • «VIII Biennial International Competition of Contemporary Photography Pilar Citoler» · Vimcorsa Hall, Córdoba.
2015
  • «Drinkme» · DA2 Domus Artium Museum, Salamanca.
  • «Relocation» · COAM Madrid Architects’ Society, Madrid.
  • «I-do-care Project» · House of Shells, Salamanca.
2014
  • «Hendu» · Project arranged by Oxfam Intermón. Tribeca Hall, Madrid.
  • «Inhabited Landscapes» · Exhibition arranged by “La Fábrica”.
    PHOTOESPAÑA XVII, International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts. Municipal Gallery of the Château d’Eau, Toulouse.
2013
  • «Critical Context. Spanish Photography of the 21st Century» · Tabacalera Centre, Madrid.
  • «Talea» · 03VIDEOAKT, International Videoakt Bienniale. French Institute, Barcelona.
  • «Open Spaces» · International University City of Paris.
  • «Combat Prize» · City Museim “G. Fattori”, Livorno.
  • «5 Years» · Art Collection of the Region of Madrid. CA2M “Dos de Mayo” Art Centre, Madrid.
  • «Scholars of the Spanish Academy in Rome 2011-2012» · San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Madrid.
05 · Reconocimientos

Awards and Scholarships

 

2025II Prize Flora Festival.
2023XXI Culture Award of the Autonomous Community of Madrid.
Grants for creation in the visual arts of the Community of Madrid.
2022Campocerrado work acquisition award, ESTAMPA Art Fair.
2021

Winner of the XI International Biennial Prize for Contemporary Photography Pilar Citoler.

Photographer of the Month Award, ITSLIQUID.

2020

Mallorca Council Photography Prize.

Santiago Castelo International Photography Prize. Unesco Extremadura Center.

Aid for Creation S.O.S Art / Culture. VEGAP.

2019Kells work acquisition award, ESTAMPA Art Fair.
2018Ankaria Foundation artistic residences: Transversia Spain-Senegal.
2016Autonomous Community of Madrid Award, ESTAMPA Art Fair.
2013Combat Prize. City of Livorno. Honourable Mention.
2012 — 2013FormARTE Scholarship for Visual Arts and Photography, Spanish College in Paris.
2011 — 2012Scholarship from Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Spanish Academy in Rome.
2010ENAIRE Foundation Photography Prize.
06 · Obra en

Collections

  • Bank of Spain Collection
  • Novartis Collection
  • National Photography Centre Collection
  • Paradores Collection
  • Abadía Retuerta Collection
  • DKV Collection
  • Entrecanales Collection
  • Campocerrado Collection
  • Pilar Citoler Collection
  • Kells Collection
  • Council of Mallorca
  • City of Alcobendas Photography Collection
  • Unesco Extremadura Centre
  • Ministry of Science and Innovation
  • Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Ministry of Public Works
  • Autonomous Community of Madrid
  • ENAIRE Collection