BIO & STATEMENT. 

Evangelina addresses the genre of narrative portraiture in her process, alluding to the indeterminacy of human essence. The search for the contemplative and transformative beauty of the Apollonian, as a symbiosis between reality and the ideal. 

The use of symbolic elements and models in his drawings and paintings speaks to us of the superego and humanity's desire for its ethereal transformation, associated with the condition of transcendence of inhabiting a space between heaven and earth. 

The artist revisits classical myths to reflect on the concept of a world that would have been matriarchal, as a return to nature. She poses questions and establishes a dialogue with the viewer, creating an analogy with the present day and mythologizing ancient beliefs that overturn the established system, long stigmatized by reference to neo-pagan beliefs. 

The use of classic materials such as tempera, a technique that gives rise to all the others, is not accidental, as it is consistent with the discourse as a recovery of the natural order where humanity was closer to nature. 

The existence of Goddesses as the construction of female identity through popular beliefs, myths, or legends, the mythification itself of the inexplicable that originated in a system where women reigned. 

She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. She also studied Architecture at the National University of Rosario, Argentina. 

His collective and individual exhibitions in Spain, Argentina, Brussels, London, Portugal, Sweden and Trento, Italy. 

The AISGE Foundation in Madrid and the Brussels Parliament (2015) were recognized. Other interesting projects include an exhibition at "Researchers' Night" at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Madrid. "Fashion Art Institute - Recycle the Future" by designer Manuel Fernández at the French Embassy in Madrid and the Royal Tapestry Factory in 2018. 

"The Night of the Galleries" in Malmö, Sweden in 2019, her painting "The New Ophelia" was the image for the arthouse film "Konstnärernaochderasverk" (2020). "Time to Walk" is an auction exhibition in collaboration with Callaghan Shoes and the Fashion Art Institute, alongside artists such as Blanca Cuesta, Loles León, and Rossy De Palma, among others. 

Selected for the second time to exhibit at the CEART Tomás y Valiente Competition (2016). She has participated in fairs such as Estampa 2024 and 2023, Librarte 2019, 2020; Just LX Lisbon 2019 and 2022; Fig-Bilbao 2019, 2022, 2023; Art Madrid 2020, 2023; and Solo Project at "Marte" International Contemporary Art Fair, Castellón 2021. 

Awarded a grant by the Albacete City Council and the Board of Brotherhoods to exhibit her group exhibition "The Art of Passion" at the Albacete Municipal Museum (2023). 

Her work is in public collections such as the Fuenlabrada City Council in the Casa de la Mujer and private collections in Portugal, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany, Argentina and Spain. 

TRAINING 

2023   

Glasgow Academy of Art. Scotland. 

2018/2019      

Barcelona Academy of Art. 

2008/2012      

Fine Arts Ces Felipe II. Complutense University of Madrid.  

1999/2001      

Architectural Studies, National University of Rosario, Argentina.  

1998/2000  

Construction Technician, National University of Rosario, Argentina.  

CONTEMPORARY ART FAIRS 

2024 

Estampa International Contemporary Art Fair. IFEMA Madrid. DDR Art Gallery. 

2023 

Albacete Municipal Museum "The Art of Passion" 

Fig Bilbao International art fair on paper. DDR Art Gallery. 

Estampa International Contemporary Art Fair. IFEMA Madrid. DDR Art Gallery. 

Art Madrid Contemporary Art Fair. Cibeles Palace, Madrid. DDR Art Gallery. 

2022 

Fig Bilbao International art fair on paper. DDR Art Gallery. 

Just LX Lisbon (Portugal). DDR Art Gallery. 

Trento Art Festival. Italy. DDR Art Gallery. 

2021 

Mars International Art Fair. Castellón. 

Fig Bilbao. DDR Art Gallery. 

Librarte- DDR Art Gallery. Monastery of San Juan Burgos 

2020   

“The New Ophelia” image for the arthouse film “Konstnärernaochderasverk". Sweden. 

“The Devil’s Hand” Aspa Contemporary Gallery Curated by Omar Jerez. Madrid 

2019 

Fig. Bilbao. International Paper Art Fair. DDR ART Gallery. Bilbao. 

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS 

2021 

Solo Project on Mars International Art Fair. Castellón 

2020 

Participation in the art-house film "Konstnärernaochderasverk" with the work "The New Ophelia" as the image of the film at Gallerinatten "Gallery Nights" 

2016 

"Antique Greys, Ashen World" Ceart Fuenlabrada Tomás y Valiente, Madrid. 

2015 

"Photostrategies" Piotr Boguzs Galleri, Malmö, Sweden. 

2013 

"Grey Antiquary, AshenWorld", Ocampo Galleri. Malmö, Sweden. 

2013 

"Antiquarian Grays, Ashen World." AISGE Foundation. Madrid. 

2012 

“Recover” Tomás y Valiente Cultural Center. Fuenlabrada, Madrid. 

"Ethopoeias." La Toma Gallery, Multidisciplinary Space. Rosario, Argentina. 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2024 

Selection XXVIII Indalecio Hernández Vallejo Painting Prize. Cáceres. 

Estampa contemporary art fair. IFEMA Madrid DDR Art Gallery. 

2023 

Art Madrid Contemporary Art Fair. Cibeles Palace, Madrid. 

2023 

Albacete Municipal Museum. "The Art of Passion" Grant from the Albacete City Council and the Board of Brotherhoods. 

Fig Bilbao International art fair on paper. DDR Art Gallery 

2022 

Fig Bilbao International art fair on paper. DDR Art Gallery. 

Auction exhibition "Time to Walk" in collaboration with Callaghan Shoes and the Fashion Art Institute, featuring artists such as Loles León, Blanca Cuesta, Rossy de Palma, and others. Madrid 

Just LX Lisbon. DDR Art Gallery. Portugal.  

Trento Art Festival. Italy. DDR Art Gallery.  

2021   

Mars International Art Fair. Castellón 

Fig Bilbao. DDR Art Gallery. 

Librarte - DDR art gallery. Monastery of San Juan, Burgos. 

2020     

“The NewOphelia” image for the art-house film "Konstnärernaochderasverk", Sweden. 

“The Devil’s Hand” Aspa Contemporary Gallery Curated by Omar Jerez. Madrid 

2019 

Fig. Bilbao. DDR Art Gallery. Bilbao. 

Gallerinatt at PeacockTheater, Malmö, Sweden. 

“The Artists of the Neighborhood” Luna 13 Gallery Madrid. 

"JustLX Art Fair" Lisbon, Portugal. 

"Max Papeschi Art Fair. Duckout Magazine, Eugenio Trías, Madrid.  

2018 

"LanauMarket Art Fair" Lavapies Madrid 

"Librarte Art Fair" Monastery of San Juan, Burgos. 

2017 

"Recycle Future" Royal Tapestry Factory. Madrid. 

"Recycle Future" by Manuel Fernández. Fashion Art Institute. Madrid. 

"Artists of the Neighborhood." 2017 Call for Entries. Malasaña Chueca. Luna 13 Gallery. 

"Stickers Art" by PAC. Contemporary art platform at Estampa Art Fair. 

"White/ Opened/ NotClosed." DDR Art Gallery in Theredoom. Madrid. 

"Art Fair at Casa FAC." Third edition. Madrid. 

2016 

"Photographers: Women behind the camera." Confoco International Conference. Madrid. 

"European Researchers' Night." Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid. 

2015 

"Pavilion of Illustrious Young Ladies." Carlos III University. Madrid. 

"Let me make a place" AISGE Foundation. Generando Arte Collective. Madrid. 

"Tears of Africa" ​​Parliament of Brussels, Belgium. 

2014 

Utopic-US "La Valla. 100 Artists on the Southern Border" 

2013 

Gallerinatten, Ocampo Galleri. Mitt Möllan. Malmö, Sweden. 

2013 

Belonging without question. Aisge Foundation. 

Vaguada Art Center. "Art-ecological" 2nd call for entries. 

2012 

Atocha art project exhibition, "Vulnerables" 

The Nest in the Net. Candilejas Theatre. Albacete. 

Federico García Lorca Cultural Center Exchange. Getafe, Madrid. 

2011 

“Latencies” at the La Paloma Cultural Center, Madrid. 

Magenta Group at the CEART in Fuenlabrada, Madrid. 

“Open Line” Pedro Almodóvar Art School in Ciudad Real, Castilla-La Mancha. 

2010 

Collective of the Felipe II Center, Isabel Farnesio Cultural Center of Aranjuez. 

AWARDS and SCHOLARSHIPS 

2023 

Production grant for the Albacete Municipal Museum from the Albacete City Council and the Board of Brotherhoods. 

2022 

Selected by Cultura Inquieta in Fig Bilbao. 

2018 and 2019 

Scholarship at the Barcelona Academy of Art from the Fuenlabrada Cultural Trust. 

2017 

Honorable Mention, Antonio Arnau National Painting Prize. 

2012 

1st Prize in the Villa de Humanes Painting Competition. Madrid. 

2011 

2nd Prize in the 14th March 8th Painting Competition “Women in Painting.” Fuenlabrada City Hall, Madrid. Title of the work: “The Bath.” 

2009 

Honorable mention at the 11th edition of the Primavera Salon competition-exhibition. Title of the work: “Primavera.” Fuenlabrada. 

2007 

Honorable Mention, 9th edition of the Salón Primavera competition-exhibition. Title of Work: “The Forest.” Fuenlabrada. 

PUBLICATIONS 

https://albacetecapital.com/albacete-hosts-the-exhibition-the-art-of-passion-that-brings-together-pieces-of-goldsmithing-and-paintings/ 

https://www.latribunadealbacete.es/noticia/zcaba878c-a02d-532d-cccf6ee6af622402/202302/the-art-of-passion-marks-the-prelude-to-holy-week 

https://ocioenalbacete.irdeocio.es/the-art-of-passion/ 

Albacete City Council: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHZKb41wfkE      

CTRL Advertising Magazine. January 2022 Edition 

Book: "Votive Books for Happiness" from the book: "Practices of Excess" by Andrés Isaac Santana. ISBN: 9788494463570 

Catalog: Art in the Botanical Garden: Heritage, Memory, and Creation. Madrid Researchers' Night 2016. Project No. 327127 

catalog.: "Belonging without question" ISBN-978-84-695-7358-7 

catalog.: "Grises Anticuarios, ashen world" ISBN-987-84-695-8042-4 

catalog.: “Stumbling on the clouds with Miguel Hernández. Felipe II Foundation Aranjuez (2010) ISBN 978-84-694-3537-3. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAY0VF46lUE 

http://www.plataformadeartecontemporaneo.com/pac/tag/evangelina-esparza/ 

http://fuenlabrada.tuzonaes.com/2012/05/16/sala-c-del-tomas-y-valiente-exposes-three-new-authors/                        

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=354282351297443 

http://www.ayto-fuenlabrada.es/index.do?MP=20&MS=&MN=&categoria=0&id=761 

http://www.masdearte.com/index.php?option=com_elements&view=eventos&id=37132&Itemid=29&layout= 

COLLECTIONS AND ACQUISITIONS 

“Portrait of Hera” private collection. Miami, USA (2024) 

“Eurynome” Private Collection, Basque Country. (2023) 

"Ode to the New Ophelia" private collection in Sweden (2020) 

Private collection of cyanotype photographic series (2015, 2016, 2017) Sweden and Denmark. 

Work "Presage" Casanova Portugal Collection. 

Work "Evanescence" private collection Portugal. 

Work "Ethereal" Private collection of Castellón. 

Works "Inherence" and "Genuine” Private collection Basque Country. 

Cyanotype photographic series Private collection in Germany. 

Work "Antiquarian Grey Collage IX" Private collection in London 

Work from the Grises Anticuario series "Emilia" private collection, Argentina. 

Work "The Bathroom" Public collection of the Casa de la Mujer. Fuenlabrada City Hall, Madrid. 

Private collections in Italy, the UK, the USA, Mexico, and Canada, among others.  

  

Evangelina Esparza 's works can be seen at:

DDR ART GALLERY , Calle de la Encomienda 21, 28012, Madrid. 

info@ddrartgallery.com

Tel. +34 659819791