BIO & STATEMENT 

Roberto López Martín.Madrid.1982.

A graduate in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, he also holds a Master's degree in Art and Creation from the same university. As a multidisciplinary artist, he works with different media such as sculpture, painting, video, and photography, combining them to immerse the viewer in his work.  

His work deals with the spread of the abnormal, which almost always has the objective of spreading the norm, but, in addition, it creates that fascination with discovering that new form that we are observing, we could consider it as voyeurism towards the morbid.  

Today, the debate about what is beautiful or normal, and what is ugly and monstrous, is a question of which figures are natural monsters or constructed monsters. Roberto works by analyzing the codes embedded in mass media images, always working with representations that can often be iconic and indisputably manipulated, within a social consensus.  

Performance, video, photography, painting—all can be part of a collage of information, which serves to speak about these images, about how this degeneration and their reinterpretation for use and consumption occur. A performance that presents itself as an enormous, indisputable, irreversible positivity.  

Despite his youth, in 2022 he published his book called Etopeyas, he has participated in different projects such as One Project by Art Madrid 2020 and in 2022, 2023, 2024 Estampa 2022, 2023, 2024 at the international contemporary art fair of Castelló 2019 (Marte) and Just XL 2019 in Lisbon, International Engraving and Art Fair (Fig Bilbao 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023), La Distinction Art Fair 2020.  

He has already participated in several group exhibitions at museums such as the MACVAC Museum in Vilafamés – Vicente Aguilera Cerní Contemporary Art Museum, “Estudio 120m”, a group exhibition at the Wurth Museum, La Rioja, and the group exhibition “II Salón de las vanidades: Barroco Nuevo”, Ducal Palace of El Carpio, Córdoba. 2019–2012 Selected for the Exhibition Program at the Tomás y Valiente Art and Exhibition Center, Fuenlabrada, Madrid. International exhibitions include Proyector, International Video Art Festival - Spain-Latía-Portugal. “Etopeyas” Exhibition at the La Toma Gallery, Rosario, Argentina; and Galleri Ocampo, Malmö, Sweden.  

Various media outlets have highlighted this artist's career with acquisitions by private collectors in Sweden, Argentina, Mexico, the United States, and Spain.  

CONTEMPORARY ART FAIRS  

2024 

Estampa Contemporary Art Fair Madrid. DDR Art Gallery. 

2023 

Estampa Contemporary Art Fair Madrid. DDR Art Gallery. 

Art Madrid Contemporary Art Fair Madrid. DDR Art Gallery. Madrid. 

Fig Bilbao. International Fair of Engraving and Art on Paper. DDR Art Gallery. 

2022 

Estampa Contemporary Art Fair Madrid. DDR Art Gallery. 

Art Madrid Contemporary Art Fair Madrid. DDR Art Gallery. Madrid. 

un(fair) Milano (Italy) DDR Art Gallery. 

2021 

Fig Bilbao. International Fair of Engraving and Art on Paper. DDR Art Gallery. 

2020 

Art Madrid Contemporary Art Fair Madrid. DDR Art Gallery. Madrid. 

Fig Bilbao. International Fair of Engraving and Art on Paper. DDR Art Gallery. (Online) 

The Distinction Art Fair (Online). DDR Art Gallery. 

2019 

Dibumad. Cibeles Palace, Madrid. 

Just Lisbon XL. International Contemporary Art Fair. (Lisbon, Portugal). DDR Art Gallery. 

Mars, International Contemporary Art Fair. (Castellón). Solo Project DDR Art Gallery. 

Fig Bilbao. International Fair of Engraving and Art on Paper. DDR Art Gallery. 

The Latent Creative Space "Tell Me Who", Hybrid Fest. (Madrid) 

2017 

We Are Fair 2, an international emerging art fair (Madrid). 

The Host” from the Hybrid Festival. 1st Impulsarte call by Petit Palace Hotels, (Madrid). 

Free-Wee Project. Complutense University (Madrid). 

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS 

2020 

Art Madrid. One project, Savages. The Cage of the Wild Animals , curated by Fernando Goméz de la Cuesta. 

2019 

Primavera Space Gallery. Avatars Exhibition, 

Selection from the Fuenlabrada Ceart exhibition space. Children on TV: the new homo videns. 

2015
Photostrategies. Piotr Bogusz Studio Gallery, Malmo, Sweden. 

2013 

Where the codes play, AISGE-Madrid Foundation 

Heroin(E), Galleri Ocampo-Malmo, Sweden. 

2012 

Where codes play, Tomás y Valiente Art and Exhibition Center, (Fuenlabrada). 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2021 

Amblyopia 2021 ( https://www.artland.com/artworks/roberto-lopez-martin-avatar-mickey ) 

2019 

Etopeias within the gallery festival Malmo gallerinatten2019 , Galleri Peackock Malmö, Sweden. 

2017 

StickersArt from the Contemporary Art Platform 25th anniversary of Estampa Matadero Madrid. 

We Eat Design Festival. Central del Diseño, Matadero Madrid. White open/not close, Pop- Up DDR Art Gallery at Galería Theredoom, Madrid.
2016
UPHO Selected for the Urban Contemporary Photography Festival, Málaga.
Poster by Pac Estampa, Matadero Madrid. 

2015
Science Conference organized by the UCM, Bodies affected by technology and the media: experiences, narratives, and emotions in post-traumatic societies.
Group exhibition "United for Freedom." Pozas Space, Red Cross, Madrid
2014 

Hostel art by Pac.the hat, organized by PAC (contemporary art platform). 

The Tears of Africa, "LA VALLA. 100 Artists on the Southern Border," Utopicus. Madrid. 

11.11, Group Exhibition at Galileo Cultural Center, Madrid. 

2013 

Group exhibition "Second Hall of Vanities: New Baroque." Ducal Palace Exhibition Hall, El Carpio. Córdoba. 

Studio 120m, Collective exhibition Würth Museum, La Rioja. 

Collective exhibition "Artist, artistic mother and the mother who gave birth to her" at the Ces Felipe II in Aranjuez within the 2nd Festival Miradas de Mujeres (2013) 

2nd UNED-Madrid Urban Art Meeting 

Contemporary Drawing Pilar Cubillo Gallery - Madrid, Spain 

“Cabinet of Curiosities” – Project curated by Pilar Cubillo and Oscar García García – Madrid, Spain. 

2012 

Projector, International Video Art Festival-Spain-Italy-Portugal. 

Exhibition "Etopeias", La Toma Gallery, Rosario, Argentina 

Exhibition "Nests in Network" Candilejas Theater, Albacete 

2011 

Collective exhibition "The Chemistry of Love", Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions of the Autonomous University of Madrid
Collective exhibition "Dislocated 11" Interventions in the city of Albacete
Group exhibition "Portrait: The Landscape of Memory" Tomás y Valiente Art and Exhibition Center, Fuenlabrada, Madrid. Sub-branch of the Reina Sofía National Art Center. 

2010 

“We play dumb,” La Asunción Shopping Center (Albacete) 

IKAS–ART Collective Exhibition. Bilbao Exhibition Center. (Bilbao) 

2009 

Identity Exhibition, Noaia Cultural Center, Pontevedra, Galicia. 

Identity Exhibition at the Nauta Room. Sansenxo, Pontevedra, Galicia. 

Dog Tempura Exhibition. Former Flour Factory, Albacete. 

Participation in the exhibition Women's Wardrobes, by artist Mª Jesús Abad Tejerina. Galileo Shopping Center, Madrid. 

AWARDS 

2023 

Selected for Cultura Inquieta. ART MADRID 2023. 

2022 

Selected in Cultura Inquiera ART MADRID 2022. 

2019 

Selected in the exhibition program of the Tomás y Valiente Art and Exhibition Center, Fuenlabrada,
2013 

Selected Study 120m, Collective exhibition Würth Museum, La Rioja. 

2013 

Selected for the group exhibition "Second Hall of Vanities: New Baroque." Ducal Palace Exhibition Hall in El Carpio, Córdoba.
2012 

Selected in the exhibition program of the Tomás y Valiente Art and Exhibition Center, Fuenlabrada,
2011 

Pre-selected Intransit Competition –
2007 

Selected for the Painting Competition Exhibition "Villa de Valdemoro CC.OO (Madrid)
2006 

Selected for the Young Creators Exhibition at the 2nd Visual Arts Competition, in the painting and drawing categories. Aranjuez
2009/2010 Course: Painting Techniques Fellow with Professor Daniel Lupión
at the Felipe II CES (UCM)
2009 

Selected works for the collection of the drawing department of the faculty (UCM) 

PUBLICATIONS 

Book of works Etopeyas 2022 ISBN 9-788409-353880 (Madrid) 

International Art Magazine articulate nª33 2022 https://www.articulate.nu/lopez_martin.html 

Ctrl Control Advertising Magazine No. 696, February 2022 

Ctrl Control Advertising Magazine No. 667, May 2019
June 1, 2011 Ikas art portfolio magazine
August 15, 2009. El Faro Newspaper (Galicia)
April 27, 2005. El País newspaper (Madrid) 

Catalogs.

“We Play Dumb,” La Asunción Shopping Center (Albacete), Legal Department: AB-304-2010, and “The Octahedron Cube.” ISBN: 978-84-682-3609-3 

29 Kitsch (and a surrealist mica) Vicente Aguilera Museum of Contemporary Art in Vilafamés ISBN 978-84-09-22154-7 

WEBSITES AND PRESS 

https://www.arteporexcelencias.com/en/events-art-week-in-madrid/art-madrid-22-reports-increase-in-audiences-and-sales 

https://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/camara-abierta-20/camara-abierta-20-diseno-sostenible-mayice-estudio-15-anos-art-madrid-proyecto-luces-trazos-accion-libroscom-lorena-franco-1minutocom/5532410/ 

https://www.elmundo.es/comunidad-valenciana/castellon/2019/11/18/5dd31284fc6c8383258b4808.html 

Nine artists will transform the One Project program at Art Madrid. 

Carlos Delgado Mayordomo for ABC Cultural . 

https://www.rtve.es/play/videos/la-aventura-del-saber/aventura-del-saber-boek-visual-roberto-lopez-marin/5680001/ 

https://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/la-2-noticias/la2n-artmadrid/5525458/ 

https://elemmental.com/2020/05/18/roberto-lopez-martin-society-should-understand-that-talent-has-no-gender/ 

https://thebiombo.com/recorrido-art-madrid-2022/ 

Catalog of the Kitsch exhibition at the Vilafamés Museum of Contemporary Art. https://static.arteinformado.com/resources/app/docs/evento/0/191500/29_kitsch.pdf 

https://sarasanzaldea.com/interview-with-roberto-lopez-martin/?fbclid=IwAR2LvQ9jv22HuEMYvfxLdoeSoCq1-rkZx3t8LOX-CoIQUG3rN8kqCwWpepY 

https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/34000/Canela-jengibre-y-clavo?fbclid=IwAR0_JRBck4GlySqfj8Wyz67wqr-XnDkBspNhPV0S-lyj5nZVr0uCzM5T3K4 

COLLECTIONS 

Snow White Avatar, private collection. (Mexico) 

Avatar Oikos, private collection. (Mexico) 

Cowboy Avatar, Mediavilla Ferruz private collection. (Spain) 

Soldier Avatar, private collection. (Spain) 

Avatar Mask 2019, private collection. (Castellón) 

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

  

Roberto López Martín's works can be seen at:  

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

info@ddrartgallery.com

Tel. +34 659819791