Carmen Calvo

Carmen Calvo Sáenz de Tejada is a Spanish artist born in Valencia in 1950. She studied Advertising at the School of Arts and Crafts in Valencia, and Fine Arts in the same city. Her work is known for the use of many kinds of materials, found objects, altered photographs, ceramics, fired clay, painting, and collage. With these, she creates a visual language close to conceptual art.

Her work deals with themes such as memory, identity, childhood, violence, oppression, women’s inequality, and popular culture. Using images and objects she finds and reuses, Calvo turns everyday items into works full of strangeness, criticism, and reflection. In 1997, she represented Spain at the Venice Biennale together with Joan Brossa, and her work has been shown in institutions such as the Museo Reina Sofía, IVAM, Sala Alcalá 31, the Picasso Museum in Barcelona, and Sala Kubo Kutxa.

Her work is part of collections such as the Museo Reina Sofía, IVAM, MACBA, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Fundación “la Caixa”, Fonds national d’art contemporain in Paris, Banco de España Collection, and MACVAC. Among her confirmed awards are the Alfons Roig Prize from the Valencia Provincial Council in 1989, the National Prize for Visual Arts in 2013, her appointment as a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valencia in 2014, and the Julio González International Prize in 2022.

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