Mar Arza

Mar Arza is an artist born in Castelló de la Plana in 1976. She studied Fine Arts at the University of Valencia, with a period of studies at Carnegie Mellon School of Art in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) and a Master's degree in Sculpture at Winchester School of Art (Southampton University, England), with a scholarship from the Cañada-Blanch Foundation. Her artistic career has been recognized with several awards, including the Guasch-Coranty Prize at the Valls Biennial and the ArtsLibris Prize, awarded by the Fundació Banc Sabadell, both in 2013. In 2016 she received the Swab-Mango Award for best young artist and in 2017 the DKV Award for emerging artist for the best gallery exhibition with the exhibition RESQUICI O. Mar Arza's work is characterized by its interest in reflecting on space and the perception of power. In her solo exhibition, RESQUICIO, at the Rocío Santa Cruz Gallery in Barcelona, she explored the space of a blank page and the fold as writing, aiming for a deliberately conceptual art. In her solo exhibition at the Sala Miserachs at La Virreina, she conceived a three-part installation in which visibility determines the perception of power. In her exhibition, Lecturas y consumos, at the Centre de Arte Santa Mònica, part of the Blanco bajo Negro series, she showed the passage of time that leaves its mark, parallel to the passage of everyday life permeated by literature. Mar Arza is an emerging artist who has managed to stand out in the world of contemporary art with her innovative work and her exploration of themes and concepts relevant to our current society. Mar Arza (Castelló de la Plana, 1976) has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Valencia, with a period of studies at Carnegie Mellon School of Art in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) and a Master's degree in Sculpture from Winchester School of Art (Southampton University, England), with a scholarship from the Cañada-Blanch Foundation. In 2013 she received the Guasch-Coranty Prize at the Valls Biennial and the ArtsLibris Prize, awarded by the Fundació Banc Sabadell. In 2017, she received the DKV Award for emerging artist for the best gallery exhibition with the exhibition RESQUICIO, and previously received the Swab-Mango Award for best young artist in 2016. Her solo exhibition RESQUICIO, at the Galeria Rocío Santa Cruz in Barcelona, reflects on the space of a blank page and the fold as writing, pointing out annotations to a supposedly conceptual art. The solo exhibition at the Sala Miserachs at La Virreina conceives a three-part installation in which visibility determines the perception of power. Her exhibition, Lecturas y consumos, at the Centre de Arte Santa Mònica, within the series Blanco bajo Negro, showed the passage of time that leaves its mark, parallel to the course of everyday life permeated by literature. She works with the Galeria Rocio Santa Cruz in Barcelona and the Galería Cànem in Castelló.

Leer menos