Susana Solano

Susana Solano is a Spanish sculptor (Barcelona, Spain, 1946), recognized as a leading figure in the renewal of Spanish sculpture in the 1980s and with a strong international presence. She studied Fine Arts in Barcelona and developed an abstract sculptural language in which space, material, memory, and the relationship with the body play a central role.

Her work is known for structures with a strong physical presence, made with materials such as iron, steel, metal mesh, glass, wood, and lead. Through closed forms, pathways, enclosed spaces, and volumes with an architectural appearance, Solano explores the tension between inside and outside, presence and absence, lightness and weight.

Her work is part of collections such as the Museo Reina Sofía, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, IVAM, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Banco de España, and Afundación. She has taken part in Documenta 8 and 9 in Kassel, the São Paulo Biennial, Skulptur Projekte Münster, Carnegie International, and the Venice Biennale. Her awards include the Special Prize from the Utsukushi-Ga-Hara Open Air Museum in Tokyo in 1985, the National Prize for Visual Arts in 1988, and the Tomás Francisco Prieto Prize in 2011.