Guillermo Berdugo

I am an artist currently living and working in Madrid, Spain.


From a very young age, I showed a strong aptitude for the visual arts, and when I began my formal education, I chose to pursue a career in this field.
I graduated with honors with a degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), after which I continued with postgraduate studies. During this time, I was awarded a scholarship to study for a year at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma—an artistic and life-changing experience that deeply influenced me and reaffirmed my commitment to figurative art, a commitment that remains strong to this day.

My artistic practice focuses primarily on painting and drawing, although I occasionally explore three-dimensional expression through sculpture. I am interested in a wide range of subjects, all connected in one way or another to my personal experience, through which I seek to achieve a sincere aesthetic expression. My work frequently features portraits, the human figure, and spaces, whether real or imagined.
At times, these elements come together in more ambitious compositions of an allegorical, poetic, or symbolic nature, often with narrative intentions. At other times, I offer a more personal and formal interp...

-GRADUATE IN FINE ARTS. June 2002.
Universidad Complutense, Madrid.
-DOCTORAL STUDIES. 2003-2005.
Drawing department. Universidad Complutense, Madrid.
Postgraduate scolarship. Accademia di Belle Arti, Roma. Earned "Cum Laude” distinctions. 2004-2005.
DEA(Master of Advanced Studies & Research Proficiency).

-Ciento de Una. Proyecto Una.2013. Exhibition of shortlisted work. Diputación de Segovia.
- Habitaciones y fisiognomías. Individual Art exhibition.
Rooms and physiognomy. Galería La boca. Madrid. January 2009.
- shortlisted works at Casa de Vacas:
77 Salón de Otoño, Asociación Española de Pintores y Escultores . Madrid.
(77th Autumn Salon, Spanish Association of Painters and Sculptors)November 2010.
- Lucky to be here.
Private Showroom at Casa Rubios. Madrid. Mayo 2010.
- Colectiva tres salas & Colectiva de Verano.
Galería Vértice. Oviedo. March- September, 2009.
- Peligro para caminantes
(Danger for Walkers). Galería Arte in. Rome. 2004.
- Escultura y Animalística (Sculpture and animalist art).
Facultad de Bellas Artes in Universidad Complutense and Zoo of Madrid. 2002.
- Alfa Romeo at Thyssen Bornemisza Museum.
Pictorial work and concept for the exhibition project. Madrid, 2001.