Antonia Penia

Antonia Penia is an award-winning artist working across photography, video, and performance. She was born in Galicia, Spain, and has been based in London since 2010.

Antonia's work has been exhibited worldwide for over two decades.

Antonia's project, The Warrior of My Life, was a finalist at the AOP Awards 2023. Her work From War to the Wardrobe won the prestigious Portrait of Britain Award in 2022. A retrospective celebrating 20 years of her work, focusing on her hometown, Galicia, was held at the Instituto Cervantes Prague in 2023, followed by a second retrospective, Body and Earth, of the last 10 years of her work, at the Instituto Cervantes Manchester in 2025.

She focuses on exploring behaviour, particularly as a woman, and addressing issues of gender, power, and patriarchy, embodying a commitment to creating thought-provoking pieces. She believes in equality, and she fights for her rights.

Antonia explored her sexual visual expression with her first work, Leave Me Alone (2004), which led to collaborations with some of Spain's most renowned erotic publications. She shot her first Playboy cover at the age of 26.

Her sensual and powerful underwater film series, Symbiosis of Liquid Dreams, won the Young Creator of the Year Aw...

MA (UAL) Fashion Photography. Distinction
UAL, London College of Fashion | 2021 – 2022.
AIM Qualifications L2 Digital Technology Industries
Collage Arts | 2021.
LCC Industry Mentoring Programme
University of the Arts London | 2021.
MA (EFTI) Fine Art Photography
EFTI, Centro Internacional de Fotografía y Cine, Spain | 2002 – 2003.
HNC (EISV) Photography and Film
Escuela de Imagine y Sonido, Spain | 2000 – 2002.

EXHIBITIONS

2025 Sex and Politics. Group Show, Art-Icon, Paris, France.

2025 Art Vigo. Group. Show Espacio Beny Gallery, Galerías Durán, Vigo, Spain.

2025 Body & Earth. Solo Retrospective of Antonia's work, Cervantes Institut, Manchester, UK.
2023 Galicia. Solo Retrospective of Antonia's work, Science Library, University of Ústi Nad Labem, Prague, CR.

2023 AOP Student Award Finalist. Group Show at Free Range, The Truman Brewery, London, UK.

2023 Galicia. Solo Retrospective of 20 years of Antonia's work, Cervantes Institut, Prague, Czech Republic.

2023 LCF Postgraduate Showcase. Group Show. London Fashion Week, The Truman Brewery, London, UK.

2022 Liberation. Solo Performance, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK.

2021 Sex is the Earth. Group show at Women Exposed online and curated by Nadia Nervo.

2018 Know Your Roots. Group Show, Museum of London. Heritage Lottery Fund, UK.

2014 Symbiosis of Liquid Dreams. Group show, Resistance Gallery- London, UK.

2013 Around Me. Group Show. September 2013, EFTI Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain.

2009 Leave Me Alone. Solo Show.Fernando Magdalena Art Gallery, Vigo, Spain.

2009 Symbiosis of Liquid Dreams. Group show. "Re-Género" exhibition, Cultural Centre of Spain, Lima, Peru.

2008 Sym...