Carmen Merino

After my career as a Graphic Designer, I approached painting as a more personal medium; portraits, familiar scenes and inhabited landscapes allowed me a new language.
Currently I direct my interest towards Contemporary Art, its study and how to nurture my work with its knowledge.
I go out towards the objects that surround us.
They are alive and they are testimony of vital moments that belong to the collective of my generation.
I enjoy the analysis and definition process prior to production. Then I immerse myself in a meeting place with my hands, papers, paints, markers…; work on the ground, paste, polish, rise to the vertical, doubt and experiment.
Styles, techniques and materials crystallize in projects as heterodox as my search, with the precise objective of exploring my own discourse through the work process.

2019-24 Graduated in Fine Arts in the
Complutense University of Madrid.

1981-1985 School of Arts and Crafts
Arts, MADRID.
Specialty Advertising Illustration.

1983-1987 University of Fine Arts of MADRID.
1993-1994 University of Fine Arts of MADRID.
Specialty GRAPHIC DESIGN.

2007-2012 Studio of the artist Julia Rueda
ConArte, Pozuelo, MADRID.

2011-2012 Studio of the artist
Guillermo Oyagüez, MADRID.

2012 ¨From Realism to Abstract Art Course¨
El Escorial Summer University, MADRID.

2013 ¨Outdoor painting¨ Art Workshop of
THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA Museum, MADRID.

EXPOSICIÓN INDIVIDUAL
2022 5 de marzo ¨Veo, ves...¿Quien soy? ESPACIO KUNE, Pozuelo, Madrid

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 Colmenarejo Fest
MADRID
Exhibition sponsored by Pasarela Madrid y Vestirarte.
Exclusive and numbered clothing attire with arts pieces.

2019
Centro Cultural Montecarmelo, MADRID.


2018
LUXEMBURG ARTFAIR
International contemporary art fair.


II SALON DE ARTE REALISTA VANGUARDIA-VAGUADA
MADRID

PINTURA RÁPIDA MANUEL VIOLA
San Lorenzo de El Escorial
Casa de la Cultura de El Escorial. MADRID

2017 Selected for the 52 Queen Sofía Prize
Casa de Vacas del Parque del Retiro. MADRID

2016 ART&BREAKFAST
HOTEL ROOM MATE LARIOS
MALAGA.

2015 Centro Cultural Sanchinarro.
I Feria de Arte para todos AEPE. MADRID

2015 Pequeño Formato, Casa del Reloj,
Matadero, MADRID.

2015
Woman Painters in Pozuelo NCC Pozuelo, MADRID

2015
Five views plus One
Casa de la Cultura de Navacerrada, MADRID.

2014 FAIM ART
NAVE DE TERNERAS, MADRID.

2014 Certamen Pintura rápida de ¨Jardin de El Capricho¨
CC Gloria Fuertes. Alameda de Osuna, MADRID.

2014 ¨Mujeres en Igualdad¨
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