Nerea Azanza

I call my vision Art in Expansion. Without sketch support, each artwork begins with a little portrait that I transform multiple times and expand in space with modules, giving the painting a larger scale. I am an abstract figurative mixed-media painter working on paper, wood, linen, and handcrafted eco-friendly textiles.

These figures, reunited in the form of installations, suggest the pieces of a puzzle that I connect with organic, precise lines following an intuitive process. I want to defy the viewer's credulity in the abstract field like hyperrealist painters do in the figurative one. With this purpose, I paint high-definition machine-quality lines entirely freehand.

My art is about the instant, an innate rhythm where apparent complexity gets reduced into a dynamic flow. I challenge spatial limitations to show that the world is a whole in motion. Beginning and end find a common ground. Regardless of disruptions and impermanence, our system shows remarkable resilience through transformation. Everything lives in expansion, differentiated and connected at once.

Studying Japanese aesthetics, Mother Nature's behavior, and the tribulations of the human condition are my sources of inspiration. Important influences in my visual langu...

Nerea Azanza is an emerging Spanish visual artist based in Paris. Due to her scientific background and experience in cultural heritage restoration, she is passionate about experimenting with diverse materials, investigating spatial patterns, and developing visual mutations and cloning.

She holds a Ph.D. in fine arts and an MFA in conservation-restoration of cultural heritage from the Fine Arts Faculty of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM, Spain), where she studied with artist Antonio López García and worked as an art teacher. She has been a preventive conservator-restorer specializing in wax anatomical models at the Javier Puerta Museum (Faculty of Medicine of the UCM) and The Museum of Human Evolution (Burgos, Spain) in collaboration with Professor J. L. Arsuaga.

Back to making art in 2018, she stands as a finalist in the Clavecin en France art contest 2022, with Fabienne Verdier as jury president, and a semi-finalist in the COCA PROJECT 2020. She has been part of group exhibitions in Europe and the USA. Her first solo show took place in Paris in 2021 with Galerie Estrella. She exhibited for the first time in a museum, the UNTERLINDEN (Colmar, France), in 2022 due to the Clavecin en France contest. In 2024, some of her w...

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
DNA - Galerie Estrella - Paris, France - July 1/Sep 30 2021

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
-LIGTNESS OF BEING. Create! Magazine (Pennsylvania, USA). September 2025
-NON SEQUITUR. 33 Contemporary Gallery (Palm Beach, Florida, USA). 1-30 September 2025
-MODERN CLASSICS. 33 Contemporary Gallery (Palm Beach, Florida, USA). 1-28 February 2025
-TOGETHER WE ART. LP4Y. Christie's Auction. The Royal Society of the Arts (London, UK). 27 Jan - 2 Feb 2 2025
-BFF: MODERN PORTRAITS. 33 Contemporary Gallery (Palm Beach, Florida, USA). 6 Jan-21 Feb 2025
-INTERPLAY: CONTEMPORARY GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION. 33 Contemporary Gallery (Palm Beach, Florida, USA). 8 Aug-2 Sep 2025
-UNTOLD STORIES. Artsin Square (Toronto, Canada). 8 April-8 May 2024
-ALL WE NEED IS LOVE. Galerie Le Laboratoire d'Exposition (Paris, France) 23-27 November 2023
-UNTERLINDEN MUSEUM. Clavecin en France Finalist Contest (Colmar, France) 15 Oct-12 Dec 2022
-EPHEMERAL/ETERNAL. Visionary Art Collective (NY, USA) 25 June-31 July 2022
-DISRUPTED. WO Foundation (Barcelona, Spain). 14 March-30 April 2022
-MONUMENTAL. Virtual. Sergio Gomez Curates (Chicago, USA) 1 Dec 2021-31 Jan 2022
-UNE RECONTRE, UNE HISTOIRE, UNE RELATION. Galerie Estrella (Paris, France) 19-24 October 2021
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