Elia Tomás

SUBJECTS
My vision focuses on the human element and uses portraiture as a medium to develop a narrative of individuals. For this reason, most of my work deals with the concept of self-discovery: both of oneself (using mask, makeup and costumes) and others (relationships, separations and memories).
Therefore, my subjects often have something unpolished and teen. They go back looking for parts of themselves that have remained incomplete or they live a moment of loneliness with dramatic intensity. They struggle with self-identity and sometimes compare themselves to others. Very often they feel they are victims of a certain hormonal euphoria and a little disappointment. They are wonderfully unstable people seeking to shape themselves. They are fragments that I use to explore my contradictions and my concerns.
For a long time my work has focused on the concept of masculinity and questioning the status quo. I will continue to do so, because we still live in a society that defends a concept of masculinity that is ridiculous, obsolete and harmful. I consider figurative painting as a political instrument.

STYLE
More than a naturalistic style, I would define my painting as synthetic. Each canvas is a construction of the image from a c...

2024, May
DOS
Solo Exhibition
El Umbral de Primavera
Calle Primavera 11
Madrid, Spain

2024 May
MY SIN
Collective show
Curated by Roberto Gonzales Fernandez
Studio Arriaza
Madrid, Spain.

2023, Octuber
Eva
Solo exhibition
curated by Roberto Fernandez Gonzales
Estudio Arriaza 11
Madrid, Spain.

2023, July
Groupies
Solo exhibition in collaboration with MADO for the Pride Month in Madrid. Curated by Muestra T.
Galleria Yuri Lopez Kullin,
Madrid, Spain.

2023, April
Autoretratos
Collective exhibition about Self Portrait
Curated by Roberto Fernendez Gonzales
Estudio Arriaza 11,
Madrid, Spain.

2022, October
Atomic!
Curated by Roberto Fernandez Gonzales.
Estudio Arriaza 11,
Madrid.

2021, July
Towards Utopia
a Saatchi collection celebrating Pride Month
curated by Bethany Fincher
collaboration with the William Vale Hotel in Brooklyn, NY.

2021, January
Valor
Collective exhibition
curated by Luis López Almarcha
Ineditad Art Gallery, Barcelona.

2017, June
Hotel x Hotel
A tribute to Martin Kippenberger
Curated by Guillermo Martín Bermejo
Art & Breakfast Fair, Málaga
Museo Carmen Thyssen

2016, November
Noisy Rain, interview
Special anniversary edition
Noisy Rain Magazine.

2016, June
Massive meeting in the moon
Book dedicated to Víctor Algo...