Cristina Nunez

In 1988, in an attempt to overcome personal problems, Cristina Nunez began to take self-portraits in private. Giving shape to her emotions and revealing her presence to the world, enabling her to turn an uncompromising gaze upon herself, but also to project herself as she wanted to be, these images became a form of self-therapy through which she learned who she is. Someone to Love (1988-2011) brings together for the first time the best self-portraits that she made; The Self-Portrait Experience shares with viewers her method of interior exploration. These two paths now form the focus of her art.

Born in 1962 in Figueras in Spain, Cristina Nunez lives and works in Chiasso, Switzerland. Up to the early 2000s, she produced photography books in which she addressed social questions through the portrait: Body and Soul (1994), To Hell and Back (1995), Heaven on Earth (1998), Io sono/I am (2000). On the margins of this public body of work, she made self-portraits as a form of therapy; since 2005, this has been the focus of her photographic and video work, as well as of The Self-Portrait Experience workshops that she has been conducting.

Her works have been presented at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence (1997), Palazzo Reale in Milan (1997...

Cristina Nunez is a self-taught artist, but she has just obtained a PhD by published works about her art practice and methodology at the College of Art of the University of Derby, UK (without having a degree: a great recognition for her independent research and artistic practice).

2020-2021 - Ongoing video exhibition on her Youtube channel.
2017 – El Fill i la Puta, exhibition and performance. Sala Zero, Roca Umbert Fabrica de les Arts.
2016 - Higher Self, Maif Social Club, Paris.
2015 - But Beautiful, Chobi Mela Festival, Bangladesh.
2015 – Money, Les Nuits Photographiques, Pavillon Carré de Baudoin, Paris.
2015 – Self-timer Stories, MUSAC, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea of Castilla y León, Spain.
2014 – I AM, Memoirs of Addiction Recovery, Manchester Metropolitan University.
2014 – “2004-2014. Opere e progetti del Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea”, Triennale, Milan.
2014 – Her/Story, Women Behind the Camera, H2O Gallery, Barcelona.
2014 - Someone to Love, The Boiler Room, Oslo.
2013 – But Beautiful, photography, video and performance, Sponge Arte Contemporanea, Pergola, Italy.
2013 – La Vie en Rose and Someone to Love, video and performance, GeneRation, Encontros da Imagem, Braga, Portugal.
2013 - La Vie en Rose and Someone to Love, video and performance, Editions Limités, Galerie du 4 Septembre, Arles.
2013 – La Vie en Rose, video première and performance, Effearte gallery, Milan.
2012 – Someone to Love, Luova gallery, Helsinki
2012 – Someone to Love, H2O gallery, Barcelona
2011 – Someone to...