Gemma Gené

Gemma Gené is an architect and visual artist from Barcelona, Spain, based in New York. She moved to the United States to earn a Master in Advanced Architectural Design at Columbia University. In 2014 immediately upon graduation she joined Steven Holl Architects until she focused on developing her studio work and architecture projects.

She previously obtained a degree in architecture at La Salle University in Barcelona, Spain, and expanded her education in Architecture and Fine Art at Escola da Cidade, São Paulo, Brazil and University of California Berkeley. She has maintained an independent career as an award-winning painter and published illustrator. Her two-dimensional work tries to provoke today’s architecture using color and textures to communicate sensations. She relies on urban art as a way to make her work accessible. Her three-dimensional work shares her architectural language and is a study of volume and geometry using stone, concrete and 3D print. Her work has been shown in New York at the Accessible Art Fair, the Greenpoint Gallery, the Allies Gallery and Fignet New York.

She is best known for her online comic 157ofgemma where she narrates in an ironic fashion her life with her inseparable pug Mochi that has a very...

MSARCH II, Columbia University, New York.
BA architecture La Salle Univeristy Barcelona.

AD Art Show, Mvvo Art, May 2019

Solo show, Voltz Clarke Gallery, December, Palm Beach 2018

Swab Art Fair, September 2018, Barcelona

SCOPE, March 2017 8th – 11th, 2018, New York

AD Art Show, Sotheby’s, February 2018, New York

Superfine! Art Fair, December 7th to 10th 2017, Miami

Swab Art Fair, September 2017, Barcelona

What’s new what’s next, Voltz Clarke Gallery, September 14th, New York 2017

Solo show, Voltz Clarke Gallery, September 13th, New York 2017

An evening of Art and Design, Curated by Saatchi Art, MiMa New York, March 2017

Superfine! New York, May 2017

Art Fair, Accessible Art Fair, National Arts Club, NY, November 1-25 2016

Group show, Bombay Artisan Series semi finalist, Rush Arts, NY, 2016

Solo Show,"Coses que penso mentre faig gaspatxo" (what I think while I make gazpacho), Palo Alto Fundation, Barcelona, 2016

Group exhibition , Curated by Shawn James, The Greenpoint Gallery, NY, 2016

Group Film Festival, Elvis Zapp Film Festival, Curated by EZUFF, Spectrum Space, NY, 2015

Solo Exhibition, GSAPP FS//SS Noodloo, Curated by Imagination Space, Imagination Space, New York, NY, 2014, Group Project (Gabriel Calatrava, Eileen Chen, Gemma Gené, Dan Luo, Madeeha Merchant, Rashad ...