Marta Lafuente

MARTA LAFUENTE, born in Barcelona in 1976
From 1999 with her first exhibition in Bologna until today, she has lived and worked in Bologna and Madrid, and she currently lives in Barcelona. She is a drawing teacher at the “Universitat de Belles Arts de Barcelona” where she also collaborates as invited professor for MBA courses.
Since 1999 with the Güell Foundation Award she has obtained various distinctions and awards. Her pictorical work has gone through several stages, developed largely with mixed techniques on cardboard, paper, wood,... In 2003 she started a childhood self portrait series for the Sala Parés Gallery in Barcelona, and her themes, landscapes and figures have, from that moment on, been related to memory. In 2007 for her exhibition at Ignacio de Lassaletta Gallery in Barcelona, she started working with the concept of veils related to memory using layers of light marble dust, fabric collage, photography, coal graph- ite...
As well, part of Marta Lafuente’s production is set in the context of Art Foundations, a sphere in which she has permanent works installed in Banc de Sabadell , Vila Casas and Güell Foundations. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in Spain and the United States. Beside h er pictorical oeuvr...

Licenciada en Belles Artes en la especialidad de pintura en la Facultat de Belles Arts de Barcelona, Universitat de Barcelona, 1999.
Programa Sócrates-Erasmus (1998-1999) Accademia di Belli Arti (Bolonia)
Diplomatura de postgrado Ilustración creativa y técnicas de comunicación visual, Eina, Escola Superior de Diseny, 2002
CAP DEA Profesora Asociada de dibujo en La Facultat de Belles Arts de Barcelona. Dibuix/Arte
Categoria Professor Associat 6P Belles Arts (27116)

Solo Exhibitions:
2015 Erdmann Contemporary Galerie, Aarau. 2014 Galería Patrick J. Domken, Cadaqués
2012 Galería Ignacio de Lassaletta, Barcelona 2011 Galería Decorart, Zaragoza
2010 Galería L’ Arcada, Blanes
2009 Galería Ignacio de Lassaletta, Barcelona 2008 Tucker Gallery, Chicago 2008 Galería N3, Madrid
2007 Premio pintura “I Certamen Vil.la de San Jorge”, Castellón 2007 Galería Patrick J. Domken, Cadaqués
2006 Galería Ignacio de Lassaletta, Barcelona 2000 Fundació Güell, Real Círculo Artístico, Barcelona.