Marina Vargas

Born in Granada in 1980. Lives and works in Madrid, Spain.

Graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Granada in 2003, later at this same university she took doctorate courses and a master's degree in Production and Research in Artistic Languages in 2011. Since 2001, before her degree, she began his professional career exhibiting experimental works in different spaces. It has recently been appointed curator of the CNIO Art. An initiative of the National Cancer Research Center of Spain that establishes contact between leading international scientists and artists to explore the common ground between scientific research and artistic creation. This work is complemented by being the president of the Intra-Venus association. Association of creators for the visibility and support of women in cancer processes.

Her work, which includes formats such as photography, sculpture, drawing, or painting, revolve around concepts such as cultural heritage and its meanings throughout history. In his works there are constant dialogues around sexuality, femininity, violence, love and desire; a work full of drama, brutality and combined beauty. Reigning the revisionist symbolism of contemporary identities, creating a new model of hybrid and monstrous beauty that has completely forgotten the silence of the classical canon.

Among her most recent individual exhibitions, it is worth mentioning: "Contra el Canon" 2022, curated by Marta Mantecón in the mythical Robayera room in Santander, Spain. The Body of Love curated by Óscar Alonso Molina at Llamazares Gallery in Gijón, Spain. Rito e Realtá 2019. Civiero Art Gellery. Palace of the Park, Diano. Marine. Italy. The aesthetics of Vertigo 2018, at Costantini Art Gallery. Milan. Italy. The Inverted Piety or The Dead Mother 2017 at Ge Gallery, Monteerrey, Mexico. The Lines of Destiny 2016; curated by Óscar Alonso Molina at the ABC Museum of Drawing and Illustration in Madrid. Neither Animal nor Animal nor Angel 2015-2016 at the Contemporary Art Center of Malaga or Nobody is Immune, curated by Omar Pascual Castillo at the Atlantic Center for Contemporary Art (CAAM), in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, in Spain. He has received numerous awards in 2020 he receives the Plastic Arts award in the XIII edition of the "La Rural" Plastic Arts Contest, organized by the Caja Rural de Jaén Foundation. In 2021 she receives the award for the best artist from the White, Black and Magenta association. Association of women artists that works from the visual arts on the concept of equality. And in 2022 she receives the Nebrija Crea Visual Arts Award, being chosen by the students of the Nebrija University of Madrid.

She has participated in numerous fairs such as Arco in Spain, Maco in Mexico, Volta New York, Contemporary Istanbul, MiArt in Milan or Artfiere in Bologna, among others.

Her work is part of numerous public collections, including:

ARTIUM Centro - Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria – Gasteiz; CAAC - Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla. Colección Iniciarte, Junta de Andalucía; CAAM - Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canarias; CAC Málaga - Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga; Caja de Extremadura; Centre d'Art Contemporain Essaouira, Ifitry, Marruecos; Fundación Antonio Gala, Córdoba; Fundación Focus Abengoa, Sevilla; IAJ - Instituto Andaluz de la Juventud, Diputación de Málaga; Museo - Fundación Gregorio Prieto, Ciudad Real; Iniciarte. Junta de Andalucia.; Instituto Andaluz de la Juventud.; Colección DKV; Fundación Benetton. Italia.; Colección Pilar Citoler.