Maria Aparici

Back to Spain, from 1993 to 1998 she obtained a Master’s Degree in
Painting from the Fine Arts Faculty of Madrid’s Complutense University. In
2007 she specialized in computer assisted graphic design, following and
finishing her computer education that she had started with AUTOCAD 14
years earlier at New School in New York.

She is a photographer, portraitist and large format painter, as well as a
feminist social critic. She started showing her work at some of Madrid’s
most popular shopping centers, having previously initiated the artists’
group “Degeneración98” which she abandons after a series of
innumerable internal discussions and conflicts. In 1998 she celebrates her
first individual exhibition in Switzerland. Her individual as well as group
exhibitions run from New York to Switzerland via Cincinnati, Milan,

Rome, London, Pescia, Berlin, New Delhi, Santander, Barcelona, Madrid
and Valencia.

In 2016 she obtains the Scienza Prize from the Museo d’Arte e Scienza of
Milan, Italy. During 2019, she was awarded the international
Michelangelo, Botticelli and Velázquez Prizes, created by Dres.
Francesco y Salvatore Russo. Her latest recognition is the prestigious Palm
Art Award. Domain Group honored her with an award for Excellence
and her astounding originality. Francesco and Salvatore Russo awarded
her again with the Frida Kahlo prize in 2020 and she has been recognized
as one of the 50 most international contemporary artists.

Her work is distributed amongst various corporate art collections, such as
the Daimler Collection of Stuttgart, Investcorp of Bahrein and Cushman
& Wakefield in Madrid, as well as variety of private collections.

Upcoming shows in 2020:

Berlin: Daimler Collection

Milan: Artisti Space Watt - April

FIABCN Barcelona - May

Madrid: Galeria Orfila, We Amazing Women - November