Almudena Lobera
Artist
Spain

Almudena Lobera (Madrid, 1984) is a visual artist with a BFA and an MA in Art, Creation and Research from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid / UCM. She is also a Laureate of the Higher Institute of Fine Arts / HISK, Ghent. She studied two years at the Universität der Künste / UdK in Berlin thanks to an Erasmus scholarship and has done artist’s residencies at the UCL Slade School of Fine Art, London (2010); FAAP Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, São Paulo (2011); Casa de Velázquez Académie de France à Madrid (2013); Foundation B.a.d, Rotterdam (2013); Royal Academy of Spain in Rome (2014); Les Récollets International Residence in Paris (2015); Tokyo Arts and Space / TOKAS, Tokyo (2018); Pico do Refugio, São Miguel, Azores (2023) and CCA Andratx, Mallorca (2023).

Her solo exhibitions include Take Long Take at CentroCentro, Madrid (2025); Rest at Parra & Romero, Madrid (2024); Zerodimensionality at Max Estrella Gallery, Madrid (2022); Where the Interior Begins at Emergent in Veurne, Belgium (2021); Stories at Espacio CDMX, Mexico City (2020); Technical Images at Tabacalera, Madrid (2020); Epiphany. Mise-en-scène at Max Estrella Gallery, Madrid (2019); Véase ibid. at Arróniz Gallery, Mexico City (2018); What is Lost at Island, Brussels (2017); A Latent Revelation at Max Estrella, Madrid (2016); Visionary Instruments at Espacio de Promoción Contemporánea / ECCO, Cádiz (2015); A Particular Claim to Truth at Arróniz, Mexico City (2015); Superficial Reading with Museo ABC at ARCO, Madrid (2013); and Portadores at Diablo Rosso Gallery, Panama City (2012), among others.

Her work has also been featured in group shows at Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia (2023); Fundación Botí, Córdoba, Spain (2023); Fundación Juan March, Palma de Mallorca (2022); Conde Duque, Madrid (2021); Centro Centro, Madrid (2021); Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca (2021); Sala Amós Salvador, Logroño (2020); Aragon Park, Madrid (2020); ESPAC, Mexico City (2019); Art Brussels Special Project, Brussels (2018); Faena Arts Miami District, Miami (2015); CCI / Center for Creative Industries Fabrika, 6th Moscow Biennale (2015); The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (2014); Fabra i Coats, Barcelona (2014); Matadero, Madrid (2012); Pivô, São Paulo (2012); La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2012); and Tabacalera, Madrid (2011), among other venues.

She has received various awards and distinctions, including Finalist in the VII Cervezas Alhambra Emerging Art Award (2022); IX Fundación Ankaria Artist Book Award: Second Prize (2022); Propuestas VEGAP (2020); the Fundación BBVA Leonardo Grant for Cultural Creators and Researchers (2018); Matadero Madrid-AECID Grant for a residency at Tokyo Arts and Space (2018); MAEC-AECID Grant for a residency at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome (2014‒2015); Museo ABC Proyecto-Sala-4 Award (2013); Generaciones Award from Fundación Montemadrid (2012); Visual Arts Circuits of the Region of Madrid (2011); INJUVE Award for Young Art Projects (2011); and Visual Arts Grants from the Regional Government of Madrid and the Artistic Production and Research Grant from the Spanish Ministry of Culture.