Carla Cañellas (Valencia,1982). Plastic and visual artist. Her work focuses on the construction of identity in different social contexts, reflecting on the cultural codes that define the individual. Her work is interested in the identity portrait created through a dialogue with the spectator, understanding the final construction of the story by the spectator.
Her work is developed mainly through drawing and expanded drawing, taking it to interactive and installation spaces with the viewer, with a strong Japanese influence thanks to the use of ink and her interest in oriental calligraphy. She also uses other media such as video and photography to complement her projects.
She has carried out different artistic and educational projects in Japan in different artistic residencies in 2016 and 2019, as well as different solo and group exhibitions in Europe and Asia. Currently she produces and directs together with the cinematographer Eugenio Tardón AEC the documentary project “The way of Shodō”, a documentary film that bridges the gap between Spain and Japan through their pilgrimage routes and the learning of Japanese calligraphy. She lives and works between Asturias and Japan.
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EDUCATION
2014 MA in Fine Arts, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.
2021 “Contemporary art in Asia (II): the case of Japan” Taught by Alejandra Rodríguez Cunchillos, Casa Asia. Barcelona.
2018 “Programme A. Workshop on the design of artistic projects in socio-educational contexts” given by Plataforma Indómita and Daniel Silvo. Sala de Arte Joven de Comunidad de Madrid.
2017 Workshop “El rayo que no cesa” Cristina Lucas, Madrid45/linea 3. Madrid.
2017 Workshop “Paisaje visual.Territorio de Resistencia” Daniel G. Andújar, Madrid45/linea 3. Madrid.
2017 Video Mapping and creative programming, Lab Libertario, Hangar, Barcelona.
2016 Workshop “Air and Time: The dance of multiplicities” Injuve. Madrid.
2015 Drawing from life workshops, Museum of American Illustration, New York. 2012 Workshop “El espacio a medida del cuerpo” by Miguel Mont, UPV, Valencia. 2006-2008 Drawing and painting workshops, Estudio Arjona.Madrid
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2024 “Kokoro no michi, El camino del corazón” Embassy of Spain in Japan, Tokyo.
2024 “Goya vive, la lucha sigue” Fundación CAI, Centro Joaquin Roncal, Zaragoza (Next)
2022 “Goya vive, la lucha sigue” A Ciegas Art Gallery, Madrid.
2019 “Other Royal Marches” A Ciegas Art Gallery, Madrid.
2017 “( DECODING) Material games from the data base world”, within the Art and Technology circuit, ArtMAdrid’17, The Makers, Madrid.
2017 “Detenidos” Centro Cultural Villa de Móstoles, Madrid.
2016 “(DECODING) Material games from the data base world”, Studio Kura, Fukuoka, Japan.
2015 “Detenidos” San Antonio Church, within the framework of the Embarrat festival, Tárrega, Lleida.
2014 “Insurgents and deserters”. Artimaña, Madrid.
2011 “Strata of Emotion”. Instituto Cervantes,Palermo.
2011 “Geography of the Embrace”. Instituto Cervantes, Rome.
2011 “Strata of Emotion”. Instituto Cervantes, Naples.
2010 “Geography of the Embrace”. Instituto Cervantes, Milan.
2008 “Viscera and Flowers”. Instituto Cervantes, Moscow.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 “Kawaii, Past, Present and Future: Ira Torres” Pablo Gargallo Museum, Zaragoza.
2023 Arte y Zen – Reflexiones desde una óptica española, Spanish Embassy in Japan, Tokyo.
2022 Pure Art Circle, collective exhibition of resident artists, Milan, Italy. 2021 Emergencia (Precariedad), Hybrid Festival 2021, On line edition. 2021HYBRID Fair, Hotel Riu Plaza de España, A ciegas Galería, Madrid.
2021 JustMad Art Fair, Palacio Neptuno, Stand V18, A Ciegas Art Gallery, Madrid.
2021 Arts Libris, Ed. La Mirada Creadora, Sant Antoni Market, Barcelona.
2021 “La noche de los libros” (The night of books), A Ciegas Art Gallery, Madrid.
2021 FIG Bilbao, Art on Paper Fair, Stand 37, A Ciega
2020 JustMad Art Fair, A Ciegas Art Gallery, Madrid.
2019 OPEN STUDIO 2019, U-STUDIO. Madrid.
2019 “Usera does not invite logic”. Radio Cobra. U-Estudio, ArtBanchel3. Madrid.
2019 “Followers” Airy Gallery, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan.
2018 “Gekreuzte Identitäten”, Studio 113, Art Spring 2018, Berlin.
2018 “46020-10439”, Valeska Devonish Studio, Berlin.
2017 “Art Banchel” Meeting of open studios in the neighbourhood of Carabanchel, Puerto21, Madrid.
2017 “The world that inhabits us” Curated by José Raúl Camacho, Espacio Enclave, Madrid.
2016 “Inhabiting Intimacy- II” Espacio Nigredo, Madrid.
2016 “Image Rights” The Makers Gallery, Madrid.
2016 “Cien x Cien” The Makers Gallery, Madrid.
2016 “Itoshima International Art Festival”, StudioKura, Itoshima, Japan.
2015 “Materia Oscura” Collective curated by Lucas Agudelo, Intransit, Centro de Arte Complutense, Madrid.
2015 “This is a square” Collective exhibition Dibujo Madrid. Self-managed square Dr.Fourquet, Madrid.
2015 “1st Slow Painting Competition” Drawing Madrid, Voix Vives, Toledo.
2014 “Mudas Sistemáticas- Nada se crea ni se destruye,todo se transforma” within the circuitArteOpenView2# Cazador. Madrid.
2014 “Haciendo Barrio” Collective curated by Plataforma Maravillas. Conde Duque Museum, Madrid.
PREMIOS / BECAS
2023 Selected XXIII Encuentros de Arte Contemporáneo, Museo Universidad de Alicante.
2020 Finalista Premio Internacional de Carteles Makma , Muvim, Valencia.
2018 Finalista “La Vietnamita” , X Bienal de Riudebitlles, Catalunya.
2015 Selected Premios “La gran Máquina II”, Embarrat, Tárrega, Lleida.
2014 Selected en “Galerías”, Centro de creación La Cárcel, Segovia.
2013 I premio Club Diario Levante, Valencia.
2012 V Festival Internacional de arte independiente Incubarte, Valencia.
2012 Poliniza 2012, grupo pintura y entorno , UPV, Valencia.
2012 Selected premio de pintura XXII Edición Premio Otoño Villa De Chiva, Valencia.
WORKSHOPS
2022 “Censorship and freedom of expression in artistic research processes” Lecture, Faculty of Education, University of Zaragoza.
2019 “Painting in photography/ Emotional resonances of pictorial materials” Espacio Theman, Madrid. 2019 “Artistic research processes in political/social contexts” International College of Liberal Arts, Yamanashi University, Kofu, Japan.
2019 “Superheroes” Kofu-Shiritsu Higashi Junior High School, Kofu, Japan.
2019 “Taste painting” connections between contemporary art and Spanish gastronomy. Art in residence Yamanshi, Kofu, Japan.
2018 “The intimate image in the public space”, Lecture, Master in Phototherapy/Beyond the aesthetic image, University of Malaga.
2017 Decoding/ Identity and social networks/ La súbita estudio. Galapagar, Madrid.
2016 “Heroes and historical projections”. Creative People. Villalba, Madrid.
2016 Coordination and teacher in “Earth Workshop”/ Cycle Stories of Light and Energy/ Photography and Chinese Medicine. Workshop in transit: Almería and Granada.
2016 Coordination “Metal Workshop”/ Cycle Stories of Light and Energy/ Photography and Chinese Medicine. Sorabille, Intza, Navarra.
2016 “Identity like superheroes” / Sanno Hinatta Art School/ Fukuoka, Japan.
2015 Coordination of the “Fire Workshop”/ Cycle Stories of Light and Energy/ Photography and Chinese Medicine. Sorabille, Intza, Navarra.
2015 “Individual creation through collective participation”, Lecture, Master in Phototherapy/ Beyond the aesthetic image, University of Malaga.
2014 Coordination of the “Wood Workshop”/ Cycle Stories of Light and Energy/ Photography and Chinese Medicine. Sorabille, Intza, Navarra.
2013 Coordination “Water Workshop”/ Cycle Stories of Light and Energy/ Photography and Chinese Medicine. Sorabille, Intza, Navarra.
2012 Subdirection and curatorship of the II International Encounters of Art in Nature “Espir@larte 2012”. Utiel, Requena, Venta del Moro and Chera, Valencia.
2012Coordination “Workshop of the elements” / Cycle Stories of Light and Energy/ Photography and Chinese Medicine. La Casona, Garganta la Olla, Cáceres.
Since 2006 Teacher and coordinator in Fotoeduterapia.
PUBLICATIONS
2018 “Detenidos” Carla Cañellas M-3682-2018 / ISBN 978-84-608-6313-7. Madrid.
2010 “Estratos de la Emoción” Carla Cañellas. Milan: Instituto Cervantes, 2010, 57 p. Spanish and Italian edition. TYPE NO.: 503-10-062-5
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS
Colección Pilar Citoler
Embajada de España en Tokio
Instituto Cervantes de Tokio
Fundación Caja Inmaculada, Zaragoza