LUA GANDARA
BIO
Lúa Gándara (O Porriño, 1988) is a multidisciplinary artist graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Vigo, she has completed a postgraduate degree in Sound Creation at the University of Barcelona and a master's degree in Secondary Education in the specialty of Arts and Drawing. Her plastic work has been selected and exhibited in numerous competitions such as the 15a mostra MAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Fundación Naturgy, the Prémio Artistas do Alto Minho e Galiza 2016 da Fundaçao Bienal de Cerveira, the VIII Premio para Novos Artistas Auditorio de Galicia or the X Bienal Internacional Pintor Laxeiro, among others. She has been awarded the First Prize “Novos talentos luso- galaicos” in the “IX Bienal de Pintura Premio Eixo Atlántico”, the “Xurado Novo” prize in the “Contemporary” Section at the Intersección Contemporary Audiovisual Art Festival of 2021 and the IX Concurso de Intervenciones Artísticas en las Torres Hejduk de la Ciudad de La Cultura de Galicia and the prize Colección Admiranda 2023 at the JustMad art fair.
CV
(Vigo, 1988)
EDUCATION
2021 Master's Degree in Teaching at the University of Vigo, sp. Arts and Drawing.
2019 Postgraduate in “Sound Creation” at the UB (University of Barcelona).
2010 Degree in Fine Arts at the University of Vigo.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Downhill. Mambo Gallery, Pontevedra.
2023
Repolo Random. Espazo Vaina, Betanzos.
2022
A porta aberta. Hejduk Towers. City of Culture, Galicia
2021
The perreo of the forms. Gallery Zona Incontrolable, Madrid.
Festa no xardín con caracois, Metro Gallery, Santiago de Compostela.
2019
Atragantarse coas uvas. Marcos Workshop, Santiago de Compostela.
2017
Pintar por fóra. Torrente Ballester Center, Ferrol.
2006
Static Plastic. Panoramic Area, Tui.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Feliz no cumpleaños. VLAB, Madrid.
This is tomorrow. Domestic Landscape, Madrid.
2023
Feat Project. Ira Torres. Joaquín Roncal Center, Zaragoza.
Feat. Project. Ira Torres. 95 Gallery, Madrid.
Environment Project. Center of Culture Can Gelabert, Binissalem, Majorca.
Eólica Así Non. Solaina Gallery, Lugo.
Morra o conto. Modus Operandi Gallery, Madrid.
2022
Arte con los 5 sentidos (Art with the 5 senses). MEGA, A Coruña.
F.r.a.m.e. River Lagares, Vigo.
Montaña de Glucosa. Espazo Torrado, Cambados.
2021
Arte Ambulante. Acolectiva. Neda.
Spheres. Zona Incontrolable, Madrid.
2020
Para desgustos... cores. Cube, Vigo.
Confined. Metro Gallery, Santiago de Compostela
2013
Extimos. Lúa Gándara and Diego Vites. Adhoc Gallery, Vigo.
FAIRS
2023
JUSTMAD - Metro Gallery / Madrid, Spain.
2022
FIG BILBAO - Metro Gallery / Bilbao, Spain.
CULTURAL MANAGEMENT AND TEACHING
2023
Meeting of cans no park. Workshop. Faculty of Fine Arts / Pontevedra.
Drawing and painting classes / Community Center of Redondela.
Imaginary Landscape. Workshop. Eco Art School, / Santiago de Compostela.
Co-curated “Paisaxe_0”. Metro Gallery / Santiago de Compostela.
2022
Co-direction of the Poligonal Collective.
Contemporary Painting. Workshop - Museum of Pontevedra. / Pontevedra, Spain.
AWARDS AND SELECTED WORK
2023
Finalist III Edition of the A&G Art Award. Madrid.
Finalist Alumni Award Uvigo 2023. Humanities.
Acquisition Prize Admiranda Foundation in JustMad.
2021
Prize IX Contest of Artistic Interventions in the Towers Hejduk of the City of the Culture of Galicia.
Xurado Novo Award in the “Contemporary” section. INTERSECTION Contemporary Audiovisual Art Festival.
Selected XIII Eixo Atlántico Painting Biennial.
2019
Selected. XII Eixo Atlántico Painting Biennial.
2018
Selected. 15th MAC Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Naturgy Foundation.
2017
Selected. VIII Prize for New Artists Auditorium of Galicia.
2016
Selected. Artists of Alto Minho and Galicia Award 2016. Fundaçao Bienal de Cerveira, Portugal.
Honorable Mention at the XV Iberian Cultural Contest: Young Artists.
2014
Third Prize Poetry. Certame Xuventude Crea.
2013
Selected. X Eixo Atlántico Painting Award.
2012
Selected. Contest “Novos Valores 2012” of Pontevedra.
Finalist in the VIII Painting Contest “Novos Valores 2011” of Brión.
Selected in the V Painting Contest “Arte Nova Galega”.
2011
First Prize “Novos talentos luso-galaicos”. Eixo Atlántico Biennial.
Selected. X International Biennial Pintor Laxeiro.
Selected. 40th Unia Painting Award.
Selected. Certame de Artes Plásticas Novos Valores.
Selected. Seventh Prize Auditorio de Galicia Novos Artistas.