Susanna Inglada
Susanna Inglada (1983) makes highly expressive drawings of people who are involved in an intense, sometimes even violent interaction with each other. She first attended a drama course in Barcelona before she devoted herself to studies of visual arts in Spain, the Netherlands and Belgium. Her work therefore has a strong theatrical quality. Often the drawings are three-dimensional, she cuts out the figures and places them in exhibiton space as actors on a stage.
The drawings are made on neutral black or blue-ish paper, so all the attention is drawn to the human figures. Susanna Inglada describes this as: “characters are isolated from the places where they belong, by minimizing the background in black and white spaces or abstract forms. This opens doors to new interpretations. I am inspired by Spanish and Catalan culture, history and politics, violence and power are subjects that intrigue me.”
| 1983 | born in Banyeres del Penedes, Spain |
education | |
| 2017-2018 | HISK, Advanced Studies & Practice-based Research in Visual Arts, Ghent, Belgium |
| 2014 | Mentor program with Charlotte Schleiffert, with Mondriaan Fund |
| 2011–2013 | MFA Frank Mohr Institute (FMI with University Groningen, Hunter College, New York) Groningen, NL |
| 2008 | Willem de Kooning Academy, exchange program, Rotterdam, NL |
| 2007-2008 | University of Barcelona, Teaching Certificate in Art Education (CAP), Barcelona, Spain |
| 2002-2007 | Fine Arts University from Barcelona, Spain |
| 2004-2006 | La Casona Theater studies, Barcelona, Spain |
| 2001-2002 | Arts applied on the wall, Art school Tarragona, Spain |
| lives and works in Amsterdam, NL | |
solo exhibitions | |
| 2019 | Thin Skin About To Tear, De Scheffer Prize 2019, Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, NL |
| 2017 | Ojos de Oro, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany |
| 2016 | 18th Street Art Centre, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, USA Strange Habits, Kunsthal Rotterdam, NL |
| 2014 | Open Studio at Kunst & Complex, Rotterdam, NL |
group exhibitions | |
| 2019 | Group Exhibition, Sign, Groningen, NL Drawing Now Paris, with Karin van Dam, Galerie Maurits vd Laar, Paris, France Exhibition Winners Prize Generaciones 2018, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain Group Exhibition How to stretch a canvas, Westwerk, Hamburg, DE Group Exhibition Stadsarchief (cityarchive) Amsterdam, NL Exhibition-Residenc, DordtYart, Dordrecht, NL Group Exhibition in Ten Bogaerde Koksijde, Belgium |
| 2018 | Final Show HISK, Gent Belgium Ter Wereld, Tielt, Belgium groupshow with Cedric ter Bals, Shary Boyle, Marjolijn vd Meij, Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague, NL De Line Up, curated by Robbie Cornellissen, Centraal Museum Utrecht, NL Chalk, Group Show at Kunsthal Kade, Amersfoort , NL Open Studios HISK, Gent, Belgium exhibition winner 2nd prize Guasch, Coranty Foundatio Barcelona, Spain Art Weekend Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 2017 | duo Exhibition at DAK , Utrecht, NL Open Studios HISK, Gent, BE group exhibition at Little HISK, during Art Weekend, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 2016 | Maelström Arti & Amicitiae, Museum Night Amsterdam, curated by Radek Vana, Arjen Lancel and F. Franciscus, Amsterdam, NL Encuentro con Susanna Inglada at Casa Vecina, Mexico City, Mexico duo show with Natalia Ossef, Allard Wildenberg Art Projects, Naarden-Vesting, NL Amsterdam Drawing, Allard Wildenberg Art Projects, NL Drawing Front, curated by Arno Kramer and Nanette Kraaikamp Drawing Center Diepenheim, NL Prospects and Concepts curated by Mondriaan Fund, Art Rotterdam, NL |
| 2015 | group exhibition at El Portal del Pardo Gallery in El Vendrell, Spain group exhibition at Sala Petita in Galery Sicart , Vilafranca del Penedes, Spain exhibition results of the Master Class, The Drive of Drawing, by Robbie Cornelissen, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL group show at Art Biennale in Vilafranca del Penedes, Barcelona, Spain Exhibition Halle 14, Herbst Rundgang / Winter Tour @ Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2014 | group show, Pilotenküche Studio Program, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany group show Open Studio at Kunst & Complex, Rotterdam, NL Artist Talk at Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, NL El Hombre ha Muerto, drawings by Dutch and Mexican artists, Casa de la Cultura de Tabasco, Mexico Frames of Thinking, Art initiative, Rotterdam, NL group show at Worm Rotterdam, NL |
| 2013 | Best graduates OOGST2013, Galerie Bart, Nijmegen, NL Graduation Show, Gallery SIGN, Groningen, NL Masters from Frank Mohr, at former Post Office, Vismarkt, Groningen, NL |
| 2012 | group show Masters Frank Mohr Institute, Defka, Assen, NL group show Masters Frank Mohr Institute at Couple zaal, Groningen, NL group show Stichting WEB, Art initiative, Groningen, NL |
Awards | |
| 2019 | De Scheffer Prize, Vereniging Dordrechts Museum |
| 2018 | Generaciones Prize, Montemadrid foundation, Madrid international Prize of the Guasch Coranty Foundation, Barcelona. |