Paula Anta

Paula Anta - UPROOT 03

Técnica: Printing on gold bread

Biografía del Artista: Paula Anta is a Spanish artist and photographer born in Madrid in 1977. Her photographic series are based on concepts that she develops in situ, often using installations to construct the final image. Her work focuses on the relationship between nature and artificiality, as well as structures created by humans, history and travel. However, the main conceptual line of Anta's work is to show the cultural importance of each landscape in itself. Anta has been part of solo and group exhibitions since 2006, in Spain, Germany, France and Italy. Her work has been exhibited in institutional centers such as CA2M, Tabacalera, Matadero, Centro de Arte de Alcobendas, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Real Jardín Botánico, Academia de San Fernando, Canal de Isabel II in Madrid, CCCB in Barcelona, ​​La Laboral in Gijón, Centro Niemeyer in Avilés, Domus Artium DA2 in Salamanca and Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras in Alicante, as well as in several editions of the international photography festival, Photoespaña. Anta has received several prestigious awards and scholarships, including the Estampa Award from the Community of Madrid (2016), Finalist in the VIII Pilar Citoler International Biennial of Contemporary Photography (2015), AENA Foundation Award (2010), special mention of the COMBAT Award (2013), MAEC-AECID scholarships from the Spanish Academy in Rome (2011-2012) and FormARTE scholarships in Plastic Arts and Photography from the College of Spain in Paris, the Award for Artistic Creation from the Universidad Católica de Chile (2013). in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid (2008-2009) and more recently, the creation grant of the Ankaria Foundation. Anta holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, obtained through the European Doctoral Program in collaboration with the University of Saarbrücken and the Universität de Künste in Berlin. She has taught classes and lectured in private entities such as the TAI School of Arts and Entertainment, the CES Higher School of Image and Sound, the CEV Higher School of Communication, Image and Sound, as well as at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Cuenca of the University of Castilla-La Mancha, the Faculty of Fine Arts of Murcia, the workshop program of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, and abroad at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach (Frankfurt) and Cornell University in Rome.