María Aparici
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→ Named one of the “Most prominent and investible artists in 2025” by Contemporary Art Collectors.
→ Personal review at Art Curator Magazine by Marta Puig, 2024
→ Personal review at Contemporary Art Collectors, 2024
→ 1st Feature Interview with Contemporary Art Curator Magazine, 2024
→ 2nd Feature Interview with Contemporary Art Curator Magazine, 2024
Featured in Contemporary Art Publications by renowned Spanish art critic Gregorio Vigil Escalera;
→ De qué va el arte contemporáneo
→ El péndulo del arte ultracontemporáneo (cover art is my painting “Wedding Planning")
→ La pasión de los muertos es el arte
And by artist and art critic Ángel Alonso Blanco;
→ Travesía en Chivichana
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2025
→ Group Exhibition at BAAL Gallery. Madrid, Spain (March)
→ Art Screen TV Winter Digital Exhibition on Artsy (February)
→ Solo Exhibition at Galería Orfila. Madrid, Spain (February)
2024
→ Art Screen TV Digital exhibition at Montreux Art Gallery (MAG), Switzerland (November)
→ Art Screen TV Digital Exhibition at Hyperion Basel Messe during Art Basel. Basel, Switzerland (June)
→ Circle Foundation for the Arts at World Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE (May)
→ Galerie Thuillier, selected as top European artist, Paris, France (May)
→ Digital Exhibition with Circle Foundation at Art Expo New York, NY, USA (April)
→ Art Screen TV Winter Digital Exhibition on Artsy (February)
→ L.A. Art Show, curated by Francesco Saverio Russo, L.A., USA (February)
2023
→ Circle Foundation Digital Exhibition at Miami Red Dot Art Fair, Miami (December)
→ Effetto Arte Fondazione with Salvatore Russo at Washington Leaders, Washington DC, USA (November)
→ Art Screen TV Digital Exhibition at Montreux Art Gallery (MAG), Switzerland (November)
→ Art Screen TV Digital Exhibition at Florence Biennale, Italy (October)
→ Art Screen TV Digital Exhibition at Art Basel, Switzerland (April)
→ Art Screen TV Digital Exhibition at World Art Dubai, Dubai (March)
2022
→ Galería Orfila, 50th Anniversary - solo show. Madrid, Spain (December)
→ Featured in “Gran Anuario Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo 2021-2022” curated by Guto Ajayu
→ Featured in “Extinction Catalogue 2022”
→ 4th Barcelona Biennale at MEAM of Barcelona, Spain (November)
→ Luxembourg Art Fair with Monat Gallery. Luxembourg (September)
→ Azur Gallery (formerly known as Magda Belloti). Madrid, Spain (23 June-23 July)
→ Art Screen TV Digital Exhibition with Artsy (June)
2021
→ FIABCN. Barcelona, Spain (December)
→ Aequilibrium, Arte Borgo, Rome, Italy (October-November)
→ Florence Biennale. Italy (October)
→ Art Screen TV Digital Exhibition at Art Basel, Switzerland (September)
→ Paris Art Fair with Monat Gallery. France (September)
→ It’s Liquid Barcelona, Barcelona Contemporary Fair, Spain (September)
→ Singulart Online Gallery, selected in the collection of Tracey Emin, (August)
→ Group Exhibition at Monat Gallery “Collector’s Vision”, Madrid, Spain (July-August)
→ MADS Milano, International Contemporary Exhibition “ROMANTICA - Shape of my Art”. Italy (April-May)
→ Contemporary Art Curator Magazine “Infinite Dreams - Artists of the Future”. Online exhibition (January-June)
→ ITSLIQUID International Art Fair: Contemporary Venice 2021 (January-February)
→ Sala Aires, Un Grito por el Arte. Córdoba, Spain (January-February)
→ Art Screen TV on Artsy. Online exhibition (December 2020-January 2021)
2020
→ Daimler Art Collection. Berlin, Germany (extended to 2021)
→ Galeria Orfila, We Amazing Women - solo show. Madrid, Spain (November)
→ Nominated as one the ‘50 Artists to Invest In’ and ‘Artists of the Year 2020’ by curators Salvatore & Francesco Russo
→ Winner of the Frida Kahlo Prize
→ Winner of the Boticelli Prize
→ Nominated as Artist of the Year 2020 by the Palm Art Award
2018
→ Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Madrid, Spain (July)
→ Arte Ponte. Scope Basel, Switzerland (June)
→ Musa, Women's Essence, Pons Foundation. Madrid, Spain (April)
2017
→ Great Banyan Art, Around the World in 7 Days. Claridges Hotel, New Delhi, India (March)
2016
→ Barcelona International Art Fair. Museo Maritim, Barcelona, Spain (December)
→ Art and Science Award. Museo D’Arte E Scienza, Milan, Italy (May)
→ Great Banyan Art, Telling Tales. New Delhi, India (March)
→ The Jubilee Of The Mercy 2016, International Association Gallery Il Collezionista, Palace Maffei Marescotti (February) and the Vatican in the Palace of the Chancellery (March), Rome, Italy
2014
→ Galeria Orfila - solo show. Madrid, Spain
→ "Art In Mind", The Brick Lane Gallery. London, UK
→ http://www.mutantspace.com/maria-aparici-paintings-highly-emotive-pictures/
2013
→ 3 works selected to be exhibited on screens at Saatchi Gallery. London, UK
2012
→ The Lloyd Gill Gallery. Weston-Super-Mare, UK
2011
→ Colorida Gallery. Lisbon, Portugal
→ Marzia Frozen Gallery, "Apocalypse Now". Berlin, Germany
2010
→ II Palacio Gipsoteca Libero Andreotti, "Art & Integration". Pescia, Italy
2009
→ Showdown Winner at Saatchi Gallery. London, UK
2008
→ Galería Orfila - solo show. Madrid, Spain
2006
→ Galería Orfila - solo show. Madrid, Spain
2005
→ Galería Akka - solo show. Valencia, Spain
2004
→ Arte Sevilla with Galería Victoria Hidalgo 'De Arte'. Madrid, Spain
→ Galería Orfila - solo show. Madrid, Spain
→ Galería Agurcho Iruretagoyena - solo show. Pamplona, Spain
2003
→ Chelsea Gallery. New York, USA
2002
→ Galería Crisolart. Barcelona, Spain
→ Ward-Nasse Gallery. New York, USA
→ Galería Ofelia Aparici - solo show. Madrid, Spain
2001
→ Gallery Design Consortium - solo show. Cincinnati, OH, USA
→ International Association of Women in the Arts. Madrid, Spain
→ Artexpo New York. New York, USA
→ Ward-Nasse Gallery. New York, USA
→ Arte Santander. Santander, Spain
→ "Artemanía". Madrid, Spain
→ Artexpo San Francisco. SF, CA, USA
2000
→ Cultural Center "Anabel Segura" - solo show. Madrid, Spain
→ Studio Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada - solo show. Madrid, Spain
→ Galería de Arte Victoria Hidalgo - solo show. Madrid, Spain
→ Montserrat Gallery. New York, USA
→ Gallery Design Consortium. Cincinnati, OH, USA
→ Ward-Nasse Gallery. New York, USA
→ Art Fair "InterArte". Valencia, Spain
→ Art Fair "Artemanía". Madrid, Spain
1998
→ World Economic Forum, Hotel Belvédère - solo show. Davos, Switzerland
→ A number of her paintings are distributed amongst several international corporate art collections, such as the Daimler Collection, Investcorp – Bahrain, Healey & Baker – Madrid, and a number of private collectors.
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Aparici has been distinguished with numerous prizes, such as:
→ Premio Scienza del Museo d’Arte e Scienza of Milan (2015)
→ and recently, 2019 and 2020, with the Michelangelo, Botticelli and Frida Kahlo Prizes in Italy where she has been invited to participate, in 2021, in the next Florence Biennale.
→ Also, she was named “Artist of the Year” by the Palm Art Award.
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María Aparici (Valencia Spain 1952) studies at the School of Applied Arts in Burgos and later moves to the USA where she completes her training, graduating in interior design from the New School for Social Research of New York (1988-1992). Back in Madrid, she continues to study painting with Amadeo Roca and finally obtains a Master’s degree in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts at Madrid’s Complutense University (1998).
She has solo exhibitions in Davos, Switzerland (1998) and in Cincinnati, OH (2001). It is in the US where she participates in a number of group exhibitions, to cite but a few in New York, Ward Nasse, Montserrat and Chelsea Galleries (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003). She also showed some of her work at New York’s Artexpo (2001).
In Spain she has shown work in solo exhibitions at the Victoria Hidalgo (2000) and Orfila galleries (2004, 2006, 2014, 2020), as well as Galería Agurcho Iruretagoyena in Pamplona (2004) and Akka in Valencia (2005).
She participates in a variety of art fairs, such as InterArte Valencia (2000), Arte Santander (2001), Arte Sevilla and Arte Madrid (2004), FIABCN Barcelona (2016 and 2021). In the more recent years, Aparici develops a wide array of activities, showing some work at exhibitions like Women’s Essence, the Pons Foundation Madrid (2018) and especially on an international level in London, Berlin, Pescia and Milan, New Delhi, Basle, Lisbon and Rome.
My work is a vengeance for the decadent hidden morality between female forms and identity, a psychological chaos that erases our already non-existent existence.
As a woman, I am still disturbed by our reality; social pressure continues to trample us without mercy and women's bodies continue to be seen as merchandise, admired or reviled, consumed or restricted.
My figures, distorted, twisted, elongated, shrunk, stretched as if they were chewing gum, come from within, and are so raw and grotesque that they are even fascinating.
Who is to blame for the fact that history has mistreated us?
