Gloria Grau

Painter

Life Events

Gloria Grau was born in Barcelona, ​​Spain, in 1965. She studied at the painting school of the Catalan landscape artist Ricardo Tárrega Viladoms, one of the oldest art schools in Barcelona that was founded in 1935.
For more than 10 years he attended training on art and creation of different artistic disciplines at the Escola de la dona of the Diputació de Barcelona to develop and promote creation in a wide variety of visual languages ​​and approach art from different work approaches: from the most conceptual definitions to the critical spirit, the resolution and overcoming of technical premises.
In recent years she has studied at the Escuela Taller de Arte Figurativo founded and directed by the figurative art teacher Enrique Donoso (Madrid, 1963), (disciple of Eduardo Naranjo and Guillermo Muñoz-Vera).
Her works are influenced by different masters of Spanish and Catalan painting, highlighting Sorolla, Anglada Camarasa, Tàpies and Barceló. During her life, she has been fascinated with fantasy and the images that she represents through her paints and colors.
In his incessant search for new forms and materials; she experiments with the spontaneity of the unexpected, the taste for stains and chance. She lets herself be carried away by the freedom to do what she wants, how she wants: Fabrics full of stains, textures and colors, women with languid eyes and giant flowers. But what she values ​​and treasures the most is the freedom to do what she likes and how she likes to do it and the freedom of the unexpected, the taste for stains, chance and the spontaneous.
Gloria Grau has her own painting studio and she is the President of the Art Calafell Association to which more than 200 members and artists belong, from which she promotes and shares Art and Culture. Through this Association and altruistically through projects, such as La Nit de l’Art a Calafell, “Kastrum Calafell”, exhibitions and training. She helps and shares information with other artists through the “Laboratori d’Art”, in which she gets to give up her own studio for meetings, exhibitions, master classes and others.

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

Cuba:
• 2023 Next exhibition at the Casa de las Américas in Havana.
• Next exhibition at the International Biennial that will take place in Havana.

Mexico:
2022 Next exhibition at the Congress, Mexico City and at the UNAM National University in Mexico DC.
• Participates in different Houses of Culture, Higher Preparatory Schools, UNAM Universities, Art Rooms and Galleries, in the cities of Nezahualcóyotl, Ouaxaca, San Juan Tehuistitlán, Atlautla. Tlapala, Chalco. Santa Matía Cuijingo, Juchitepec and the State of Hidalgo.
Korea:
• 2022 Geogeumgang Theme Museum located in Geoje city.
• Yeosu Art Museum. special “Judje’s exhibition”
• Yukyung Art Museum, City of Seoul and Bujan.
• Jeongup Living Culture Center.
• Yeosu Museum of Art.
China:
• 2022 Yonghze Museum. Exhibition in Hangzhou.
• Art room, Shanghai Bund 8.
• International Art Fairs and galleries in Nanjin, Shenzen, Wuxi and Shanghai.
• Artplu Museum of Contemporary Art in China, permanent exhibition.
Taiwan:
• 2022 Art Revolution Taipei International Art Fair.
• Exhibition at the Gallery, X-Power Gallery.
• Exhibition at the Get Art Museum in Taipei.
• Museum Chan Liu Art, exhibition.
USA:
• Florida. Fort Laureader, Gallery Victorius.
Italy:
• Milan, Palazzo Gioroconsulting di Milano.
• Florence, Constanza Foundation.
Spain:
• Barcelona, ​​Espai 30, Cultural Center.
• Santa Teresa Foundation in Tarragona.
• Art room and exhibitions of the Píntanos, region of the five Villas, Zaragoza.
• Madrid, Prado Goyart Gallery “Written paintings”, “Painted poetry”.
• Medieval Castle of Santa Creu de Calafell.
• Room, Multipurpose Gallery of the City Council of Caldes de Montbui.
• León, Alemi Gallery.
Arab Emirates:
• Participates in the World Art Dubai International Art Fair.
• Exhibition at the City Center Al Zahia, Dubai.

APPOINTMENTS
Gloria Grau has been named Cultural Ambassador by the ICAF 2021. International Culture & Arts Federation.
Korea:
• Appointed President of the Jury, President of the Artist Selection Committee and Artistic Director of the 9th International Art Festival to be held at the Haegeumgang Theme Museum in South Korea in 2023.
• Appointed Jury of the Geogeumgang Theme Museum at the 8th and 7th International Festival in South Korea.
• Appointed President of ICAF, Committee for the International Exchange of Art and Culture.

Asia:
• Appointed Jury of the online Armenian painting contest called “The Tale of Colors” in which more than 36,000 Armenian children participate.
• China:
• Appointed Jury of the Contemporary Art contest for children “Grand Prize of the Competition”
Spain:
• Appointed Jury of the XIX National Fast Painting Contest, held in Caldes de Montbui, Spain.
• Spain. representative of culture in