Gema Quiles
Vila-real, Castellón, Spain, 1994
About
Lives and works in Valencia, Spain
Gema Quiles’ artistic practice focuses on both painting and sculpture. Her works stem from a personal imagery in which elements of nature unfold and are reinterpreted to generate a new reality. The resulting works evoke a sense of evasion. Private and symbolic, they serve as a shelter from the artificial world, inviting the viewer to participate, inhabit, and move through them.
Gema Quiles graduated in Fine Arts at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia and is currently a doctoral candidate in the same university. She has been able to develop her work at the Sztuk Pieknych Academy in Wroclaw (Poland), and at La Rectoria in Barcelona, thanks to the ‘Hábitat Artístic’ artist scholarship. Her works have been exhibited in national and international galleries such as LKIF Gallery (Seoul), and the artist has been awarded with acquisition awards by the Aldebarán collection or the Provincial Council of Castellón.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
El banquete (Disputa i pausa. Art i Context 2023-2025), IVAM, Valencia, Spain (2025)
Hacia el bosque, las tormentas, Herrero de Tejada, Madrid, Spain (2024)
Somewhere, someone, LKIF Gallery, Seoul, South Korea (2024)
El cesto, la fruta y la mano, Tuesday to Friday Gallery, Valencia, Spain (2023)
Donde hay sol. Donde hay sombra. Donde hay agua, Mostra TEST, Vila-real, Spain (2023)
Tras el árbol, junto a la fuente, Volta Art Gallery, Valencia, Spain (2022)
Un lugar donde pintar, Seismasuno Projects, Madrid, Spain (2021)
Let’s build a happy little cloud, ECO Les Aules, Castellón, Spain (2021)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Bestiari, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2026)
Nice to see you / Hope to see you again, Tuesday to Friday Gallery, Valencia, Spain (2025)
Stay with me, Tuesday to Friday, Valencia, Spain (2025)
Los mellizos, Tha House, Madrid, Spain (2024)
Beauties and Beasts, VETA Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2024)
New Portraits, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2024)
What we all have in common, La Causa Galería, Madrid, Spain (2023)
GEN-Z, WeCollect Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2023)
El descrèdit de la realitat, EACC, Castellón, Spain (2022)
I have a dream to cross the reality, Jorge López Gallery, Valencia, Spain (2022)
Deprisa Deprisa, Tuesday to Friday Gallery, Valencia, Spain (2021)
De lo ordinario y extraordinario, in PAM!PAM!19, Reales Atarazanas, Valencia, Spain (2019)
Mapa y cultura, tres miradas, Galería Coll-blanc, Culla, Castellón, Spain (2017)
ART FAIRS
CAN IBIZA, Herrero de Tejada, Ibiza, Spain (2025)
UVNT, Herrero de Tejada, Madrid, Spain (2025)
ESTAMPA, Herrero de Tejada, Madrid, Spain (2023)
FERIA MARTE 8t edition, Marte Orbital, Castellón, Spain (2021)
FERIA MARTE 7th edition, Marte Orbital, Castellón, Spain (2020)
FERIA MARTE 5th edition, Marte Orbital, Castellón, Spain (2018)
AWARDS AND GRANTS
«Premio de adquisición y residencia Piramidón», Feria Marte, Barcelona (2023)
«Premio adquisición Colección Aldebarán», Feria Estampa, Madrid (2023)
«Premio Adquisición de Obra Contemporánea», Diputación de Castellón, Castellón (2021)
Finalist for the «XXV Premio Nacional de Pintura Ciudad de Castellón» (2019)
Finalist for the «XLIX Salón de Otoño de Premio de Pintura Ateneo Mercantil de Valencia» (2019)
«Beca Hábitat Artistic Castelló», Centre d’Art La Rectoría, Barcelona (2019)
«Certamen Residencia Culla Contemporánea», Galería Coll-Blanc, Castellón (2017)
