Hugo Alonso

About

Lives and works in Salamanca, Spain

Hugo Alonso’s practice expands across painting, video, sound, and installation, articulating a visual language rooted in the aesthetics of cinema. His work operates within a subdued chromatic spectrum and a stripped-down, often atmospheric composition, invoking scenes that hover between the known and the imagined. Drawing from film stills, particularly from science fiction and noir genres, Alonso manipulates and reconfigures images through digital processes before reinterpreting them through traditional techniques. The result is a series of works that blur the line between fiction and perception. The images appear eerily familiar, yet are haunted by a sense of unreality. Each piece is a quiet disruption: enigmatic, loaded with tension, and embedded with semantic instability that challenges our assumptions about narrative, space, and memory.

Hugo Alonso trained at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Salamanca and completed part of his studies in Rome. His trajectory is marked by a consistent engagement with the intersection of visual culture and sound. He has held exhibitions in various institutions such as the DA2 and CEART, as well as in many international galleries in Montreal, Brussels, Paris, and Los Angeles. Alongside his exhibitions, his work has been recognized with numerous awards and has become part of significant private and public collections, including Colección SOLO, Fundación Bassat, MUSAC, DA2, and the Pilar Citoler Collection.

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SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS
Tête à Tête: Hugo Alonso et Kim Simonsson, Alzueta Gallery, Paris, France (2025)
T-10, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2025)
Limbo, Galería Llamazares, Gijón, Spain (2024)
PRELUDE of a Sci-Fi Film Noir, Galerie Youn, Montreal, Canada (2022)
CRASH, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2022)
AUDIO, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2022)
The white door, Llamazares Gallery, Gijón, Spain (2021)
Smells like teen spirit, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2021)
Undone, DA2 (Domus Artium 2002), Salamanca, Spain (2020)
November, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2017)
RAW, Galerie Youn, Montreal, Canada (2017)
Blonde, Pigment Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2016)
Pendulum, CEART, Madrid, Spain (2016)
Believers, La Salina, Salamanca, Spain (2015)
Drop, DA2 (Domus Artium 2002), Salamanca, Spain (2010)
Frederick Treves and the surgeon’s room, Salvador Díaz Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2010)
Paintingdrome, DA2 (Domus Artium 2002), Salamanca, Spain (2007)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Expedientes X, DA2 (Domus Artium 2002), Salamanca, Spain (2024)
Fundación Masaveu Exposición de la Colección, Fundación Masaveu, Madrid, Spain (2024)
La Terre est bleue comme une orange, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2024)
Winter Wonderland, GÄRNA GALLERY, Salamanca, Spain (2024)
SWAP, GÄRNA GALLERY, Salamanca, Spain (2024)
Protection No Longer Assured, SOLO Collection, Madrid, Spain (2023)
Nuevos Paisajes, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2023)
Intimate Exchanges, Mon Dieu Projects, Los Angeles, USA (2023)
New Landscapes, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2023)
Youniverse, Galerie Youn, Montreal, Canada (2022)
Floralia, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2022)
Le jardin, miroir du monde, Château du Rivau, Lémeré, France (2022)
Tender Meeting, Prairie, New York, USA (2022)
Eyes Wide Open, AEROPLASTICS, Brussels, Belgium (2022)
Come that May, AEROPLASTICS, Brussels, Belgium (2021)
The clown spirit, Ronny Van De Velde Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (2020)
Bailar de Arquitectura, Fernán Gómez, Madrid, Spain (2019)
Las formas de la luz, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2019)
Roosevelt Private Views, AEROPLASTICS, Brussels, Belgium (2019)
TOC, DA2 (Domus Artium 2002), Salamanca, Spain (2016)
Poétique quotidienne, Galerie Youn, Montreal, Canada (2016)
This is not a love song, Pera Museum, Instanbul, Turkey (2015)
Expanded light: new technologies in Spanish videoart, Telefónica Foundation, Madrid, Spain (2015)
Art and Videoclip, Loop Festival, Barcelona, Spain (2012)
Generación, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain (2008)
Della Pittura Digitalis, Caprice Horn Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2007)
Mixed Emotions, DA2 (Domus Artium 2002), Salamanca, Spain (2008)
Existence, MUSAC, León, Spain (2007)
Heterotopies, Oktogon HfBK, Dresden, Germany (2007)

ART FAIRS
DRAWING NOW, Alzueta Gallery, Paris, France (2026)
PINTA MIAMI, Galería Llamazares, Miami, USA (2025)
ESTAMPA ART FAIR, Galería Llamazares, Madrid, Spain (2025)
THE ROOMS, AEROPLASTICS, Brussles, Belgium (2025)
ESTAMPA ART FAIR, Galería Llamazares, Madrid, Spain (2024)
UVNT ART FAIR, Galería Llamazares, Madrid, Spain (2024)
ART ROTTERDAM, Alzueta Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2024)
ART ON PAPER, Alzueta Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (2023)
ARTE SANTANDER, Galería Llamazares, Santander, Spain (2023)
ART MIAMI, Alzueta Gallery, Miami, USA (2022)
ART TORONTO, Galerie Youn, Toronto, Canada (2022)
ESTAMPA, Galería Llamazares, Madrid, Spain (2022)
UVNT, Galería Llamazares, Madrid, Spain (2022)
MADRID ART WEEK, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2022)
ESTAMPA, Galería Llamazares, Madrid, Spain (2021)
ART MADRID, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2021)
JUST MAD, Galería Llamazares, Madrid, Spain (2020)
ART MIAMI, Alzueta Gallery, Miami, USA (2019)
ART TORONTO, Galerie Youn, Toronto, Canada (2019)
ART ÉLYSÉES, Alzueta Gallery, Paris, France (2019)
ART PARIS, Alzueta Gallery, Paris, France (2019)
ART MADRID, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2019)
ZONAMACO, Alzueta Gallery, CDMX, Mexico (2018)
ART MIAMI, Alzueta Gallery, Miami, USA (2018)
ART ÉLYSÉES, Alzueta Gallery, Paris, France (2018)
TEXAS CONTEMPORARY, Pigment Gallery, Houston, USA (2018)
ART MARBELLA, Alzueta Gallery, Marbella, Spain (2018)
VOLTA, Galerie Youn, Basel, Switzerland (2018)
SEATTLE ART FAIR, Galerie Youn, Seattle, USA (2018)
ART PARIS, Alzueta Gallery, Paris, France (2018)
ART ON PAPER NY, Pigment Gallery, New York, USA (2018)
ART MADRID, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid Spain (2018)
ART MIAMI, Pigment Gallery, Miami, USA (2017)
SEATTLE ART FAIR, Galerie Youn, Seattle, USA (2017)

ARTIST RESIDENCY
Nautilus Artists Residency, Lanzarote, Spain (2024)
Alzueta Artist Residency, Empordà, Spain (2024)

AWARDS
‘STUDIOLO Collection Acquisition Award’ UVNT Art Fair (2025)
‘Masaveu Fundation Acquisition Award’ UVNT Art Fair (2024)
‘Bassat Fundation Acquisition Award’ UVNT Art Fair (2024)
‘SOLO Collection Acquisition Award’ UVNT Art Fair (2023)
‘Gold Medal’ International Exhibition Valdepeñas (2022)
‘Colección Rucandio’ Prize (2019)
‘Best Solo Project’ Noca Paper Art Madrid (2016)
‘Young Painters’ Gaceta Fundation Prize (2013)
‘Young Art’ Castilla y León Institution (2011)
‘Painting Prize’ Caja España (2008)
‘Optica Videoart’ Prize (2008/2007)
‘Young Artists Prize Castilla y León’ Caja Burgos (2007)

ARTWORKS IN COLLECTIONS
STUDIOLO Collection
SOLO Collection
MUSAC (Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y León)
DA2 (Contemporary Art Museum Domus Artium 2002)
CAB (Contemporary Art Museum Burgos)
Pilar Citoler Collection
Bassat Collection
MASAVEU Foundation
BMW Foundation
CEART (Contemporary Art Museum Tomás y Valiente)
Diputación de Salamanca
Gaceta Foundation
Caja España