Cristina de Miguel (b. 1987, Seville, Spain) is based in Brooklyn, NY. She received a BA in Fine Arts from the University of Seville (Spain,2010), and an MA in Fine Arts from Pratt Institute, New York (2012).

Her approach to painting is emotional, thinking in formal terms but balancing it out with a let-go attitude. De Miguel insists on the materiality of the painting by fragmenting the figure, so the figure is not the central point of the painting but the act of painting in itself.

The iconography in her work alludes to action, velocity and the possibilities of the body -bodies that melt physically, in the same way paint drips and melts too. De Miguel’s diverse range of interests and influences is both eclectic and unexpected; she draws equally from Baroque painting and the banalities of daily life and intimacy. 

Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Paintings of Through and Fell’, Allouche Benias Gallery, (Athens, 2021); ‘Life in its Poetic Form’, Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, (New York, 2020). Group exhibitions include Van de Weghe Gallery, East Hampton, New York (2021); Sim Smith Gallery, London (2020); Fredericks & Freiser, New York (2020); Herrero de Tejada, Madrid (2019).

Cristina de Miguel (b.1987, Seville, Spain)
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION

2012 Master in Fine Arts. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn (NY)
2010 Bachelor in Fine Arts. University of Seville (Spain)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021

Tennis Elbow at The Journal Gallery (upcoming), New York (NY)

Paintings of Through and Fell. Allouche Benias Gallery, Athens (Greece)

2020

Life in its Poetic Form. Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York (NY)

2019

New Paintings. Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York (NY)

2018

New Paintings. Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York (NY)

2016

Bad Habits. Freight + Volume Gallery, New York (NY)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021

Van de Weghe Gallery, East Hampton (NY)

I have an Idea! 1969 Gallery, New York (NY)

2020

Darkened by the Smoke of Candles. Sim Smith Gallery, London (UK)

The Auguries of Innocence. Fredericks & Freiser, New York (NY)

Nine to Know. Ruttkowsky; 68, Paris (France)

2019

Aullidos, Galeria. Herrero de Tejada. Madrid (Spain)

Flesh and Fantasy. Marvin Gardens, Brooklyn (NY)

2018

Fin de la Tercera Parte: El Sur. Galeria Herrero de Tejada, Madrid (Spain)

2017

Four Artists. Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York (NY)

Hard Cry. Lubov Gallery, New York (NY)

2016

Sister Outsider. Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn (NY)

De la pintura, el Sur. MAD Antequera Museum, Malaga (Spain)

RESIDENCIES / AWARDS

2013 
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

2010

Proyecto Dmencia, Casa de la Cultura de Doña Mencia, Cordoba, Spain

2009

Erasmus Scholarship. Athens, Greece