Education
2016-2019
DPHIL ART PRACTICE RUSKIN SCHOOL OF ART. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
2013-2015
MA PAINTING SCHOOL OF FINE ART. ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, LONDON
2012-2002
BA ARCHITECTURE. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE. UNIVERSIDAD EUROPEA DE MADRID/UEM
2009-2002
BA FINE ARTS. SCHOOL OF ART AND COMMUNICATION. UNIVERSIDAD EUROPEA DE MADRID/UEM
SCHOLARSHIPS
& PRIZES
2021
TBA21 &STARS4WATER RESIDENCY AWARD, Ocean Space, Venice w/Leonor Serrano
2020
VISUAL ARTS PRODUCTION GRANT / Comunidad de Madrid
2020
VISUAL ARTS PRODUCTION GRANT / Ministry of Culture of Spain
2019
Funding & Award: Cervezas Alhambra/ARCO. Emergent artist (production prize), ES
2018
AHRC DOCTORAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
2017
AHRC DOCTORAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
2017
PAULO CUNHA E SILVA PRIZE. SHORTLISTED
2016
AHRC DOCTORAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
2016
Premio Generación 2017. Fundación Montemadrid. Madrid
2015
Selección Residencia Artistica. Feria BARCU. Bogotá
2014
Lucy Halford Bursary. Royal College of Art. London
2014
The Windfall Bursary 2013/2014. Royal College of Art. London
2013
RCA (HEFCE) Student Bursary 2013/2014. Royal College of Art. Londres
2013
Lafarge / COAM. Mención Especial. LAFARGE. Toledo
2013
TRANSITARTE. Accésit 1. Ministerio de Cultura, Gobierno de España
2013
OPERALAB/ BMW. Honor mention. Opera Nardonova. Warsaw, Polonia
SOLO/DUO SHOWS
2023
SUPERSALUDO (CABEZA BORRADORA) @CAB, BURGOS
2021
A WARMTH FROM WITHIN W/JULIUS HEINEMANN, F2 GALERÍA MADRID
2020
SELF REFLECTIVE. w/ Ludovica Carbotta. CentroCentro. Madrid
2018
CIELO Y SOL DORADO DE LA SIESTA. F2 Galería, Madrid
2017
NO SIEMPRE QUE ESTUVIMOS/ ESTUVIMOS C.I. Nuevo Baztán. Madrid
2016
THERE´S ROOM FOR INSOMNIA (with JUNE CRESPO). Fluent, Santander
2016
A SUMMER GAME INSIDE A LIGHT STAGE. Trastero 109. Palma de Mallorca
2015
AGÜEROS DE LOS NUESTROS. Solo-Project BARCÚ, Bogotá
2015
ON DISTRACTION, F2 Galería. Madrid
2014
TO CRAFT/TO REMEMBER, Galería Alegría, Madrid
2012
ASIMETRIES, Instituto Antonio Machado, Soria
2011
DESDOCUMENTACIONES, Casa de Castilla León. Havana
GROUP SHOWS
2021
CLARO DEL BOSQUE. Intersticio. Madrid
2019
UNA DIMENSIÓN ULTERIOR. Museo Patio Herreriano. Valladolid
2018
DER DUFT DER BILDER. Kunst- und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen. Rüsselsheim am Main
2018
QUERER PARECER NOCHE. CA2M, Madrid
2018
V22 YOUNG LONDON. V22, London
2018
YA NO NOS IMPORTA. Centro Arte Joven Comunidad de Madrid
2017
FRAGMENTS OF STALE TIME. Lychee One, London
2017
TRICK´N´TREAT. Yaby. Madrid
2017
NO SIEMPRE QUE ESTUVIMOS/ ESTUVIMOS C.I. Museo Nuevo Baztán. Madrid
2017
GENERACIONES 2017. Casa Encendida, Madrid
2016
THE STORK OFFERS THE FOX LUSCIOUS GRAPES. Squash. México DF
2015
IF IT BENDS ITS FUNNY. Hosted at Bosse & Baum Gallery, London
2015
DEGREE SHOW 2015. Royal College of Art. London
2015
CASA LEIBNIZ. Palacio de Santa Bárbara. Madrid
2015
¿POR QUÉ NO LO LLAMAS ENTROPÍA? Galería Tiro al blanco. Guadalajara
2015
CASA LEIBNIZ. Palacio de Santa Bárbara. Madrid
2014
VULPES VULPES OPEN 2014. VulpesVulpes. London
2014
CALL 2014. Galería Luis Adelantado, Valencia
2013
LICENCIAS. Espacio Trapèzio. Madrid
2011
INSIDE / OUTSIDE, All-over gallerie. Lyon
2010
LOOP FESTIVAL DE VIDEOARTE. Barcelona
2009
JULKINEN KÄTKO/PUBLIC STASH, Gallería Virka, Helsinki
2008
VIDEOQUIMARA, 3H+K Gallery, Pori
2007
BLOG07:TODAS DIRECCIONES. Centro Arte Joven Com de Madrid
Workshops
& Events
2022
TBA21 &STARS4WATER PERFORMANCE "BREATHINGS OF THE MOON", Ocean Space, Venice w/Leonor Serrano
2020
NARRATIVA & TEXTIL. Handsthinking/UEM. Universidad Europea de Madrid.
2018
ELOQUENT THINGS. Presentación. Ashmolean Museum. Oxford
2018
JORNADAS DE ESTUDIO DE LA IMAGEN XXV. MUNDANIZAR EL MUNDO. CA2M. Madrid
2015
ARTIST TALK, Barcú. Bogotá
2015
ARTIST TALK, Christies Education. Londres
2014
CAFÉ DOSSIER. Tabacalera. Madrid
2013
RUIMTESTAN/ EME. Espacio POOL, UCM Madrid
2011
MURALISTS OF THE GRAN BALLET, workshop. National Ballet / AECID / Spanish Embassy. Havana
2010
SEMANA DE ARTE PÚBLICO Y ARQUITECTURA, Santos de Maimona, Badajoz
2022
BOOK PRESENTATION and Round Table @IvoryPress Madrid, April 2022
As an architect, artist and researcher, his work spins around the studio practice and into the making, with regards to reconstruction, repetition and re-interpretation of a pre modern culture in regression. Diego Delas looks at certain vernacular architectural motifs — those related to storytelling and magical thinking — functioning as or embodying notions of a certain modernist drive, that of optimism and renovation that make the house be regarded as a familiar body sustained by memories, repetitions and populated with spells and amulets. Through the use of site-specific installation, his works revolves around issues such as subjective memory and the use of architecture and ornamental programs for storytelling.
Delas studied Architecture and Fine Arts in Madrid before moving to London to obtain a MA Painting at the Royal College of Art and a PhD at the Ruskin College of Art, University of Oxford while being honored to be beneficiary of prestigious grants and prizes such as the AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership, University of Oxford (2016-2019). He was also shortlisted by Cervezas Alhambra Emergent Art Award (2019), Paulo Cunha e Silva Prize (2017), Generación 2017 Award by Fundación Montemadrid, Madrid, Spain (2016); was selected for an artistic residence in Feria BARCU, Bogotá, Colombia (2015); he also was granted with a Lucy Halford Bursary, a Windfall Bursary and a RCA (HEFCE) Student Bursary for Royal College of Art, London (2013-2014); was awarded with a special mention at Lafarge/COAM, Toledo, Spain (2013); won Transitarte prize, Culture dept. Government of Spain (2013) and obtained an honorific mention at OPERALAB/BMW, Opera Nardonova, Warsaw, Poland (2013).
Being exhibited internationally with solo and group shows, his work has also been acquisitioned by art collections like those of MUSAC Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y León (ES), Montemadrid Foundation (ES), DKV Collection (ES), Kells Collection (ES) or Carlos Vallejo Collection (ES).
Diego Delas
ARANDA DE DUERO
SPAIN (1983)
As an architect, artist and researcher, his work spins around the studio practice and into the making, with regards to reconstruction, repetition and re-interpretation of a pre modern culture in regression. Diego Delas looks at certain vernacular architectural motifs — those related to storytelling and magical thinking — functioning as or embodying notions of a certain modernist drive, that of optimism and renovation that make the house be regarded as a familiar body sustained by memories, repetitions and populated with spells and amulets. Through the use of site-specific installation, his works revolves around issues such as subjective memory and the use of architecture and ornamental programs for storytelling.
Delas studied Architecture and Fine Arts in Madrid before moving to London to obtain a MA Painting at the Royal College of Art and a PhD at the Ruskin College of Art, University of Oxford while being honored to be beneficiary of prestigious grants and prizes such as the AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership, University of Oxford (2016-2019). He was also shortlisted by Cervezas Alhambra Emergent Art Award (2019), Paulo Cunha e Silva Prize (2017), Generación 2017 Award by Fundación Montemadrid, Madrid, Spain (2016); was selected for an artistic residence in Feria BARCU, Bogotá, Colombia (2015); he also was granted with a Lucy Halford Bursary, a Windfall Bursary and a RCA (HEFCE) Student Bursary for Royal College of Art, London (2013-2014); was awarded with a special mention at Lafarge/COAM, Toledo, Spain (2013); won Transitarte prize, Culture dept. Government of Spain (2013) and obtained an honorific mention at OPERALAB/BMW, Opera Nardonova, Warsaw, Poland (2013).
Being exhibited internationally with solo and group shows, his work has also been acquisitioned by art collections like those of MUSAC Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y León (ES), Montemadrid Foundation (ES), DKV Collection (ES), Kells Collection (ES) or Carlos Vallejo Collection (ES).
Education
2016-2019
DPHIL ART PRACTICE RUSKIN SCHOOL OF ART. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
2013-2015
MA PAINTING SCHOOL OF FINE ART. ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, LONDON
2012-2002
BA ARCHITECTURE. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE. UNIVERSIDAD EUROPEA DE MADRID/UEM
2009-2002
BA FINE ARTS. SCHOOL OF ART AND COMMUNICATION. UNIVERSIDAD EUROPEA DE MADRID/UEM
SCHOLARSHIPS
& PRIZES
2021
TBA21 &STARS4WATER RESIDENCY AWARD, Ocean Space, Venice w/Leonor Serrano
2020
VISUAL ARTS PRODUCTION GRANT / Comunidad de Madrid
2020
VISUAL ARTS PRODUCTION GRANT / Ministry of Culture of Spain
2019
Funding & Award: Cervezas Alhambra/ARCO. Emergent artist (production prize), ES
2018
AHRC DOCTORAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
2017
AHRC DOCTORAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
2017
PAULO CUNHA E SILVA PRIZE. SHORTLISTED
2016
AHRC DOCTORAL TRAINING PARTNERSHIP. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
2016
Premio Generación 2017. Fundación Montemadrid. Madrid
2015
Selección Residencia Artistica. Feria BARCU. Bogotá
2014
Lucy Halford Bursary. Royal College of Art. London
2014
The Windfall Bursary 2013/2014. Royal College of Art. London
2013
RCA (HEFCE) Student Bursary 2013/2014. Royal College of Art. Londres
2013
Lafarge / COAM. Mención Especial. LAFARGE. Toledo
2013
TRANSITARTE. Accésit 1. Ministerio de Cultura, Gobierno de España
2013
OPERALAB/ BMW. Honor mention. Opera Nardonova. Warsaw, Polonia
SOLO/DUO SHOWS
2023
SUPERSALUDO (CABEZA BORRADORA) @CAB, BURGOS
2021
A WARMTH FROM WITHIN W/JULIUS HEINEMANN, F2 GALERÍA MADRID
2020
SELF REFLECTIVE. w/ Ludovica Carbotta. CentroCentro. Madrid
2018
CIELO Y SOL DORADO DE LA SIESTA. F2 Galería, Madrid
2017
NO SIEMPRE QUE ESTUVIMOS/ ESTUVIMOS C.I. Nuevo Baztán. Madrid
2016
THERE´S ROOM FOR INSOMNIA (with JUNE CRESPO). Fluent, Santander
2016
A SUMMER GAME INSIDE A LIGHT STAGE. Trastero 109. Palma de Mallorca
2015
AGÜEROS DE LOS NUESTROS. Solo-Project BARCÚ, Bogotá
2015
ON DISTRACTION, F2 Galería. Madrid
2014
TO CRAFT/TO REMEMBER, Galería Alegría, Madrid
2012
ASIMETRIES, Instituto Antonio Machado, Soria
2011
DESDOCUMENTACIONES, Casa de Castilla León. Havana
GROUP SHOWS
2021
CLARO DEL BOSQUE. Intersticio. Madrid
2019
UNA DIMENSIÓN ULTERIOR. Museo Patio Herreriano. Valladolid
2018
DER DUFT DER BILDER. Kunst- und Kulturstiftung Opelvillen. Rüsselsheim am Main
2018
QUERER PARECER NOCHE. CA2M, Madrid
2018
V22 YOUNG LONDON. V22, London
2018
YA NO NOS IMPORTA. Centro Arte Joven Comunidad de Madrid
2017
FRAGMENTS OF STALE TIME. Lychee One, London
2017
TRICK´N´TREAT. Yaby. Madrid
2017
NO SIEMPRE QUE ESTUVIMOS/ ESTUVIMOS C.I. Museo Nuevo Baztán. Madrid
2017
GENERACIONES 2017. Casa Encendida, Madrid
2016
THE STORK OFFERS THE FOX LUSCIOUS GRAPES. Squash. México DF
2015
IF IT BENDS ITS FUNNY. Hosted at Bosse & Baum Gallery, London
2015
DEGREE SHOW 2015. Royal College of Art. London
2015
CASA LEIBNIZ. Palacio de Santa Bárbara. Madrid
2015
¿POR QUÉ NO LO LLAMAS ENTROPÍA? Galería Tiro al blanco. Guadalajara
2015
CASA LEIBNIZ. Palacio de Santa Bárbara. Madrid
2014
VULPES VULPES OPEN 2014. VulpesVulpes. London
2014
CALL 2014. Galería Luis Adelantado, Valencia
2013
LICENCIAS. Espacio Trapèzio. Madrid
2011
INSIDE / OUTSIDE, All-over gallerie. Lyon
2010
LOOP FESTIVAL DE VIDEOARTE. Barcelona
2009
JULKINEN KÄTKO/PUBLIC STASH, Gallería Virka, Helsinki
2008
VIDEOQUIMARA, 3H+K Gallery, Pori
2007
BLOG07:TODAS DIRECCIONES. Centro Arte Joven Com de Madrid
Workshops
& Events
2022
TBA21 &STARS4WATER PERFORMANCE "BREATHINGS OF THE MOON", Ocean Space, Venice w/Leonor Serrano
2020
NARRATIVA & TEXTIL. Handsthinking/UEM. Universidad Europea de Madrid.
2018
ELOQUENT THINGS. Presentación. Ashmolean Museum. Oxford
2018
JORNADAS DE ESTUDIO DE LA IMAGEN XXV. MUNDANIZAR EL MUNDO. CA2M. Madrid
2015
ARTIST TALK, Barcú. Bogotá
2015
ARTIST TALK, Christies Education. Londres
2014
CAFÉ DOSSIER. Tabacalera. Madrid
2013
RUIMTESTAN/ EME. Espacio POOL, UCM Madrid
2011
MURALISTS OF THE GRAN BALLET, workshop. National Ballet / AECID / Spanish Embassy. Havana
2010
SEMANA DE ARTE PÚBLICO Y ARQUITECTURA, Santos de Maimona, Badajoz
2022
BOOK PRESENTATION and Round Table @IvoryPress Madrid, April 2022