María Aparici studies at the School of Applied Arts in Burgos and later moves to the USA where she completes her training, graduating in interior design from the New School for Social Research of New York (1988-1992). Back in Madrid, she continues to study painting with Amadeo Roca and finally obtains a Master’s degree in painting from the Academy of Fine Arts at Madrid’s Complutense University.

She has solo exhibitions in Davos, Switzerland (1998) and in Cincinnati, OH (2001). It is in the US where she participates in a number of group exhibitions, to cite but a few in New York, Ward Nasse, Montserrat and Chelsea Galleries (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003). She also showed some of her work at New York’s Artexpo (2001). In Spain she has shown work in solo exhibitions at the Victoria Hidalgo (2000) and Orfila galleries (2004, 2006, 2014, 2020), as well as Galería Agurcho Iruretagoyena in Pamplona (2004) and Akka in Valencia (2005). She participates in a variety of art fairs, such as InterArte Valencia (2000), Arte Santander (2001), Arte Sevilla and Arte Madrid (2004), FIABCN Barcelona (2016 and 2021). In the more recent years, Aparici develops a wide array of activities, showing some work at exhibitions like Women’s Essence, the Pons Foundation Madrid (2018) and especially on an international level in London, Berlin, Pescia and Milan, New Delhi, Basle, Lisbon and Rome. Aparici has been distinguished with numerous prizes, such as Premio Scienza del Museo d’Arte e Scienza of Milan (2015) and recently, in 2019 and 2020, with the Michelangelo, Botticelli and Frida Kahlo Prizes in Italy where she has been invited to participate, in 2021, in the next Florence Biennale. Also, she was named “Artist of the Year” by the Palm Art Award.

Aparici’s work can be found in corporate and private collections, such as Germany’s Daimler Collection, Investcorp of Bahrein and Cushman & Wakefield in Madrid.

2020

Milan: Artisti Space Watt – April

Madrid: Galeria Orfila, We Women – November 2020

Art Screen TV on Artsy. Online Exhibition (December 2020-January 21)

2021

Sala Aires, Un Grito por el Arte. Córdoba, Spain (January-February)

ITSLIQUID International Art Fair: Contemporary Venice (January-February)

Contemporary Art Curator Magazine “Infinite Dreams – Artists of the Future”. Online exhibition (January-June)

MADS Milano, International Contemporary Exhibition “ROMANTICA – Shape of my Art”. Italy (April-May)

Group Exhibition with Monat Gallery “Collector’s Vision”, Madrid (July-August)

Singulart Online Gallery, selected in the collection of Tracey Emin, (August)

Paris Art Fair with Monat Gallery, France (September)

Art Screen TV Digital Exhibition at Art Basel, CH (September)

Florence Biennale, Italy (October)

Aequilibrium, Arte Borgo, Rome, Italy (October-November)

FIABCN. Barcelona, Spain (December)

2022

Group Exhibition Monat (dates to be determined)

Winter Digital Exhibition on Artsy with ArtScreenTV, (Feb.-March)

Art3F International Contemporary Art Fair, Paris (June)

Hyperion Hotel with ArtScreen TV, during Art Basel (June)

Art3F Salon international d’Art Contemporain, Luxemburg (September)

4th Barcelona Biennale at MEAM Museum, Francesco and Salvatore Russo (November)

I was born in Valencia, land of painters. Manuel Benedito Vives, great portraitist and disciple of Sorolla, was my great grand uncle, a world of men. I got my painting degree late, but like Goethe said: ”When you are 60, everything begins anew”. I have crossed that line and am much better for it. We women should be symbols of civilization, it is unbelievable how much it costs us to convince under equal conditions when these are so unequal most of the time, and if we haven’t achieved it yet, it is due to the lack of help and support amongst ourselves. As an artist I shall defend to the utmost, whilst I still have the strength, the values of my painting, independently of my female condition. I have a strong and original temperament, an immense artistic sensitivity, am pathologically emotional, alternate between states of happiness and living sadness drowned in misery, am very conscious of my surroundings, and to create expressions of the outside which describe the essential, I look inside. Inside and outside unite in harmony in order to achieve an interpretation that is free of irrelevance, even if at times it turns out grotesque.

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