BIOGRAPHY
Nassra Musa (B. 2000, Madrid, Spain) is a Filipino-Sudanese artist based in Málaga working across painting and drawing.
CV
FORMATION:
-Master degree in Interdisciplinary Artistic Production (Faculty of Fine Arts of Málaga, 2025) (Distinction)
-Master degree in Character Design (University Center of Technology and Digital Art (U-Tad), Madrid, 2023)
-BA Faculty of Málaga, 2022 (Distinction)
EXHIBITIONS:
-ESTAMPA, Galería Daniel Cuevas (Madrid, 2025)
-Extra-pintura, Galería Daniel Cuevas (Madrid, 2025)
-Open Studio, MUS residency (Madrid, 2025)
-Open Studio, Interdisciplinary Artistic Production (Faculty of Fine Arts of Málaga, 2025)
-RAMA, La Casa Amarilla and Centro Cultural Malagueta (Málaga, 2025)
-Piña, La Casa Amarilla (Málaga, 2025)
-Emergente, Hotel Lima (Marbella, 2024)
-REDtirada, Malaga´s Rectorate (Málaga, 2024)
-Estival, La Casa Amarilla (Málaga, 2023)
-Piña, La Casa Amarilla (Málaga, 2022)
-Fase Rem, Nítido Art Gallery (Marbella, 2022)
-Persona, Holy Art Gallery (London, 2022)
GRANTS & TALKS:
-MUS Artist Residency (Madrid, 2025)
-Press release for ESTAMPA Art Fair 2025: https://galeriadanielcuevas.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Nota-de-Prensa-Estampa25.pdf (Madrid, 2025)
‑Round table at the UNIA reading space with UMA Editorial and the Vice-Rectorate of Culture within the framework of the Málaga Book Fair, 2025
‑Participation and Awarding of Artwork in the Auction Held at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Málaga (Málaga, 2025)
-Finalist in the Avantia Foundation Painting Prize, 2022
STATEMENT
Through painting, I explore hybrid and displaced bodies—forms that inhabit the threshold between the human and the Other—where the fragmentation of the environment becomes essential for the transformation of these beings.
In these scenarios, I encounter natural states of disintegration and transformation, creating images in which otherness and nature intertwine to question the given forms of dwelling and belonging, using the figure of the monster as a metaphor for what does not fit, for what is uncomfortable, for what overflows. Painting thus becomes a kind of ritual of affirmation.
Against the logic of pure identity, compulsory rootedness, and a single language, my work proposes an aesthetics of the in-between: broken spaces, hybrid identities, wandering bodies, decoupled forms… collages of times, environments, and identities where the monstrous is not a threat—it is home.