Amaya Suberviola

(Mendavia, Navarra, 1993)

Author's artworks

Amaya Suberviola lives and works in Bilbao, where she develops her professional career. She graduated with a BA in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), majoring in Painting and Graphic Arts, and later with an MA in Painting in 2016.

Working within the confines of abstraction, Suberviola’s painterly work focuses on an exploration of the concept of space and how it can be restricted or altered by our (always subjective) perception through the use of representative images or motifs and challenging conventional notions of what we believe to be real.

Widely viewed as one of the most important emerging Spanish artists, in 2015 she was awarded the Young Artists scholarship at Palacio Quintanar in Segovia. That same year, she received the Ágorart scholarship from the Government of Navarra to further her studies, which she also enjoyed the following year. In 2016, she received the Paisaje Altea residency scholarship in Alicante. In 2017, she won first prize in Painting at the Hotel Carlton Art Competition in Bilbao, and Galería Juan Manuel Lumbreras from Bilbao selected her for the Joven Llama Joven project, which led to the Nautilus Lanzarote residency. In 2021, she was awarded the BilbaoArte Studio Grant, the Artistic Production Grant from the Basque Government, the Ertibil Bizkaia Selection Prize and the VEGAP Production Grant. In 2022, she won the BMW Painting Award, the Mario Antolín scholarship, third prize at the Young Art Exhibition in La Rioja, the Public Art Biennial Award in Mislata, Valencia, the Huarte Production Grant in Navarra, and the Ertibil Bizkaia Selection Prize. In 2024, she will show her work at the Patrick Heide Contemporary Art gallery in London in a group show called Slow Motion.