Santiago Giralda (b. 1980) is a Spanish artist whose paintings draw from art history and notably landscape painting, while also incorporating new technologies and viewpoints derived from our increasingly digitalised world. An alumna of the Pratt Institute, he begins his working process by photographing different places in cities to observe how the urban context has transformed and adapted the natural landscape. He composes images on the computer and then edits these by interspersing them with additional material he finds online, thus melding the seen, personal memory with those drawn from outside sources. The result plays with the collective unconscious – the notion that we have a collective memory bank populated by instincts as well as universal symbols - archetypal images such as the shadow, the tower, water and the tree of life.
Solo exhibitions include Maps of the Invisible, GaIerie ISA, Mumbai (2025), Honey Peak, Galerie ISA, Mumbai (2021), Four seasons, Moisés Pérez Albéniz Gallery, Madrid (2019), Beyond The Things, Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York (2019), Hábitat, Moisés Pérez Albéniz Gallery, Rivington Street 12, New York (2018), Dejar Hacer a la Sombra, (Let the shadow be),Moisés Pérez Albéniz Gallery Madrid (2015), Rendering Landscapes, ArteSantader, Solo Project, Santander (2014), Interior/Exterior, Center of Young Art, Community of Madrid (2009), Outsider, Ol-früh galerie, Hamburg, Germany (2007).
Group exhibitions include (Upcoming) Growth of the Soil, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, UK, 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Galerie ISA 9, Mumbai, India (2021), Through The Mind´s Eye, Galerie ISA, Mumbai, India (2020), Arco 2020, Contemporary art fair, Moisés Pérez Albéniz Gallery, Madrid (2020), Art India, Contemporary art fair, Galerie ISA, Mumbai, India (2020) Art India, Contemporary art fair, Galerie ISA, Mumbai, India (2020), Estampa, Contemporary art fair, Moisés Pérez Albéniz Gallery, Madrid (2020), Atracción y Resistencia, Exhibition Hall PALEXCO PALEXCO, La Coruña, Spain (2019), All In, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York (2019), Art Philippines, Contemporary art fair, 1335Mabini Gallery, Manila, The Philippines (2019), Art India, Contemporary art fair, Galerie ISA, Mumbai, India (2019), Arco 2019, Contemporary art fair, Moisés Pérez Albéniz Gallery, Madrid (2019), Pinta Miami, Contemporary art fair, Moisés Pérez Albéniz Gallery, Madrid (2018), Mythology Assembled, Dispelled, Steuben Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York (2018), Estampa, Contemporary art fair, Moisés Pérez Albéniz Gallery, Madrid (2018), Dissonances, 1335 Mabini Gallery, Manila, The Phillipines (2018), Art Basel Hong Kong, Contemporary art fair, 1335Mabini, Hong Kong, China (2018), Arco 2018, Contemporary art fair, Moisés Pérez Albéniz Gallery, Madrid (2018).
Highlights & Collections
Santiago has many notable highlights and collections, including Entrecanales Collection, Toledo, Iberdrola Collection, Madrid, Ministry of Culture, Madrid, Union, Fenosa, La Coruña, DKV Collection, Valencia, Cajamadrid Social Work, Madrid, Caja de, Murcia Foundation, Murcia,Art Collection, El Brocense Museum, Cáceres, Bancaja Foundation, Valencia, Car riegos Foundation, León, City Council of Arenas de San Pedro, Ávila, Superior Council of Sports, Madrid, La Gaceta Foundation, Salamanca, City Council of Cambre, A Coruña, City Council of Bujalance, Córdoba.