María Burgaz Biography

Established Spanish painter María Burgaz works in a figurative style with definite pop influences.

Burgaz received a Fine Arts degree from the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. While still a young painter, she has a substantial résumé built by frenetic activity during the past ten years or so. She has hung her canvases in innumerable salons and galleries, always provoking public interest with her extremely personal conception of painting.

Her work has also been recognized by the numerous contests in which she has participated—and often won—and forms part of many public and private collections.

Burgaz’s painting is a color explosion in which she compartmentalizes all types of narrative themes, combining realism with abstraction and decorative motifs. So strong is the imagery in her work that it is difficult not to be caught up in it.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005
- JVGespacio, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
- Nave del arte, Madrid, Spain.
- Sala Enquadres, Valladolid, Spain.

2004
- Galería 1arte, Madrid, Spain.

2003
- Nave del Arte, Madrid Spain.
- Sala Palestra, Madrid, Spain.

2001
- Sala Municipal de Exposiciones Antonio Machado, Leganés, Madrid, Spain.

2000
- Sala Singisenforum, Muri, Switzerland.

1999
- Galería Estudio Fuentes, Madrid, Spain.
- Atrium Kunstkamer Gallery, Maastricht (Netherlands).
- Art Print Gallery, Madrid, Spain.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2006
- PicassoMio.com

2004
- VI Certamen de Artes Plásticas Sala el Brocensa, Museo Pedrilla, Cáceres, Spain.
- Museo Textil, Plasencia, Spain.
- Exposición de la Colección de C.C.O.O., Centro Cultural Isabel de Farnesio, Aranjuez, Madrid, Spain.

2003
- V Certamen de Artes Plásticas Sala El Brocence, Cáceres, Spain.
- American Prints, Madrid, Barcelona, Spain.
- Certamen Nacional de Pintura, Velilla de San Antonio, Madrid, Spain.
- Miami Art Gallery, Miami, United States.
- Tercer Certamen del Bulevar de la Sidra, Oviedo, Spain.
- Centro de Cultura "Antiguo Instituto" ,Gijón, Spain.

2002
- V Certamen de Artes Plásticas Sala el Brocense, Cáceres, Spain.
- I Certamen Nacional de Pintura Gloria Merino, C. Cultural Sta. Teresa, Malagón (C. Real), Spain.

AWARDS AND HONORS:

2005
- Finalist V Certamen Pintura contemporánea Fundación Wellington.

2003
- Honorable Mention VIII Certamen Unipublic de Pintura Deportiva.

2002
- Honorable Mention XVIII Concurso de Pintura de Guadarrama, Centro Cultural "La Torre".

2001
- Acquisition Prize Adquisición L Certamen Nacional de Pintura de Gibraleón, Huelva.
- Acquisition Prize IV Certamen de Pintura "Villa de Valdemoro".
- Selected Artist I y II Certamen Nacional de Pintura "El Pincel Verde", Sala A. Machado, Leganés.

MUSEUMS & COLLECTIONS:

- Ayuntamiento de Gibraleón, Huelva, Spain.
- Ayuntamiento de Valdemoro, Madrid, Spain.
- Gran Casino de Madrid, Spain.
- Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Spain.
- Ayuntamiento de Martos, Jaén, Spain.
- Ayuntamiento de Horche, Guadalajara, Spain.
- Excma. Diputación Provincial. de Alicante, Spain.
- Ayuntamiento de Fregenal de la Sierra, Badajoz, Spain.
- Castillo de la Coracera, San Martín de Valdeiglesias, Madrid, Spain.
- Universidad de Extremadura, Spain.
- Collection of UNED, Spain.
- Collection of Caja Madrid, Spain.
- Collection of Fundación de Fútbol Profesional, Spain.