Elo Vega

Huelva 1967

By: BDE Banco de España

A visual artist and researcher with a PhD in Arts and Humanities Research, Elo Vega addresses social, political, and gender issues from an anti-patriarchal feminist perspective through artistic projects that serve both as a means of cultural criticism and as a political instrument. Her audiovisual productions, exhibitions, publications, interventions in public spaces, web-based works, courses, and workshops explore the processes of ideology creation and transmission, as well as identity construction.

She has been awarded various exchange scholarships with the École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes Saint-Nazaire (France); the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras en la Benemérita Universidad de Puebla (Mexico); the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (Tijuana, Mexico); the Facultad de Bellas Artes de la Universidad de Granada (Spain); and Programa de Estudios de Género de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico City). In 2021, she received the AECID-MAEC scholarship as an artist-in-residence at the Academia de España in Rome.

Vega has participated in group pedagogical projects and exhibitions focusing mainly on the construction of history, memory, and identities at numerous cultural institutions across Europe and Latin America, including the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (Seville, Spain); the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain); the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea de Barcelona (Spain); the Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporáneo (Santiago de Compostela, Spain); the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona (Spain); the Museo ICO (Madrid, Spain); the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain); the Museo Picasso de Barcelona (Spain); the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (Valencia, Spain); the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (León, Spain); Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani (Palma de Mallorca, Spain); and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Santiago, Chile).