Erlea Maneros Zabala's work stems out of an interest in mass-media imagery and the way it is filtered, disseminated, received and mechanically reproduced. Starting from processes that draw on the medium-analysis to be found in 1970s art, Maneros Zabala develops techniques that operate through a search for points of friction. These include the models of capitalist production that promulgate division of labour and specialisation — as opposed to the artisan models of yesteryear that sought to broaden knowledge — but also the effect these processes have had on art. Maneros Zabala studied and now lives in the US. From an American context, she often uses painting — and more specifically abstract expressionism — to reflect on the art production, immediacy and masculinity historically associated with models that have come to prevail globally. In this process, she finds links to the effects of a colonialism still found in the present, in very diverse expressions.
Erlea Maneros Zabala was born in Bilbao in 1977. She holds a BA in art from the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland and an MA in Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts (Los Angeles). She participated in Manifesta 8 (Murcia) and has held solo exhibitions at Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz (2022); San Telmo Museoa, Donostia / San Sebastian (2020); MNCARS (Madrid, 2016); the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, with Xabier Salaberria and Iñaki Garmendia (2013); Reva and the David Logan Center for Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Chicago (2012); REDCAT, Los Angeles (2011); Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City (2011); Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen (2011); Seamen's Art Club, Hamburg (2008) and Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (2007).
She has also shown work in group exhibitions at Tabakalera, Donostia (2021); Bilbao Museum of Fine Arts (2018); CAPC, Bordeaux (2017), Bombas Gens Centre d'Art, Valencia (2017); CA2M, Madrid (2010); Ballroom Marfa, Texas (2010), Montehermoso Cultural Centre, Vitoria-Gasteiz (2009) and Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (2007), among others.
Her work can be found in collections such as MNCARS, Guggenheim Museum, Artium, Helga de Alvear Foundation, Glasgow School of Art, Iberdrola Foundation, Banco Sabadell Collection, Per Amor a l'Art, San Telmo Museoa and Banco de España Collection among others.
She divides her time between Lekeitio and Joshua Tree (California). In 2018, she won the Gure Artea award.
Erlea Maneros Zabala's work stems out of an interest in mass-media imagery and the way it is filtered, disseminated, received and mechanically reproduced. Starting from processes that draw on the medium-analysis to be found in 1970s art, Maneros Zabala develops techniques that operate through a search for points of friction. These include the models of capitalist production that promulgate division of labour and specialisation — as opposed to the artisan models of yesteryear that sought to broaden knowledge — but also the effect these processes have had on art. Maneros Zabala studied and now lives in the US. From an American context, she often uses painting — and more specifically abstract expressionism — to reflect on the art production, immediacy and masculinity historically associated with models that have come to prevail globally. In this process, she finds links to the effects of a colonialism still found in the present, in very diverse expressions.
Erlea Maneros Zabala was born in Bilbao in 1977. She holds a BA in art from the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland and an MA in Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts (Los Angeles). She participated in Manifesta 8 (Murcia) and has held solo exhibitions at Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz (2022); San Telmo Museoa, Donostia / San Sebastian (2020); MNCARS (Madrid, 2016); the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, with Xabier Salaberria and Iñaki Garmendia (2013); Reva and the David Logan Center for Creative and Performing Arts at the University of Chicago (2012); REDCAT, Los Angeles (2011); Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City (2011); Kunsthall 3,14, Bergen (2011); Seamen's Art Club, Hamburg (2008) and Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (2007).
She has also shown work in group exhibitions at Tabakalera, Donostia (2021); Bilbao Museum of Fine Arts (2018); CAPC, Bordeaux (2017), Bombas Gens Centre d'Art, Valencia (2017); CA2M, Madrid (2010); Ballroom Marfa, Texas (2010), Montehermoso Cultural Centre, Vitoria-Gasteiz (2009) and Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (2007), among others.
Her work can be found in collections such as MNCARS, Guggenheim Museum, Artium, Helga de Alvear Foundation, Glasgow School of Art, Iberdrola Foundation, Banco Sabadell Collection, Per Amor a l'Art, San Telmo Museoa and Banco de España Collection among others.
She divides her time between Lekeitio and Joshua Tree (California). In 2018, she won the Gure Artea award.