After graduating in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1983, Pilar Insertis was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1988 to travel to New York, where she lived for four years. In 1989 she obtained the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (Long Island, USA). In 1993 she travelled to Rome on a grant from the Spanish Academy of History, Archaeology and Fine Arts, and lived there for a year.
Even though her initial output comprised mainly paintings and sculptures, she soon began using the new computer technologies in her work, with forms of artistic expression such as video, 3D animation and computer graphics. Her works are brimming with symbolism and double meanings and are open to multiple interpretations depending on who is looking at them. As María Teresa Román explains: ‘A landscape coloured by symbols and metaphors, a fertile space where the imagination overflows, causing evocative images of moods, where colour, verticality, human and animal form, the sphere, the demiurgic and the protean come together to create an atmosphere of potentiality, mystery and plenitude’.
In 1986 her first solo show took place at the Edurne Gallery in Madrid. Immediately afterwards Insertis was selected to take part in the ‘1981-1986. Pintores y escultores españoles’ [‘1981-1986. Spanish Painters and Sculptors’] group exhibition organised by the La Caixa savings bank and curated by María de Corral, in which her works were shown alongside those of Susana Solano, Miquel Barceló, Juan Muñoz and others. From then on, Insertis’s work was regularly exhibited at the Antonio Machón Gallery in Madrid and at many other art galleries, museums and foundations including the Kunsthaus (Nuremberg, Germany, 1988); the Zolla Lieberman Gallery (Chicago, United States, 1991); the ICO Museum (Madrid, 1993); the Pilar y Joan Miró Foundation (Palma, 1994); the John D. Mooney Foundation (Chicago, United States, 1997) and the Raab Galerie (Berlin, 2003) to name but a few.
After graduating in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1983, Pilar Insertis was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1988 to travel to New York, where she lived for four years. In 1989 she obtained the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant (Long Island, USA). In 1993 she travelled to Rome on a grant from the Spanish Academy of History, Archaeology and Fine Arts, and lived there for a year.
Even though her initial output comprised mainly paintings and sculptures, she soon began using the new computer technologies in her work, with forms of artistic expression such as video, 3D animation and computer graphics. Her works are brimming with symbolism and double meanings and are open to multiple interpretations depending on who is looking at them. As María Teresa Román explains: ‘A landscape coloured by symbols and metaphors, a fertile space where the imagination overflows, causing evocative images of moods, where colour, verticality, human and animal form, the sphere, the demiurgic and the protean come together to create an atmosphere of potentiality, mystery and plenitude’.
In 1986 her first solo show took place at the Edurne Gallery in Madrid. Immediately afterwards Insertis was selected to take part in the ‘1981-1986. Pintores y escultores españoles’ [‘1981-1986. Spanish Painters and Sculptors’] group exhibition organised by the La Caixa savings bank and curated by María de Corral, in which her works were shown alongside those of Susana Solano, Miquel Barceló, Juan Muñoz and others. From then on, Insertis’s work was regularly exhibited at the Antonio Machón Gallery in Madrid and at many other art galleries, museums and foundations including the Kunsthaus (Nuremberg, Germany, 1988); the Zolla Lieberman Gallery (Chicago, United States, 1991); the ICO Museum (Madrid, 1993); the Pilar y Joan Miró Foundation (Palma, 1994); the John D. Mooney Foundation (Chicago, United States, 1997) and the Raab Galerie (Berlin, 2003) to name but a few.