Paloma Navares

Navares was born in Burgos, Spain. She lives and works in Madrid and Alicante in Spain. In 1985-1986 she created the video installation and performance Seravan; A Song for a Fallen Tree and Origin and Moonlit Nights which were mainly exhibited in art centers and museums in Europe. In 1997-98 she did the scenery design for The House of Forgetfulness and Bodies of Shadow and Light with the company Lanonima Imperial. In 2004 she did a scenery design project for the opera Juana by Enric Palomar, first performed in 2005 at the Opera House in Halle. Since beginning her art career in 1979, she has exhibited in more than one hundred venues worldwide, most notably at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig in Viena, Kubo Kutxa Fundazioa in San Sebastián, the MUSAC Museum of Contemporary Art in León, and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid In the later exhibition, she contrasted her longtime investigation of the representation of the female body in classical art with original works from the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection. Her work has been seen in art fairs and art biennials. • Illustration — Paloma Navares. ARCO'09. Madrid. Spain. In 2018 Paloma Navares was awarded the MAV Price (Women in the Visual Arts) recognizing her contributions in a long career. In 2024, the ENAIRE Foundation awarded her with the Trayectoria Prize, “for a life dedicated to artistic creation, exploring the limits of a theme that, in a perceptive way at the beginning and decisively later, becomes a mantra without seeking it: the feminine universe.” The ENAIRE Foundation also organized a solo retrospective exhibition of her work at the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid.

Paloma Navares is recorded with the occupation poet. Recorded as artist, poet and illustrator.