Rosalía Banet

Rosalía Banet is a multidisciplinary Spanish artist born in 1972 in Madrid. She holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Vigo, earned in 2003, and is known for her artistic practice that always begins with drawing. Banet works across various media including painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video, and recently printmaking. Her work critically explores themes around the human body and its diseases, food systems, consumer society, and the relationship with nature and territory. Banet's projects often reflect on societal excesses, imbalances, and the unsustainable aspects of contemporary life, particularly focusing on food consumption and its wider social, political, and environmental implications.

Her creative process typically starts with detailed drawing, which serves as the foundation for projects that take diverse forms such as paintings, sculptures, installations, and audiovisual pieces. Banet's work distinctly combines symbolic imagery—such as the "black stomach" inspired by Japanese culture and "candy day" practices—to articulate complex social critiques, especially concerning health, food quality, and consumerism. She employs ecological materials like plastic resin, emphasizing sustainability in her art-making.

Regarding education, Banet graduated with a Fine Arts degree from the University of Vigo in 1996 and subsequently completed a doctoral thesis examining the impact of AIDS in Spanish art through the lens of the wounded body, a recurring motif in her oeuvre. She has also been awarded prestigious fellowships and residencies including a scholarship from the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome (2016/17), an artist residency at Casa de Velázquez in Madrid (2018), and at HIAP (Helsinki International Artist Programme, 2019).

Her work has been shown in numerous solo exhibitions across Spain and internationally, including notable shows like "Gula" at DKV in Zaragoza, "SlowWorld" at the Giménez Lorente Foundation in Valencia, and "Altars and Offerings" in Cambrils. Banet has also participated in significant collective exhibitions and prestigious art fairs such as ARCO Madrid, Frieze London, Art Miami, and others, with her pieces included in both public and private collections.