Susana Mulas Lastra
Biografia
I am a Spanish visual artist with a background in ecology, living and working in The Netherlands.
I get inspired by nature that we cannot see at first glance. The beauty, mystery and importance of it for our planet is what fascinate me the most. I use paper as a microscope and I translate my observations and reflections into detailed pastel drawings.
I have already attended numerous group exhibitions and published in several art magazines, such as the Spanish-Algerian magazine Al-Tiba 9 and the Dutch online magazine Mister Motley. In 2021 I had my first solo exhibition in Amsterdam.
Curriculum
Education
2021–2022 * Seminar Graphic techniques, Graphic Atelier Alkmaar (GAA)
2020–2021 * Master Trajectory Drawing Inventions Academy (DIA) led by Arno
Kramer, Dineke Blom and Caren van Herwaarden
2020 * Workshop Painting-, Drawmaterials for artists, led by P. Keune
2018 * Masterclass Robbie Cornelissen, School of Arts, Amersfoort
* Two days masterclass Roland Sohier, Central Museum, Utrecht
2013–2018 * Nieuwe Akademie Utrecht, 5-year part-time Visual Arts study
1982–1987 * Biologist-Ecologist, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Exhibitions
2022 * Breathing water | Upscale Gallery, Rotterdam (solo)
* Look what we found | Projectruimte BMB Gallery, Amsterdam
* Being on paper | VHDP Exhibitions, Amsterdam (solo)
* ‘The Drawing Cabinet’ | 10th edition het Tekenkabinet | Gallery Art Singel 100, Amsterdam
* Kunstvierdaagse | Kunsthal 45 Gallery, Den Helder
* Limburg Biennial #2 | Marres, Maastricht
* ‘The Drawing Cabinet Xtra’| Gallery with tsjalling, Groningen
* The future is now | Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen NH
2021 * ‘The Drawing Cabinet’(het Tekenkabinet)| Expo Thuis Gallery,Amsterdam
* 5e Biennial of Valencia Ciutat Vella Oberta, Valencia-Spanje
* Still Spring | In de dwarsstraat, Amsterdam
* ‘Lively landscape’| KCB-Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen NH
* Auction Exhibition | Kunsthal 45, Den Helder
* Art10days Bergen, pop-up gallery Playroom | Klein Zwitserland, Schoorl
* SchoK-Play Room Gallery, Schoorl
* ‘The Drawing Cabinet’ | 9th edition het Tekenkabinet, Amsterdam
* ‘Voices of Earth’, VR exhibition | Art from Earth (UK)
* ‘Walking the (in)visible’ | Kunsttraject Amsterdam, Amsterdam (solo)
* ‘Corona and the Sale’ | Art Society Pictura, Groningen
* Window exhibition Gallery De Kapberg, Egmond aan den Hoef
* ‘6th small sized works exhibition’, VR | Aria Gallery,Teheran
2020 * Kaalstaart, Science, technology and new crafts Festival, De War-Amersfoort
* Gallery De Kapberg, Egmond aan den Hoef
* Be my Guest V, Art Farm, Heerhugowaard
* ‘The Drawing Cabinet XS 2.0’ | 8th edition het Tekenkabinet, Amsterdam
* ‘Drawings’ | Kunstuitleen Alkmaar
* ‘The Drawing Cabinet XS’ | 8th edition het Tekenkabinet, Amsterdam
* Virtual Exhibition@Punch | Punch Exhibition Space
* ‘An Opening in the Corona Era’ | Playroom Gallery, Zaandam
2019 * ‘Salon of New Members 2019’ | KCB-Museum Kranenburgh,Bergen NH
* ‘Passage’ | Cultuurnacht Texel’19, De Wielewaal-De Waal
* ‘The Drawing Cabinet’, summer| 7th edition het Tekenkabinet, Amsterdam
* ‘Coral lives’ | Science Encounters Art(S.E.A) Art Tour | Museum Kaap Skil, Oudeschild
* ‘Artist’s books’| Kunsthal 45 Gallery, Den Helder
* ‘Salon des Artistes 2019’ | Ateliers Baztille, Zoetermeer
* ‘Artsunami’| Playroom Gallery, Zaandam
* ‘Pop up Ijburg’| het Tekenkabinet (The Drawing Cabinet), Ijburg- Amsterdam
* ‘100% Women’| Global Artist Village Network | Big Church or Sint
Laurenskerk, Alkmaar
* ‘Apparently’| KCB-Museum Kranenburgh, Bergen NH
* ‘The Drawing Cabinet’, winter | 7th edition het Tekenkabinet, Amsterdam
2018 * Graduation Exhibition| Nieuwe Akademie Utrecht| Loods 6,Amsterdam
Publications
2022 * Catalog 10th Tekenkabinet
* Oddball Space, Artist of the Week (online)
2021 * Catalog 9th Tekenkabinet
* Ever-emerging Magazine | Spring Sprung Special Edition, online
* Interview blog Jaguar Arte, online Art Gallery
2020 * Catalog 8th Tekenkabinet
* Al-Tiba 9 Contemporary Art Magazine | Issue Four |DZ
* A Curator Reviews: Susana Mulas Lastra, Exhibition ‘An Art Opening in the Corona Era’, Jeroen van Paassen | Galerie PlayRoom, Zaandam
* Video publication by #EL ARTE NOS SALVA LA VIDA COVID19 (#Art save
our lives”) | Museo la Neomudejar Madrid
2019 * Catalog Artist’s books-Kunsthal 45 Gallery
* Murze Magazine | Issue Six-Colour | UK
* Catalog 7th Tekenkabinet
* Murze Magazine, Issue Four | UK
2018 * Murze Magazine | ’Art for Advent project 2018’, online publication
* Mister Motley | ‘Graduation Special 18’, online publication
NOMINATIONS
* Selected 1st round 2019,2020 Delphian Gallery OpenCall
* Nominated Dutch Drawing of the year 2018 shortlist
Other recent work
2019 * Drafting shortlist of artist’s for ‘Artwork on the dike’ on memory of the dike improvement. Water Control Board Hollands Noorderkwartier in cooperation with Science Encounters Art Foundation (S.E.A), Texel-The Netherlands
2017 * Co-founder and co-curator of the project Science Encounters Art (S.E.A), Texel-The Netherlands Member of Artists’association KunstenaarsCentrumBergen (KCB) since 2019
Biodiversty
2022 – 35x30cm – Pastel, pastel pencil, Siberian chalk on paper
Biodiversty
2022 – 35x30cm – Pastel, pastel pencil, Siberian chalk on paper
Unfolding the tree of life
2019 – 150x90cm – Pastel, Conté, Siberian chalk on paper
Untitled
2021 – 100x70cm – Pastel, charcoal on paper