Laia Noal

Multidisciplinar

Laia Noal's work revolves around the investigation of our relationship with nature, focusing on the construction we make of the landscape and the dialogue we establish with the environment.

Currently, Laia is an artist resident at Assaig 7. In 2021, Laia wons Nasevo’s International Adward (Fundació Ernesto Ventós), the Fundació Vila Casas’s Sculpture Adward, the Agbar Adward of Barcelona City. In 2019, she exposed her solo show "Retorn a l’origen” in Cultural space. Tiana, Barcelona, Spain.

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ARTIST'S WORK

BIOGRAPHY

Laia Noal's work revolves around the investigation of our relationship with nature, focusing on the construction we make of the landscape and the dialogue we establish with the environment.
How we constantly intervene and influence it, thus generating tensions between what we consider natural and what we classify as artificial. She is especially interested in how these tensions condition the way our bodies relate to other bodies and to space. And how in a hyperconnected and hypercommunicated world, that moves at full speed towards artificiality in all fields, these elements expand giving rise to new relationships and behaviors.

Fragility, vulnerability, resistance, adaptability, balance, the ineffable, divisions, cracks, binary and complementary elements are constant in her work. Working in a multidisciplinary way, through different plastic languages including sculpture, painting, installations, sound art, drawing and photography, Noal is drawing and interweaving works that reflect on these ideas.

CURRICULUM

GROUP SHOWS

> 2021. Finalists III Premio Internacional Nasevo - Fundación Ernesto Ventós. LAB36, Casa Vicens, Espai Casinet-El Masnou. Barcelona. Spain
> 2021. Fundació Vila Casas Sculpture Award - Museu Can Mario. Palafrugell, Girona. Spain
> 2021. "Guinovart després de Guinovart" - Curated by Bernat Puigdollers. Espai Guinovart d’Agramunt. Agramunt, Lleida. Spain
> 2021. Finalists “Premio Agbar - Ciudad de Barcelona
> 2021 - Reial Cercle Artístic. Barcelona. Spain
> 2021. XXIV Certamen de Pintura Frida Kahlo (Painting contest) - Ayuntamiento de Rivas Vaciamadrid. Madrid. Spain
> 2021. III Premio Nacional de Pintura Ocaña (Painting award) - Ayuntamiento de Cantillana. Sevilla. Spain
> 2020. “Ellas”, Fundación Iberoamérica Europa. Madrid. Spain
> 2018. “Las Resilientes. Memorias imborrables” - Online exhibition. Mujeres Mirando Mujeres
> 2018. Fundació Vila Casas Sculpture Award - Can Mario Museum, Palafrugell, Gerona. Spain
> 2017. Canyelles City Hall Painting Award - Multicultural space, Canyelles, Barcelona. Spain
> 2017. "End of the year show". Cooper Union University. New York. USA
> 2016. "Gear Over". Cooper Union University. New York, USA
> 2016. Cavas Vilarnau. Sant Sadurní d’Anoia, Barcelona. Spain
> 2016. Casal de la Font d’en Fargues. Barcelona. Spain
> 2016. "Monthly art cycle at RAI". Barcelona. Spain
> 2014. "XXV Portbou Painters Collective Exhibition". Girona, Spain
> 2012. "Pictorial polyphony". Barradas Auditorium. Hospitalet del Llobregat. Barcelona. Spain
> 2012. "Emerging processes". Felícia Fuster Foundation. Teaching innovation group -Art, profession and teaching- of the University of Barcelona. Barcelona. Spain

GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES

> 2019/Actually. Artist in residence at Assaig 7. Freixas Building, Hospitalet del Llobregat. Barcelona. Spain
> 2017. International Exchange Scholarship at Cooper Union University, New York. USA
> 2013. Royal Artistic Circle of Barcelona Scholarship for young artists. Barcelona. Spain
> 2006. Erasmus Scholarship at Ca’Foscari University, Venice. Italy

AWARDS

> 2021. III Premio Internacional Nasevo. Fundación Ernesto Ventós (1rst prize)
> 2021. Fundació Vila Casas Sculpture Award (finalist)
> 2021. Premi Agbar - Ciutat de Barcelona 2021. Reial Cercle Artístic (finalist)
> 2021. XXIV Certamen de Pintura Frida Kahlo. Ayuntamiento de Rivas Vaciamadrid (finalist)
> 2021. III Premio Nacional de Pintura Ocaña. Ayuntamiento de Cantillana (finalist)
> 2020. “Ellas” group show, Fundación Iberoamérica Europa (selected)
> 2020. “Las Resilientes. Memorias imborrables”. Online exhibition, Mujeres Mirando Mujeres (selected)
> 2019. VI edition of Mujeres Mirando Mujeres (selected). Interviewed by Anna Roig
> 2018. Fundació Vila Casas Sculpture Award (finalist)
> 2018. Canyelles Town Hall Painting Award (selected)

ARTS EDUCATION

>2020/2021. Associate professor at the Didactic Unit of Plastic Expression. Department of Didactics of Musical, Plastic and Corporal Expression. Faculty of Sciences of Education. Autonomous University of Barcelona. Barcelona. Spain.
>2015/2019. Mediator and educator at Fundació Tàpies, Fundació Vila Casas, Sagrada Familia and CaixaForum.
>2010/2015. Mediator and educator at Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. Spain.

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