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MELISA FIGUEROA SANCHEZ
Melisa Figueroa Sanchez
Buenos Aires, 1999
Currently residing and working in Barcelona
EDUCATION
2025 - Currently PhD at University of Barcelona
Enrolled in the programme "La Realidad Asediada: Concepto, Proceso y Experimentación Artística" (HDK1H).
2025 Master's degree in Art Education, University of Barcelona
2024 Degree in Fine Arts, University of Barcelona
Where she received the Extraordinary Degree Award (Premio Extraordinario de Grado)
for her artistic and academic career, obtaining multiple Honors in subjects
such as Painting, Iconology, Art Concepts, Psychology and Gender Studies.
2020 Degree in Illustration, EA Pau Gargallo
AWARDS
2022 First place at XXI Concurs de Pintura al Passeig de Sant Joan, Barcelona.
2022 Faculty of Fine Arts Award at XXI Concurs de Pintura al Passeig de Sant Joan, Barcelona
Finalist in the following competitions:
2025 Premi Ciutat de Barcelona 2025, Reial Cercle Artístic
2025 XX Premio de Pintura Paco Merino, Granollers
2025 XXXIX Concurso de Pintura Sanvisens, Sitges
2024 XVII Concurs d'Art Jove, Barcelona
2023 XVI Concurs d'Art Jove, Barcelona
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 A través de les aigües de Neptú (Through Neptune's waters)
Sala de exposiciones de Can Llaurador, Teià.
Curated by Dr. Rafael Romero Pineda in agreement with the University of Barcelona.
2023 Pulsiones
Mercat de l’Abaceria, Barcelona. Curated by the art critic Ramon Casalé
Organized by Associació de Veïns i Amics del Passeig de Sant Joan, Ayuntamiento de Barcelona
and Mercats de Barcelona.
2023 Panteos,
Espai Capgrós, Mataró.
CONTEST FINALIST EXHIBITIONS
2025 Exposición de las finalistas del Premio Ciudad de Barcelona
Reial Cercle Artistic/Instituto Barcelonés de Arte, Barcelona.
2025 Exposición de las finalistas del XX Premio de Pintura Paco Merino
La Gralla, Granollers Organized by Grup ProArt Paco Merino.
2025 Exposición de las finalistas del XXXIX Concurso de Pintura Sanvisens
Miramar Centre Cultural, Sitges. Organized by Ayuntamiento de Sitges.
2024 Exposición de las finalistas del XVII Concurs d'Art Jove
Centre Cívic Cotxeres-Casinet, Barcelona.
2023 Exposición de las finalistas del XVI Concurs d'Art Jove
Centre Cívic Cotxeres-Casinet, Barcelona.
2023 Premiadas en el XXI Concurs de Pintura al Passeig de Sant Joan
Sala de exposiciones del Ayuntamiento del Distrito de Gràcia.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 La cara oculta de la Lluna
Sala d'exposicions La Granja, Santa Perpètua de Mogoda
2025 AAmA22 Units en la creació
Ajuntament Vell de Calella. Organized by Universidad de Barcelona and Tagus
International Center of Arts
2024 Sense Títol
Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad de Barcelona.
Selection of the best final degree projects in the field of painting.
2023 Nous Talents en Pintura
Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad de Barcelona.
2022 Círculo Nueva Pintura
La Puntual, Sant Cugat del Vallès.
2022 Pirineos: paisaje, materia y memoria
Espacio Pirineos, Graus.
2022 Patrimoni
Galeria Ca l'Antiga, Teià
Researching the archives of The Collection of Mediumnistic Art
Munich, 2026
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Barcelona. Under the PREDOCS-UB predoctoral contract, funded by the University of Barcelona and Banco Santander. She works on the Department of Arts and Conservation-Restoration at the Faculty of Fine Arts (UB).
Her research and academic interests focus on mediumistic art produced by women between the XIX-XX centuries, specifically those within the European context.
She is interested in academic research on all topics related to magic, the occult, religion, spirits, and junguian psychoanalysis. She also explores and studies the integration of less orthodox methods into research practice, such as astrology, dream journaling, and tarot. Her main motivation is to understand the mystery and spirits that have accompanied humanity since the dawn of time.
Currently collaborates with the independent research group Visionary Woman Art at the University of Barcelona, contributing insights from the field of Jungian psychoanalysis and its connection to the visionary experience, as in the course « Art i misticisme contemporani: creativitat de dones vinculades a les espiritualitats laiques del segle XX » (Museu Ca'n Amat, 2026) and in the course Els Juliols (Facultad de Geografía e Historia, 2026).
She is also a member of the M.I.M.A (GINDO-UB/188) and PULCHRUM (GINDO-UB/156) Teaching Innovation research groups at the University of Barcelona, where she has carried out various collaborations, such as in the two conferences « MaterMater: Jornada de recerca sobre memòria i matèria artística » (2024 and 2026, University of Barcelona), among other artistic and academic contributions.
PRESS RELEASES
«light//archives, Artit Curator's Picks - August 2025»
https://artit.net/spotlight/260
«Melisa Figueroa, pintures des del coneixement», by Ramon Casalé Soler.
L’ Independent de Gràcia, 2023:
https://www.independent.cat/opinio/82423/melisa-figueroa-pintures-des-del-coneixement
«El panteisme pictòric de Melisa Figueroa a Espai Capgròs», by Cugat Comas:
Revista Capgròs, 2023.
https://capgros.elnacional.cat/es/cultura/panteismo-pictorico-melisa-figueroa-en-espai-capgros_809809_102.html
El Mercat de l’Abaceria, comprometido con el arte, acogerá 6 exposiciones en 2023, by Ayuntamiento
de Barcelona, 2023:
https://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/mercats/es/actualitat/noticies/el-mercat-de-labaceria-comprometido-con-el-arte-acogera-6-exposiciones-en-2023-1251731
Melisa Figueroa Sánchez, estudiant de BBAA, exposa al Mercat de l’Abaceria Central, by the Faculty of Fine Arts, 2023:
https://www.ub.edu/InfoBBAA/melisa-figueroa-sanchez-estudiant-de-bbaa-exposa-al-mercat-abaceria-central/
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