Ana Prada arranges multiply produced, commonplace objects into wall-based structures. Placed in flat planes, clinging to the wall, these arrangements seem to reference the geometric or mathematically based forms found in some hard edge abstract painting. The objects operate in two planes/fields of scale, as from a distance the repeating patterns form intricate arabesques or sprawling geometric grids. From this distance there is often little clue as the origin of the repeated shapes and objects. Closer, the viewer is able to identify the constituent parts, and these items, whether several hundred tea bags, plastic straws or pencil sharpeners, are clearly at odds with the overall form. The domesticity or intimacy associated with the everyday, plastic tools contrasts the impersonal abstraction that they comprise. Prada's photographic practise uses simple juxtapositions of domestic objects, temporarily thrust together, recorded and displayed after the object is discarded.
Prada has exhibited widely, including solo and group museum shows in Europe and USA.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
Ana Prada, Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
2007
Ana Prada, SEVENTEEN, London
2003
Ana Prada, Gallery Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona
2003
Un toque femenino, Galerie Poller, Frankfurt am Main
2001
Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
2000
Ana Prada, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
1998
On view: Ana Prada. The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1998
Ana Prada - Ignasi Aballí, Gallery Estrany - de la Mota,Barcelona
1998
Ana Prada - Jane Harris, Gallery Anderson - O’day, London
1996
Voorwek, Witte de With, Rotterdam,Holand
1995
Gallery Elba Benitez, Madrid
1995
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
1994
Biennal of Sao Paolo, Brasil
1993
Gallery Angels de la Mota, Barcelona, Spain
1992
Gallery Temple, Valencia, Spain
1992
Gallery Emilio Navarro, Madrid
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
Danke Schön, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Netherlands
2005
Miradas de Mujer, Esteban Vicente Museum of Contemporary Art, Segovia
2005
Posthumous Choreographies & Other Optical Labyrinths, White Box, NY
2004
Nueva technologia, nueva iconografia, nueva fotografia, Museu d’Art Espanyol Contemporani (Fundación Juan March), Palma de Mallorca
2003
Realidad y Representation, Fundacio Foto Colectiania, Barcelona
2002
Mathematique, Gallery Danielle Arnaud, London
2002
Synthetic, Gallery Zurcher, Paris
2002
Once again, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
2001
Ruby, Pearl Space, London
2000
Domestic Bliss, South London Gallery, London
1999
Formerly, Jerwood Space, London
1995
Els 90 en les 80, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno
1994
Banesto Grants, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
1993
Gallery Alda Cortez, Lisbon, Portugal
1993
Confrontaciones, Casa de America, Madrid
1992
Roll, The Clove Gallery, London
1988
Finisecular, Valencia
1988
Ana Prada - Salome Cuesta. Gallery Temple, Valenci
1987
Escultura hoy, Quart de Poblet,Valencia
1987
Biennal de sculpture, Toulouse, France
1987
Biennal del mediterraneo,Tessalonica, Greece
1986
Gallery El Palau, Valencia
EDUCATION
1989 - 1991
M.A. Fine Arts, Goldsmiths College
1983 - 1988
University of Fine Arts, Valencia, Spain
