Silvia Prada (born 1969 in León, Spain) is an artist who lives and works in New York City. Casando Santapau Gallery Her work as an illustrator and decorative artist has been described as a monochromatic and geometric documentation of pop culture. Capturing a fetishistic representation of defining moments and iconography. cultureEDIT Her work was featured for the first time in The Face magazine in 2002. The Corner She has helped shape the movement of contemporary illustration art of the past decade and contributed artwork to a number of leading arts and culture publications including The Face, Dazed & Confused, BlackBook, VMagazine, VMAN, Tokion, Candy Magazine Candy Magazine Fanzine 137 Fanzine 137 and EY Magateen. EY Magateen
Prada's works and large-scale illustration and/or poster installations have been showcased in museums, art fairs and galleries worldwide including MoCA Shanghai, Colette in Paris and Deitch Projects in New York
She self-published "The Silvia Prada Art Book" in 2006, an anarchic reflection about the history of fashion in a visual dialogue with decorative painters of the last century. "The New Modern Man: A Styling Chart", published in 2012, features a series of stylized portraits highlighting male hairstyles juxtaposed with geometric drawings, paying homage to the barbershop and the subtle nuances and cues that help define the male persona, identity and representation within the parameters of visual and popular culture.Opening Ceremony
Solo exhibitions 2018 Silvia Prada at TOM House Exhibit. Los Angeles
2013 The New Modern Hair. Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
2010 Let's Get Busy. Jesus Gallardo Gallery. Guanajuato, Mexico
2009 Pin up War. Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid
2008 Fever. Art Lab. MoCA. Shanghai, China
2007 House of Pop. Galería Lluciá Homs. BarcelonaGalería Lluciá Homs - Silvia Prada
2005 All Things Pop. CASM, Centro de Arte Santa Mónica. BarcelonaGrafica Colectiva - Ibán Ramón Hot or Not. Laboratorio 987.MUSAC. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León MUSAC
Selected group exhibitions 2018 Fortnight Institute, Antifurniture.
2011 Grafika, Instituto Cervantes, MadridInstituto Cervantes Zona Maco Art Fair. Mexico CityZona Maco Art Fair Cruised or to be Cruised. Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid Huespedes. MNBA. Museo nacional de Bellas Artes. Buenos Aires. Argentina Museo nacional de Bellas Artes
2007 Existencias. MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León My 2007. Colette Gallery, Paris Arco'06. Galería lluciá Hom, Barcelona
2006 Cavalier Book Project. Nog Gallery, London World Painting. Galería Strany de la Mota, Barcelona Galería Strany de la Mota Próximamente. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Carrillo Gil, México DF Arco'06. Galería lluciá Homs, Barcelona 2005 Arco'05. Galería Lluciá Homs, Barcelona
2004 Edad Perversa. Galería Horrach Moyá, Mallorca
2004 BlackBook. Deitch Projects Gallery, New York
2003 Paper Chic. Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid Círculo de Bellas Artes V Convocatoria de Jóvenes Artistas. Galería Luis Adelantado, Valencia 1996 8ª Primavera Fotográfica de Cataluña. Departamento de Cultura de la Generalitat de Cataluña. Can Felipa, Barcelona
1994 Uno Cada Uno. Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid.
Collections MOCA Shanghai MUSAC. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
Commercial commissions
2020 MIU MIU 2020
2013 MSGM, S/S 2013 Advertisement campaign
2012 (MALIN+GOETZ), New York and Los Angeles. Ordinary House, Vienna
2008 Uniqlo Soccer. Tokyo, Japan
2006 Nike Global, " Always on the Run"
2005 Danzha Vodka
2004 Barcelona Fashion Week
2003 GAS/DESIGN/EXCHANGE/TOKYO
Magazine commissions
2020 Playgirl Magazine
2011 V (US). #68, The Who Cares About Age Issue V (US). #70, The Star Power Issue Pin-Up Magazine. #11, Illustration for a conversation between Rem Koolhas and Francesco Vezzoli Dirty Magazine. Charlotte Free Portraits
2010 Candy (Spain), Who's That Girl Issue V Man (US). #15, Dream Blond Hercules. Pedro Almodóvar Special
2009 Tokion (US). One to One, Silvia Prada on Jeff Koons Hercules Universal, The New Kid on the Block Issue
2008 Dazed & Confused (UK). An Issue of ReinventionMadonna Worldwide Exclusive in Dazed & Confused EY! Magateen. In Loving Memory
2007 Fanzine 137 (Spain). 5.137, Matt Dillon. Heartbeats Accelerating Fanzine137
2004 BlackBook (US). The Arts Issue Carlos (UK). Good Bye Great Britain
2003 The Face (UK). Trouble in Sunnydale The Face (UK). 2002 Review, Not Forgotten Issue
2002 The Face (UK). The Creatives Issue
2002 Dazed & Confused (UK). 10th Anniversary Issue
Books and editions 2020 Peter Berlin: Icon, Artist, Photosexual 2012 THE NEW MODERN HAIR: A STYLING CHART, Co-published by cultureEDIT and Silvia Prada cultureEDIT THE NEW MODERN HAIR: A STYLING CHART, Foldout Poster cultureEDIT
2010 RICHARD GERE ON FAKE KANDINSKY PIN UP POSTER
2006 THE SILVIA PRADA ART BOOK, Published by Silvia Prada
References
External links
Galería Casado Santapau culture-edit - REPRESENTATION