Teresa Gancedo

TERESA GANCEDO (León, 1937).
Untitled.
Wooden object intervened with paint.
Measurements: 5 x 22 x 14 cm (closed); 15 x 22 x 14 cm (open).

Gancedo is a painter of Leonese origin who lives in Barcelona. She is one of the only Spanish artists who has exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, whose collection also includes her work. Her artistic work, with a very singular style, is characterized by the diversity of expressive media -painting, drawing, engraving, ceramics, installations and interventions, among others- and by the incorporation of everyday elements that she integrates into her works, composing a creative universe as personal as it is universal and as simple as it is powerful.
Teresa Gancedo spent her childhood in Madrid until 1960, when she moved to Barcelona to study Fine Arts. In 1970 she won the Inglada Guillot International Drawing Prize, and in 1972 she held her first individual exhibition in the Sala Provincia de León, presented by the poet Antonio Gamoneda. Since then he held numerous exhibitions of his work throughout Spain, and participated in group exhibitions both in our country and abroad, in Mexico, France, United States, Sweden, Holland, Argentina and Uruguay. It is worth mentioning her participation in the group exhibition "New images from Spain", held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1980. She is currently a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Barcelona. She has also been awarded the Sant Jordi Drawing Prize (Barcelona, 1974) and the XIII International Joan Miró Design Prize (Lisbon, 1974).