Esther Gatón
Specialty
Visual Arts
Training
2020 MFA Goldsmiths, London
2016 PhD Cum Laude, Complutense University of Madrid
2013 Master's Degree in Research in Art and Creation, Complutense University of Madrid
2011 Sicúe-Séneca Scholarship, University of Barcelona
2010 Erasmus Scholarship, Saint-Luc Liège, Belgium
2011 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Complutense University of Madrid
Career path
Esther Gatón is a visual artist who lives between Madrid and London. She has exhibited her work at institutions such as CAPC Bordeaux, Affiliate WIELS Brussels, Matadero Madrid, La Casa Encendida Madrid, the Patio Herreriano Museum in Valladolid, Fabra i Coats in Barcelona, TEA Tenerife, C3A Córdoba, and MUSAC León. She has also exhibited in independent spaces and galleries such as Elba Benítez Madrid, Carlier Gebauer Berlin, Cibrián Donosti-San Sebastián, Raccoon Barcelona, Verão Lisboa, Partial Versions, piloto pardo, Pusher, anteroom, and Hothouse London.
Her work has been acquired by public collections such as MUSAC León, Fundación Montemadrid, and the Community of Madrid. She has been awarded the Generaciones Prize at La Casa Encendida in Madrid (2022) and the Veepee Prize at ARCO Madrid (2021). In 2022, she completed the WIELS residency in Brussels.
Her work has been published in Materiales Concretos, Nero, A*Desk, Editorial Concreta, and Urbanomic. Since 2023, she has been developing the independent poetry and education project “abierto” in London.
Subjects and workshops
Drawing 1. Techniques and Materials
Research lines
Sculpture, space and installation: the mutability of the environment
Sustainability and material research.
Expanded perception.
Creative writing and poetry.
Manual processes and group development.