INMA HERRERA

Nominated By Queen Sonja Print Award

Inma Herrera (b. 1986, Madrid, Spain) is a visual artist living and working in Helsinki since 2014. She has a Fine Arts Bachelor Degree and a MA in Art Creation and Research from UCM, Madrid. She was trained as a Print Media Specialist at the Spanish Royal Mint in Madrid, and she holds MFA studies from Kuvataideakatemia, Helsinki.

Herrera works on practice-based projects which examine process, genesis, transformation and materiality in relation to image-making techniques. She works “with” and “from” printmaking due to its characteristics as an expressive language. Through this experimentation and analysis, she also explores how this medium expands into the form of installation and how its limits blur when combined with video, performance, and sculpture.

Herrera’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. In the last few years, she has been shown in Austria (Crosssections at Kunsthalle Exnergasse), Sweden (Crosssections at Konstfack), Spain (F2 Gallery, Pilar and Joan Miró Foundation, Laboral Center of Contemporary Art, Centro Federico García Lorca, and ARCO Madrid, among others), Italy (Processi 145 in Spanish Academy in Rome and Impronte Romane at The Temple University) Tunisia (Climbing Through the Tide at B7L9) and Finland (Amos Rex Museum, ForumBox, Gallery G, Exhibition Laboratory, SIC Gallery, Kosminen, Oksasenkatu 11, etc.)

She is currently represented by the Spanish gallery F2 in Madrid, and is working on projects in Finland and Spain.

“After years of dwelling in the domains of the magnetic land of Finland, I have come to understand the importance of nature and the human agency as an integrating part of it. Svalbard opened up a latent although not yet fully explored need of addressing such topics. Remaining coherent with the base of my artistic research, my stay at Artica Svalbard made clear the emergency of it. This project became a collective effort due to the extreme conditions of the Arctic landscape and its wildlife. This collaboration built bridges to develop a more complex and ambitious body of work, as I had to work along with the assistance of geologists specialists in the matter, and the team of Artica, which expanded the scope of complexities tackled in the project.”

- Inma Herrera