
Juana
Gonzalez
Juana González (Puertollano, 1972) holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid (2005). She develops her practice in the fields of painting and drawing.
Her paintings function as staged scenes with baroque compositions, employing a visual language that moves between surrealism and expressionism within narrative figuration. Each work represents a struggle and a search for balance between figuration and painting itself, going beyond mere representation to foreground color, brushwork, and the presence of painting as a powerful, autonomous element.
Her work has been shown in a range of institutional venues, including Sala Robayera (Cantabria), Centro de Arte Alcobendas, Instituto Cervantes (Munich), Santa Catalina Church in Badajoz, the University of Alicante Museum, and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland.
She has received several awards and distinctions, including the Best Spanish Artist Award at ARCO 2025 from Artepuntoes magazine of the Institute of Contemporary Art (IAC), the 34th López Villaseñor Prize for Visual Arts (2025), an honorary mention at the ABC Painting and Photography Awards (2003), and the Contemporary Art Encounters of the Juan Gil-Albert Alicante Institute of Culture (2012), among others.
She has participated in numerous national and international art fairs such as ARCO, UNTITLED, PINTA (Miami), Estampa, Urvanity, JustMad, Drawing Room, and Arte Santander. Her work is included in collections such as Colección Solo, Colección Oliva Arauna, the Government of Cantabria Collection, KELLS Art Collection, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo MMAC (Madrid City Council), Fundación Studiolo, among others.