Education
2015-2017 Master of Fine Arts, Yale University School of Art
2015-2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2011-2009 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Barcelona
2010-2007 Advanced Vocational Training, Applied Sculptural Arts, Escola Massana de Barcelona
2009 Sculpture Diploma at Gabriel Sanz Studio, Research, Identity and Process
Solo Exhibitions and Commissions
2024 In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypre, Belgium (forthcoming)
2024 Commissioned permanent public sculpture, At Rest, Beaufort Triennial, curated by Els Wuyts, Belgium (forthcoming)
2024 In Memory Of, DePaul Museum, Curated by Ionit Behar, Chicago, IL (forthcoming)
2024 Commissioned permanent public sculpture, Herakelia Archaeological Park of Policoro, Italy (forthcoming)
2022 Our Garden Remains, NEIU Gallery, Chicago
2022 Ode to the Unclaimed Dead, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago IL
2022 CODA, Murmurs Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2020 Hysteria, International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL
2017 Solo Exhibition, Space 776 Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2014 Harold Washington Library, Murmurs, Chicago, IL
2006 Solo Exhibition, Centre Civic de Vallvidrera Vazquez Montalban, Barcelona, Spain
Group Exhibitions
2023-2024 Absence Remains, Burke 2023, Museum of Art and Desing NY (forthcoming)
2024 Westfront Museum, Nieuwpoort, Belgium (forthcoming)
2023 Life Cycles, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
2023 Free Dimensional, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY
2023 The Remaining Mourn, NIU Art Museum, DeKalb, IL
2023 At the Precipice: Responses to the Climate Crisis, Curated by Colossal, Design Museum, Chicago, IL
2023 Amuleto, Mayfield/ The Franklin/ Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2023 The Last of Animal Builders, Edith Farnsworth House Mies Van der Rohe, IL
2023 Artadia, EXPO Chicago
2022 Unseen, The Dots Gallery, Belgrade
2022 ENCOUNTER at Chicago Cultural Center
2022 MdW Art Fair, Mana Contemporary, Chicago
2022 The Draw, Split, Croatia Museum of Fine Arts
2022 24 Hours of Wonder, Eisenwunderwelt, Berlin, Germany
2022 Barely Fair, The Franklyn, Expo Chicago
2022 Window-Strike Casualties in collaboration with Yale Law School, Talon/Antler Gallery, Portland OR
2022 Vector, Heaven Gallery, Chicago IL
2021 For the Living to the Death, Parlour and Ramp, Chicago IL
2021 Every Time I Try to Get a Peace of Mind, Anastasia Tinari Projects, Chicago IL
2021 Staying In, Heaven Gallery, Chicago IL
2021 Preview 10, Group Exhibition, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago IL
2021 SexySex, Group Exhibition, Gallery Percheeé, New York NY
2020 The Long Dream, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
2020 Remains will Be, Co-curated by Whitney Browne & Eryka Dellenbach, Whitney Browne Studio, NY
2020 Beyond Reach, Roots & Culture curated by Anastasia Tinari, Beyond Reach, Chicago, IL
2019 William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum, Yale Center for British Art
2018 Vila Casas Sculpture Competition exhibtion, Can Mario Museum, Spain
2018 Open Mind, CRUSH Curatorial, Chelsea, New York
2017 Happening at Las Ramblas, in honor of the victims, Barcelona.
2017 Looking forward looking back, Anastasia Tinari Projects, Chicago, IL.
2017 Land and memory, Instar Lodge, Hudson, New York
2017 Say-SO EIK Gallery, New Haven, CT
2017 MFA Thesis Ehibition, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
2017 <Grupo 11>, Instituto Cervantes, New York
2016 Odds and Ends Book Fair, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2016 Esoteric Rodeo, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
2016 Benefit Auction, Field Projects Gallery, Chelsea, NY
2016 Trophy Room, Sam’s Space, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2015 Kyoto España Catalunya 2015, Kyoto International Craft Center, Japan
2015 The Gates Are Open, MFA 2017 Exhibition, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT
2015 BFA show, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago,IL
2014 Surface Tension, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
2014 Attachments, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
2014 ThingLab, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
2014 De la Natura al Paper, Museu Molí Paperer de Capellades, Spain
2013 I Changed my Mind, Rational Park, Chicago, IL
2013 ArtPrize, DeVos Convention Center, Grand Rapids, MI
2013 Art Futura Art in Motion, Chicago, IL
2012 DrapArt, Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona CCCB, Barcelona, Spain
2012 Gallery N2, Barcelona, Spain
2012 FAD Fostering Arts and Design, Barcelona, Spain
2011 FAD Fostering Arts and Design, Barcelona, Spain
2010 Sinapsis, La Capella, Barcelona, Spain
2010 Biennal d’Escultura en Pedra a La Floresta, Biblioteca de Lleida, Spain
2008 Escola Massana, Sala Busquets, Barcelona, Spain
Awards/ Fellowships
2023 Burke Prize 2023, Museum of Arts and Design, New York
2023 3Arts Award/ HMS Fund, Chicago, IL
2023 Theodore Randall International Chair in Art & Design: Sculpture Dimensional Studies
2023 Barbara Nessim Inaugural Acquisition Prize
2022 Artadia Chicago
2022 Short-listed, Foundwork Prize LA, Los Angeles CA
2020 NEWCITY Breakout Artist 2020, Chicago Next Generation of Image Makers
2020 MAKER Grant, Chicago Artist Coalition
2018 Finalist Vila Casas Sculpture Competition, Can Mario Museum, Spain
2017 Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize, Yale School of Art School
2016 Juncture Art and Human Rights Initiative Fellowship, Yale Law School
2015 Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2014 Honorable mention Remet, Shaping the Future, Foundry Competition
2014 ObjectLab 6.0, The Chipstone Foundation, WI
2014 Ox-Bow Merit Scholarship
2013 First Prize, Art Futura Art in Motion, selected by James Rondeau curator of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2012 First Prize, ArtFAD, Fostering Art and Design, Barcelona, Spain
2011 Finalist, ArtFAD, Fostering Art and Design, Barcelona, Spain
2010 20eventi, Montopoli di Sabina, Italy
2009 Honorable Mention, Biennal d’Escultura en Pedra a la Floresta, La Floresta, Spain
Artist Residencies
2023 In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypre,Belgium
2022 Edoardo Tresoldi, Studio Studio Studio Residency, Policoro,Italy
2020/2021 BOLT Residency, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, USA
2020 International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, USA
2017 The Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MS
2014 AZ West, Andrea Zittel, Joshua Tree, CA
2014 ObjectLab 6.0, The Chipstone Foundation, WI
2011 Studio Stone, Oliver Harwood, Vancouver, Canada
2009 Antoni Gaudi’s Sagrada Familia, Stone studio, Barcelona, Spain
Selected Arts Related Experience
2023 Panel discussion Burke moderated by Auther, MAD Museum
2023 Lecture Alfred University, Alfred ,NY
2023 International Randall Chair in Sculpture, MFA studio practice, Alfred University
2023 International Randall Chair in Sculpture, Senior Advisor, Alfred University
2023 Jury Student Exhibition North Eastern Illinois University, Chicago
2023 Visiting Artist University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota
2023 Visiting Artist lecture at Second Shift Studio, Saint Paul, Minnesota
2023 Visiting Artist Chicago Children's Museum
2023 Visiting artist at University of Chicago(forthcoming)
2023 Workshop at University of Wisconsin Greenbat (forthcoming)
2023 Visiting Artist University of Wisconsin Greenbay (forthcoming)
2023 Visiting Artist and studio visits Graduate students UIC (forthcoming)
2023 Visiting Artist University of Illinois Chicago, 400 Gallery (forthcoming)
2022 Lecture at Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago
2021 Part time faculty Sculpture Department School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2020 Workshop on death and mourning at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
2020 Artist Talk at International Museum of Surgical Science
2020 Visiting Artist, Introduction to Sculpture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2020 Visiting Artist, Intermediate Sculpture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2019 Visiting Scholar, Yale Anatomy Lab, New Haven, CT
2017 Teaching Assistant, Sculpture, Brent Howard, Yale University
2016/17 Metal and Wood shop monitor, Yale University School of Art
2015 Teaching Assistant for Foundry at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2015 Department Assistant Metal Shop, School of the Arts Institute of Chicago
2015 Volunteer at Field Museum, Chicago IL
2013 Light metals Studio Monitor at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago
2009 Metal Shop Manager at Escola Massana de Barcelona, Spain
2009 Stone Carver at Gaudí's Sagrada Familia,Barcelona, Spain
2009 Centre Civic Art Coordinator Activities , Barcelona, Spain
2009 Volunteer, Fundacion Vicente Ferrer, Ananthapur, India
2008 Installation Assistant, Lanfranco Bombelli, Centre d’Art Santa Monica
2008 Metal Shop manager at Escola Massana de Barcelona
2007 Artist Assistant, Peter Wastell, Barcelona, Spain
Permanent Collection
2023 DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
2022 Museu D'Història de Barcelona, Spain (Upcoming)
2017 Will, Yale Anatomy Lab Gallery, New Haven, CT
2009 Ajuntament de la Floresta, L’origin du Monde, Catalunya, Spain
2012 Offering, Monopoly di Fara Sabina, Italy
Interviews
2022 Disarming Loss: An Interview with Selva Aparicio, The Latinx Project , NYU
https://www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxions/disarming-loss-an-interview-with-selva-aparicio
2022 FOundwork Dialogs Interview
https://foundwork.art/dialogues/selva-aparicio
2022 Bad at Sports: Contemporary Art Talk Radio, Episode 803
https://badatsports.libsyn.com/bad-at-sports-episode-803-selva-aparico
2020 LVL3 Artist of the Week Interview
https://lvl3official.com/selva-aparicio/
2020 Sixty Inches From Center, Works Cited: Selva Aparicio on Life, Death, and Breaking Taboo.
https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/works-cited-selva-aparicio-on-life-death-and-breaking-taboo/
2020 Breakout Artist, Chicago next generation of Image Makers
https://art.newcity.com/2020/04/30/breakout-artists-2020-chicagos-next-generation-of-image-makers/9/
2020 Bad at Sports, on air radio interview Episode 716: Anastasia Tinari, Selva Aparicio, and Valentina Zamfirescu
http://badatsports.com/2020/episode-716-anastasia-tinari-selva-aparicio-and-valentina-zamfirescu/
2014 Harold Washington Library, Chicago, IL Artist Interview: Selva Aparicio
2012 Bon Art Magazine, Els Premis ART FAD aposten per la reivindicació dels materials tradicionals.
Links to Press and Reviews
2023 Exhibtion announcement dePaul
https://resources.depaul.edu/art-museum/exhibitions/Pages/inmemoryof.aspx
2023 New City Artists’ Artist, Chicago, IL
HANDAFDRUKKEN VOOR BEAUFORT-KUNSTWERK IN NIEUWPOORT
https://www.focus-wtv.be/nieuws/handafdrukken-voor-beaufort-kunstwerk-nieuwpoort
Spaanse kunstenaar Selva Aparicio gebruikt huidafdrukken van handen voor kunstwerk Beaufort 2024 in Nieuwpoort
2023 Top 5 Booths at EXPO Chicago, Newcity, by Jacqueline Wayneguite
https://art.newcity.com/2023/04/14/top-5-booths-at-expo-chicago-2023/
2023 Three US museums use prize funds to acquire works from Expo Chicago, The Art Newspaper
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/04/14/expo-chicago-northern-trust-purchase-prize-seattle-st-louis-st-petersburg
2023 Expo Chicago Awards Prizes to Museums for Acquisitions of Work by Under-Recognized Artists
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/expo-chicago-2023-prizes-museum-acquisitions-1234664319/
2022 Four Chicago Galleries Explore the Art of Arranging, Hyperallergic
https://hyperallergic.com/722329/four-chicago-galleries-explore-the-art-of-arranging/
2022 Artadia announces 2022 Chicago awardees
https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2022/4/artadia-announces-2022-chicago-awardees
2020 Chicago Gallery News https://www.chicagogallerynews.com/news/2020/4/chicago-artists-coalition-announces-awardees-for-spark-grant-maker-grant-and-coney-family-fund-award
2020 ARTFORUM MAKER Grant: https://www.artforum.com/news/twenty-eight-artists-receive-chicago-artists-coalition-grants-82910
2020 NewCity Review by Amanda Roach, Bodily Autonomy: A Review of Beyond Reach at Roots and Culture https://art.newcity.com/2020/01/20/bodily-autonomy-a-review-of-beyond-reach-at-roots-culture/
2019 https://edublog.news/2019/03/06/collection-reveals-how-art-informed-science-science-informed-art/
2019 https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/william-hunter-the-anatomy-of-the-modern-museum/
2018 https://tempsarts.cat/5605-dues-decades-dels-premis-descultura-fundacio-vila-casas/
2017 https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/08/21/opinion/1503329374_941760.html
2017 https://www.diariolasamericas.com/mundo/performance-contra-el-odio-las-ramblas-barcelona-n4129737
2017 https://www.cuartopoder.es/espana/2017/08/19/no-tinc-por-no-tengo-miedo-barcelona/
2017 https://www.fanpage.it/story/barcellona-furgone-travolge-la-folla/
2017 https://openhouseblog.nyc/2017/08/04/selva-aparicio-death-dandelions/
2014 https://www.chipublib.org/news/artist-interview-selva-aparicio/
2012 https://www.joidart.com/es/selva-aparicio-2/