One cannot understand Teresa J Cuevas' artwork (Madrid 1988) without taking into account her education and architectural devotion. Her work as an architect in South Korea, with artist Jinnie Seo and in the studio One or One Architects, was the most anchoring influence to her foundation. These 4 years building residential homes, monumental installations, opera stages, and luxury shop windows have generated an Asian influence in her work, which can be sensed at first glance in her studio and artwork.
In 2015, after many years with a notebook as a graphic diary, she began her professional career as an artist, already settled in Madrid. Persistence and work took her from one studio to another until, in 2021, she designed and built her own studio/gallery where she currently creates and exhibits her works.
In this space, we enter two worlds. We find one from “inside out”, in which the winds, sands and different elements of nature star in the canvases with light as the main element. The other world is the result of an “outside in” look in which the artist investigates her own person, the subconscious and human behavior. We can see how these two worlds dialogue and even intertwine with each other.
In this first world, the “Naturaleza y luz” series dominates, evolving and experimenting with the material that gives life to the texture and invites you to become part of the landscape of the work. It highlights a search for balance between the heavy and the light, the full and the empty, the light and the shadow, the serene and what is in movement.
It is in the second world where we find the collections "la espera", "avance", "horizonte y tierra" and "encuentros", which tell us stories about motherhood, emotional and spiritual growth, the present and future aspirations, always inviting the spectator to contemplate and introspect.
Exhibitions, conferences and awards
2025 Fundación WIRES. Christie’s. Conference speaker.
2024 Fundación Via del Arte. Taller Javier Viver. Conference speaker.
2024 Finalist VP HOTEL&ART, collective exhibition, VP Madroño, Madrid
2024 “Casa atlántica”, collective exhibition Mar de Frades, Palacio de Santa Bárbara, Madrid
2024 “Nos vamos con arte”, charity auction fundación Prodis, Marqués de Valdeiglesias 5, Madrid
2024 “Via Lucis”, conversation with Pablo d'Ors, solo exhibition, c/María de Maeztu 36, Madrid
2024 “Eternidad” by Arinzano, Galería Albarrán Bourdois, Calle Barquillo con San Marcos, Madrid
2024 "Abstracción femenina", collective auction Maza Art, Calle Montesa 39, Madrid
2023 "Maza #3", collective auction Maza Art, Calle Hilarión Eslava 36, Madrid
2023 “Unique arts club”, solo exhibition, c/Barquillo 21, Madrid
2023 “Teresa J Cuevas x Bo Concept”, solo exhibition, c/Lagasca 88, Madrid
2023 “Hoff gallery”, solo exhibition, c/Velazquez 39, Madrid
2022 “Horizonte y tierra”, solo exhibition, c/María de Maeztu 36, Madrid
2022 Packaging design for Manolo Bakes
2022 “Avance”, solo exhibition, c/María de Maeztu 36, Madrid
2021 “Marea baja”, solo exhibition, c/María de Maeztu 36, Madrid
2019 “En contraste”, solo exhibition Galería Astarté, c/Monte esquinza 8, Madrid
2018 “Luz al encuentro”, solo exhibition, c/ Agustín de Betancourt 25, Madrid
2017 Solo exhibition, Escuela de diseño Dmad, Paseo de la Habana 151, Madrid
2016 Collective exhibition, Paseo de la habana 24, Madrid
2015 “Llegada”, collective exhibition, Miscellaneous, C/ Fortuny 45, Madrid
Educational background
2009-2012 Architecture ETSAM. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2011-2012 Architecture Sungkyunkwan University. Seoul
2006-2009 Architecture. Universidad San Pablo CEU. Madrid