Who signs it, and where to see it
These listings do not compete with an encyclopaedia and do not try to. What they add is the part missing from all the others: which Spanish house handles their work today, with its listing one click away.
An artist is here because a house in the directory names them. That is why the list is short: it grows when the directory grows, not when we think of names.
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Agustín Ibarrola 1930–2023 The man behind the Oma Forest: he painted a living pine wood and made it a work. Segunda mitad del siglo XX At 2 houses -
Ángeles Santos 1911–2013 A career cut short at twenty and taken up again decades later. Vanguardia histórica At 1 house -
Antoni Muntadas 1942 A pioneer of Spanish conceptual and media art; Velázquez Prize 2009. De 1970 a hoy At 4 houses -
Antoni Tàpies 1923–2012 Spanish matter painting taken to its most recognisable formulation. Segunda mitad del siglo XX At 9 houses -
Carlos Garaicoa 1967 The architecture that was never built: ruin, utopia and the city. De 1990 a hoy At 2 houses - Chiharu Shiota 1972 She weaves entire rooms in red or black thread until space itself becomes matter. De 1990 a hoy At 1 house
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Cristina Iglesias 1956 A sculptor of pavilions, lattices and water wells; Velázquez Prize 2020. De 1980 a hoy At 2 houses - Damien Hirst 1965 The shark in formaldehyde, the diamond skull, and the most expensive living artist of his generation. De 1990 a hoy At 2 houses
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Eduardo Chillida 1924–2002 The post-war Spanish sculptor with the most solid international standing. Segunda mitad del siglo XX At 8 houses -
El Roto 1947 A daily cartoon in El País since 1995, and a body of painting almost nobody looks at. De 1970 a hoy At 2 houses - Eva Lootz 1940 A sculptor of poor materials and raw minerals; National Fine Arts Prize 1994. De 1970 a hoy At 3 houses
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Glenda León 1976 She turns the everyday into a score: hair, grass, scratched records and silence. De 2000 a hoy At 2 houses -
Ignasi Aballí 1958 He paints what cannot be seen: dust, absence, lists and errata. De 1990 a hoy At 3 houses - Jaume Plensa 1955 Giant heads and letters: the most-seen Spanish sculptor in the world, unknowingly. De 1980 a hoy At 1 house
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Joan Fontcuberta 1955 The photographer who set out to prove that a photograph proves nothing. De 1980 a hoy At 2 houses - Joan Miró 1893–1983 His most-seen work in Barcelona is in no museum: it is underfoot, on La Rambla. Siglo XX At 6 houses
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Joaquín Torres-García 1874–1949 The bridge between the Spanish and the Latin American markets. Vanguardia histórica At 2 houses -
Julião Sarmento 1948–2021 The Portuguese artist of implied desire: half-erased figures on white. De 1970 a 2021 At 4 houses - Luis Feito 1929–2021 A founder of El Paso: sand and oil, and of the three, the one you can still buy. Siglo XX At 4 houses
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Maruja Mallo 1902–1995 One of the Sinsombrero, and the clearest case of a market that arrived late. Vanguardia histórica At 2 houses - Miquel Barceló 1957 The living Spanish painter with the strongest international market. De 1980 a hoy At 4 houses
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Óscar Domínguez 1906–1957 Canarian surrealism, decalcomania — and a much disputed catalogue. Vanguardia histórica At 2 houses - Pablo Picasso 1881–1973 There is a twenty-metre Picasso on a Barcelona square, and it charges no admission. Siglo XX At 4 houses
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Pedro Orrente 1580–1645 A master of the Spanish baroque, with a museum sale documented by the directory. Barroco At 1 house -
Rogelio López Cuenca 1959 A poet turned artist: he dismantles the language of advertising and tourism. De 1980 a hoy At 2 houses - Susana Solano 1946 Iron, cage and enclosure: the most international Spanish sculptor of the eighties. De 1980 a hoy At 3 houses
No artist matches that filter.
Some cards carry a monogram rather than a portrait. The work of almost all these artists is under copyright —in Spain, eighty years after death for those who died before 1987 and seventy for those after— and their portraits carry the photographer's rights on top. Where there is an image it is because the work is in the public domain or stands in a public place; where there is not, we prefer honest initials.