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Marta Adalid is a Spanish visual artist whose painting practice explores the relationship between the body and the natural environment.

Working from sensation, memory, and embodied experience, her paintings develop in an intermediate space where forms remain open and in transformation. Organic and vegetal elements frequently emerge, dissolving the boundaries between skin, landscape, and matter, and suggesting a continuity between human and non-human forms.

Her work is rooted in an interest in how the world affects us and leaves traces on the body, understood as a surface of contact where experience is registered and transformed. Through an intuitive and process-based approach, she constructs ambiguous visual languages that move between appearance and dissolution, inviting a sensory rather than narrative engagement.

She has presented her work in various exhibitions, including the solo exhibition Niku no Hana (Flower of Flesh) in Tokyo (2026), developed in collaboration with Katsuya Susuki Gallery and LEA – Lab of Experimental Art, with the support of the Embassy of Spain in Japan. She was awarded an INJUVE grant (2024–2025) for the project Habitar el cuerpo colectivo.

Bio

Marta Adalid (Madrid, 1994) is a Spanish visual artist who graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid (2016). During her studies, she undertook an Erasmus exchange at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze (2016) and subsequently continued her training at the Barcelona Academy of Art (2018).

In 2025, she was awarded the INJUVE Young Creation Grant for her project Habitar el cuerpo colectivo, later presented in the exhibition Dulzuras indómitas (Sala Amadís, Madrid, 2026).

Her solo exhibitions include NIKU NO HANA (Katsuya Suzuki Gallery, Tokyo, 2026), developed in collaboration with LEA – Lab of Experimental Art and with the support of the Embassy of Spain in Japan; Residencia Full Time (LEA, Madrid, 2024); and El cuerpo habitado (Espacio Cruz Bajo, Madrid, 2023).

Her selected group exhibitions include Los Postres (Ilgaz Yildiz Gallery, Madrid, 2026), Pensamiento minúsculo (Centro Párraga, Murcia, 2026), Dulzuras indómitas (Sala Amadís, Madrid, 2026), Cortex Frontal (Galería Appleton, Lisbon, 2025), Procesos LEA (LEA, Madrid, 2025), and Lab OLA and Viaje (Galería OLA, Barcelona, 2023).

Between 2024 and 2026, she developed her artistic practice at LEA (Lab of Experimental Art, Madrid), following the award of a residency grant through the institution’s patronage programme.

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