Miss Van
Miss Van started wall-painting with brushes on the walls of Toulouse in the ’90s and quickly expanded her work throughout Europe (with Barcelona as her home city), influencing the feminine movement in European Urban Art. She is now considered among the most established international urban contemporary female artists.
From acrylic to oil on canvas, Miss Van is in constant evolution, enhancing her work with cultural and tribal symbols, elements of folklore and diverse sources of inspiration, allowing herself to grow together with her characters.
As a matter of fact, the sensual and defiant girls of the past have evolved to sensitive muses and warriors of today.
Although they are still fragile and domineering, voluptuous and sensitive, they do no longer belong only to the streets, they now also shine in the largest international galleries and shows. The alluring outfits gave way to folkloric dresses and multi-traditional accessories.
Tears flowed, makeup held on, sometimes replaced by powerful masks.
And behind their mask, Miss Van’s muses, sultry yet elegant, reveal themselves as the very embodiment of femininity between strength and delicacy, sensuality and mystery. More ambiguous and stronger, sometimes burlesque, sensual or playful, they invite to share their torments, doubts, secrets and fantasies …
The origins of a feminine pioneer in a period when Urban Art and Graffiti started flourishing in the European context. Miss Van's art has been in constant evolution for 30 years, from the young ladies that invaded the walls and streets of Europe with raw illustrative brush strokes in the 90s to the Surrealist exquisite muses living in oil-painted canvases today.
During a time when all the codes and styles exploded, in the context of variations, breakthroughs, and exploration, Miss Van resolutely appears in the male-dominated Graffiti and Urban Art world, distinguishing her style from classical bombing with her paintbrush gentle strokes.
Show artworks
2022
- Evanescent Splendor Show – solo show at Harman Projects, New York
- NFT BCN 2022 – group exhibition at Reial Cercle Artístic, Barcelona
- Urvanity Art Fair – art fair with Fousion Gallery, Madrid
2021
- Fousion Finest 2021 – group show at Reial Cercle Artístic, Barcelona
- Urvanity Art Fair – art fair with Fousion Gallery, Madrid
2020
- DrapArt'20 – group show at Reial Cercle Artístic, Barcelona
- Fousion Finest 2020 – group show at Reial Cercle Artístic, Barcelona
- Drifting into Post Surrealism MMXX – group show at Fousion Gallery, Barcelona
- Urvanity Art 2020 – art fair with Fousion Gallery, Madrid
2019
- district 13 International Art Fair – art fair with Fousion Gallery, Paris
- Moniker Art Fair – art fair with Fousion Gallery, New York
- Musas & Guerreras – solo show at Urvanity Art Fair with Fousion Gallery, Madrid
- 5. UrbanArt! Biennale 2019 – Bienale in Völklingen, Germany
2018
- Retrospective 2003-2018 – solo show at Openspace Gallery, Paris
- Convulsive Beauty – duo show with Leonor Fini at Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco
- Moniker Art Fair – art fair with Fousion Gallery, London
- Urvanity Art Fair – art fair with Fousion Gallery, Madrid
2017
- Urvanity – art fair with Fousion Gallery, Barcelona
- Flor de Piel – solo show at Victor Lope Gallery, Barcelona
2016
- El Viento En Mi Pelo – solo show at CAC Málaga, Malaga, Spain
- Blooom Art Show at Art Fair Cologne – art fair with Fousion Gallery, Cologne
- The Expulsion of the Limbo – group show at Fousion Gallery, Barcelona
- Stroke Art Fair – art fair with Fousion Gallery, Munich
2014
- Glamorous Darkness – solo show at Stolen Space Gallery, London
2013
- Room for Cream – solo show at Soze Gallery, Los Angeles
2012
- Wild At Heart II – solo show at Dorothy Circus Gallery, Rome
- Wild At Heart I – solo show at Copro Gallery, Santa Monica
- F*ck art・2012 – group show curated by Emilie Baltz and Mark Snyder at
Sex Museum, New York
2011
- Muses – solo show at Inoperable Gallery, Vienna
- Bailarinas – solo show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York
2010
- Twinkles – solo show at 18 Gallery, Shanghai
- She Wolves – solo show at Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles
- Friendship – group show at Christoffer Egelund Gallery, Copenhagen
- Cachetes Colorados – solo show at Fifty24mx Gallery, Mexico City
2009
- Lovestain – solo show at Stolen Space Gallery, London
2008
- Urban Beauty Show – Fornarina Urban Art Show, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
- Still a Little Magic – solo show at Fifty24sf Gallery, San Francisco
- Canto Negro y Brujerias – group show at Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Berlin
2007
- Atame – solo show at Magda Danysz Gallery, Paris
- Heart Throb – group show at Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles
- Bestial – group show curated by Miss Van at Iguapop Gallery, Barcelona
2006
- Solo show at Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles
- Lagrimas de Mariposas – solo show at Magda Danysz Gallery, Paris
2005
- Toma Dame – solo show at Iguapop Gallery, Barcelona
- Dont Be Shy – solo show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York
2004
- Solo show at Magda Danysz Gallery, Paris
- Cute and Scary – group show curated by Jean Barberis at Flux Factory, New York
2003
- Solo show at Magda Danysz Gallery, Paris