Silvia Prada (born 1969 in León, Spain) is an artist who lives and works in New York City. Her work as an illustrator and decorative artist has been described as a monochromatic and geometric documentation of pop culture. Capturing a fetishistic representation of defining moments and iconography. Her work was featured for the first time in The Face magazine in 2002. She has helped shape the movement of contemporary illustration art of the past decade and contributed artwork to a number of leading arts and culture publications including The Face, Dazed & Confused, BlackBook, VMagazine, VMAN, Tokion, Candy Magazine Fanzine 137 and EY Magateen.
Prada's works and large-scale illustration and/or poster installations have been showcased in museums, art fairs and galleries worldwide including MoCA Shanghai, Colette in Paris and Deitch Projects in New York
She self-published "The Silvia Prada Art Book" in 2006, an anarchic reflection about the history of fashion in a visual dialogue with decorative painters of the last century. . "The New Modern Man: A Styling Chart", published in 2012, features a series of stylized portraits highlighting male hairstyles juxtaposed with geometric drawings, paying homage to the barbershop and the subtle nuances and cues that help define the male persona, identity and representation within the parameters of visual and popular culture.
Solo exhibitions
2018
Silvia Prada at TOM House Exhibit. Los Angeles
2013
The New Modern Hair. Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
2010
Let's Get Busy. Jesus Gallardo Gallery. Guanajuato, Mexico
2009
Pin up War. Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid
2008
Fever. Art Lab. MoCA. Shanghai, China
2007
House of Pop. Galería Lluciá Homs. Barcelona
2005
All Things Pop. CASM, Centro de Arte Santa Mónica. Barcelona
Hot or Not. Laboratorio 987.MUSAC. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
Selected group exhibitions
2018
Fortnight Institute, Antifurniture.
2011
Grafika, Instituto Cervantes, Madrid
Zona Maco Art Fair. Mexico City
Cruised or to be Cruised. Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid
Huespedes. MNBA. Museo nacional de Bellas Artes. Buenos Aires. Argentina
2007
Existencias. MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
My 2007. Colette Gallery, Paris
Arco'06. Galería lluciá Hom, Barcelona
2006
Cavalier Book Project. Nog Gallery, London
World Painting. Galería Strany de la Mota, Barcelona
Próximamente. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Carrillo Gil, México DF
Arco'06. Galería lluciá Homs, Barcelona
2005
Arco'05. Galería Lluciá Homs, Barcelona
2004
Edad Perversa. Galería Horrach Moyá, Mallorca
2004
BlackBook. Deitch Projects Gallery, New York
2003
Paper Chic. Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
V Convocatoria de Jóvenes Artistas. Galería Luis Adelantado, Valencia
1996
8ª Primavera Fotográfica de Cataluña. Departamento de Cultura de la Generalitat de Cataluña. Can Felipa, Barcelona
1994
Uno Cada Uno. Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid.
Collections
MOCA Shanghai
MUSAC. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
Commercial commissions
2020
MIU MIU 2020
2013
MSGM, S/S 2013 Advertisement campaign
2012
(MALIN+GOETZ), New York and Los Angeles. Ordinary House, Vienna
2008
Uniqlo Soccer. Tokyo, Japan
2006
Nike Global, " Always on the Run"
2005
Danzha Vodka
2004
Barcelona Fashion Week
2003
GAS/DESIGN/EXCHANGE/TOKYO
Magazine commissions
2020
Playgirl Magazine
2011
V (US). #68, The Who Cares About Age Issue
V (US). #70, The Star Power Issue
Pin-Up Magazine. #11, Illustration for a conversation between Rem Koolhas and Francesco Vezzoli Dirty Magazine. Charlotte Free Portraits