Ángeles Agrela

Ángeles Agrela (b. 1966, Úbeda, Spain) has resided in Naples, La Habana, and Berlin, and currently lives and works in Granada. Her recent works seek to conceptualize the role of women within the History of Art by creating a contemporary representative view. Following this theme, the key feature of her drawings becomes the hair, which has important cultural and historical connotations within representation of the feminine. She uses the symbolic charge and communicatory capacity of hair to create an exaggerated mass that often substitutes the face or hides it completely, as a playful way to divert attention away from the face and towards how women choose to represent themselves. Exhibitions include Ángeles Agrela, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2026, solo, forthcoming); Ángeles Agrela, June Canedo de Souza, Æmen Ededéen, Samantha Joy Groff, Teresa Murta, Daniel Pitín, Nicodim, New York (2026); THE BODY DOES NOT EXPLAIN ITSELF, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2026); The Amber of this Moment, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2025); SOLEDAD, Galería Yusto Giner, Marbella (2025, solo); The Ballad of the Children of the Czar, Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest (2024); Self-portrait as a Schoolgirl, Nicodim, New York (2024, solo); The Paradoxes of the Aura, CICA, Vancouver (2023, solo); Immaculate Heart of Margaritaville, curated by Devendra Banhart, Nicodim, Los Angeles (2023); MATERNITY LEAVE: NONE OF WOMEN BORN, Nicodim in collaboration with the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas (2023); Kiaf Seul, Galería Yusto Giner (2023); Art Busan, Galería Yusto Giner (2023); Art Chicago, Galería Yusto Giner (2023); Art Basel Miami, Nicodim Gallery (2022); Le Regard, Perrotin, Dubai (2022); FAUNA, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles (2022, solo); Facial Recognition, Fabien Fryns Fine Art, Dubai (2022); DISEMBODIED, Nicodim, Bucharest (2022); Summer Nights, Stems Gallery, Paris (2022); Around the world, WOAW Gallery, Hong Kong (2022); Fanzination, Galería Yusto Giner, Madrid (2021, solo); Art021 Shanghai, Galería Yusto Giner (2021, solo). Agrela is collected by CAC Málaga; Colección Banco de España; the National Library of Spain; the L´Oréal Collection; and many others.