Gloria Santacruz

“Sculpture has always been my natural way of interacting with the world and relating to it. A vision of the form, the materials, the textures have always defined my work. Influenced by architecture, the construction of buildings and spaces and everything related to their materials, these influenced me from childhood through direct relationship with my family, also linked to the earth, nature and everything that had to do with the land cultivation and its direct relationship with botany. Many of my works have the shape and color of the earth, the red from mud and its textures, which end up transforming and drinking from Etruscan artists, from African artists who stylize their figures as Masai, or of artists like Giacometti or Louise Bourgeois.”

Curriculum Vitae
2015 Doctor of Fine Arts specialized in sculpture from the Complutense University of Madrid
2020 FIRST PRIZE VIRGEN DE LAS VIÑAS DE ESCULTURA Tomelloso C. Real. Art Fair Hybrid participation in Madrid as Artistic Residence and as an artist-March Selected Atlante Prize for international engraving Riveira La Coruña. Selected FIDEM Edition XXXVI Biennial Art Medal Word Congress in TOKYO JAPAN 2019 Selection VII International Biennial of Textile Art 2019 World Textil Art Complutense University of Madrid 2019. Selection Catalog for Collective Exhibition. Castilla La Mancha WOMEN IN THE ARTS. Amalia Avia Award. Junta de Castilla la Mancha. Exposition. Catalog 2018 Selection 79 Edition INTERNATIONAL PLASTIC ARTS CONTEST Valdepeñas Collective exhibition. C. Real. Castilla la Mancha. Catalog FIRST PRIZE FOR SCULPTURE Amalia Avia WOMEN IN THE ARTS. Junta de Castilla la Mancha. Traveling exhibition throughout the provinces of the region. FIDEM Selection Catalog XXXV Biennial Art Medal Word Congress at OTTAWA. CANADA 2016 FIRST PRIZE BOOK OF ARTIST. Móstoles City Council. Madrid 2015 Medal of Honor for sculpture in the XXIV López Villaseñor Ciudad Real 2014 Award Selected for the Badajoz City Sculpture Award. Exhibition catalog.
2012 Medal of Honor for sculpture in the XXI López Villaseñor Ciudad Real award 2010 Selected for the exhibition Contest Nacional Villa de Parla Edition XXXII. Madrid 2010 Biennial Art Medal word congress FIDEM XXXI TAMPETE. FINLAND.
2009 FIRST PRIZE OF SEISIDA SCULPTURE AND PFIZER Pharmaceutical Laboratories. Valencia
2008 FIRST PRIZE FOR JACINTO HIGUERAS SCULPTURE. Santiesteban del Puerto. Jaen
2007 Biennial Art Medal word congress FIDEMXXX Colorado Springs UNITED STATES Catalog
2006 Roundabout monument made of bronze dedicated to Women. Torrijos Toledo
2004 Selection MACAY Museum of Sculpture. Yucatan Peninsula MEXICO. Catalogue
Selection in TOKYO International Miniprint Triennial Tama Art University JAPAN.
Selection Art Medal World Congress FIDEM XXIX Seixal. PORTUGAL.
2003 FIRST PRIZE FOR CADAQUÉS INTERNATIONAL MINIPRINT ENGRAVING. Girona.
1989 Foundry of artistic bronzes. Codina. Complutense University SCHOLARSHIP. Madrid
1988 Summer courses Tomelloso City Council – Complutense University SCHOLARSHIP. Madrid