A visual artist, editor of Sublime magazine, and occasional curator, Avelino Sala pursues a multidisciplinary practice that addresses social, political, and cultural issues from a critical and poetic perspective. His work reflects on the mechanisms of power, migration, the environmental crisis, collective memory, and the contradictions of contemporary capitalism, establishing him as one of the most recognizable voices in Spanish art committed to cultural and political resistance.
A graduate of the Critical Fine Art Practice program at the University of Brighton, he regularly participates in the international contemporary art scene, with a presence at biennials and exhibitions held in cities such as Caracas, Istanbul, Tel Aviv, Dakar, Cuenca, Malta, and Kosovo.
His work has been exhibited at leading institutions and centers such as the Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias, Matadero Madrid, Abrons Arts Center, the National Center for Contemporary Arts, the MAAC, Es Baluard Museu d’Art Contemporani in Palma, and CentroCentro, among other national and international institutions.
Among the awards he has received are the Artport International Video Award, presented by UNESCO and the New York Foundation for the Arts in Basel (2007), the VAD Prize from the Girona International Video Art Festival (2010), as well as fellowships and residencies at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome, the Le Lait art center, Hangar, and BilbaoArte. In 2022, she received the Barjola Prize for Contemporary Art.
In recent years, he has participated in the Dakar Biennale, the Cuenca Biennale, the Lanzarote Biennale, and the Malta Biennale, where he represented Spain with a solo project in the Spanish pavilion. He is currently presenting the institutional exhibition *La tempestad. El jardín de los senderos que se bifurcan* at CentroCentro, the first major solo exhibition dedicated to his work in Madrid.
