# Silvia Prada

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
2010
* Candy (Spain), Who's That Girl Issue
* V Man (US). #15, Dream Blond
* Hercules. Pedro Almodóvar Special
2009
* Tokion (US). One to One, Silvia Prada on Jeff Koons
* Hercules Universal, The New Kid on the Block Issue
2008
* Dazed & Confused (UK). An Issue of Reinvention
* EY! Magateen. In Loving Memory
2007
* Fanzine 137 (Spain). 5.137, Matt Dillon. Heartbeats Accelerating
2004
* BlackBook (US). The Arts Issue
* Carlos (UK). Good Bye Great Britain
2003
* The Face (UK). Trouble in Sunnydale
* The Face (UK). 2002 Review, Not Forgotten Issue
2002
* The Face (UK). The Creatives Issue
2002
* Dazed & Confused (UK). 10th Anniversary Issue

## Books and editions

2020
* Peter Berlin: Icon, Artist, Photosexual
2012
* THE NEW MODERN HAIR: A STYLING CHART, Co-published by cultureEDIT and Silvia Prada
* THE NEW MODERN HAIR: A STYLING CHART, Foldout Poster
2010
* RICHARD GERE ON FAKE KANDINSKY PIN UP POSTER
2006
* THE SILVIA PRADA ART BOOK, Published by Silvia Prada