Elvira Martos

ELVIRA MARTOS (Seville, 1989) Graduated in Fine Arts at the University of Seville, specialising in painting, continued her pictorial studies at the Accademia di Pietro Vanucci in Perugia, Italy.

She has developed her artistic career in Rome, Italy, and in Sydney, Australia. Throughout her career, she has worked as an artistic advisor, and as a painter and muralist for the advertising agency Apparition Media.

She has participated in exhibitions and creative projects in Rome, Berlin, Puerto Rico, Sydney, Venice, Melbourne, Barcelona, Cuba, etc.

Martos’s work centers on portraiture, critically engaging with selfhood, spirituality, and cultural identity. Primarily a painter, she also incorporates artistic objects, collective projects, performance, and installations into her practice. Using found objects, she transforms reused materials through narrative shifts—redefining their original meaning and adding new layers. This process elevates the concept of waste into a personal and symbolic dimension.

She currently lives and works in Seville, Spain. Martos recently closed her ninth solo exhibition, Funambulismo, a continuation of the conceptual dialogue initiated during her artist residency at the ONKAF Foundation in New Delhi.