
ELA FIDALGO
PALMA DE MALLORCA, SPAIN 1993
Ela Fidalgo has developed her technique using embroidery, acrylic, fabrics, oil and waxes. Her work includes painting, sculpture and installation. In her paintings, Fidalgo gives form to emotions that manifest from her universe full of questions about human behavior beyond the domains of everyday life and thought. All of the artist’s production is strongly linked to her stage in fashion, which she applies to her work by embroidering
Fidalgo was born in 1993 in Palma de Mallorca. She got a scholarship to study fashion design at IED Fashion Lab Madrid, where she won awards such as the Balenciaga award, The Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Transparency. During his third year she won the Fashion Talent award at the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Madrid and in 2018, she was a finalist at the Festival d’Hyeres. Since 2016 she has focused on her artistic career, since then he has held three individual exhibitions.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2022 – LONDON ART FAIR – La Bibi – London
- 2022 – UVNT FAIR – La Bibi – Contemporary Narcissits – Madrid
- 2021 – UNDER THE INFLUENCE. Solo show. Gerhardt Braun Gallery. Palma
- 2019 – BEHIND THE MIRROR. Solo show. HANGAR 8269. Ibiza, 2019
- 2019 – POR NO HABLAR DE MÍ… El retrato como reflejo del propio enfoque del trabajo. Proyecto colectivo bajo la curadoría de Matthias Weber. GALERIE SCHIMMING. Hamburgo (Alemania)
- 2019 – PRESENCIA EN CONCUSO MODA PORTUGAL. PREMIO EUROPEO cofinanciado por COMPETE-2020. Lisboa (Portugal)
- 2018 – SHOW EN FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE MODE, DE PHOTOGRAPHIE ET D’ACCESSOIRES DE MODE. Colección Earthwork. Villa Noailles. Sponsor Oficial Channel. Hyères (Francia)
- 2018 – ALL THE LOVERS. Solo show. Gerhardt Braun Gallery. Palma
- 2017 – COLECCIÓN WORK-IN-PROGRESS. ART MESO ATLANTA. W Atlanta Downtown. Atlanta (EEUU)
- 2016 – SHOW MERCEDES BENZ FASHION WEEK MADRID – EGO TALENT
- 2016 – ELA FIDALGO. Ifema. Madrid
- 2016 – SHOW MERCEDES BENZ FASHION WEEK PRAGA –DISEÑADORA INVITADA: ELA FIDALGO. Praga (Republica Checa)
- 2016 – PRESENTACIÓN de la COLECCIÓN Work-in-progress. Studio Gerardo Vizmanos. Nueva York (EE.UU)
- 2016 – SHOW COLECCIÓN FADE TO GREY 44 STUDIO. CIBELES-OFF MBFWM. Cha-Chá The Club. Madrid
- 2016 – READY MADE / “WORK-IN-PROGRESS”. Solo show bajo la curadoría de Mercedes Estarellas. Gerhardt Braun Gallery. Palma
- 2014 – SHOW COLECCIÓN “EL ORIGEN DEL MAL”. CIBELES-OFF. GORI DE PALMA. Museo del Ferrocarril. Madrid
- 2013 – EXPOSICIÓN BALENCIAGA. PREMIO PROTOTIPO. IED-MADRID. Museo del traje. Madrid
AWARDS AND HONORS
- 2022 – PREMIO FUNDACION NADINE PRODUCCION UVNT. Madrid
- 2019 – FINALISTA MODA PORTUGAL. Lisboa
- 2018 – FINALISTA en el 33e FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE LA MODE, DE PHOTOGRAPHIE ET DES ́ACCESSOIRES DE MODE, Hyères (Francia)
- 2016 – MERCEDES BENZ FASHION WEEK MADRID – EGO SAMSUNG PRIZE