Gemma Gené

Gemma Gené is a visual artist from Barcelona, Spain, based in New York. She was trained as an architect and moved to the United States to earn a Master in Advanced Architectural Design at Columbia University. In 2014 immediately upon graduation she joined Steven Holl Architects until she focused on developing her artistic studio work.

She is an award winning painter and published author. Her work focuses on wrapped objects and foil balloons. The series “unapologetic paintings” is a collection of paintings, sculptures and street art of wrapped objects. In this series the object is hidden and the only thing showing is it’s skin or it’s wrapping and it can only be revealed by the user’s imagination. The paper used for wrapping is a reflective material that hides the object and reflects its surroundings, including the viewer.

Her work has been shown in New York at Sotheby’s, Voltz Clarke Gallery, the Accessible Art Fair at the National Art’s Club, and Figment New York amongst others and in Barcelona at Swab and the Palo Alto Foundation. She is represented by Voltz Clarke Gallery.

Her work has been published in medias like the NY Post, Artnet, Archdaily, The Jealous Curator, Blouin Art, Create! Magazine, Fresh Paint Magazine amongst others.

She is best known for her online comic 157ofgemma where she narrates in an ironic fashion her life with her inseparable pug Mochi that has a very strong following on social media.

 

Exhibitions

Past

AD Art Show, Mvvo Art, May 2019

Solo show, Voltz Clarke Gallery, December, Palm Beach 2018

Swab Art Fair, September 2018, Barcelona

SCOPE, March 2017 8th – 11th, 2018, New York

AD Art Show, Sotheby’s, February 2018, New York

Superfine! Art Fair, December 7th to 10th 2017, Miami

Swab Art Fair, September 2017, Barcelona

What’s new what’s next, Voltz Clarke Gallery, September 14th, New York 2017

Solo show, Voltz Clarke Gallery, September 13th, New York 2017

An evening of Art and Design, Curated by Saatchi Art, MiMa New York, March 2017

Superfine!, New York, May 2017

Group show, “Camino a Sefarad”, Madrid, 2016

Art Fair, Accessible Art Fair, National Arts Club, NY, November 1-25 2016

Group show, Bombay Artisan Series semi finalist, Rush Arts, NY, 2016

Solo Show,”Coses que penso mentre faig gaspatxo” (what I think while I make gazpacho), Palo Alto Fundation, Barcelona, 2016

Group exhibition , Curated by Shawn James, The Greenpoint Gallery, NY, 2016

Group Film Festival, Elvis Zapp Film Festival, Curated by EZUFF, Spectrum Space, NY, 2015

Solo Exhibition, GSAPP FS//SS Noodloo, Curated by Imagination Space, Imagination Space, New York, NY, 2014, Group Project (Gabriel Calatrava, Eileen Chen, Gemma Gené, Dan Luo, Madeeha Merchant, Rashad Palmer, Rebecca Riss, Anna Vander, Margaux Young, Jenny Yuan Lin)

Solo Exhibition, GSAPP FS//SS Noodloo, Curated by Figment, New York, NY, 2014, Group Project (Gabriel Calatrava, Eileen Chen, Gemma Gené, Dan Luo, Madeeha Merchant, Rashad Palmer, Rebecca Riss, Anna Vander, Margaux Young, Jenny Yuan Lin)

Group exhibition, visual arts, Curated by Columbia University, Prentis Hall, New York, NY., 2013.

Group exhibition, AAD GSAPP studio, Curated by Bernard Tschumi, Avery Hall, New York, NY., 2013

Selected press

                

       

               

Selected publications

illustration

“New York’s Pedestrianization”, Paisea Landscape Architecture Magazzine, Summer 2014, Valencia, Spain “Every day of class”, The Federalist, October 2010 New York, NY. Back Cover.

“Warrants for torents” article written by Sam Arons, Columbia Politics Review. Fall 2013 New York, NY. Cover and p.18.

“Sports Economics” article written by Zachariah Reitano, Columbia Economics Review. Spring 2013 New York, NY. p.4.

“Pregaming the Tequila Crisis” article written by Asher Hecht, Columbia Economics Review. Spring 2013 New York, NY. p.22.

“Grounding Art Perception in Action” article written by Matthew Schelkes, Columbia Science Review. Fall 2013 New York, NY.  P.10

“The Food Allergy Conundrum” article written by Diane Wang, Columbia Science Review. Fall 2013 New York, NY.  P.10

“El examen de matemáticas” by Miguel Matesanz, Published by Edebé, Barcelona, Spain 2011.

“Lizzard’s tail soup” by Marta Gené, Published by Edebe, 2009, Barcelona, Spain.

“Història de la vida d’Alcarras” by Manel Camps Clemenete. Edited by Ajuntament d’Alcarras I pagès edicions, Barcelona, Spain 2003. p.73

writing

“New York’s Pedestrianization”, Paisea Landscape Architecture Magazzine, Summer 2014, Valencia, Spain

Grants and Awards

Semi finalist 2016 Bombay Artisan Series

First prize 2013 Canvas Artist Series Contest for the Canvas Wines Cabernet Sauvignon label, Chicago, IL.

Second prize in the international contest for the design of the façade of the Pyrinées Department Store, Andorra.