ABOUT LOLA DEL FRESNO
Lola del Fresno was born in Madrid. She studied in the University of Fine Arts in Madrid. She exhibited in several galleries in Madrid, Bilbao and was part of Art Fairs like Estampa in Madrid, Korea and Art LA in Los Angeles. She moved to New York in 1997 and since then her work has been recognized internationally, showing in galleries in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Shanghai, Milan and New York.
Lola del Fresno is a visual artist whose projects involve large-scale mixed media installations with an active public component that involves the viewer as part of the project in the space. Her work is composed of mixed media pieces that include drawings, photography, paintings, and sculptures.
She has exhibited her work locally and internationally. Her large scale installations and paintings are housed in well-known private collections and museums.
Lola del Fresno has received several awards in Spain, including the first prize Gremios de Pintura in 1995, the Prize Adara in Avila, Spain in 2003 and the Prize Tentaciones - Estampa Art Fair with an installation entitled “Walking.”
Paper has been always Lola’s greatest love, primarily because of the connection to the feeling, texture and the immediacy of the medium. Over the years the vision of her work has been expanding and evolving towards large scale installations, partially in an attempt to engage a dialogue in a more direct way with the public. Lola likes to work on different mediums in one piece, and thus project videos over drawings or paintings, photography, and three-dimensional sculptures to offer a more profound and dynamic perspective.
“The work describes the constant battle of the senses, the tension inside. The duality that exists in our physical condition: spirit and material, perishable and eternal. The individual and the sense of individuality, appears and then disappears with the current loss of identity.” - Lola del Fresno
VIDEOS
RECOVERY JUSTICE - BEING WELL
IN - SIDE
LAS HIJAS DE LOS DIAS
LAUNCH LA
By Lola del Fresno
EXHIBITIONS
2026 Solo show- “Topografia de la Memoria” Curated by Isabelle Leurent. Centro Cultural Convento San Diego. Alaior. Menorca. Spain
Group Show - “Under One Roof” Curated by Peter Frank. Propeller Gallery - Santa Monica Arts Center. Santa Monica, CA
2025 Solo show - Espacio Cultural Fabrica Codina “Pursuing Peace” - Menorca - Spain
2024 Awarded Kate Johnson Digital Arts Fellowship - City of Santa Monica
Whiplash exhibition - Group show - Propeller Gallery. Santa Monica Airport
2023 Created and Organized - Art Immersion - Menorca - Spain - Artistic immersive 10 days workshop
Awarded TBC| Grant Initiative 2023. The Billboard Creative. https://www.thebillboardcreative.org/blank-3
Interviews and Grant Awardees Lola Del Fresno
2022 First Prize Award - 50 Brand - Brand Library & Art Center. Pasadena
18th Street Art Center - Collective Acts of Peace / Actos colectivos de paz. Santa Monica. CA 90401
https://18thstreet.org/event/collective-acts-of-peace/
2021 18TH STREET ART COMPLEX. “RECOVERY JUSTICE”. Group Show. Santa Monica, CA
https://18thstreet.org/sara-daleiden-recovery-justice-being-well/
Awarded Grant by the City of Santa Monica for - “The Innocents” Installation - At the Santa Monica Airport
2020 Tracy Park Gallery. “In Time” Malibu, CA
Airport Gallery. 18th St Art Center. “ Las Hijas de los Dias” Santa Monica, CA
https://18thstreet.org/event/las-hijas-de-los-dias/
North Gallery. 18th St Art Center. “ Drawing connections” Santa Monica, CA
https://18thstreet.org/event/drawing-connections/
2019 ART PALM SPRINGS Art Fair at Barba Contemporary. Santa Barbara, CA
https://www.art-palmsprings.com
Arena 1 Gallery– ETA (Estimated time of Departure). Group show. Santa Monica, CA
2018 Arena 1 Gallery– Points of Departure. Group show. Santa Monica, CA
2017 TAM - Torrance Art Museum . Group Show . Torrance, CA
http://www.torranceartmuseum.com
Arena 1 Gallery–. Group show. Santa Monica, CA
2016 Q Art salon – Group show. Santa Ana, CA
Plummer park Cultural Center - “Awaken” Group Show - Los Angeles CA
2015 Jamie Brooks Fine Art Gallery – Solo show. Costa Mesa, CA
LAAA Gallery – HOME – Solo show. Los Angeles, CA
2014 Arena 1 Gallery – Mas Attack – Group show. Los Angeles, CA
LAAA – Cultural Excavation – Group show. Los Angeles, CA
Irvine Art Center – After Image – Group show. Irvine, CA
Modern Video Film – From Generation to Generation – Group show. Los Angeles, CA
2013 Arena 1 Gallery – In House - Group show - Los Angeles, CA
Axiom Contemporary- Solo show – L.U.V.E - Los Angeles, CA
Venice Art Walk & Auctions- Group show - Los Angeles, CA
http://www.theveniceartwalk.org
2012 Venice Art Walk & Auctions- Group show - Los Angeles, CA
http://www.theveniceartwalk.org
South Pasadena Mercantile Gallery- Solo show - Pasadena, CA
Selected to become a Los Angeles Art Association Artist Member
2011 MSJC Art Gallery – Solo show- Stand Still– San Jacinto, CA Latino Art Museum- Group show - Los Angeles, CA
Irvine Fine Art Center – Group show - LCAD Exhibition - Irvine, CA
http://www.cityofirvine.org/cityhall/cs/finearts/default.asp
Art House 2001- Benefiting Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles.
Shoshana Wayne Gallery- Group Show – Los Angeles, CA
http://shoshanawayne.com/upcoming-exhibition.php?/Chain+Letter/&id=236372
Timothy Tew Gallery- Solo Show – Atlanta
Arena I Gallery – Group show- Los Angeles, CA
2010 Tracy Park Gallery – Solo Show - Beverly Hills, CA
Launch LA Gallery – Solo Show- In and Out of the Body - Los Angeles, CA
Launch LA Gallery – Group show - Fundraiser - Los Angeles, CA
Tracy Park Gallery –Solo Show- Malibu, CA
International Art Show - Art Ulsan 2010 - korea
2009 Lawrence Asher Gallery - Los Angeles, CA
Fellini Gallery- “Visionaries” – Shanghai – China
Fellini Gallery- Beijing
Tracy Park Gallery - Malibu, CA
City Art Gallery- Circle of Care Foundation – Van Nuis, CA
Arena 1 Gallery– Los Angeles, CA
http://www.santamonicaartstudios.com/A1about_slides.swf
2008 Lawrence Asher Gallery - Los Angeles, CA
Arena 1 Gallery – Los Angeles, CA
http://www.santamonicaartstudios.com/A1about_slides.swf
Art House 2008- Habitat for Humanity Art Auction- Los Angeles, CA
Tracy Park Gallery - Santa Monica, CA
2007 Tracy Park Gallery - Los Angeles, CA
LA Art Show International Art Fair – Gallery C - Los Angeles, CA
2006 LA Art Show International Art Fair – Gallery C - Los Angeles, CA
Gallery C. “Drawings” – Hermosa Beach, CA
Tracy Park Gallery - Los Angeles, CA
2005 Epoxy-box Gallery – Los Angeles, CA
Flash Art Fair – Bologna, Italy
Intergallery Milan Gallery - “Ed Moses, Andy Moses, Lola del Fresno, Ron Reihel, Lorenza Basili, Marco Giovani, Brad Howe"
Milan, Italy
Tracy Park Gallery - Los Angeles, CA
2004 Tracy Park Gallery – Los Angeles, CA
Hamilton Gallery – Los Angeles, CA
http://www.hamiltongalleries.com/
2003 XI Estampa Art Fair. Price Tentaciones – Madrid, Spain
Premio Adaja de Pintura. Palacio los Serranos – Avila, Spain
http://www.obrasocialcajadeavila.org/bases_premio_adaja.pdf
Jorge Alcolea Gallery – Madrid, Spain
http://www.galeriajorgealcolea.com/web/
Dolbi Chadwik Gallery - San Francisco, CA
2001 Juan Manuel Lumbreras Gallery - Bilbao, Spain
2000 Egizio’s Project Gallery - New York, NY
1999 Weinstein Gallery - San Francisco, CA
1998 Weinstein Gallery - San Francisco, CA
1997 473 Gallery - New York City
The Cooper Union School of Art - New York City
Angel Orensanz Foundation Center for the Arts - New York City
http://www.orensanz.org/gallery.html
1996 A.G. Torres Gallery - Bilbao, Spain
María de Oliver Gallery - Madrid, Spain
Universidad Complutense - Madrid, Spain
1995 María de Oliver Gallery - Madrid, Spain
Ayllon Museum - Segovia, Spain
Biosca Gallery - Madrid, Spain
Complutense University - Madrid, Spain
El Foro Cultural Center - Madrid, Spain
Santa Bárbara Gallery - Madrid, Spain
1994 Grupo Tres (Artist group formation) Astarté Gallery - Madrid, Spain
El Foro Cultural Center - Madrid, Spain
AWARDS
2024 First Prize - Kate Johnson Digital Arts Fellowship - City of Santa Monica
2023 TBC| Grant Initiative 2023. The Billboard Creative. https://www.thebillboardcreative.org/blank-3
Interviews and Grant Awardees Lola Del Fresno
2022 First Prize - 50 Brand. Brand Library and Art Center. https://www.brandlibrary.art/post/brand-50
2003 Prize Tentaciones – Estampa Art Fair. http://www.estampa.org/tentaciones.html
Prize Adaja – Avila, Spain
1997 Grant Erasmus - Cooper Union School of Art – New York City
1996 Grant Erasmus - Art School of Fine Art – Lisboa, Portugal
1995 Grant – Painting Residency – Ayllon. Segovia. Spain https://www.ayllon.es/museos
First Prize - Gredos de Pintura – Avila. Spain
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Ayllón Museum – Segovia, Spain www.ayllon.es/museos
Arenas de San Pedro City Council - Avila, Spain
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Luis Maria Anson
Elisabeth Shue - Davis Guggenheim
Jesús David Alvarez Mezquiriz
Andy Weissman
Meredith Bauer
Luiso Berdejo
Julie Weiss
Yossi Govrin
Greggory Mass
Fabrizio Lecompte
Morgan Entrekin
EDUCATION
1997 The Cooper Union School of Art - New York City (Grant)
1996 School of Fine Arts - Lisboa, Portugal (Grant)
1990/95 Complutense University of Art - Madrid, Spain
1990/92 Arjona School of Art - Madrid, Spain
1989 ENP Graphic Design School - Madrid, Spain
PUBLICATIONS
https://www.thebillboardcreative.com/interviews/grant-2023#Lola
https://www.brandlibrary.art/post/brand-50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3qKFlOts7s
http://wrapwomen.thewrap.com/team/lola-del-fresno/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcxaDavusy0
https://artandcakela.com/2016/10/15/photo-essay-santa-monica-art-studios/lola-del-fresno-6/
http://www.pe.com/articles/fresno-626609-nov-gallery.html
http://axiomcontemporary.com/lola-del-fresno/
https://www.plataformadeartecontemporaneo.com/pac/el-amor-por-los-momentos-de-lola-del-fresno/
http://artscenecal.com/Announcements/2008/0408/LawrenceAsher0408.html
https://forthmagazine.com/other/2009/12/lola-del-fresno-bianca-kolonusz-partee-gallery-opening/