Ana Monsó (Barcelona, 1998) is an emerging multidisciplinary artist, based in between Madrid and London, whose practice draws heavily from memories, exploring new territories and fleeting motifs that appear to dissolve as soon as they take shape.

In her paintings, Ana strives to convey a sense of calm—a counterpoint to the constant expression of ideas that defines today’s fast-paced world. Her use of unfinished brushstrokes and colours that intentionally remain in flux reflects her belief in the beauty of impermanence. This technique encourages the viewer to reflect on the idea of new beginnings and empowers them to contemplate on a future which, much like her art, is rarely concrete or final.

Ana holds a master’s degree in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2024), following studies in Art and Design at Cambridge and Fashion Design at the University of the Arts, London. Ana’s series ‘¿se les sacude el pólvo a los árboles?’ garnered significant acclaim, earning her the European Region M&C Saatchi Group and Saatchi Gallery’s Art for Change Prize, and her works were proudly exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery, London, in November 2024. Her exhibition history includes her first solo show at Pigment Gallery, Barcelona (2021), and a follow-up solo exhibition in 2022. She participated in a two-person exhibition at Ghost Gallery, Paris, in 2023 and was a resident artist at Piramidón, Barcelona, while also showing her work at several European art fairs. Most recently, in 2024, Ana exhibited at D Contemporary Gallery, London.

Artists Statement

¿ se les sacude el polvo a los árboles ? eng. is the dust shaken off the trees?

In my latest series ‘¿ se les sacude el polvo a los árboles ?’ my artworks offer a personal synthesis in the search for identity through the fragility of memory, capturing my own life with unfinished paintings, without beginning or end, always in the process of change and creation. I am interested in memory’s indispensable function of connection-making and its role in the construction of the inner-self and intimacy.

I know that a memory doesn’t have to look like the real world. A memory can be a conversation, a smell, a tickle in the tip of your nose. I express my inner thoughts with what can be describe as like irrational strokes, which to me are evocative of a memory.

I don’t know whether to call them “memories”, they are more like perceptions of the past continually developing around me. Not exactly like a succession, not one after the other, but all at the same time, without separation or discontinuity, a multitude of temporal layers disordered in the same lash. Every element of my memories, every corner of my house, every object, every hour of the day, every bend of the light, every color of the sky is to me associated with an expansive spread of adventures, stories and characters, a tumultuousness that does not stop.

In my paintings there is a tremendous curiosity to delve into unexplored territories, to reveal forms that dissolve as soon as I manage to look at them, and to look into the abyss from fragility and subtlety, from doubt and humility.

Prizes

2024 / ART FOR CHANGE PRIZE, Saatchi Gallery, European Region Winner. London, UK. Tomorrowing, Visions of a better future.

Exhibitions

2025 / SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE, Galleria Brescia. Brescia, Italy. 2025 / LONDON ART FAIR, Pigment Gallery. London, UK. 2024 / ART FOR CHANGE, Saatchi Gallery, European Winner. London, UK. 2024 / CASCADES, D Contemporary London. London, UK. 2024 / RCA 2024, Royal College of Art. London, UK. 2024 / ART MADRID, Pigment Galllery. Madrid, Spain. 2023 / FERIA ESTAMPA, Pigment Gallery. Madrid, Spain. 2023 / EPOD, Ghost Gallery Paris. Paris, France. 2023 / 2023_n1, Piramidón. Barcelona, Spain. 2022 / FERIA ESTAMPA, Pigment Gallery. Madrid, Spain. 2022 / GALERIE WOLFSEN, Skagen. Denmark. 2022 / GALLERY RED, Mallorca. Spain. 2022 / SWAB ART FAIR, Pigment Gallery. Barcelona, Spain. 2022 / AN ODE TO CHILDHOOD, Pigment Gallery, LabArt Studio, Barcelona, Spain. 2021 / 2021_n1, Piramidón. Barcelona, Spain. 2021 / THE POETICS OF INTIMACY, Pigment Gallery, Art Nou. Barcelona, Spain.