Silvia Prada

Silvia Prada (born 1969 in León, Spain) is an artist who lives and works in New York City. Her work as an illustrator and decorative artist has been described as a monochromatic and geometric documentation of pop culture. Capturing a fetishistic representation of defining moments and iconography. Her work was featured for the first time in The Face magazine in 2002. She has helped shape the movement of contemporary illustration art of the past decade and contributed artwork to a number of leading arts and culture publications including The Face, Dazed & Confused, BlackBook, VMagazine, VMAN, Tokion, Candy Magazine Fanzine 137 and EY Magateen.

Prada's works and large-scale illustration and/or poster installations have been showcased in museums, art fairs and galleries worldwide including MoCA Shanghai, Colette in Paris and Deitch Projects in New York

She self-published "The Silvia Prada Art Book" in 2006, an anarchic reflection about the history of fashion in a visual dialogue with decorative painters of the last century. . "The New Modern Man: A Styling Chart", published in 2012, features a series of stylized portraits highlighting male hairstyles juxtaposed with geometric drawings, paying homage to the barbershop and the subtle nuances and cues that help define the male persona, identity and representation within the parameters of visual and popular culture.

Solo exhibitions
2018
 * Silvia Prada at TOM House Exhibit. Los Angeles

2013
 * The New Modern Hair. Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles

2010
 * Let's Get Busy. Jesus Gallardo Gallery. Guanajuato, Mexico

2009
 * Pin up War. Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid

2008
 * Fever. Art Lab. MoCA. Shanghai, China

2007
 * House of Pop. Galería Lluciá Homs. Barcelona

2005
 * All Things Pop. CASM, Centro de Arte Santa Mónica. Barcelona
 * Hot or Not. Laboratorio 987.MUSAC. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León

Selected group exhibitions
2018
 * Fortnight Institute, Antifurniture.

2011
 * Grafika, Instituto Cervantes, Madrid
 * Zona Maco Art Fair. Mexico City
 * Cruised or to be Cruised. Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid
 * Huespedes. MNBA. Museo nacional de Bellas Artes. Buenos Aires. Argentina

2007
 * Existencias. MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
 * My 2007. Colette Gallery, Paris
 * Arco'06. Galería lluciá Hom, Barcelona

2006 2005
 * Cavalier Book Project. Nog Gallery, London
 * World Painting. Galería Strany de la Mota, Barcelona
 * Próximamente. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Carrillo Gil, México DF
 * Arco'06. Galería lluciá Homs, Barcelona
 * Arco'05. Galería Lluciá Homs, Barcelona

2004
 * Edad Perversa. Galería Horrach Moyá, Mallorca

2004
 * BlackBook. Deitch Projects Gallery, New York

2003 1996
 * Paper Chic. Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
 * V Convocatoria de Jóvenes Artistas. Galería Luis Adelantado, Valencia
 * 8ª Primavera Fotográfica de Cataluña. Departamento de Cultura de la Generalitat de Cataluña. Can Felipa, Barcelona

1994
 * Uno Cada Uno. Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid.

Collections

 * MOCA Shanghai
 * MUSAC. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León

Commercial commissions
2020
 * MIU MIU 2020

2013
 * MSGM, S/S 2013 Advertisement campaign

2012
 * (MALIN+GOETZ), New York and Los Angeles.
 * Ordinary House, Vienna

2008
 * Uniqlo Soccer. Tokyo, Japan

2006
 * Nike Global, " Always on the Run"

2005
 * Danzha Vodka

2004
 * Barcelona Fashion Week

2003
 * GAS/DESIGN/EXCHANGE/TOKYO

Magazine commissions
2020
 * Playgirl Magazine

2011
 * V (US). #68, The Who Cares About Age Issue
 * V (US). #70, The Star Power Issue
 * Pin-Up Magazine. #11, Illustration for a conversation between Rem Koolhas and Francesco Vezzoli
 * Dirty Magazine. Charlotte Free Portraits

2010
 * Candy (Spain), Who's That Girl Issue
 * V Man (US). #15, Dream Blond
 * Hercules. Pedro Almodóvar Special

2009
 * Tokion (US). One to One, Silvia Prada on Jeff Koons
 * Hercules Universal, The New Kid on the Block Issue

2008
 * Dazed & Confused (UK). An Issue of Reinvention
 * EY! Magateen. In Loving Memory

2007
 * Fanzine 137 (Spain). 5.137, Matt Dillon. Heartbeats Accelerating

2004
 * BlackBook (US). The Arts Issue
 * Carlos (UK). Good Bye Great Britain

2003
 * The Face (UK). Trouble in Sunnydale
 * The Face (UK). 2002 Review, Not Forgotten Issue

2002
 * The Face (UK). The Creatives Issue

2002
 * Dazed & Confused (UK). 10th Anniversary Issue

Books and editions
2020 2012
 * Peter Berlin: Icon, Artist, Photosexual
 * THE NEW MODERN HAIR: A STYLING CHART, Co-published by cultureEDIT and Silvia Prada
 * THE NEW MODERN HAIR: A STYLING CHART, Foldout Poster

2010
 * RICHARD GERE ON FAKE KANDINSKY PIN UP POSTER

2006
 * THE SILVIA PRADA ART BOOK, Published by Silvia Prada