Madrid. Sculpture, Interventions, Installations.

Esther Pizarro was born in Madrid in 1967. She graduated in Fine Arts from the Sculpture Department of the Complutense University of Madrid in 1990, where she obtained a Doctoral degree in 1995. Her training is completed thanks to different scholarships that allow her travel abroad, including: Artistic Creation Grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in New York; Help for the production of Plastic Arts in the Community of Madrid; Plastic Arts Grant from the Casa de Velázquez, Madrid; Generation 2000 Grant, Caja de Madrid; Plastic Arts Grant from the Spanish Academy in Rome; Plastic Arts Scholarship from the Colegio de España in Paris; Predoctoral Scholarship for Research Personnel Training at the Complutense University of Madrid. Between 1996 and 1997, he lived in the United States with a scholarship from the Fulbright Commission and the Ministry of Education and Culture.

She has received different awards and second prize among which it is worth highlighting: Buitblanc Award 2019-2020, Contemporary Culture Las Cigarreras, Alicante; VISIBLES 2018 Award, Contest of Art and Women Regional Center for Humanities Cardenal Gonzaga Sierra Norte, CCHSN, Community of Madrid; Antón Grant for Sculpture Creation and Research 2017; Project awarded in the XX Call for Aid for Visual Creation Proposals 2016, VEGAP Assistance and Cultural Fund; Acquisition Prize XVII Contest of Plastic Arts Sala El Brocense, Provincial Council of Cáceres; Acquisition Prize IV International Biennial of Plastic Arts Ciudad de Alcorcón, modality: urban sculpture; realization of artistic intervention project entitled "Postal Codes"; First Prize Plaza de las Libertad / es, international competition of ideas for the planning and construction of a space for freedom in Seville, MGM Morales + Giles Arquitectos, in collaboration with Esther Pizarro and Hackitectura.net; The Critical Eye Award from Radio Nacional de España in the Visual Arts category; Pámpana de Oro Award at the LXI National Exhibition of Plastic Arts of Valdepeñas in Ciudad Real; Finalist in the Mariano Benlliure 2000 Sculpture Prize at the Villa de Madrid Awards and Second Prize at the XXII Caja Madrid National Sculpture Contest.

She has exhibited individually at Tabacalera, La Fragua, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Madrid; Candás Sculpture Center Museo Antón, Candás, Asturias; Metropoli Foundation, Madrid; Royal Mint Museum, Segovia; MataderoMadrid; Casa Asia, Barcelona; Hospital Real, Granada; San Telmo Museum, San Sebastián; Tomás y Valiente Art Center, Room A, (CEART), Fuenlabrada; Official College of Architects of the Canary Islands COAC, Las Palmas Demarcation; Barjola Museum, Gijón; Antonio Prates Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal; Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid; Raquel Ponce Gallery, Madrid; Ponce + Robles Gallery, Madrid; Manuel Ojeda Gallery, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Isabel Ignacio Gallery, Seville; Teresa Cuadrado Gallery, Valladolid; Liquid Space Gallery, Gijón; Carmen de los Mártires, Granada Provincial Council; Sala Saura, Provincial Council of Huesca, Huesca; Gallery B, California State University, Long Beach, United States; Casa de Velázquez, Madrid and Municipal Center of the Arts, Alcorcón, Madrid.

In recent years she has worked on interventions in public spaces on a temporary and permanent basis: Call for Artistic Interventions in Public Spaces in Barbastro, “La Cultura Legada” Project, Huesca, Spain; Dehesa Boyal Sculpture Park, Las Navas del Marqués, Ávila; Pradolongo Park, Madrid; People's Square, Alcobendas, Madrid; Exhibition and Congress Palace, Mérida; West Lake Park, Hangzhou, China; Casino de la Reina Park, Lavapiés, Madrid; San José de Ocoa, Dominican Republic; Arganda del Rey metro station, Madrid; Fráncos Rodríguez metro station, Madrid and Junta Municipal de Latina, Madrid.

She has made specific installations for different spaces, among them it is worth highlighting: "#NiUnaMenos", Comarcal de Humanidades Cardenal Gonzaga Sierra Norte, CCHSN, Madrid; "[MAFD] :: Mapping Active Fire Data", Tabacalera, La Fragua, Madrid and Centro de Escultura de Candás Museo Antón, Asturias; “Liquid Stained Glass” Can Prunera Modernista Museum, Sóller, Mallorca; “Liquid mapping :: connected to ..”, Galería Ponce + Robles, Madrid; "Digital Diamonds: Cloudscape" and "Blue Backbone: Datascape." Program: Cities Art, Ecobox, Fundación Metrópoli, Alcobendas, Madrid; "A Japanese garden: Topographies of the void", Project carried out within the framework of the 2013-2014 Spain-Japan Dual Year, Roaming: MataderoMadrid, Warehouse 16, Programming line: Large Scale. Madrid; Casa Asia, La Puríssima Pavilion, Modernist Campus of the Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona; Museum of San Telmo, San Sebastián; Royal Mint Museum, Segovia and “Mobility Maps. Patronizing Madrid ”, Tomás y Valiente Art Center (CEART), Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain.

Her collaboration in Universal Exhibitions with large installations stands out: “Piel de Luz”, Pabellón Bilbao Guggenheim ++, Shanghai World Expo Exhibition 2010, China and “Urban Fossils”, Exhibition design: GPD (General de Producciones y Diseño), Acciona Pavilion, Expo Zaragoza 2008, Spain.