Miguel Soler-Roig
visual artist
Miguel Soler-Roig (Barcelona, 1961)
His education has been influenced by the Bauhaus and the new Swiss typographic style. He studied at the Basel School of Design. Subsequently completed a Masters in Fine Arts at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. For several years has been living and working in New York, and after his return to Spain he continued his studies in photography, completing a Master of Art in Photography at the European Institute of Design in Madrid (IED), and numerous international photography workshops.
Some of the most prominent spaces where he has shown his work are: RISD Museum of Art, Providence; Paris Photo;
AIPAD, New York; TEA Museum, Tenerife; Valentin de Madariaga Foundation, Seville; Benaki Museum, Athens; PHotoEspaña festival, Madrid; Venice Arsenale; Photo London and Cultural Center of Jesus, Ibiza.
Education
1983 Schule für Gestaltung, Basel; Basel School of Design (CH)
1985 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island, Providence (USA)
1987 MFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island, Providence (USA)
2010 MA in Photography, European Institute of Design (IED), Madrid (E)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
CASA DE TIBET, Barcelona. Out of Silence
CASA DE MÉXICO. PHotoEspaña 2024. In the Navel of the Moon
2023
GEM3.ART, Monterrey
PHotoEspaña 2023, Hotel Real Santander, Palmeras de Santander
Art Baja California Festival. Flux/Lab.
2022
Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Marfa Lights
Flux/Lab, Mexico City, Aura Revealed
2020
Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Amesegënallô
2019
Kraemer Gallery, Paris, The Great American Nude
The Photography Show, AIPAD, New York
The Room Studio, Barcelona, Out of Silence
2018
Flux-Zone, Mexico City, Out of Silence
The Room Studio, Barcelona, Weightless Waves
Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Out of Silence
2017
Emma Molina Gallery, Monterrey, The Ruin of Memory
Being 3 Gallery, Beijing, Under the Andalusian Sky
2016
Being 3 Gallery, Beijing, Sceneries for Reverie
Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, The Ruin of Memory
Blanca Berlin Gallery, Madrid, The Ruin of Memory
2015
Mondo Gallery, Madrid, Logical Ambiguities
Society for Photographic Education, Cleveland, Ohio, The Ruin of Memory
2013
Photo España, Madrid, The Great American Nude
2011
Galeria Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Frontiers without Limits
2010
Missoni, Madrid, Vogue Fashion Night Out
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
GEM3 Madrid
2023
O Santuario Gallery, Lisboa
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history
2022
La Biennale di Venezia
The Times of the Chimeras, Cameroon Pavilion
2020
Scattergories. Lista 4. Acción por el arte
2019
Venezia Photo. San Servolo
Cultural Center Jesus, Ibiza, Deserts Waters
2018
Benaki Museum, Athens Photo Festival, Out of Silence
Cultural Center Jesus, Ibiza, Animals
2017
Fotonoviembre, Photography Biennial. TEA Museum, Tenerife
Antonio Perez Foundation, Cuenca
Nacional Museum of Photography, Huete
Cultural Center Jesus, Ibiza, Ibicenco II
2016
Paris Photo 2016. J.P. Morgan Chase Collection
Valentin de Madariaga Foundation, Seville, Under the Andalusian Sky
Photo London, Blanca Berlin Gallery
Being3 Gallery, Hudson, NY
Fotofest, Houston
Cultural Center Jesus, Ibiza, Ibicenco
2015
Lianzhou Foto Festival, China, The Ruin of Memory
Photo London, Blanca Berlin Gallery
Zona Maco Foto, Mexico City
Luis Carulla Foundation, Tarragona, Under the Andalusian Sky
Mondo Gallery, Ibiza, Under the Andalusian Sky
Segovia Foto Festival, The Great American Nude
Arts Libris, Barcelona
2014
Lianzhou Foto Festival, China, Logical Ambiguities
Fotofever, Paris, Blanca Berlin Gallery
Matadero, Madrid, The Great American Nude
Fotofest, Houston
2013
PINTA, New York, Blanca Berlin Gallery
Arte Laguna, Venice Arsenale, Longings
ABSOLUT Prize, PhotoEspaña, Madrid, The Great American Nude
2012
Blanca Berlin Gallery, Madrid, Look, Feel, Collect, with Joaquim Paiva and Tony Catany
IED Group Show, Madrid, Stop Suffering
JustMad Art Fair, Madrid, Frontiers without Limits
Casa Encendida, Madrid, ”Mutant Books”, Stop Suffering
2011
Copenhagen Photo Festival
2010
Madrid Photo, Blanca Berlin Gallery
Lisbon Art Fair, Blanca Berlin Gallery
2009
PhotoEspaña Festival, Madrid
1988
American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York
1987
RISD Museum of Art, Providence
1985
Schule für Gestaltung, Basel
Museums
Benaki Museum, Athens
Royal Artistic Circle, Barcelona
Luis Carulla Foundation - Vida Rural Museum, Tarragona
Casa degli Italiani, Barcelona
Valentin de Madariaga Foundation, Seville
Cultural Center Jesus, Ibiza
TEA Museum, Tenerife
Nacional Museum of Photography, Huete
Antonio Perez Foundation, Cuenca
RISD Museum of Art, Providence
Galleries
Being 3 Gallery, Beijing
Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston
Kraemer Gallery
Galeria Emma Molina, Monterrey
Flux-Zone, México City
Blanca Berlin, Madrid
Mondo Galeria, Ibiza
Awards
2017 Finalist Passporte Prize for Surreal Photography
2014 Finalist NexoFoto Iberoamerican Photo Prize 2014, Madrid
2013 Honorable mention Photo España ABSOLUT Prize 2013, Madrid
2013 Finalist Arte Laguna Art Prize 12.13, MoCA Italy, Venice (IT)
1987 Award of Excellence “Design for the Public Good 1987,” AIGA, New York
1986 Gerrit Rietveld Academie Award, ICOGRADA International Conference, Amsterdam
Works in Collections
JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
RISD Museum, Providence
Valentin de Madariaga Foundation, Seville
Trilantic Capital, New York
Yolanda Santos Collection, Monterrey
Private collections: Barcelona, Beijing, Geneva, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mexico, Miami, Paris, and Zürich
Books and Publications
Amesegënallô, March 2020, Madrid
Out of Silence, 2018, Madrid
The Great American Nude, (Artist Portfolio) 2015, Madrid
Sand Dreams, 2014, Madrid
The Great American Nude, 2013, Madrid
Arte Laguna Art Prize 12.13, MoCA Italy, 2013, Venice
Projects, European Master of Fine Art Photography, 2012, IED Madrid
Stop Suffering, Limited edition artist book, 2012, Madrid
Fronteras sin Limites, 2011, Madrid
From Time to Time, 2010, Barcelona
Bibliography
Artnet news Partner Content "Amesegënallô", March 2020, New York
Diario de Ibiza, “Ibicencos IV”, October 2019, Ibiza
Artnet news Partner Content "Atlantis & Posidonia", May 2018, New York
Artnet news Partner Content "Out of Silence", March 2018, New York
Diario de Ibiza, “Ibicencos II”, July 2017, Ibiza
ABC, “Under the Andalusian Sky”, June 2016, Seville
La Razón, “The Ruins of Memory”, May 2016, Barcelona
L’Oeil de la Photographie, “The Ruins of Memory”, March 2016, Paris
El Periódico de Cataluña, Desnudos en la Alhambra. October 2015, Barcelona
L’Oeil de la Photographie, “Sous un ciel andalou”, September 2015, Paris
El Mundo Journal, “Bajo un cielo andaluz”, August 2015, Ibiza
El Temps Magazine, “Nus encara”, May 2015, Barcelona
Amante Magazine, Collectors Edition, Gold, June 2014, Madrid
That’s Life Magazine, January 2014, Madrid