About
Maite Cascón (b. 1991, Madrid) is an artist using metaphorical and figurative images within printmaking and drawing.
In her process, she reconstructs reality by playing with it through sketches, creating impossible scenes happening simultaneously.
Psychoanalysis and folk tales are important references. Having been raised in a catholic androcentric country, she explores these subjects looking for answers to conflicts of her close environment and therefore this way she analyzes inherited patterns.
The topics of her practice are based on the body and death, and different social issues, such as gender, sexuality, violence, the disengagement from nature and the increase of human individualism.
Education
The Royal College of Art, MA Print, 2017
University Complutense Madrid, Fine Arts BA (Hons), 2015
Scholarship Cátedra Francisco de Goya awarded by University Complutense and Caja Ávila, 2011
Selected Exhibitions
Verbatim, London Original Print Fair, Somerset House, London, 2023
RAMAS / Francisco de Goya / Maite Cascón, Eames Fine Art Print Room, London, 2022
The Contemporary Young Artist Award, The Biscuit Factory Foundation, Newcastle, 2020
London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy with Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London, 2019
RE Originals, Bankside Gallery, London, 2019
Society of Women Artist Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, 2019
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, 2018
RE Originals, Bankside Gallery, London, 2018
Society of Women Artist Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, 2018
London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy with Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London, 2018
Mini Picture Show, Bankside Gallery, London, 2018
Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Bankside Gallery, London, 2017
Ingram Collection, The Cello Factory, London, 2017
Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, 2017
Society of Women Artist Summer Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, 2017
Royal College of Art Final Show, 2017
Group Exhibition, Multiples, Kings Gate Workshop, London, 2016
Group Exhibition, Out Put, CGP Gallery, London, 2016
National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, 2015
Group Exhibition Dis Play, CGP Gallery, London, 2015
Group Exhibition WIP Show, Royal College of Art, London, 2015
Group Exhibition, Un día en la Casa de Velázquez, Casa de Velázquez Artist Residency, Madrid, 2014
Awards
Winner Ushaw Residency and Acquisition Prize, 2021
Shortlisted Boodle Hatfield Printmaking Prize, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, 2021
Winner Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair Prize, 2020
Shortlisted The Contemporary Young Artist Award, The Biscuit Factory Foundation, 2020
Selected to be a member of Society of Women Artist Mall Galleries, 2018
Winner Eames Fine Art Award, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, 2018
Winner Printmaking Today Prize, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, 2018
Winner Thames Side Print Studio, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, 2018
Winner The Gwen May RE Student Prize, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, 2017
Shortlisted for the Young Contemporary Talent Purchase Prize, Ingram Collection, 2017
Winner Young Artist in any medium Award, Society of Women Artist Exhibition, 2017
Shortlisted for the Merlin Entertainment Prize, Royal College of Art Final Show, 2017
Artist Residencies
Ushaw Historic House, Chapels & Gardens Residency, 2022
London Print Studio, 2018
La Madriguera, Barcelona, 2020
Collections
Ushaw Historic House, Chapels & Gardens
Publications
2018: Artist Eye, Printmaking Today Magazine, Issue 107 Vol 27 no 3
Autumn 2018