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

Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, 2024

Summer Show, Royal Academy, London, 2024

Verbatim, London Original Print Fair, Somerset House, London, 2024

Strange Devotion, Eames Fine Art Collectors' Studio, London, 2024

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 Ironbridge Fine Arts Award, 2023

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