CV of Neus Solà

Full trajectory of Neus Solà, photographer and visual artist based in Barcelona: education, awards and recognition, solo and group exhibitions, residencies, grants, publications and teaching. A PDF version is also available for download.

Visual artist, photographer and educator · Barcelona — Sant Cugat · Member of Women Photograph.

Grants and awards

  • 2020 · First Prize, Documentary Photography Project — Menorca DocFest, Spain

  • 2019 · Finalist, Prix HSBC pour la Photographie — Paris, France

  • 2018 · Shortlisted, Burn Emerging Photographer Fund — Burn Magazine

  • 2017 · Winner, Nuevos Talentos Scholarship — Encuentros Fotográficos de Gijón, Spain

  • 2017 · Winner, ManifestO Festival — Toulouse, France

  • 2017 · Finalist, International Women Photographers Award (IWPA)

  • 2017 · Finalist, Photography Grant — Culture Nominee Award

  • 2017 · Finalist, Bob Books Photobook Award — British Journal of Photography, London, UK

  • 2017 · Finalist, Joan Cabanes Scholarship — Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain

  • 2016 · Finalist, Can Basté Photography Forum Scholarship — Barcelona, Spain

Art residencies

  • 2026 · Cossos en simbiosi — Casa d’Artistes Es Far Cultural, Es Mercadal, Menorca, Spain

  • 2025 · Matria — Centre de Photographie Lumière d’Encre, Céret, France

  • 2023 · Art and Nature Grant (Beca d’Art i Natura) — Centre d’Art La Panera and Centre d’Art i Natura de Farrera, Spain

  • 2023 · Research grant “Les dones i la força de treball” — InLoft, Copons, Spain

  • 2021 · Mater Art Community — Fabra i Coats, Barcelona, Spain

  • 2019 · Creation residency (selected) — Villa Pérochon Contemporary Art Centre, Niort, France

  • 2019 · Eddie Adams Workshop — New York, USA

  • 2018 · VII Photo Agency Workshop (selected) — Eyes in Progress, Barcelona, Spain

Solo exhibitions

  • 2025 · Roseta. Memory in Resistance — Casa de Cultura de Girona, Girona, Spain

  • 2025 · Roseta. Memory in Resistance — Sala Cadi, Tuixent, Spain

  • 2025 · Roseta. Memory in Resistance — CAMP – Centre d’Art i Memòria de Ponent, Juneda, Spain

  • 2024 · Roseta. Memory in Resistance — La Panera Art Centre, Lleida, Spain

  • 2024 · Roseta. Memory in Resistance — Art and Nature Centre of Farrera, Lleida, Spain

  • 2024 · Gènerxs. Hegemony and Dissidence — Àlbum Image and Photography Festival, Terrassa, Spain

  • 2023 · Poupées — Mitgeres, Large-Format Documentary Photography Exhibition in Public Space, Valls, Tarragona, Spain

  • 2023 · Les Amazones de Copons — Photographic intervention in public space, Copons, Barcelona, Spain

  • 2023 · Poupées — L’Estació Art Centre, Ojos Rojos Festival, Dénia, Alicante, Spain

  • 2022 · Nirvan — ManifestO Festival, Toulouse, France

  • 2021 · Nirvan — Installation, La Nuu Festival, Plaça Nova, Rubí, Barcelona, Spain

  • 2021 · Poupées — L’Îlot Sauvage, Port Boinot, Villa Pérochon, Niort, France

  • 2020 · Poupées — Menorca DocFest, Alaior, Menorca, Spain

  • 2019 · Poupées — Fotolimo Festival, Georges Clausells Hall, Cerbère, France

  • 2019 · Poupées — Tomás Valiente Art Centre, Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Spain

  • 2019 · Poupées — Lumínic Festival, Ateneu Santcugatenc, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain

  • 2018 · Poupées — Can Basté Civic Centre, Barcelona, Spain

  • 2017 · Poupées — Barjola Museum, Gijón, Spain

  • 2017 · Poupées — ManifestO Festival, Toulouse, France

Group exhibitions

  • 2022 · Stay at Home. Correspondences with M’Hammed Kilito — Cărturești Carousel, Bucharest PhotoFest, Bucharest, Romania

  • 2022 · C’est à propos de moi. Ou, plutôt, sur nous — Le Pilori, Niort, France

  • 2021 · Gender, Sex and Transgression — Lleialtat Santsenca, Barcelona, Spain

  • 2021 · Poupées — L’Îlot Sauvage, Port Boinot, Niort, France

  • 2019 · Luft — [wa:|wa:] Festival, Kabawil, Düsseldorf, Germany

  • 2019 · Poupées — Les Boutographies, jury selection (screening), Montpellier, France

  • 2018 · Iguales en Derechos — Travelling exhibition, Spanish Bar Association, Madrid, Spain

  • 2018 · Poupées — ArtPhotoBcn, La Capella, Barcelona, Spain

  • 2018 · Poupées — Les coups de cœur des Festivals Européens (screening), Circulations Festival, Paris, France

  • 2017 · Caprichosos Destellos de Belleza — ArtQage Gallery, FotoMéxico Festival, Mexico City, Mexico

  • 2017 · Poupées — Atlántica Colectivas, Fotonoviembre Festival, Tenerife, Spain

  • 2017 · Images d’Elles — IWPA travelling exhibition: Dubai, Delhi, Port Said, Cairo, Alexandria, Paris, Toulouse, Marseille, Riyadh, Lahore, Islamabad and Kuwait

  • 2017 · Poupées — Exhibition and sale at UTOPIA Photo Market, Barcelona, Spain

  • 2016 · Poupées — Exhibition and sale at VIPHOTO Fair, Amárica Gallery, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Publications

  • 2025 · Trementinaires. Petjades que són memòria — La Magrana Magazine, Lleida, Spain

  • 2024 · Les Amazones de Copons — photobook, InLoft

  • 2019 · Poupées — Cheese! Magazine, Konbini News, Paris, France

  • 2019 · Poupées — i-D Spain Magazine, Vice, Spain

  • 2018 · De niña a mujer gitana, un viaje al control patriarcal — Diario Público, Spain

  • 2018 · Poupées — Clavoardiendo Magazine, Agencia Zoom, Spain

  • 2018 · Wounds of War — Edge of Humanity Magazine, USA

  • 2017 · Poupées: l’histoire d’une existence contrastée — Fisheye Magazine, Paris, France

  • 2017 · Lentes divergentes #4: Poupées — Inquire Magazine, Paris, France

  • 2017 · The Balkan Song — Float Photo Magazine, New York, USA

  • 2017 · Poupées — NEWS Magazine, Áfoco, Córdoba, Spain

  • 2015 · IKKAN MINZOKU-GAKU — Magazine of Ethnographic Studies, Cultural Foundation of Senri, Osaka, Japan

  • 2012–2014 · Setmanari La Directa, contributions to the Miralls section (texts and photographs) — Barcelona, Spain

Talks, conferences and public programmes

  • 2025 · Cicle triangular: dona, narració i memòria en la fotografia documental — Inspai, Casa de Cultura de Girona, Spain

  • 2023 · La vida intermitent i altres contes — Negra Mosca, Barcelona, Spain

  • 2023 · La travessa. Reflexions entorn de la maternitat i creació — Negra Mosca, Barcelona, Spain

  • 2023 · Modos de ver. Aproximaciones sobre la alteridad cultural — Casa de Cultura Dénia, Alicante, Spain

  • 2020 · La Frontera Habitada, roundtable — V Escola d’Estiu Walter Benjamin, Passatges Cultura Contemporània, Centre Cívic de Portbou, Spain

  • 2020 · #Territori — aladeriva lab, Laboratori Lúdic de Creació i Producció Fotogràfica, Portbou, Spain

  • 2019 · Salvoconducto, participatory dynamics on the border — Fotolimo Festival, Portbou, Spain

  • 2019 · La Frontera en Acción, roundtable — Centre Cívic de Portbou, Spain

  • 2019 · Photojournalism course: Between Document and Art — Universidad Carlos III, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain

  • 2019 · El Procés Fotogràfic, roundtable — Centre de Cultura of Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain

  • 2018 · L’influència del gènere a la fotografia — Full Frame podcast 45 / Women’s Looks

  • 2017 · Poupées — Efecto Doppler, Radio 3, RNE

Research, mediation and cultural practice

  • Development of artistic mediation, participatory and research-based projects addressing memory, territory and ecofeminism.

  • Founder of aladeriva lab, a situated research platform focused on walking practices, territory and participatory methodologies.

  • Coordinator of FotoLimo, Cross-Border Festival of Photography and Visual Arts (2019–2021).

Teaching

  • Camp Obert — independent photography programme based at Les Naus de l’Art, La Floresta, Sant Cugat del Vallès.

  • COTA / aladeriva lab — independent programme on situated photography, walking practices and sensitive cartography.

  • Selected teaching institutions: Espai Fotogràfic Can Basté (Barcelona), Centre Francesc Català Roca (Barcelona), Ateneu Santcugatenc (Sant Cugat del Vallès), Casa de Cultura (Sant Cugat del Vallès) and Àgora School of Photography (online).

  • Teaching areas: portraiture, visual storytelling, photographic technique, authorial documentary photography, experimental photographic processes, sensitive cartography, situated photography and participatory photography.

Education

  • 2024–2025 · Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Photography — IDEP, Barcelona

  • 2025 · Video Content Creation Course — IDEP, Barcelona

  • 2019 · Postgraduate Diploma in Therapeutic and Participatory Photography (scholarship) — Instituto 8, Barcelona

  • 2010–2011 · Postgraduate Diploma in International Cooperation and Cultural Management — University of Barcelona

  • 2009–2011 · Master’s Degree in Visual Anthropology — University of Barcelona

  • 2003–2006 · Diploma in Fine Arts — University of Barcelona

  • 2002–2008 · Bachelor’s Degree in Humanities — Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona

Specialised training

  • 2026 · Ordenar para Narrar, with Iara Kremer — Excursión (online)

  • 2022 · Photobook Thinking and Production Programme — Campo Fotolibros

  • 2018–2019 · Advanced Lighting — Grisart, Barcelona

  • 2018–2019 · Digital Image Retouching and Processing II — Grisart, Barcelona

  • 2017–2018 · Photobook Editing and Production (scholarship) — El Observatorio, Barcelona

  • 2016–2017 · Exhibition Installation, with Natasha Christia — El Observatorio, Barcelona

  • 2015–2016 · Authorial Documentary Photography — El Observatorio, Barcelona

  • 2013–2014 · Image Post-Production — Addretouch / CFD Barcelona