About Marisa Culatto

Marisa Culatto, born in the Canary Islands, lives and works the UK.

Culatto has spent a whole decade almost exclusively working with digital photography preoccupied with pushing – blurring – the boundaries of photography into the language and practice usually associated with other mediums.

Constraints, domesticity and daily rituals are at the centre of her practice.  Culatto is also interested in the notion of reality being a construct, and, therefore, much of  her work addresses contradictions, misperceptions and/or a degree of visual ambiguity.  And because of her ambivalent relationship with the photographic medium, she is interested in exploring photography itself as subject.  Lockdown has had a big impact in Culatto’s practice which has turned back to works on paper, mostly employing ink, markers and watercolour and recently combining all these with photography

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022 A Choir for February, Hertford Theatre Facade, Hertford, UK
2020
MOCA London WE (web exhibitions), London, UK
2017 Selected Works, The Hospital Club, London, UK
2015 Flora/Ophelia, Molina Contemporary, London, UK
2014 Open Studio, Spain NOW! London, UK
2012 Ponds, The Gallery at Herford Theatre, Hertford, UK
2012 Men in White Shirts 2010 – 2012, S/t Espacio Cultural, Las Palmas, Canary Islands
2011 100 Men in White Shirts, CMAE, Avilés (AlNorte, X National Contemporary Arts Week of Asturias, Spain)
2011 Ponds/Estanques, Galería Saro León, Las Palmas, Canary Islands

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 Royal Watercolour Society Open Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
2023
Collecting Nature, Eagle Gallery EMH Arts, London, UK
2023
SPLASH! The Haiku Show, White Conduit Projects, London, UK
2023
I Want You To Panic, Zuleika Gallery, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, UK
2022
-2023
Ars Botanica, simbólica naturaleza, Museo Castillo de Mata, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
2022
Black and White Photography, Citizens Art London Gallery, Blue House Yard, London, UK
2022
Nothing is the Same; Likes 2022 Group Show , Puxa Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2021
XX Anniversary Exhibition AlNorte, Museo Barjola, Gijón, Asturias, Spain
2021 Summer Festival,
The Birdbox Gallery, Birdwood, Cambridge, UK
2021 Every Woman Biennial,
The Copeland Gallery, Peckham, London, UK
2021 To-Be-Forgotten,
The Stable Gallery, West Meon, Hampshire, UK
2021 Earth Patterns,
Online, UK
2019 Voyage,
Centrespace Gallery, Bristol, UK
2019 Botanicals,
North Gallery, Exchange Place, Sheffield, UK
2017-2018 DRAW,
The Thought Foundation, Birtley, Gateshead, UK
2017 VIA Arts Prize Exhibition,
Sala Brasil Gallery, Embassy of Brazil, London, UK
2017 Zeitgeist exhibition,
within Diffusion: Cardiff International Festival of Photography, Wales Millenium Centre, Cardiff, UK
2017 Exhibition of the XXI International Photography Prize Rafael Ramos García
of the Universidad de la Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
2017 Photowall
PHOTOALICANTE International Photography Festival, Alicante, Spain
2016 Pattern: found, exchanged, unravelled.
 Fringe Arts Bath 2016, UK
2016The Dark Side of LightNight. 
104 Duke Street Studios, 2016 LightNight Festival, Liverpool, UK
2016 Portraits.
Candid Arts Trust, London, UK
2016 – 2018 Caminos de Hierro. 
Fundación Ferrocarriles Españoles, Madrid, Spain (and tour)
2015 Atlántica Colectivas. 
Festival FotoNoviembre, TEA Tenerife, Canary Islands
2015 The House of Fairy Tales Matchbox Exhibition.
The Other Art Fair, London, UK
2015 Surrealismo. 
Círculo de Bellas Artes, Tenerife, Canary Islands
2015 Crafting Anatomies. 
Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2014 State of Origin,
Unit 24 Gallery, London, UK
2014 Lacemakers, 
Orleans House, Stables Gallery, Twickenham, UK
2014 Art in the East Side,
Billboard Project, Ulster Bank Festival at Queens, Belfast, Northen Ireland
2014 A Given Structure,
Fringe Arts Bath 2014, UK
2014 About Women,
International Mail Art Project, Museo Interactivo da Historia, Lugo, Spain
2014 Ahora Nosotras,
within the  Festival Miradas de Mujeres (Female Gaze Festival), Museo Arqueológico de Cacabelos, León, Spain
2014 The Walking Encyclopaedia,
AirSpace Gallery, Stoke on Trent, UK
2013 Strangers in Paradise,
Centro Cultural Hispanohablantes, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2013 Be our Guest ,
Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Powys, UK
2012-2014 El Suelo
(touring 9 galleries in Las Palmas,Tenerife, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, La Palma, Gomera and Hierro), Canary Islands
2011 Riscos,
San Martín Centro de Cultura Contemporánea, Las Palmas, Canary Islands

Other

2024 London Art Fair with Crane Kalman Brighton, Booth 20, London, UK
2024 Photomonitor Talk at London Art Fair: Land Matters, with Christiane Monarchi, Almudena Romero and Alexander Mourant
2023 Book FLORA: A Frozen English Garden, Published October 2023 Black Dog Press, Texts by Eduardo Barba
2020 Featured in The Observer’s The New Review, 9 Aug.
2018 Finalist, Brighton Photo Fringe Solo18 competition
2018 Work acquired for the Soho House Collection. Permanent display in Little Beach House Barcelona
2017 Finalist of the 2017 VIA Arts Prize, London
2017 The Hospital Club Resident Artist, February and March 2017, London
2016 Juros’ special commendation, XXI International Photography Prize Rafael Ramos García of the Universidad de la Laguna,Tenerife, Spain
2016 Finalist of the Contemporay Talents Competition of the Fondation Francois Schneider, France
2016 New Landscape Photography USA – featuring Ponds
2016 Finalist of the 28th Photography Competition of the Fundación Ferrocarriles Españoles 
2015 Photomonitor – February Portfolio Artist
2014 ITCH the Creative Journal from South Africa – Issue 13 featuring Ponds
2011 Winner of the AlNorte Grants within the X National Contemporary Arts Week of Asturias, Spain