Ana Genovés was born in Madrid (Spain). She received a BA in 1993 from Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, and completed her postgraduate studies in 1995 at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL London.
Ana Genovés' work spans installation, sculpture and painting. Her work investigates the belief that each of us is a disconnected whole. Pulling within us are two very different ways of seeing the world – on the one hand, the abstracted from experience and exact rational thinking, and on the other, the intuitive, immediate view that embodies the world as a whole and in flux. These two ways of being try to coexist, a paradox that defines the problematic of western existence. A sense of the absurd and the paradoxical that arises from this uneasy symbiosis lies at the heart of Genovés' work.
Solo exhibitions include a retrospective at Galería Alegría in Barcelona that has just opened; HOLD AND BURST at Classwaroom, 2023, London; TU-YO, Centro Párraga, Spain, 2021; AMBIANTA, MOCA, London, 2016; Standpoint Gallery and Window Space, London, 2014; BLOCK, Vitrine Gallery, London, 2011; Ana Genovés, The Russian Club, London, 2009; The Drawing Room/ TanneryArts, London, 2008 and Ana Genovés, The Approach, London, 1999. Recent mayor group exhibitions include Slippages, Manchester; La unidad dividida por cero. Centro Niemeyer, Asturias, 2019/20. She was a finalist for the Max Mara Prize in 2015.