Acerca de Greta Hammond - Artista

- PhD in Arts, Humanities, and Education. Thesis: Material Poem. Intersections between Visuality and Poetry. Research based on artistic practice. University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. Submission: July 5, 2023. Grade: Outstanding. Cum Laude.

- Doctoral fellowship in artistic research at the University of Art and Design in Lapland, Finland. January to May 2022.

- Master's Degree in Research in Artistic and Visual Practices. University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. 2015 to 2016.

- Master's Degree in Challenges of Contemporary Philosophy. Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain. 2012 to 2013.

- International Postgraduate Program in Writing, Human Creativity, and Communication, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Argentina. 2020 to 2021.

- Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts - Specialization in Printmaking and Printed Art. National University of La Plata, Argentina. 2012

- Fine Arts teacher - focus on printmaking and printmaking. National University of La Plata, Argentina. 2011

Recent Exhibitions

2025: Objects of Desire, from the Studio to the Hotel. Hybrid Art Fair. Hotel Petit Palace Santa Barbara, Madrid.

Exhibition and auction at inArtes, Switzerland.

2024: Vital Surfaces. Hybrid Art Fair. Hotel Petit Palace Santa Barbara, Madrid.

2023: Material Poem. Intersections between Visuality and Poetry. University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain;

National Painting Competition "Primero de Fariña", Bodegas Fariña, Zamora, Spain;

Graphic Art Competition for Young Creators, Real Casa de la Moneda, Madrid, Spain.

2022: Passenger Stories, 4th Floor Gallery, ULapland, Rovaniemi, Finland;

Process-Progress, Kellari Gallery, ULapland, Rovaniemi, Finland;

Spring of Contrasts, 2nd Floor Gallery, ULapland, Rovaniemi, Finland;

Tale of the Lonely Birch, Staircase Room, University of Castilla La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain;

R.A.R.O.S Happy Treasures, Quinta del Sordo, Madrid, Spain;

Crossroads, Intersections and Intersectionalities, Sala Iberia, Cuenca, Spain.

2021: Installing the Apiary. The Life of Bees, Espacio 0, Cuenca, Spain.

Graphic Art Competition for Young Creators, Real Casa de la Moneda, Madrid, Spain.

2020: Locos 20, Wilko Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain;

FLASH TIME II, Yuyay Art Gallery, Cuenca, Ecuador;

FLASH TIME III, Faculty of Fine Arts, Cuenca, Spain;

HORROR VACUI, Espacio Kanoko, Cuenca, Spain;

Austral Museum of Engraving, Esquel Melipal Cultural Center, Argentina.

2019: Affective Cartographies, Esquel Melipal Cultural Center, Argentina.

Chromatic Resistance, Appa Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain;

Tres y Siete, Nave 73, Madrid, Spain;

INTERCAMBIABLES 07, Zapadores Museum, Madrid, Spain;

FLASH TIME, Eugenia Mera Cultural Center, Ambato, Ecuador.

2018: Everything We Talked About Between Dry Leaves and Jasmine, Espacio Antik, Cuenca, Spain;

Artistas del barrio, Espacio Fosforita, Madrid, Spain; R.A.R.O. Residency Exhibition, MUNAR Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina;

Tell Me Your Story, Madrid, Rizoma Gallery, Madrid, Spain.

2017: Publication of the children's illustration book "Lila Danzarina," El Espacio Gallery, La Plata, Argentina;

Porous Discourses, Unraveling the Plot, Espacio Diario Jornada, Trelew, Argentina.

2016: Crossed Dialogues, Antonio Pérez Foundation, Cuenca, Spain.

Awards and Scholarships

Erasmus Mundus Scholarship: Art Research Fellowship at the University of Lapland, Finland, 2022

Honorable Mention: Graphic Art Competition for Young Creators, Madrid, 2021

Cuenca Provincial Council Scholarship to begin doctoral research, 2019-2020

Carolina Foundation Scholarship for Master's studies, 2015

Recognition Award for a Local Artist: Painting, Binational Arts Salon, Esquel, Argentina, 2019

First Prize: VIII National Xylon Engraving Competition, Small Format and Bookplate, 2018

Honorable Mention: Engraving, Binational Arts Salon, Melipal Cultural Center, Esquel, Argentina, 2017

2nd Prize: Drawing, Provincial Arts Salon, Chubut, 2016

Honorable Mention: Painting, Binational Arts Salon, Melipal Cultural Center, Esquel, Argentina 2016

Joaquín V. González Award from the University of La Plata for the students with the highest GPA in 2011 and 2012

Honorable Mention, American Express Open Photography Competition, Buenos Aires Photo, 2010

Art Residencies

Habeas Data Art Research Residency, Forensic Curatorship Group, Villa Alegre, Chile, 2015.

EN-CONTEXTO Art Residency, Casa Azul, Cuenca, Spain, 2016.

Art Boomerang Art Clinic, Patagonia, Argentina, 2017 to 2019.

R.A.R.O Madrid Art Residency, 2018.

Diana Aisenberg's Survival Kit for Artists Course, 2020.

Greta Hammond

I was born in September - 1988 in Esquel, a city in the Andes Mountains in Argentine Patagonia.

I am a visual artist and art teacher.

I am currently researching the fusion and intersections between painting and poetic writing. This allows me to play with forms, colors and words, thinking of the artistic process as a world that unfolds as time and questions generate new images.

My artistic practice functions as a visual diary built from fragments. Through these pieces, I create affective maps born from travels, walks in nature, and scenes from my daily life. Each fragment acts as a sensitive record, a trace that transforms into an image.

I inhabit my work at the intersection between poetry and visuality, where words, sensations, colors, and diverse materialities intertwine to shape the painting process.

I seek the point of contact between what I perceive and what I feel, allowing the image to be constructed from an intuitive logic, open yet supported by some structure.

In my process, I collect and archive objects, photographs, stones, fragments of wood, and books. These materials become support, motif, or catalyst: I paint them, write on them, and transfer them to larger compositions, where they coexist like layers of the same memory.

I often work in series, fragmenting the images as if they were pages of open books. I think of painting as a collection of mobile materials: pieces that fit in a bag and travel with me, notebooks that document processes, sketches, collections of poems, and pieces that converse with one another. This way of working reflects a practice in constant flux, where the image is never presented as a closed whole, but rather as an expanding structure.

I understand art as a healing process and a path to spiritual connection, a space that allows me to represent not only what I observe, but also that which permeates sensory experience. The work is activated in relation to its surrounding context, integrating landscape, memory, and emotion as forces that give meaning to my artistic practice.