Lot 96 - Kora Moya Rojo - Tuna Fountain
Lot 96 - Kora Moya Rojo - Tuna Fountain

Lot 96 - Kora Moya Rojo - Tuna Fountain

Watercolour pencil on paper

2023

A6 (10x15cm)

Original Artwork

Signed on Verso

ARTIST INFO

About

Kora Moya Rojo (b. 1993, Cartagena, Spain) is a visual artist creating paintings and sculptures that revolve around fluidity, nostalgia, and womanhood. Rendered in a pulsating palette of cold blues and warm reds, her vibrant works infuse autobiographical, historical, and religious iconographies with a rural sensibility. Examining the complex effects of female oppression and urban migration, she investigates personal displacement and national identity in symbolic scenarios that overflow with utopian potential. Digitally reconstructing dreams, imaginations and memories into enchanting drawings and canvases, Moya Rojo creates eerie worlds that inhabit the liminal space between the conscious and the unconscious. Her androgynous, embryonic figures stretch beyond the earthly domain to the otherworldly as they hybridize with provincial food, coalesce with existing objects, and mutate with unspecified surroundings. In a continuous metamorphosis, the internal and external forces at play make the familiar foreign, and the foreign disturbingly familiar. Kora Moya Rojo (b. 1993, Spain) lives and works in London. She graduated with a BA in Fine Art from the University of Murcia (Murcia, Spain, 2015). Recent exhibitions include ‘Nature Holds a Mirror’ at Casa Astrónoma (Mexico City, MX, 2023), ‘CACOTOPIA 07’ at Annka Kultys (London, UK, 2023), ‘Yourself in my Shoes’ at Tube Culture Hall (Milan, ITA, 2023), ‘Between the Bridge and the Door’ at Pictorum Gallery (London, UK, 2023) ‘Narratives in Blossoming Vigor’ at SENS gallery (Hong Kong, HK, 2022), ‘Dark Roots’ at Liliya Art Gallery (London, UK, 2022) and ‘Soho Revue Gallery x The Little Scarlett Door’ in Soho (London, UK, 2022). Latest features include Friend of the Artist and All She Makes. She did a residency at Joya Air (Spain, 2021) and has recently finished another one at Cobertizo (Mexico, 2022).

 

Education

Fine Arts Degree, University of Fine Arts, Murcia, Spain.

 

Select Exhibitions/Awards

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

 

2023 

Solo Show (Upcoming) 

 

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS 

 

2023 

Between the Bridge and the Door, Pictorum Gallery, London, UK 

Nature Holds a Mirror, Casa Astrónoma, curated by Ambar Quijano, Mexico City, MEX 

Yourself in my Shoes, Tube Culture Hall, Milan, ITA 

CACOTOPIA 07, Annka Kultys, London, UK 

 

2022 

Wilderness of Being, curated by Cassandra Bowes, HdM Gallery, London, UK 

Narratives in Blossoming Vigor, SENS Gallery, Hong Kong, HK 

Dark Roots, trio show, curated by Elza Meryon, Liliya Art Gallery, London, UK 

Soho Revue x The Little Scarlett Door, curated by India Rose James, Soho Revue, London, UK 

Looking Back to Move Forward, curated by Katerina Patsalidou and Mikaella Melanidou, Visual Space, Palia Agora Palouriotissas, CYP

Artists for Ukraine Charity Auction, organised by Joséphine Bailey, Procrastinarting_, Online 

 

2021 

Realities, curated by Adele Smejkal, The Artistellar, London, UK 

Christmas Pop-up, curated by Katerina Patsalidou and Mikaella Melanidou, Visual Space, Nicosia, CYP 

Art for Relief x The Auction Collective Charity Auction, organised by Marie Hilgers, Art for Relief, Online 

Into The Cosmere, curated by Jack Trodd, Brushes With Greatness, London, UK 

Euphoric, curated by Joséphine May Bailey, Procrastinarting_, Online 

Thirty Six Hours Exhibition, curated by Ladies Drawing Clüb, Online Every Woman Biennial, curated by Eddy Grattan Bellew and Ruby Streek, The Copeland Gallery, London, UK 

 

2019 

Summer Salon 2019, curated by Eleanor Pearce, Islington Arts Factory, London, UK 

 

2017 

House of Horrors – First Thursdays, Creative Debuts, curated by Alex Rollings and Callum Hall, Black & White Building, London, UK Abstractive, Creative Debuts, curated by Alex Rollings and Callum Hall, Black & White Building, London, UK 

Creative Debuts x Bond Dickinson, Creative Debuts, curated by Alex Rollings and Callum Hall, Newcastle, UK 

 

2016 

Creative Debuts x WeWork Devonshire, Creative Debuts, curated by Alex Rollings and Callum Hall, London, UK 

Creative Debuts x WeWork Paddington, Creative Debuts, curated by Alex Rollings and Callum Hall, London, UK 

7+7 La Mar De Músicas Festival, Archaeological Museum, Cartagena, ESP 

Camina, toca y recuerda, University of Murcia, Murcia, ESP 

 

ART FAIRS 

 

2023 

Art Central Hong Kong, SENS Gallery, Hong Kong RESIDENCIES 

 

2022 

COBERTIZO, Jilotepec, MEX 

 

2021 

Joya Air, Almería, ESP

 

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork

The piece I'm donating represents a crucial part in my creative process. All my paintings start with a watercolour study, then followed by layers of acrylic paint and then oil paint to finish off. The red watercolour pencil sketch illustrates the seed of the pieces I create. Following the line of work I'm currently exploring (plants, fruits and nature), the elements in the postcard depict a hybrid between a spiky forbidden fruit from which flower buds are about to blossom. In my work, I'm interested in playing with organic shapes that can be found in nature, relating to the female body and the fluidity of life.

 

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