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Cristina Garrido (1986, Madrid, Spain) is a visual artist whose work critically examines the systems that define and legitimize contemporary art. Using formats such as mockumentaries, artist books, guided tours, and mimetic installations, she explores structures of visibility, value, and institutional authority through strategies of irony, camouflage, and displacement. Her conceptually driven projects often assume a strong material presence—manifesting as sculptures, paintings, or spatial interventions that embody and complicate the very conventions they address. Operating as embedded critiques, her works inhabit the aesthetics of the art system while subtly unraveling it from within, questioning authorship, exhibition formats, and the performativity of professionalism.
She studied Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid and Camberwell College of Arts (London), and holds an MA in Fine Art from Wimbledon College of Art, supported by the Fundació “la Caixa” Grant. Garrido has presented major solo exhibitions at MACS Grand-Hornu (Belgium) and Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo – CA2M (Madrid), and her work has been shown internationally at institutions such as Fondation CAB (Brussels), Cloud Seven (Brussels), The British Museum (London), Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Centro Botín (Santander), CASS Sculpture Foundation (UK), Spike Island (UK), and EKKM (Tallinn), among others. She has participated in public programs at The Photographers’ Gallery (London), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), and La Triennale di Milano, and her work is held in the collections of MACBA (Barcelona), Museo CA2M (Madrid), The British Museum (London), and TBA21–Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Garrido is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and is represented by Galería CURRO (Guadalajara, Mexico).
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Cristina Garrido (1986, Madrid, Spain) is a visual artist whose work critically examines the systems that define and legitimize contemporary art. Using formats such as mockumentaries, artist books, guided tours, and mimetic installations, she explores structures of visibility, value, and institutional authority through strategies of irony, camouflage, and displacement. Her conceptually driven projects often assume a strong material presence—manifesting as sculptures, paintings, or spatial interventions that embody and complicate the very conventions they address. Operating as embedded critiques, her works inhabit the aesthetics of the art system while subtly unraveling it from within, questioning authorship, exhibition formats, and the performativity of professionalism.
She studied Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid and Camberwell College of Arts (London), and holds an MA in Fine Art from Wimbledon College of Art, supported by the Fundació “la Caixa” Grant. Garrido has presented major solo exhibitions at MACS Grand-Hornu (Belgium) and Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo – CA2M (Madrid), and her work has been shown internationally at institutions such as Fondation CAB (Brussels), Cloud Seven (Brussels), The British Museum (London), Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Centro Botín (Santander), CASS Sculpture Foundation (UK), Spike Island (UK), and EKKM (Tallinn), among others. She has participated in public programs at The Photographers’ Gallery (London), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), and La Triennale di Milano, and her work is held in the collections of MACBA (Barcelona), Museo CA2M (Madrid), The British Museum (London), and TBA21–Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Garrido is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and is represented by Galería CURRO (Guadalajara, Mexico).
In the studio by Ricardo León, 2022.