Cristina Garrido (b. 1986, Madrid, Spain) is an artist based in Madrid. Having studied Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid (2004-2009) and Camberwell College of Arts (2007-2008), she obtained an MA Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art (2010-2011) with a Fundació “la Caixa” Grant for Postgraduate studies in Great Britain. She has been awarded the prize Generación 2015 Proyectos de Arte Fundación Montemadrid (2015), the Fundación Botín Visual Arts Grant (2017-2018) and the ARCO Award for young artists (2018).
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including shows at The British Museum (London), On Curating Project Space (Zürich), Centro Botín (Santander), Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (Móstoles/ Madrid), Fundación DUDAC (Santiago de Compostela), Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC) (Seville), CASS Sculpture Foundation (West Sussex), Centrale for Contemporary Art (Brussels), Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia - EKKM (Tallinn), CentroCentro (Madrid), l´ISELP - institut supérieur pour l’étude du langage plastique (Brussels), MAC Birmingham (Birmingham), Espacio Odeón (Bogotá), Fundación Luís Soane (A Coruña), Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales (La Habana), Taxispalais Kunsthalle Tirol (Innsbruck), SESC Sorocaba (Sorocaba/ Sâo Paulo), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Lugar a Dudas (Cali), Spike Island (Bristol), Matadero (Madrid) and AKV St. Joost (Den Bosch), amongst others.