Ana Pérez Ventura (b.1981, Santiago de Compostela, Spain) is a visual artist whose practice is deeply rooted in her background as a classical pianist. Perez Ventura’s work is process-oriented, focusing on translating the time-based nature of music into different visual media, primarily painting. Using rhythmic repetition, like a human metronome, she creates an organic record of the passage of time. Pérez Ventura transforms the ephemeral into the tangible, giving form and substance to the elusive nature of time.
She studied Fine Arts (painting) at the Universities of Vigo and Barcelona and Music (piano) at the conservatories of Vigo and Amsterdam. In 2011, she obtained a master’s degree in music from Sorbonne University, focusing on the relations between the two disciplines. Since then, she has resided in Paris, researching the possibilities of interaction between the visual arts and music, using repetition as a framework.
Pérez Ventura has won several prizes and scholarships, including the Taylor Foundation prize (2023, France), Artension prize (2014, France), Barrié de la Maza Foundation scholarship (2010, Spain), and Segundo Gil Dávila Foundation scholarship (2009, Spain). She has held solo exhibitions at prestigious French and Spanish venues such as Sorbonne University, Colegio de España, Museo del Mar, Maison des Étudiants Suédois, and H Gallery. Additionally, she has participated in group exhibitions in Spain (CGAC, Auditorio de Galicia, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Espacio OTR), France (Château de la Veyrie de Bernin, Abstract Projet, Parc Floral), USA (Frank Juarez gallery), Germany (Kunstwerk Carlshütte), and China (Guoyi Art Museum). Her work is in various public collections, including CGAC, Diputación de Ourense in Spain, and Colegio de España at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris in France. Pérez Ventura is currently represented by the American gallery Maus Contemporary (Birmingham, AL) and the Spanish gallery Metro (Santiago de Compostela)
Her projects for 2024 include her first solo show in the USA at Maus Contemporary and group shows in Taiwan (Wu Dengyi Art Museum) and Paris (Abstract Project Gallery).