Miguel Sainz Ojeda is a Spanish artist born in 1993 in Madrid, Spain. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, in 2017. Over the past 10 years, Ojeda’s paintings have been exhibited and acquired across Europe and the United States.
Miguel Sainz Ojeda’s work explores the limits between the real and the apparent, creating invisible worlds of imagination and possibility that hybridise a vision of the innocent and the cruel in life — spaces where the mind transcends the image in an attempt to discern and organise the subconscious accumulation of everyday experiences. The artist’s work is a search for the spontaneous, the unfinished, a fresh and light painting that admits experimentation, where the dissolution of the limits between figuration and abstraction is the main aesthetic and conceptual dilemma. In his endeavour, there seems to be a need to create a phantasmagoric universe, a magical world that invites the viewer to sink his roots in primitive art, memory, and fantasy, without forgetting the playful aspect of plastic activity.
Madrid based artist. 1993.
EDUCATION
2017. Bachelor Degree of Fine Arts at Complutense University of Madrid. Spain (UCM).
EXHIBITIONS
2025. Animal Omen. Solo Show. Opera Gallery. Madrid, Spain.
2024. Crowds. Opera Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
2024. Paraisos. Opera Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
2024. Summer vibes II. Opera Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
2024. It´s friday all week. Opera Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
2023. Colours. Opera Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
FAIRS
2024. Art Wynwood, Eternity Gallery, Miami, USA.
AWARDS- ARTIST RESIDENCE
2019. Finalist For Foundation La Gaceta Young Talents Prize. Salamanca, Spain.
2019. Selected in Foundation Ibercaja Painting Prize. Zaragoza, Spain.
2018. Finalist For XXXVI International Prize of Painting Eugenio Hermoso. Badajoz, Spain.
2018. Selected in 53 Queen Sofia Prize of Painting and Sculpture. Madrid, Spain.
2016. AIR- Program. Foundation San Millán de la Cogolla. La Rioja, Spain.
2015. AIR- Program in Ayllón. Segovia, Spain.
WORK EXPERIENCE
2017. Cai Guo Qiang.The Spirit of Painting. Assistant collaborator in creative process. National Museum of the Prado. Madrid, Spain.
COLLECTION
Foundation San Millán de la Cogolla. La Rioja, Spain.
Contemporary Museum of Art. Ayllón. Segovia, Spain.
Departament of Drawing. UCM. Madrid, Spain.
Private collections. (Europe and USA).
PUBLICATION
ESQUIRE. INTERVIEW.
PLATAFORMA DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO
https://www.plataformadeartecontemporaneo.com/pac/animal-omen-miguel-sainz-ojeda-en-opera-gallery/
ARTE POR EXCELENCIAS
https://www.arteporexcelencias.com/es/noticias/miguel-sainz-ojeda-propone-animal-omen
MASDEARTE
https://masdearte.com/especiales/miguel-sainz-ojeda/
EL MUNDO. ENTREVISTA.
https://www.elmundo.es/madrid/2025/02/18/67b1df83fdddff86438b458b.html