Born in 1992, Madrid (Spain)
Works and lives between Oxford (UK) and Madrid (Spain).
Currently in Oxford (UK).


EDUCATION

2022-2024. Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Fellowship

                   Jan 2022 - Dec 2023: Academic Visitor at The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford (UK)

                   Jan 2024 - Dec 2024: Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Artistic Education, UCM (Spain)


2021-2022. Postdoctoral Art Fellowship UCM, Madrid, Spain
                   Postdoctoral Research: Images for the creation of a cognitive-emotional atlas. (Part I)

                   May - July 2021: Visiting Researcher at the Consciousness Group of Basque Center on Cognition,
                   Brain and Language (BCBL), San Sebastian - Donostia, Basque Country. Supervisor: Dr. David Soto


2016-2020. Ph.D. in Fine Arts, FPI Research Fellow. Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Madrid, Spain
                   Thesis Prototypes and archetypes in the representation of sleep paralysis: an artistic approach.
                   Supervisor: Dra. Tonia Raquejo Grado. Qualification: SUMMA CUM LAUDE.

                   Thesis in: Leonardo Abstracts Service (LABS ID: 4178) at Pomona College (Claremont, CA, USA);
                   and is part of the Leonardo Educators and Students program.


2015-2016. MA Art, Creation and Research (MAC+I), Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Madrid, Spain

2014-2015. BA in Design, Francisco de Vitoria University (UFV), Madrid, Spain

2010-2014. BA in Fine Arts, Francisco de Vitoria University (UFV), Madrid, Spain

2010-2014. Expert in Creative Management, Francisco de Vitoria University (UFV), Madrid, Spain


RESEARCH

Research Groups

2020 - Now. Member of the Research Group of the Pedagogical Museum of Children`s Art (GiMuPAI), UCM
                    PI: Manuel Hernández Belver

2016 - Now. Member of the Research Group on Innovation and Image Analysis (IAI), UFV
                    PI: Pablo López Raso

Research Projects
 
2020 - Now. Participatory visual arts as a welfare resource for hospitalized children and adolescents (AVISPAR), UCM
                    (PR87-1922605). IP: Manuel Hernández Belver

2020 - Now. Innovation Strategies in Cultural Myth Criticism: AGLAYA, UCM
                    (H2019/HUM5714). IP: José Manuel Losada

2017 - 2021. Art and Embodied Cognition in Creative Processes: Ecological Awareness of the Self in the Environment, UCM                          (HAR2017-85485-P). IP: Tonia Raquejo Grado

2016 - 2019. Acis-Galatea, UCM
                     (H2015/HUM-3362). IP: José Manuel Losada


Teaching Innovation Projects

2021-2022. Online and Open Resources on the collection of the MuPAI (Pedagogical Museum of Children`s Art), UCM.
                    Reference No: 87. IP: Noelía Antúnez del Cerro.



TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2021 - 2022  Lecture at the course Arts Education as a resource in health and wellbeing contexts. 
                     (Master's Degree in Artistic Education in Social and Cultural Institutions).
                     Faculty of Arts. Complutense University of Madrid (UCM)

                     Lecture at the course Art Theory and Neurolinguistic programming                   
                    (Master's Degree in Artistic Education in Social and Cultural Institutions).                     
                     Faculty of Arts. Complutense University of Madrid (UCM)

                    Teaching Fellow. Course on Contemporary Art Theory (Last final year undergraduate).                      
                     Faculty of Arts. Complutense University of Madrid (UCM)

2020 - 2021 Teaching Assistant. Course on Art Theory and Neurolinguistic programming (Master's Degree in Artistic                                        Education in Social and Cultural Institutions). Faculty of Arts. Complutense University of Madrid (UCM)

                    Teaching Fellow. Course on Contemporary Art Theory (Last final year undergraduate). 
                     Faculty of Arts. Complutense University of Madrid (UCM)

2019 - 2020 Teaching Assistant. Course on Contemporary Art Theory (Last final year undergraduate). 
                     Faculty of Arts. Complutense University of Madrid (UCM)

2017 - 2018  Art Tutor. Arteshop Programm. Bilbao. (Undergraduates, graduates, and Ph.D. students)
                      The University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU)

2012 - 2014 Art Teacher and volunteer with children and adolescents (8-18 years old) with psycho-pedagogical
                     disorders and disabilities. Provided assistance for the development of skills and personal autonomy.
                     CITO: Children’s Center for Therapy and Leisure, Madrid

2011 - 2014 Teacher of Visual Arts. 
                     Private classes of photography and painting, Madrid


UNIVERSITY SERVICE

2020 - Present   Associate Editor at Journal Arte, Individuo y Sociedad (Q1).

2021 - Present   Reviewer for Kepes Journal (Q1)

2022 - Present   Reviewer for Leonardo Journal MIT Press (Q1)



FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND ART RESIDENCIES
 
2022 - 2024  Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Fellowship. Complutense University of Madrid (UCM)
                     Funded by the Ministry of Universities of the Government of Spain and the European Union (NexGenerationEU)                            (Three years, 121.000 €)

2022            Art Residency LEA (Lab of Experimental Art). Lacasa Franca, Madrid (From June to Dec: Work Studio)

2021 - 2022  Postdoctoral Art Fellowship. Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) (one year, 20.000 €)

2021             Santander-British Council English UP scholarship (Online)
 
2019 - 2021  PIF Ph.D. Fellowship. Complutense University and Santander Bank, Madrid (a stipend of 56.000 €)

2017             Art production scholarship. Artist program in residence. Bilbaoarte Foundation, Bilbao
                     (From January to June 2017: Work Studio, Free Accommodation, and 2.000 € productions)

2015             Excellence Grant at MA art, creation, and research (MIA+C). UCM, Madrid (1.800 €)

2014             Scholarship for academic merit. Santander Bank, Madrid (2.000 €)



GRANTS | HONOURS 

2021. Award "Cohete Toledo". Toledo

2019. First award "PhDay" UCM. Madrid

2019. Finalist "ArtsFad Awards". Barcelona

2018. Finalist "BAFFEST". Barakaldo, Bilbao

2017. Finalist "Residencia de estudiantes" Grant. Madrid

2017. FELIPA MANUELA Finalist with curators Cristina Lleras Figueroa y Daniela Berger Prado. Madrid

2017. Grant Residence Foundation Bilbaoarte. Bilbao

2016. Finalist The Billboard Creative. Los Ángeles. EEUU

2016. Excellence Grant. UCM. Madrid

2016. Finalist Book FLAMANTES. Hago cosas. Madrid

2015. Finalist Analog photography REVELA-T. Barcelona

2015. Prize at the First International Biennial of Photography. Barcelona

2014. Selected for the III Conference Exploring New Visual Territories. Expanded Realities. UFV, Madrid

2013. Selected for the II Conference Exploring New Visual Territories. Creative project Pilgrimage:
photography, video, and more. UFV, Madrid

2012. Finalist Photo Contest reveals Equality between men and women. Community of Madrid in collaboration with ABC

2012. Selected for the First Conference Exploring New Visual Territories. Creative image. UFV, Madrid



Presentations and Conferences

Oral Presentations

2022. 5th International Conference Art, Illustration and Visual Culture in Education: Thinking the Invisible. 
Archipiélago de Quinchao, Chiloé, Chile. Online. Link 

2020. International Conference Nodos del Conocimiento. University of Zaragoza, Spain. Online. Link
 
2020.  I Virtual International Congress of arts CIVARTES. Dialogues Between the plastic and visual arts and other artistic media in a time of hybridization. Jaen`s University, Spain. 2020. Online. Link

2020.  International Conference on Medicine Humanities. St Anne´s College. The University of Oxford. 2020. 

2019.  International Congress of Arts and Culture. Complutense University, Madrid. Link

2019.  International Congress of the image. Manchester School of Visual Arts. Manchester, UK. Link

2019.  ANIAV - International Congress of Visual Arts Researchers. Valencia, Spain. Link

2019.  International Congress "Myth and Dream". Bologna, Italy. Link

2018.  Conference "El arte de corporeizar el entorno" - Sensory Process.  Medialab Prado, Madrid, Spain. Link

2017. Conference Acis & Galatea "Research in new technology media". UFV, Madrid, Spain

2014. III Conference "Exploring New Visual Territories. Expanded Realities." UFV, Madrid, Spain

2013. II Conference "Exploring New Visual Territories. Creative project Pilgrimage:
photography, video, and more". UFV, Madrid, Spain

2012. Conference "Exploring New Visual Territories. Creative image". UFV, Madrid, Spain


Poster presentations

2020. I Virtual International Congress: Dialogues between Visual and Plastic Arts and other artistic media
in times of CIVARTES Hybridization. Madrid

2019. ANIAV - International Congress of Visual Arts Researchers. UPV, Valencia, Spain



WORKSHOPS | ADDITIONAL TRAINING


2021. Workshop Neuroscience of the body. (Online). With Nazareth Castellanos and María Gíner. Madrid ( 3 hours)

2020. Course Magic in the Middle Ages. The University of Lovaina, Belgium (10 hours)

2020. Cognitive Neuroscience. Nirakara Institute. Madrid (1 month)

2020. Mindfulness and compassion for Education. UCM. Madrid (2 months)

2018. Introduction to Psychology. Department of Continuing Education. Oxford University. Oxford, UK  (3 months)

2017. Photobook like an object with Yumi Goto and Juanan Requena. Getxophoto. Bilbao  (1 week)

2017. Digital Manufacturing. Foundation BilbaoArte. Bilbao (1 week)

2016. Art Market and Photographer Marketing. PHE / PIC.A. Madrid (two days)

2016. Contemporary Artistic Photography with Juan Curto. Madrid (1 month)

2016. Arduino Art Workshop. UCM. Madrid (two days)

2015. Seeing Through Photographs. MOMA (17 hours)

2014. Nineteenth-century photographic techniques applied to contemporary formats:
Cyanotype and Kalotipia with Macarena Moreno. UFV. Madrid (one week)

2014. Creation Workshop with Erika Diettes. Madrid (one day)

2013. Seminar Forge with Mar Solis. Madrid (two days)

2012. Seminar Anatomy drawing with Jos Lorenzo. Madrid (two days)

2011. Seminar Gallery with Javier Riera. Madrid (two days)



PUBLICATIONS


SALAZAR, A. and RAQUEJO, T. (2022) “The Nightmare by Henry Füssli: a review of its association with sleep paralysis through the idea of the Sublime” in Journal of Aesthetics & Culture. Routledge taylor & francis group: United Kingdom. Forthcoming

SALAZAR, A. (2022) "Sound perceptions: conscious listening at the frontiers of the (in)visible" in Ecosocial Art: other ways of thinking, doing and feeling. Coord. Tonia Raquejo y Verónica Perales. Plaza y Valdés: Madrid. Pp. 247 - 270. ISBN: 978-84-17121-50-1

SALAZAR, A. (2022) "Art, emotion and embodied cognition: creating perceptual experiences through artistic teaching practices" in Artistic mediation as a factor of human, social and community development. Coord. María Victoria Martínez Vérez, Lorena López Méndez y Andrea Giraldez Hayez. Revista de Ciencias Humanas, Teoría Social y Pensamiento Crítico; ENCUENTROS Journal, nº15, pp. 112-130. Universidad Nacional Experimental Rafael María Baralt, Maracaibo, Venezuela. ISSN: 2343-6131 / ISSN-e: 2610-8046

SALAZAR, A. (2021) "Floating and multiple listening as a process of creative activation in teaching artistic practice" in The Evolution of Civilisations: Interactions between the human, natural and cultural environment, 1ª ed. Nº 10, Colección Conocimiento Contemporáneo. Coord. Sandra Olivero Guidobono. Dykinson Editorial, Zaragoza. Nº 10, Chapter 77, Pp. 1650 - 1667. ISBN: 978-84-1377-324-7.  Link

SALAZAR, A. (2021) "Prototypes and archetypes of the representation of sleep paralysis: an approach from art", doctoral thesis directed by Tonia Raquejo Grado, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Bellas Artes. E-Prints: Madrid. Link

​GARCÍA, S., SALAZAR, A., ORTEGA, I. & GIL, M. (2021) "Art and wellness. `El museo por la ventana´ as a tool to improve the quality of life through contemporary artistic proposals" in The Evolution of Civilisations: Interactions between the human, natural and cultural environment, 1ª ed. Colección Conocimiento Contemporáneo. Coord. Sandra Olivero Guidobono. Dykinson Editorial, Zaragoza. Nº 10, Chapter 82, Pp.  1757 - 1787. ISBN: 978-84-1377-324-7.  Link

SALAZAR, A. (2021) “Approach to sensory processes” in Art embodying. Artistic practices for a pedagogy of feeling. Ed. Tonia Raquejo. McGraw-Hill: Madrid. Pp. 43-59. ISBN: 9788417979393

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Conferences Proceedings


SALAZAR, A. (2021) Floating and multiple listening as a process of creative activation in teaching artistic practice 
(Ponent N04-S09-17). In "Universidad, Innovación e Investigación ante el Horizonte 2030". Egregius Editorial. Pp. 1268
ISBN: 978-84-18167-39-3. Link online

GARCÍA, S., SALAZAR, A. ORTEGA, I. & GIL, M. (2021) Art and wellness. `El museo por la ventana´ as a tool to improve the quality of life through contemporary artistic proposals In "Universidad, Innovación e Investigación ante el Horizonte 2030". Egregius Editorial. Pp. 1271. ISBN: 978-84-18167-39-3. Link online

​ALBAR, P.J., GARCÍA, S., SALAZAR, A., ORTEGA, I., FERNÁNDEZ, R. (2020) Participatory visual arts as wellness resources for hospitalized children and adolescents. AASA, Asociación Cultural Acción Social y Arte. Jaen University, Jaén. Pp. 44. ISBN: 978-84-15901-27-3
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ALBAR, P.J., GARCÍA, S., SALAZAR, A., ORTEGA, I., FERNÁNDEZ, R. (2020) “El museo por la ventana”. AASA, Asociación Cultural Acción Social y Arte. Jaen University, Jaén. Pp. 53. ISBN: 978-84-15901-27-3 
 
​SALAZAR, A. (2014) Incubus. In “Exploring the New Visual Territories: Towards the expansion of creative spaces”. University Francisco of Vitoria, Spain. Pp: 174-175. ISBN: 978-84-697-1236-8
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SALAZAR, A. (2013) Virtual Reality. In “Exploring the New Visual Territories: Expanding Realities”. University Francisco of Vitoria, Spain. Pp: 130-131. ISBN: 978-84-695-8625-0
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SALAZAR, A. (2012). The image as a creative seed. In “Exploring the New Visual Territories”. University Francisco of Vitoria, Spain. Pp: 77-78. ISBN: 978-84-695-6119-5

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Catalogue Art Exhibitions

SALAZAR, A. (2022) Siete Ciudades. Four Seasons. Ediciones El viso. Forthcoming

SALAZAR, A. (2017) Siete Ciudades. CASA DECOR Arte Abierto. Pp. 92-93. 
ISBN: 978-84-697-7891-3. Link online
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SALAZAR, A. (2017) Hallucinations. BilbaoArte Foundation. Pp. 156-160
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SALAZAR, A. (2016) MTcare. EMERGE 15/16. Final Degree Projects in Fine Arts and Design. Pp. 65 -57.
ISBN: 978-84-16552-02-3
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SALAZAR, A. (2015) Incubus. EMERGE 14. Exhibition Projects in Fine Arts and Design. Pp. 44 - 45.
ISBN: 978-84-15423-86-7​​

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Media
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El Correo. Moving artists

EITB.EUS. Moving artists

Europa Press. Centro Canalejas

OHL. Centro Canalejas Madrid and Four Seasons in support of emerging art

InfoPunto. Workshop 'The photobook as an object' at the BilbaoArte artistic production center

A-FAD

BilbaoFree

Centro Fernando. We collaborate with Amaia Salazar in her artistic project

SOIRZINE. Miami

JUSTMAD

FLAMANTES

DESCUBRIR EL ARTE. Emerge 2015-16: recent graduates in Fine Arts

LA FLECHA EN LA DIANA. Amaia Salazar at FORJA I

LA FLECHA EN LA DIANA. Inauguración EMERGE 15/16

MIRADA 21. The degree of Fine Arts UFV held the 6th edition of EMERGE

PAC. EMERGE 2014-15. Young artists in the gallery Rafael Pérez Hernando

MADRID ART PROCESS. EMERGE 

LA FLECHA EN LA DIANA. Amaia Salazar en Emerge

MADRID ART PROCESS. EMERGE 

BAIDEWEI. Amaia Salazar

ABC REVELARTE. Different but equal