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Paloma Polo (Madrid, 1983) is an artist and independent researcher. In 2006 she graduated in Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid, finishing her studies thanks to the Erasmus grant at Camberwell College of Art (University of the arts London). Between 2007 and 2009 she was a scholarship holder at De Ateliers artist residency, Amsterdam, and in 2010 at Gasworks, London. In 2013 she obtained a position as Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, University of the Philippines Diliman, Manila, where she lived for the next three years.

Between 2016 and 2017 the Parisian institution Les Laboratoires D'Aubervilliers, hosted Polo to develop her practice and research. Recently she has been a collaborating teacher at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya- UOC and mentor and advisor at the Centro de Residencias Artísticas -CRA-, Matadero, Madrid. She currently directs, together with Miguel Errazu, the seminar “Artistic Research Practice” in the own studies program -Tejidos Conjuntivos- at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía- MNCARS.
In 2018 Polo was awarded the Ojo Crítico prize given by Radio Nacional de España: Radio Nacional de España- RNE in recognition of her artistic career.She has received grants from Mondriaan Funds, the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst (AFK), Acción Cultural Española and MUSAC (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid-UAM and Fundación Montemadrid among other institutions.He has received the Multiverse award for the creation of video art from the BBVA Foundation (Bilbao), the International Visual Arts Scholarship from the Botín Foundation (Santander), the IV International Young Art Award from the María José Jove Foundation (A Coruña) or the First Prize in the INJUVE Visual Arts Contest (Madrid), among others.
He has had solo exhibitions at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo- CA2M (Madrid), Arts Catalyst (London), Kurimanzutto Gallery (Mexico City), Casa Barragán (Mexico City), Frieze Art Fair (London), Montehermoso Cultural Center (Vitoria) and SKOR Foundation for Art and Public Domain (Amsterdam) among other institutions and galleries.His work has been presented at the International Exhibition of the 55th Venice Biennale, Turner Contemporary (Kent), Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (Mexico), High Line Art (New York), Le Commun.Bâtiment d'art Contemporain (Geneva), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Museum Stedelijk Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch), Regional Museum Celje, (Slovenia), Museum Artium (Vitoria) or CGAC, Galician Center of Contemporary Art (Santiago de Compostela) or TEA - Tenerife Espacio de las Artes among others.