The career of the artist Irma Álvarez-Laviada could be situated in the field of expanded painting, in an attempt to question, from a radical position, everything that in some way alludes to the structural elements of painting in its self-referentiality as a medium. In this way, the painting becomes an autonomous entity, whose flat surface no longer refers to anything but itself, thus overcoming everything related to representation and the illusion of depth.
He has received awards such as the BMW Prize, the Botín Foundation Visual Arts grant and the residency grant for the Cité des Arts in Paris. His work has also been shown at international fairs such as Maco, Liste, Photo Miami, CIRCA, ARCO, Estampa, etc., as well as in institutions such as Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia (León), Fundación RAC (Pontevedra) and forms part of important collections such as the European Parliament, AECID, Colección Pilar Citoler, Colección Mariano Yera, Spanish Ministry of Culture, Fundación Antonio Gala, Galila Barzilai Collection (Brussels) and the Berezdivin Collection (Puerto Rico). He recently presented his solo exhibition at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias.
