Lin Calle _ Pilar Juncosa Training Grant 2025 to take part in courses at the Joan Miró Graphic Art Workshops

Short biography of Lin Calle

Lin Calle is a Spanish artist with a degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid (2017), specializing in painting, drawing and engraving. Calle focuses her practice on the search for new forms of construction and representation of contemporary abstraction, combining specific concepts of oriental landscape painting with procedures typical of American Abstract Expressionism and color field painting. Her work is part of important public and private collections, among which the following stand out: Colección Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM – Madrid, Spain), Mario Cader-Frech Collection (Miami, United States), and various private collections in Spain, France, Belgium, Taiwan and Japan. Lin Calle has received the UNED Plastic Arts Award (2021) and was a finalist for the Reina Sofía Award (2020). The artist has also collaborated as an assistant to Cai Guo-Qiang on The Spirit of Painting (2017), held in the Salón de Reinos of the Prado Museum.

Brief description of her personal project

My artistic practice is grounded in painting, hand-printed woodcuts, and collage. My project investigates the boundaries between these mediums, aiming to blur the distinctions that separate them and to emphasize the value of transitional states in printmaking as a vital part of the creative process. I seek to materialize moments of emotion — fleeting, elusive, or recurring — that I am somehow unable to express in words. All of this begins with the landscape and ultimately returns to it.

web: www.lincalle.com / Instagram: @lin.calle