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Artist/Painter
Director of the Barcelona Academy of Art

Jordi Díaz Alamà (b. 1986, Granollers) lives and works in Barcelona.

Alamà’s practice explores the intersections between classical figurative painting and contemporary aesthetics. The artist incorporates references from art history, inviting viewers to come into these intimate spaces where the artist’s models coexist. In series like Red Studio and the Carmine Hotel, he explores a new representation of the models, empowering them with an assertive presence, challenging conventional notions of passive objectification and traditional beauty canons.

As a lifelong project, Alamà has undertaken the monumental challenge of reinterpreting Dante’s Divine Comedy. He began with the Inferno, the first part of this epic opus, at the start of the pandemic in 2020. In this series, the artist provides a profound perspective on the state of humanity, using the image of condemned souls trapped in mystical landscapes as a metaphor for the misery of the modern world. Through this contrast between the painful reality of the present and the eternal agony of souls in a frigid and brutal hell, the author prompts us to reflect on the consequences of our actions and decisions as a society.

His works can be found in the permanent collections of the MEAM and the Can Framis Museum in Barcelona, as well as in private collections in Europe, the United States, and Australia.

Alamà is also the founder, in 2013, of the Barcelona Academy of Art, an educational center specialized in teaching figurative drawing, painting, and sculpture.

Contact: info@diazalama.com

2023

La Divina Comedia. Inferno. Pedraza. Spain

2022

La Divina Comedia. Inferno. Museu de Granollers.

Si Volse a Retro. MEAM. Barcelona.

2019

Red Studio. El Claustre. Girona.

Sala Alamà. Museu Can Framis. Barcelona.

2017

#ClásicosDesollados. Museu Can Framis. Barcelona.

2015

Queens of the night / Reinas de la Noche. El Claustre. Girona.

2013

Artists on sale / Artistas que se venden. El Claustre. Figueres.

2012

Modern women / Mujeres modernas. El Claustre. Girona.

2011

Diaz Alamà: de la enseñanza académica a la obra personal. Colegio de arquitectos. Mataró. Spain.

2024

• Annual Exhibition Royal Society of Portrait Painters. London. UK.
• Pintura Figurativa Contemporánea: China y Española. Teatro Real. Madrid. Spain.
• LA Art Show 2024. El Claustre Gallery. Los Angeles, USA.

2023

• Chinese and Spanish Figurative Art. Quan Shanshi Art Center (Hangzhou)/National Theatre (Beijing). China.
• BIALE – International Biennial of the Alentejo. Estremoz. Portugal.
• Deliri místic. Les Bernardes. Girona. Spain.
• Unisonía. Palacio del Infante Don Luis, Boadilla del Monte, Madrid. Spain.
• Arte y poesía. Casa de Vacas. Madrid. Spain.
• Mimesis. MEAM. Barcelona. Spain.
• LA Art Show 2023. El Claustre Gallery. Los Angeles, USA.

2022

• Halcyon Days. Modern Eden Gallery. San Francisco, USA.
• BAA End of Year Show. Mrs. Toolip Gallery. Barcelona, Spain.
• Art Madrid. Inéditad Gallery. Madrid. Spain.

2021

• Templarios. Iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús en Caravaca de la Cruz. Murcia. Spain.
• Feria Art Montpellier. Pedro Luis Requena. France.
• Feria Estampa. Pedro Luis Requena. Madrid. Spain.
• Algo más que realismo. Galería Artelibre. Zaragoza. Spain.

2020

• Eros: tu cuerpo como excusa. MEAM. Barcelona. Spain.

2019

• The Wild & the Tame. Misnoma. Mutuo Gallery. Barcelona, Spain.
• The Portrait. Fermín Echauri Gallery. Pamplona, Spain.
• Spanish Realist Painting. Saga Prefectural Museum/Hoki Museum. Japan.
• 20 years in 20 x 20. Artelibre Gallery. Zaragoza, Spain.
• Palau de Casavell. Miquel Alzueta Gallery. Girona, Spain.

2018

• Pigment Gallery. Grand Art. Milan, Italy.
• Miquel Alzueta Gallery. Art Paris. France.
• Eurantica Brussels Art Fair. Miquel Alzueta Gallery. Belgium.

2016

• Finalists Exhibition of the Vila Casas Painting Prize 2016. Can Framis Museum. Barcelona, Spain.
• Romeo and Juliet. El Liceu. El Quatre Gallery. Barcelona, Spain.
• Contemporary Spanish Realism in China. 511Global Culture Center. Hangzou Gallery/Yiwu Gallery. China.

2015

• Art Renewal Center International Salon. European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM). Barcelona, Spain.
• Odd Nerdrum School. European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM). Barcelona, Spain.
• The Role of Art. European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM). Barcelona, Spain.
• Díaz Alamà and the School of Barcelona. Piera Pintor Fortuny. Barcelona, Spain.
• Díaz Alamà and the Barcelona Academy of Art. La Destilería. Mataró, Spain.
• Art Madrid15. El Quatre Gallery. Madrid, Spain.

2014

• Something More than Realism. Artelibre Gallery. Zaragoza, Spain.
• 29th BMW Painting Prize. Madrid, Spain.
• Chiaroscuro. Florence Academy of Art/Richard J. Massey Foundation Exhibition. New York, USA.
• Represent. 20th Century Theatre. London, UK.

2013

• Art Madrid. Galería El Quatre. Madrid. Spain.
• Winter Salon. Galería el Claustre, Girona. Spain.
• Alumni Show. The Florence Academy of Art. Florence. Italy.
• Arcadia Gallery with Chris VanDick. California. U.S.A.

2018

• Most Ambitious Runner Up Award, Art Renewal Center International Salon Competition.

2017

• First Prize. Premio Cultura Viva de pintura. Spain.

2016

• Honourable Mention. Art Renewal Center International Salon Competition.
• First Painting Prize. Fundación Vila Casas for ‘El Trono de Hamelín’. Barcelona. Spain.

2015

• Honourable Mention. Art Renewal Center International Salon Competition.

2014

• Badge of Honor. 29th edition BMW Painting Prize. Madrid. Spain.

2013

• Painting Prize. Fundación Vila Casas. Barcelona. Spain.
• First Prize Drawing Contest Ynglada Guillot, Real Academia de Bellas Artes Sant Jordi. Barcelona. Spain.

2011

• First Prize Figurativas ’11. Fundación de las Artes y los Artistas. Barcelona. Spain.
• Selected. BP Portrait. National Portrait Gallery. London. United Kingdom.

2010

• Odd Nerdrum Studio stay. Norway.
• Honourable Mention, Painting and Sculpture Competition. Fundación de las Artes y de los Artistas. Madrid. Spain.
• Scholarship, The Florence Academy of Art. Florence. Italy.

2008

• Residency Scholarship, Arauco Foundation. Directed by painter Guillermo Muñoz Vera. Chinchón. Madrid. Spain.

2007

• Scholarship, Cercle Artistic de Sant Lluc. Faculty of Fine Arts of Barcelona. University of Barcelona. Spain.