About
Alba Urquia (Barcelona, 1997) graduated in MA Print from the Royal College of Art (London) in 2023 and received her bachelor's from the University of the Arts London in 2019, where she specialised in printmaking. She attended Tamarind's Summer Workshop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, US in 2025 to consolidate her expertise in stone lithography.
She has visited several printmaking workshops around Europe and was a keyholder member of Thames Side Print Studios during 2021, 2022 and 2023.
Urquia’s work explores matters related to existentialism and identity, the absurd, and the human condition. She investigates concepts such as the idea of self, consciousness and the utopian. Her predilection for analogue processes strongly informs her pieces which often undergo different mediums at different stages.
Philosophers such as Albert Camus, Sartre or Kierkegaard, and writers like Clarice Lispector or Ursula K Le Guin have influenced her work greatly. Urquia uses a strong drawing element and photographic (self)portraiture to articulate narratives that touch upon universal and ancestral matters.
Selected Shows
2025
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair — London, UK
2024
Maximillian Wölfgang Gallery, “Figuratively Speaking” — London, UK
Bankside Gallery, “International Original Print Exhibition” — London, UK
Ironbridge Fine Art Gallery, — Bainbridge, UK
2023
Atrium Gallery, London College of Communication, “Journeys” — London, UK
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair — London, UK
Brompton Chapel, “Suspended Matter” — London, UK
Truman Brewery - RCAW 2023 Degree Show — London, UK
ASC Gallery - Bainbridge Open Group Show — London, UK
Southwark Park Gallery, “Two Folds” — London, UK
Fen Ditton - Contemporary Printmaking Prize Group Show — Cambridge, UK
2022
SOUTHWARK PARK GALLERY - Annual Show — London, UK
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair — London, UK
Split Gallery, IMPACT 12 — Bristol, UK
Pump House Gallery, “The Damage is Done” MA Print show — London, UK
2021
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair — London, UK
AMP Studios x Pri’s Art Salon — London, UK
Artist Talk, — Gloucester University, UK, 2023.
‘Bread, print and Freedom’ academic presentation at IMPACT 12 — University of West England, UK, 2022.
Miró Mallorca Foundation — Mallorca, Spain, 2019
Conferences
UAL, London College of Communication
Bonham Gallery, London
Royal Council of Greenwich, London
Benromach x Whiskey Show, London
Workshops
‘A face that Toils So Close to Stones’ artist feature — Printmaking Today magazine, Winter 2024.
Diari de Mallorca, October 19th 2019
Press
Collections
Notton Gallery — London
Private collections in the UK, Spain, US, France and Germany.