Olga Esther is a Spanish-based painter and illustrator.

She is a graduate from the University of Fine Arts Politécnica de Valencia.
According to the artist, she paints princesses who do not want to be princesses. Birds who cry blood and toads who kill themselves because they are ignored.
She uses the process-tales symbolism to talk about gender and feminism. She paints the invisible ones, the little forgotten girls, the little nobodies in this world, but above all – all those who, although they are still nobody, do not have anybody.
Her parents were activists of the anti-fascist movement, defenders of liberties and social justice, an aspect that has had a great influence on their way of understanding life and also art.
Being still very young, the family left the city, looking for a different way of life, and moved to the countryside. Surrounded by nature, her love for animals began. Her house became a refuge for abandoned animals. There she lived with dogs, cats, rabbits, geese, chickens, ducks, hamsters ... As an only daughter without other children to play with, she would collect fallen sparrows from the ground and walk snails, play with the frogs and feed ants.
This little girl with an extremely timid character found a world to submerge in when reading. She read with passion all kinds of books that she could find in the home library; but it was the fantasy and science fiction literary genre that she would fall in love with.

Leaving behind her childhood ideas of studying zoology, she started studying Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, a place where she never felt at ease. She could not find within conceptual art and dominant abstraction a space for sad girls with big eyes. It was during this time that she discovered the work of the feminist anthropologist Marcela Lagarde. After attending several of her workshops, she became aware of what feminism means, not only in the public but also in the private sphere. The gender perspective would change her personal life, her relationship with herself and others. It is key to understanding her work.


SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2021
Dreambags and Jaguar Shoes, Kirk Gallery, Denmark

2018
Mujeres Artistas Hoy. MEAM. Barcelona.
“Animation Reimagined”. Modern Eden gallery. San Francisco. Curator Michael Cuffe.

2017
Exhibition “Into the Woods II”, Haven Gallery, Northport, New York
Turbine Art Fair, DF Contemporary Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
“Less is more”, Kirk Gallery, Aalborg, Denmark.
“Into the Woods II”, Haven Gallery, Northport, New York.

2016
Group Show Artelibre. Galería Kafell, Zaragoza, Spain. Group Show selected Artelibre. MEAM. Barcelona. Spain. Russafart 2016. Workshop Átika. Valencia. Spain.

2015
Exhibition “De todo corazón”. Ballettzentrum Westfalen, Dortmund. Germany. "Non Solo Vero" 2015. Einaudi Palace, Chivasso (Torino). Italy.

2014
Russafart 2014. Workshop Central Art. Valencia. Spain.

2012
Spanish Contemporary Painting. Private Collection of Miguel Bañuls. Exhibition Hall “José Hernández”, Casa de la Cultura Fuente Álamo, Murcia. Spain.

2011
Femenino Plural. Artist selected by the City of Valencia. Museum Reales Atarazanas. Valencia. Spain.

2010
Group Show Reales Atarazanas. Sponsored by the City of Valencia. Spain.
Gallery Val i 30. Exhibition “El clavo ardiendo”. Curated by José Saborit, Rosa M. Artero, Antonio Gadea and Vicente García. Valencia. Spain.

2009
Solo Show. Rus. Valencia. Spain.

2008
Spanish Contemporary Painting. Private Collection of Miguel Bañuls. Xaouen. Morocco.