Javier Plata - Te Holy Mountain 14

Javier Plata has exhibited at the former Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo (MEAC) and won the first prize at the Alwani Summer Painting Exhibition, held in Gibraltar in 2021.

Artwork in perfect condition, size 75 cm x 75 cm, sent unframed; framing and protection with glass or similar is recommended. Watercolors and high-quality professional paper have been used, and it is delivered with an authenticity certificate.

Javier Plata
Algeciras, 1976

Javier Plata is a multidisciplinary artist whose work traverses painting, sculpture, and installation, notable for a personal aesthetic that explores matter, territory, and the human condition. His training took place at the Art Schools of Algeciras and Granada, where he earned qualifications in emptying, molding, ceramics, wood carving, sculpture in stone, and graphic design. This broad technical spectrum has nourished his plastic language with an artisanal and experimental perspective.

Throughout his career, Plata has participated in workshops with renowned artists such as Sigrifo Martín Begué, within the program “The Painter and His Facets” (Cadiz Provincial Council, 2002), and Wilfredo Prieto, with the workshop “Incidences of the private to the public and from the public to the private” (NMAC Foundation, 2013), experiences that marked his view of the limits of contemporary art.

His work has been shown in distinguished spaces and art events, in both solo and group exhibitions. Among his most representative solo shows are “Men and Worms” (Galería Manolo Alés, La Línea, 2008), “Origin” (Galería Manolo Alés, 2017), “Sub Rosa” (Virtual Gallery, Cádiz Province Diputación, 2022) and “What is usual and what is now” (Fine Arts Gallery, Gibraltar, 2023).

He has been part of numerous group exhibitions, notable among them “Hispano-French Friendship” at the old MEAC in Madrid (1999), “Contemporaries 2008” (Cadiz Art Fair), “Art Project Marbella” and “Art Project Estepona” (Ciancimino Gallery), as well as recent initiatives such as “Ten years is nothing” (Tpop), “Here we all paint” (ASANSULL) or “Estereográfica Vol.2” (Levadura Cultural Association).

His career has received numerous awards and honors. He won the First Prize for Best Young Artist at International Art Gibraltar (1995), as well as top prizes in competitions such as Heritage Trust Gibraltar (2015), Acuarela Goya Virtual (Bilbao, 2016), and the IX International Julio Quesada Prize (Crevillente, 2016). In 2021 he obtained the First Prize at the Alwani Summer Painting Exhibition in Gibraltar, and in 2024 he participated in Manchester Art Fair, consolidating his international profile.

Javier Plata’s work is defined by a constant search for balance between the conceptual and the matérico, with a discourse that dialogues with memory, identity, and border spaces, both physical and symbolic.