Carma Casulà

Carma Casulà

Born in Barcelona and currently based in Madrid, she is an interdisciplinary artist and freelance photographer, holds a PhD in Fine Arts from UCM, and is an ANECA Certified Contracted Doctor, with Advanced Studies in Photography from IED Milan. She later moved to New York to continue her training at the ICP. Alongside her artistic and professional activity, she develops research within R&D&I projects on Art, Ecology and Empathy, as well as university teaching. She combines artistic projects and research focused on the anthropisation of the territory, environmental sustainability and new landscape imaginaries, with others of a more documentary nature. 

Teaching and research 

She takes part in cultural projects and exhibitions, including in SPAIN: Museo Reina Sofía MNCARS, Fundación Canal, invited artist at PhotoEspaña, Casa Encendida, CBA, Casa Árabe, Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, galleries Lucía Mendoza and Joan Gaspar Madrid. Fundació La Caixa and Can Framis Museum / Fundació Vila Casas Barcelona. MUSAC León. Fundación Díaz-Caneja Palencia. CDAN Huesca. IVAM Valencia. CGAC Santiago and Sala Palexco A Coruña. Centro de Arte La Regenta Las Palmas. FotoNoviembre Tenerife. Palacio de la Madraza Granada, among others. 

Internationally, she has exhibited at the Instituto Cervantes in Paris and Moscow; GERMANY (Fotomuseum Braunschweig); ITALY (Galleria d'Arte Moderna Bergamo, Biennale Europea della Fotografia d’Autore Florence); DENMARK (Sukkertoppen, Scandinavian Art Photography Festival and Round Tower Copenhagen); THE NETHERLANDS (Sonsbeek Festival Arnhem); SWITZERLAND (Centre Photographie Geneva); USA (Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; Ashuah-Irving Gallery, Boston); COSTA RICA (National Museum of Costa Rica, San José); ECUADOR (Cuenca Biennale); and AECID Spanish Cultural Centres in Latin America, among others. 

She has developed projects supported by the Spanish Ministry of Culture’s Grants for the Promotion of Spanish Contemporary Art, the Visual Arts Grant of the Colegio de España in Paris, the FotoPres Grant from Fundació La Caixa, and the International Arteleku Grant. 

She is included in Diccionario de Fotógrafos Españoles. Del siglo XIX al XXI, published by La Fábrica and AC/E Acción Cultural Española. 

Her published books include Tabarkinas, self-published with support from Casa Mediterráneo and the Instituto Cervantes Túnez, Madrid 2023; Peter, ed. RM Verlag, Barcelona 2016; and El Eo, “lo mínimo” Collection, ed. Mestizo A.C. 

As a freelance photographer, she develops authorial work for institutions, companies and media outlets, and collaborates with architects and landscape designers in the analysis and representation of the territory. 

She has been part of university Teaching Staff since 2007 in the areas of Photography, Creativity and Projects, Landscape and Image (UNB, UCJC, UE, UFV), and contributes to master’s programmes at UAB, UAH, UPV and UM. She has been an invited artist at various Faculties of Art and Architecture in Spain, Portugal and Italy, and by the Observatori del Paisatge Catalunya and the Observatori Urbanització UAB. 

Professional experience 

She has led workshops and delivered lectures on Photography and Landscape at: Fundación Telefónica, Casa Encendida, PhotoEspaña, CA2M, IED Visual Arts Madrid, CBA, Ministry of Culture, Pedagogías Invisibles Matadero Madrid, QuijotePhotoFest UAH, MACA Alicante, PhotoWalk Lanzarote PHE-Cabildo, Observatori del Paisatge Catalunya, Expo_Zaragoza_2008, COAC / I Biennial of Art, Architecture and Landscape Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Ex-Mattatoio Rome, Centre Photographie Geneva, La Zona de Entrenarte San José Costa Rica, Festival Canimar Matanzas Cuba, among many others. 

She is a research member of interdisciplinary R&D&I teams: Environmental Humanities. Strategies for Ecological Empathy (MINECO), contributing a chapter to the book Imaginative Ecologies. Inspiring Change through the Humanities, Brill, Boston 2020. Previously, she was part of the R&D project Art and Ecology. Strategies for the Protection of the Natural Environment and Recovery of Degraded Territories (Ministry of Science and Innovation), contributing a chapter to Arte y Ecología, UNED, Madrid 2015. She is a member of INLAND, the Ecologies Studies Group at Matadero Madrid. 

Teaching

English