Biography & CV
Working in painting, sculpture, and drawing, Rafael López-Bosch (b. 1980, Madrid) confronts the feral underbelly of nature with unflinching directness. His compositions surge with creatures driven by instinct—predators in savage motion, mythic beings that twist legend into something visceral and unyielding. There is no softening lens here: animals stand as embodiments of raw power, chaotic and indifferent, stripped of allegory or comfort.
This intensity grows from a lifetime rooted in immediate, physical experience—earth underfoot, creatures as tangible presences, the focused demands of pursuit in vast open spaces. Nature remains the unrelenting source material, not a distant reference or aesthetic escape.
Fatherhood—with daughters Emilia and Gemma—shifted the ground entirely. Creation turned collaborative: their spontaneous, unbound marks landing freely on shared surfaces, answered by his own gestures without hierarchy or final say. Play displaced control; chance held equal weight; instinct eclipsed deliberation. What emerges is an ongoing exchange across generations—traces layering like living dialogue, flaws retained, energy running unchecked.
The works exist as open processes rather than resolved statements: fields in flux, relational and inviting, asking the viewer to step into the same dynamic. They expose the distance from which we describe the living world—its beauty, its violence—while remaining cut off from its immediate heat and touch. They push toward return: to skin-level encounter, to sharpened yet softened awareness, to unmediated closeness with what is fierce and alive.
López-Bosch lives and works in Seville, Spain.
He trained in London, receiving a BA (Hons) in Visual Arts: Sculpture from Camberwell College of Arts (2000–2003) after studies at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design (1999–2000). Recognition includes the Sevilla Talento Grant (2014), Honourable Mentions in the City of Badajoz Sculpture Award (2013 and 2014), and selection for EAC XV Contemporary Art Encounters (2015).
His work is held in collections such as the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC) and Fundación Valentín de Madariaga.
Through predatory drive, mythic figures, fleeting natural forms, and layered co-creation, his practice sustains a vital, restless poetry of the untamed and the shared.
Rafael López-Bosch
Madrid, 1980. Lives and works in Seville.
Education
2000–2003 – Camberwell College of Arts, London
BA (Hons) Visual Arts: Sculpture
1999–2000 – Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, London
Awards & Grants
2015 – EAC XV Contemporary Art Encounters – Selected · Catalogue
2014 – Sevilla Talento Grant – ICAS / Fundación Valentín de Madariaga
2014 – City of Badajoz Award – Sculpture, Honourable Mention
2013 – City of Badajoz Award – Sculpture, Honourable Mention
Solo Exhibitions
2026 – El Ciclo de la Vida Contado por Ciegos
Art Hub, Barceló Sevilla Renacimiento, Seville
2017 – King of All Snakes
Sala Atín Aya, ICAS / ArtSevilla, Seville
2009 – The Good Times Are Killing Me
Galería Fúcares, Almagro
Group Exhibitions (Selected)
2025 – Tres patas para un banco, Art Hub, Seville
2024 – Desigñarte, Replica + 4Darty, Madrid
2024 – Yo antes fumaba, Galería Berlin, Seville
2023 – Que viene mi prima Vera, Corner Gallery & Studio, Madrid
2021 – Jardines y Mascotas, Galería F2, Madrid
2019 – A la manera de… (III), Galería Rafael Ortiz, Seville
2019 – 1082 km (installation), ©ACdO, Madrid
2017 – La Ciudad Invadida, Guillena, Seville
2016 – Art Marbella (with Galería F2), Marbella
2016 – Solidarity Auction Solidown, El Butrón, Seville
2015 – De lo Efímero y lo Perdurable, Fundación Valentín de Madariaga, Seville
2015 – EAC XV Exhibition, Museum of the University of Alicante (MUA)
2014 – 40 años x 40 artistas (Tribute to Joaquín Sáez), Galería Fúcares, Almagro
2014 – Premios Ciudad de Badajoz 2014 — Museum of the City of Badajoz
2013 – Enfoque y Diana, 0034 Gallery, Seville
2012 – Que Vienen Los Bárbaros, ICAS, Seville
Collaborations & Projects
2015 – Workshop Creando Leyenda, La Ciudad Invadida, Guillena, Seville
Copilandia – Presentation of One Day Manifesto, Seville
Owen Bullet – Performance documentation, Red Gate Gallery, London
Amy Sharrocks – Animal Congress, Spitz Gallery, London
Collections
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC)
Fundación Valentín de Madariaga