Daniel de la Barra

1. BIOGRAPHY

Daniel de la Barra is a Peruvian-Spanish artist who explores the infinite potential of fiction and political imagination as regenerative forces for dismantling power structures that have been repeated throughout history. Drawing on painting, video, and installation, his work speaks about the global implications of extractive models and the power hierarchies that reproduce the colonial model in all territories and times. Through his interventions, he proposes spaces of transformation that dismantle the dynamics and structures that subject certain territories as subaltern spaces of exploitation and domination, as well as their material and human implications.

De la Barra has exhibited his work in various institutions, such as Casa de Velázquez, Madrid (2025); La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2024); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Madrid (2024); La Maison de l’Amérique Latine, Paris (2024); Delfina Foundation, London (2023); Real Academia de España, Rome (2022); Fundació Miralles, Barcelona (2022); Museo Central, Lima (2022); Fabra i Coats, Barcelona (2019); among others. Recently, he has been invited to the 2026 Biennale of Malta. He has also been an artist-in-residence at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris; Delfina Foundation, London; Fundació Miró, Barcelona; Casa de Velázquez, Madrid; Real Academia de España, Rome; La Fabrique — Alliance Française, Lima; and Homesession, Barcelona. De la Barra has received the In Situ Prize from the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation (2025); the Environmental Project Grant from Matadero Madrid 2025); the Barcelona Crea Award (2023); the Artus–Delfina Foundation Prize (2022); the Collezione Taurisano Art Nou Prize (2022); and the Premi d’Art Jove (2021).