TRINIDAD CONTRERAS
Trinidad Contreras, born in 1977 in Seville, Spain, graduated in Artistic Jewelry from the Massana School in Barcelona (2007-2010), under the tutelage of Ramón Puig.
She recently created the FAD Cup, a unique piece designed to celebrate the toast at the members' annual assembly. A finalist for the 2022 Loewe Foundation Craft Prize, she is one of the artisans recommended by the Michelangelo Foundation's Homo Faber Guide. In 2023, she received the Designers and Creatives Award from JORGC in Barcelona. Early in her career, she won the Marzee International Graduate Prize in the Netherlands. She also received an honorable mention at the Cheongju International Craft Biennial in South Korea and second prize at ArtsFAD in Barcelona in 2017. Her pieces are part of permanent collections, including those of the Fondazione Cominelli (Italy), the Marzee Gallery (Netherlands), and the Legnica Art Gallery (Poland).
Trinidad on her work:
From her formative years, porcelain became her primary medium of expression, forging a path where ceramics takes center stage. In her work, the boundaries between sculpture, craft, and jewelry blur, allowing the pieces to inhabit diverse creative spaces. Her work stems from a balance between technical curiosity and a uniquely natural aesthetic. By choosing porcelain, her process transforms into a constant dialogue with the material, challenging its fragility to explore themes that resonate with us all. Through forms, textures, and color, she reflects on memory, the passage of time, and the value of the present, among other subjects. It is a visual language that seeks simplicity and lightness, transforming matter into something imbued with poetry.
She recently created the FAD Cup, a unique piece designed to celebrate the toast at the members' annual assembly. A finalist for the 2022 Loewe Foundation Craft Prize, she is one of the artisans recommended by the Michelangelo Foundation's Homo Faber Guide. In 2023, she received the Designers and Creatives Award from JORGC in Barcelona. Early in her career, she won the Marzee International Graduate Prize in the Netherlands. She also received an honorable mention at the Cheongju International Craft Biennial in South Korea and second prize at ArtsFAD in Barcelona in 2017. Her pieces are part of permanent collections, including those of the Fondazione Cominelli (Italy), the Marzee Gallery (Netherlands), and the Legnica Art Gallery (Poland).
Trinidad on her work:
From her formative years, porcelain became her primary medium of expression, forging a path where ceramics takes center stage. In her work, the boundaries between sculpture, craft, and jewelry blur, allowing the pieces to inhabit diverse creative spaces. Her work stems from a balance between technical curiosity and a uniquely natural aesthetic. By choosing porcelain, her process transforms into a constant dialogue with the material, challenging its fragility to explore themes that resonate with us all. Through forms, textures, and color, she reflects on memory, the passage of time, and the value of the present, among other subjects. It is a visual language that seeks simplicity and lightness, transforming matter into something imbued with poetry.
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Public Collections:
Gallery of Art in Legnica, Poland.
Fondazione Cominelli, Italy.
Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Awards:
2023 PREMI JORGC de Dissenyadors i Creatius, Barcelona.
2017 Segundo Premio ArtsFAD por la obra Diamond Amphora, Disseny Hub Barcelona, España.
2014 Tercer Premio, Premio Fondazione Cominelli de Joyería Contemporánea, Italia.
2011 Residencia artística en el Besiendershuis.
2011 Invitada por Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Holanda.
2011 Mención de Honor, Premio Fondazione Cominelli, Padua, Italia.
2011 Mención de Honor, Cheongju International Craft Biennale, República de Corea.
2011 Premio Mediterráneo Gioiello Contemporaneo, Livorno, Italia.
2010 Premio Marzee, Nijmegen, Holanda.
Selected Exhibitions:
2026 SOLID WAVES . Hannah Gallery, Barcelona. 20 May - 19 June.
2025 424. Exposición colectiva en Galería Juan Naranjo. Barcelona.
2024 MATRIA . En Femení. Exposición colectiva en Galería 66 Mistral, Barcelona.
2024 TATUM: La Tierra en tus manos. Exposición individual en Re Read Diputació, Barcelona.
2023 ORO BLANCO. Exposición colectiva en Amaranto Joies, Barcelona.
2022 Exposición LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2022, Museo de Artesanía de Seúl (SeMoCA), Corea del Sur.
2021 HOMO FABER GUIDE, Recomendado por la Michelangelo Foundation
2021 DESIGN WITHOUT BORDERS, Museo Kiscell, Budapest, Hungría.
2021 OBJECTS, In the Bauhaus Kitchen, Galería Il·lacions, Barcelona, España.
2020 THE PALACE OF SHATTERED VESSELS II: Light Catchers, Curaduría: Florance Xia, Noga Zhang Shahar, Froots Gallery, Shanghái, China.
2019 THE PALACE OF SHATTERED VESSELS. Proyecto NOGART CN & FROOTS, Frame, Schmuck Week, Múnich, Alemania.
2019 PREMIO EUROPEO DE ARTES APLICADAS. Monumentalidad / Fragilidad, Kilkenny Castle y National Design & Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Irlanda.
2018 PREMIO EUROPEO DE ARTES APLICADAS, WCC-BF, Mons, Bruselas.
2016 TRIPLE PARADE, Tianjin Shengxi Museum of Fine Arts y Gauguin Gallery, Pekín, China.
Gallery of Art in Legnica, Poland.
Fondazione Cominelli, Italy.
Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Awards:
2023 PREMI JORGC de Dissenyadors i Creatius, Barcelona.
2017 Segundo Premio ArtsFAD por la obra Diamond Amphora, Disseny Hub Barcelona, España.
2014 Tercer Premio, Premio Fondazione Cominelli de Joyería Contemporánea, Italia.
2011 Residencia artística en el Besiendershuis.
2011 Invitada por Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, Holanda.
2011 Mención de Honor, Premio Fondazione Cominelli, Padua, Italia.
2011 Mención de Honor, Cheongju International Craft Biennale, República de Corea.
2011 Premio Mediterráneo Gioiello Contemporaneo, Livorno, Italia.
2010 Premio Marzee, Nijmegen, Holanda.
Selected Exhibitions:
2026 SOLID WAVES . Hannah Gallery, Barcelona. 20 May - 19 June.
2025 424. Exposición colectiva en Galería Juan Naranjo. Barcelona.
2024 MATRIA . En Femení. Exposición colectiva en Galería 66 Mistral, Barcelona.
2024 TATUM: La Tierra en tus manos. Exposición individual en Re Read Diputació, Barcelona.
2023 ORO BLANCO. Exposición colectiva en Amaranto Joies, Barcelona.
2022 Exposición LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2022, Museo de Artesanía de Seúl (SeMoCA), Corea del Sur.
2021 HOMO FABER GUIDE, Recomendado por la Michelangelo Foundation
2021 DESIGN WITHOUT BORDERS, Museo Kiscell, Budapest, Hungría.
2021 OBJECTS, In the Bauhaus Kitchen, Galería Il·lacions, Barcelona, España.
2020 THE PALACE OF SHATTERED VESSELS II: Light Catchers, Curaduría: Florance Xia, Noga Zhang Shahar, Froots Gallery, Shanghái, China.
2019 THE PALACE OF SHATTERED VESSELS. Proyecto NOGART CN & FROOTS, Frame, Schmuck Week, Múnich, Alemania.
2019 PREMIO EUROPEO DE ARTES APLICADAS. Monumentalidad / Fragilidad, Kilkenny Castle y National Design & Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Irlanda.
2018 PREMIO EUROPEO DE ARTES APLICADAS, WCC-BF, Mons, Bruselas.
2016 TRIPLE PARADE, Tianjin Shengxi Museum of Fine Arts y Gauguin Gallery, Pekín, China.
JEWELS by TRINIDAD CONTRERAS
Trinidad Contreras.
Sculpture: Untitled, 2026.
Various types of stoneware, porcelain, enamels, cement, 18k gold inlays and silver seal.
28 x 10 x 11 cm.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
Bracelet/pendant, porcelain with gold and silver. Inner diameter: 60 mm Outer dimensions: 90 x 90 mm Weight: 60 g Waxed cord: 55 cm long, 3 mm thick.
Sculpture: Untitled, 2026.
Various types of stoneware, porcelain, enamels, cement, 18k gold inlays and silver seal.
28 x 10 x 11 cm.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
Bracelet/pendant, porcelain with gold and silver. Inner diameter: 60 mm Outer dimensions: 90 x 90 mm Weight: 60 g Waxed cord: 55 cm long, 3 mm thick.
Trinidad Contreras.
Sculpture: Untitled, 2026.
Various types of stoneware, porcelain, enamels, 18k gold inlays and silver hallmark.
22 x 24.5 x 21 cm.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
Bracelet/pendant, porcelain with gold and silver seal. Inner diameter: 60 mm Outer dimensions: 90 x 90 mm Weight: 60 g Waxed cord: 55 cm long, 3 mm thick.
Sculpture: Untitled, 2026.
Various types of stoneware, porcelain, enamels, 18k gold inlays and silver hallmark.
22 x 24.5 x 21 cm.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
Bracelet/pendant, porcelain with gold and silver seal. Inner diameter: 60 mm Outer dimensions: 90 x 90 mm Weight: 60 g Waxed cord: 55 cm long, 3 mm thick.
Trinidad Contreras.
Sculpture: Untitled, 2026.
Various types of stoneware, porcelain, enamels, cement, mother-of-pearl luster.
29 x 22 x 19 cm.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
Sellada en la parte inferior.
Sculpture: Untitled, 2026.
Various types of stoneware, porcelain, enamels, cement, mother-of-pearl luster.
29 x 22 x 19 cm.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
Sellada en la parte inferior.
Trinidad Contreras.
Sculpture: Untitled, 2026.
Various types of stoneware, enamels, cement, polyurethane, silver inlays and gold luster.
31 x 16 x 13 cm.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
The oval piece opens.
Signed at the bottom.
Sculpture: Untitled, 2026.
Various types of stoneware, enamels, cement, polyurethane, silver inlays and gold luster.
31 x 16 x 13 cm.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
The oval piece opens.
Signed at the bottom.
Trinidad Contreras.
Ring: Untitled, 2026.
Porcelain, enamel, and gold luster. Silver hallmark.
Size 12/13.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
Ring: Untitled, 2026.
Porcelain, enamel, and gold luster. Silver hallmark.
Size 12/13.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
Trinidad Contreras.
Ring: Untitled, 2026.
Porcelain, enamel, and gold luster. Silver hallmark.
Size 13.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
Ring: Untitled, 2026.
Porcelain, enamel, and gold luster. Silver hallmark.
Size 13.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
Trinidad Contreras.
Ring: Untitled, 2026.
Porcelain, enamel, and gold luster. Silver hallmark.
Size 11/12.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
Ring: Untitled, 2026.
Porcelain, enamel, and gold luster. Silver hallmark.
Size 11/12.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
Trinidad Contreras.
Ring: Untitled, 2026.
Porcelain, enamel, and gold luster. Silver hallmark.
Size 13/14.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
Ring: Untitled, 2026.
Porcelain, enamel, and gold luster. Silver hallmark.
Size 13/14.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
Trinidad Contreras.
Ring: Untitled, 2026.
Porcelain, enamel, and gold luster. Silver hallmark.
Size 13/14.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
Ring: Untitled, 2026.
Porcelain, enamel, and gold luster. Silver hallmark.
Size 13/14.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
Trinidad Contreras.
Brooch: Untitled, 2023.
Porcelain, silver, gold, steel.
6.8 x 6.8 cm.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
Brooch: Untitled, 2023.
Porcelain, silver, gold, steel.
6.8 x 6.8 cm.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
Trinidad Contreras.
Brooch: Untitled, 2026.
Porcelain, silver, gold, steel.
6.7 x 6.8 cm.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
Brooch: Untitled, 2026.
Porcelain, silver, gold, steel.
6.7 x 6.8 cm.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
Trinidad Contreras.
Brooch: Untitled, 2023.
Porcelain, silver, gold, steel.
6.8 x 6.6 cm.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
Brooch: Untitled, 2023.
Porcelain, silver, gold, steel.
6.8 x 6.6 cm.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
Trinidad Contreras.
Brooch: Untitled, 2023.
Porcelain, silver, gold, steel.
6.8 x 6.8 cm.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
Brooch: Untitled, 2023.
Porcelain, silver, gold, steel.
6.8 x 6.8 cm.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
Trinidad Contreras.
Brooch: Untitled, 2026.
Porcelain, silver, mother-of-pearl luster, steel.
6.8 x 6.8 cm.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
Brooch: Untitled, 2026.
Porcelain, silver, mother-of-pearl luster, steel.
6.8 x 6.8 cm.
Photo by: Guillem Fernández-Huerta
Unique piece.
