Where does that which I call myself end?
My artistic practice is built around this question. I am interested in what the body exchanges, incorporates, and shares. Through these elements, I investigate to what extent we can continue to speak of individual identity when what we consider our own is continuously in relationship with other bodies and other forms of life.
My work unfolds at the intersection of art, science, and philosophy. I cultivate microorganisms from the body, document their transformations through photography, work with ceramics, and create installations in which breath, water, and organic matter become part of the work’s processes. I am not interested solely in representing these processes, but in creating situations where they can occur.
This research also stems from a personal experience. The experience of loss and grief led me to confront the idea of death and to question the separation between life and disappearance. Rather than conceiving of an individual body that begins and ends within itself, my work seeks other ways of understanding existence as an exchange, transformation, and continuity of matter.
Lynn Margulis’s theory of endosymbiosis, David Bohm’s concept of the implicate order, and the Buddhist notion of interbeing have been essential references throughout this journey. Margulis's proposition that seemingly independent organisms arise from relationships of incorporation and symbiosis, paired with Bohm’s view of an interconnected reality and the practice of interbeing, allows me to think of the body not as a single unit, but as a community. From this perspective, microbiology ceases to be merely a field of representation and becomes a tool to approach what usually remains beyond our perception.
Through different media and processes, I create works in which the boundaries between body and environment, individual and community, and the visible and invisible become unstable. I am interested in that moment when something that seemed to belong exclusively to one person begins to reveal that it has always been shared.
CV
Education
2016 MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, UK
2010–2014 BA Fine Arts, Miguel Hernández University, Elche, Spain. Extraordinary Degree Award
2004 Technical Degree in Design and Applied Arts, Escuela de Arte y Superior de Diseño, Alicante, Spain
Solo exhibitions
2026 Hálito, Museo de Aguas de Alicante, Pozos de Garrigós, Alicante, Spain
2026 Tots els cossos que som, Llotja de Sant Jordi, Alcoi, Spain
2026 Tots els cossos que som. Museo de la Universidad de Alicante. Spain
2025 El paisaje invisible, with Miriam M. Guirao. Curated by Fred Adam, Aula de la Naturaleza, El Hondo Natural Park, Spain
2023 Taxidermia y otros cuerpos. Curated by Jaume Marzal, B. Art Gallery, Alicante, Spain
2022 Del No-ser al Interser. Curated by Johanna Caplliure, Casa Bardín, Juan Gil-Albert Institute of Culture, Alicante, Spain
2020 I Just Want You to Be Happy, La Peluquería Gallery, Alicante, Spain
2019 Taxidermia, Freaks Arts Showroom, Alicante, Spain
2016 Nothing to See Here, La Calcografía Gallery, Salamanca, Spain
2015 Crime Scene, Punctum Gallery, University of the Arts London, UK
Selected group exhibitions
2026 Temps d’art, Llotja de Sant Jordi, Alcoi, Spain. Within the Antoni Miró Chair Production Grant, University of Alicante
2026 Temps d'art, Museo de la Universidad de Alicante. Spain
2025 Arte y Biodiversidad III. Curated by Antonio Navarro and José Fuentes, Sala de Exposiciones Miguel Delibes, Santa Marta de Tormes, Salamanca, Spain
2024 Redux. Curated by Eldi Dundee, Small House Gallery, London, UK
2024 Exhibition of acquisitions for the Municipal Art Collection, La Lonja del Pescado, Alicante, Spain
2024 Madrid Design Festival, Carabanchel Diseña, Isidro Blasco Studio Show, Madrid, Spain
2024 Alacant Open Studios, Alicante, Spain
2023 Cultura Online, Centre del Carme, Sala Ferreres-Goerlich, Valencia, Spain
2023 Madrid Design Festival, Carabanchel Diseña, Isidro Blasco Studio Show, Madrid, Spain
2023 Alacant Open Studios, Alicante, Spain
2019 V MUA PLUS Residency Exhibition, MUA, Museum of the University of Alicante, Spain
2019 MicroActs, Video Art Festival, Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, UK
2019 Microbiennale of Horizontal Initiatives, Syg.ma, Russia
2018 Deepness, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK
2018 Yo, ana, I, The Back Room Gallery, London, UK
2017 Glitch, the Aesthetics of Failure. Curated by Chel Logan, The Old Courts Gallery, Wigan, UK
2017 Deep Trash. Royal Trash, exhibition, live art event and symposium, London, UK
2017 Is This It?, platform for contemporary art, UK
2016 Susak Expo Biennale, Croatia
2016 Mental Wellbeing Exhibition, High Holborn, London College of Fashion, London, UK
2016 Head to Head, Punctum Gallery, University of the Arts London, UK
2016 Conversation in Progress, Mills Gallery, London, UK
2015 EAC 2015, Encuentros de Arte Contemporáneo, Museum of the University of Alicante, Spain
2015 Arte X Arte = Arte 20, ACAS Art Space, Elche, Spain
2015 Artbook, Festival Embarrat, Tàrrega, Spain
2015 Head 2 Head, Punctum Gallery, University of the Arts London, UK
2015 Fly by the Seat of Your Pantsuit, Cookhouse Gallery, London, UK
2014 Perspectives. Art, Inflammation & Me, Strandzuid, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2014 El pelotón de ejecución, Espacio Trapezio, Madrid, Spain
Awards
2026 Honourable Mention, EAC Encuentros de Arte Contemporáneo, Juan Gil-Albert Institute of Culture, Provincial Council of Alicante, Spain
2022 Artwork acquired by Alicante City Council for the Municipal Art Collection, Spain
2015 Acquisition Award, EAC Encuentros de Arte Contemporáneo, Juan Gil-Albert Institute of Culture, Alicante, Spain
2013 First Prize, Art and Diseases Chair, University of Valencia, Spain
2012 First Prize, Fine Arts Competition The Elements, Light Space & Time Gallery, Florida, USA
Grants and residencies
2025 Selected for the Production Grant of the Antoni Miró Chair of Contemporary Art, University of Alicante, Spain
2025 Supercluster Residency, El Hondo Natural Park, Spain
2024 Selected as curator of Línea Vital, Silvia Lerín, Arte en la Casa Bardín programme, Juan Gil-Albert Institute of Culture, Alicante, Spain
2023 Selected for Cultura Online, Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana, Spain
2022 Selected artist for Del No-ser al Interser, Arte en la Casa Bardín programme, Juan Gil-Albert Institute of Culture, Alicante, Spain
2021 Licencia Continuitas Grant, Miguel Hernández University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Altea, Spain
2020 Selected for JIAS, International Conference on Sustainable Art, Art and Science section, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
2019 MUA PLUS Residency, Museum of the University of Alicante, Spain
2015 Confluencias, Mustang Art Gallery, Elche, Spain
2014 A Quemarropa Residency, Alicante, Spain
2013 Artistic Production Grant, AbbVie Biopharmaceutical Company, Valencia, Spain
Training & Professional Development
2021 Down to Earth. Soil Chromatography Workshop, Bio Art Society, Helsinki, Finland
2016 Digital Maker Space, Chelsea College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, UK
2016 Amplified Realities. Use of the SEM Microscope for Artists, University of Oxford, UK
2016 Bodily Matters. Human Biomatter in Art, UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, London, UK
Talks, publications and public programmes
Lectures, Talks & Seminars
2025 Lecture, Más allá de la superficie. Una mirada al paisaje invisible, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Murcia, Spain
2023 Ana Pastor in Conversation with Isidro Blasco, Galería Aural, Alicante, Spain
2021 Seminar, Innovación en metodologías y residencias de investigación, Casa Planas Centre for Contemporary Research and Culture, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2021 Round table, Artist Residencies in the Mediterranean Area. An Environment for Creation and Cultural Exchange, organised by PiedraPapelTijera_ALC
2020 Lecture, I Ciclo Internacional de Arte y Sostenibilidad, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
2017 Lecture, Sangre y Arte, Divulgarte series, University of Alicante, Spain
Publications & Academic References
2019 Cuadrado, R. and Pastor, A. Taxidermia. Olé Libros, Valencia, Spain
2017 Text for the catalogue Mulier Mulieris XI, MUA, Museum of the University of Alicante, Spain
2017 Esteve, F. and Villeparisis, I. Memorobilia Dona Alacant Art. Artistas contemporáneas alicantinas. Alicante City Council. Chapter on Ana Pastor, pp. 21–22
2017 Work analysed in the doctoral thesis La Entrevista al Artista Emergente como Modo de Conservación Preventiva, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Cultural management and curatorial experience
2023–2026 Co-organisation of Alacant Open Studios, Alicante, Spain
2022–2023 Director and coordinator of Open Art Festival, focused on art, ecology and bioart, Alicante, Spain
2022 Management and jury member for the curatorial open call Huella de Carbono en el Arte Contemporáneo, A Quemarropa and Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana, Spain
2021 Organisation of the Jornadas de Interacción con el Entramado Cultural Contemporáneo de Alicante, PLANEA network, Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation and CCCC, Spain
2021 Moderator of the round table Artist Residencies in the Mediterranean Area. An Environment for Creation and Cultural Exchange
2020–2021 Co-direction and management of the online project Piedra Papel Tijera_ALC, connecting contemporary art and citizenship during and after the pandemic
Selected curatorial projects
2026 Línea Vital, Silvia Lerín. Curated exhibition for the Arte en la Casa Bardín programme, selected in 2024 by the Juan Gil-Albert Institute of Culture, Alicante, Spain
2023 Más que humanos. Naturaleza, Biología y Sostenibilidad en el Arte, Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras, Alicante, Spain. Artists included Almudena Romero, Miguel Moreno, Fran Simó, Marina Planas, Vicente Aguado and Lot Amorós
2022 Bio-Eco-Arte Digital. Nuevas Corrientes, Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras, Alicante, Spain. Artists included Alexandra Knie, Coco Moya, Juan Zamora and Raquel Meyers
2017 Shoot Em Up, Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras, Alicante, Spain
2017 Jury member and catalogue text, Mulier Mulieris XI, Museum of the University of Alicante, Spain
2016 Assistant curator, Punctum Gallery exhibitions, London, UK
2016 Organisation of the video art festival A Bocajarro, Edificio El Claustro, Alicante, Spain
2014–2015 Documentation and catalogue texts, Museum of the University of Alicante, Spain
2014 Catalogue texts for Escolano, D. El artista y la madre, Museum of the University of Alicante, Spain
Collections
AbbVie Biopharmaceutical Company
Alicante City Council
Chiva City Council
Bois-Guillaume City Council
Juan Gil-Albert Institute of Culture