Elena Núñez Mallén graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Seville in 2020. In 2021 she moved to Bilbao to study the Masters in Painting at the University of the Basque Country.

Her work is the result of a desire to paint that comes from everyday life. The encounter with certain anecdotal elements that fascinate her in their latent presence in their environment is a kind of “MacGuffin” that allows her to begin to develop a plot, to formulate an operation.

The first motifs that lead her to think about painting are photographed and printed out, so that this material gradually accumulates in the studio. The discipline is not limited to a mimetic representation of these photographs, but the captured images act in multiple ways within an open process in which the artist begins to discover unexpected relationships between them.

In her work, the artist understands each work as an operation that is resolved with the meeting of patterns that connect the original elements. Guidelines that, for the most part, result from the transposition of those elements and that are the consequence of a need for self-knowledge to try to understand the relationship established with her vital context.

Her work has been exhibited in the XL National Contest of Contemporary Painting Ciudad de Utrera (2019), in the 17th Exhibition of the Crea Sevilla Joven Contest in the Sala Antiquarium (Seville, 2022) and also in the headquarters of the General Meetings of Bizkaia, (Bilbao, 2022), among others. She was a prize-winner in the 10th edition of the Painting Prize of the International University of Andalusia and a finalist in the 29th edition of the European Plastic Arts Competition of the University of Seville. Her works are included in the collections of the General Council of Vizcaya, the University of Seville, the International University of Andalusia and the Campos Collection.