58 21st century Spanish painters

Jorge Aguilar-Agon is an award-winning contemporary romantic impressionist painter. He was born in Barcelona in 1936 and now works from studios in France, Spain and England.

Andrés Fernández Alcántara is a Spanish sculptor, engraver and painter. He lives and works in Alcala de Henares, Spain.

Pedro González Alonso is a Spanish actor, writer and artist. He is best known for his role of Andrés "Berlin" de Fonollosa in the Spanish heist series Money Heist and for the role of Diego Murquía in the historical drama series Gran Hotel.

Francisco José Gómez de Argüello y Wirtz is a Spanish artist and, together with Carmen Hernández, co-initiator of the Neocatechumenal Way.

Eduardo Arroyo Rodríguez was a Spanish painter and graphic artist. He was also active as an author and set designer.

Luis Eduardo Aute Gutiérrez was a Spanish musician, singer, composer, and film director.

Miquel Barceló Artigues is a Spanish painter.

Elena Blasco is a Spanish multidisciplinary artist who works in photography, painting, and installations. With a subjective and ironic view, she recreates everyday objects and settings to build a personal and unique identity into her works, in some cases referring to gender violence and social injustice.

Alfons Borrell i Palazón was a Spanish abstract painter.

Juan Francisco Casas is a Spanish artist and poet. Casas recreates photographs he's taken as large scale oil paintings on canvas, as well as similarly scaled drawings using only blue ballpoint pens. The drawings and paintings are created in photo realistic style most of them as large as 10 feet.

Yolanda Castaño Pereira is a Galician painter, literacy critic and poet.

Jorge José Castillo Casalderrey is a Spanish-born painter and sculptor.

Micaela Flores Amaya, La Chunga, is a Spanish flamenco dancer and painter of naïf art.

Joan Comas Pausas was a Spanish painter, menswear trader and technical architect.

Félix de la Concha is a painter. Born in León, Spain, he resides in Pittsburgh and Madrid.

Damià Díaz is a Spanish artist.

Jesus de Miguel is a prominent: Spanish artist, closer to the neo expressionist style born in Palencia, Spain.

Joseba Eskubi is a Spanish artist who lives and works in Bilbao, Spain. He works with soft, amorphic and organic forms with images of decay, and his paintings incorporate surrealism. His work is often a single organic figure, and his works are created with mixed media.

Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau Nieto is a Spanish hyperrealist painter who specialises in historical military paintings that portray different eras of the Spanish Armed Forces through hyperrealistc naturalism.

Sofía Gandarias was a Spanish painter.

Teo González is a Spanish postminimalist painter.

Josep Guinovart was a Catalan painter most famous for his informalist or abstract expressionist work.

Antonio Guzmán Capel is a Spanish painter. Since 1961 he has resided in the city of Palencia, Spain.

José Alfonso Morera Ortiz, commonly known by his artist name, El Hortelano, was a painter. He was influential in the countercultural movement known as the Movida Madrileña, along with artists like Ouka Leele, Ceesepe, Guillermo Pérez Villalta, film director Pedro Almodóvar, singer Alaska, and photographer Alberto García-Alix. El Hortelano's style of painting evolved over time, and this evolution includes a distorted figurative period, a romantic period of orange tonalities, and, later, a period where lyricism and naturalism were emphasized. Considered one of the most important Spanish artists of his generation, he was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts on November 3, 2010.

Fabio Hurtado is a Spanish contemporary painter, known for an intimate work that shows the feminine universe in an urban context at the beginning of industrial modernity. During his career Hurtado has received important awards and distinctions. In 2004 six of his works were chosen to illustrate a philatelic series entitled "Women and reading", issued by Correos de España to enhance the cultural integration of women in this country in the twentieth century. The refined drawing, the underlying emotionality, and a certain cinematographic air have deserved praise in Hurtado's artwork.

Agustín Ibarrola is a Spanish painter and sculptor.

José María Cruz Novillo is a Spanish sculptor, engraver, painter and designer.

Antón Lamazares is a Spanish painter, who is, along with José María Sicilia, Miquel Barceló and Víctor Mira, a member of the "generación de los 80". Working elaborate surfaces of wood and cardboard with varnish and other materials, he has created a very personal medium and artistic language. From an initially playful expressionism, his style has developed toward abstract expressionism and straightforward abstraction, and, more recently, a sort of minimalism in which an intimate dialogue between soul and memory, the spiritual and the sensual, poetry and dream-life can take place. His works have been exhibited throughout the world and are held by numerous important institutions, including the National Museum Reina Sofía, the Galician Centre for Contemporary Art, the Madrid Museum of Contemporary Art and the Marugame Hirai Museum of Japan, as well as by many private collectors and foundations.

José Asensio Lamiel was an Aragonese painter and sculptor born in Calanda in the Spanish comarca of Bajo Aragón.

Jean Paul Leon is a French/Spanish artist, sculptor, writer, known mainly for his work Unisson which assembles three art collections on the three Mediterranean Religions, calling for understanding and dialogue among the people of the three cultures. His book Heritage, prefaced by French Minister Jack Lang and recommended by The Louvre Museum curator Lizzie Boubli is the first of the trilogy.

Antonio López García is a Spanish painter and sculptor, known for his realistic style. He is criticized by some art critics for what they consider neo-academism, but praised by others, such as Robert Hughes, who consider him a master realist. His style sometimes is deemed hyperrealistic. His painting was the subject of the film El Sol del Membrillo, by Victor Erice, in 1992.

David Lopez Ribes is a Spanish painter and multidisciplinary artist. He lives and works in Valencia.

Antonio Alonso Martinez is a Portuguese/ Spanish painter.

José Ramón Muro Pereg is a Spanish painter. He specializes in hyperrealist paintings.

Juan Navarro Baldeweg is a Spanish architect and professor at the Superior Technical School of Architecture of Madrid (ETSAM). He is currently retired from architectural practice.

Olga Novo is a Galician poet and essayist.

José Requena Nozal is a self-taught artist-painter who uses different techniques. His works are scattered both Spain, Europe and the United States. He has held various exhibitions open both to the public and also to specialised art critics.

Gaston Orellana, is a Chilean painter. Orellana was born in Valparaiso, Chile in 1933, son of Spanish parents Armando de Orellana, an engineer and Spanish diplomat, and Ernestina del Transito née Morgadon. Although born abroad, Orellana was born into the ancient aristocratic house of Orellana la Vieja, from Extremadura, Spain. He has since lived in Spain, Italy, the United States the UK and France.

Jordi Pagans i Monsalvatje was a Catalan and Spanish painter.

Liliana Palaia Pérez is an Argentine-born architect and painter who resides and works in Valencia, Spain.

Adrià Pina is a Spanish painter from L’Alcudia, Valencia. Among his honors Pina received the X BMW Spanish painting prize in 1995.

José Puyet, full name José Puyet Padilla, was a Spanish, modern impressionist painter, whose popularity spread throughout Spain and the United States.

Nuria Quevedo Teixidó is a Spanish painter and graphic artist, affiliated with the Communist Party, who has lived in Berlin since age 15.

Guillem Ramos-Poquí is a painter who was a major figure of Arte Povera and Conceptual art in Catalonia during the 1960s. He has lived in London since 1968.

Regina Raull was a Spanish painter with residence in Mexico City.

Pablo Gabino Rey Sendón is a Spanish painter artist born in Barcelona in 1968.

Vicente Romero Redondo is a Spanish figurative painter and educator, best known for his pastel depictions of graceful girls at solitary moments in romantic surroundings, adorned in crafty clothing. Having resided on the Costa Brava for years, his oeuvre has been praised for conveying rare beauty and serenity, while taking after the vivid luminosity distinctively seen in the art of native mediterranean masters. Romero Redondo's oeuvre has been exhibited with honors across borders in Europe and beyond.

Luis Royo is a Spanish artist. He is best known for his fantasy illustrations published in numerous art books, magazines such as Heavy Metal and various other media including book and music CD covers, video games and Tarot cards.

Arthur Sachs was a Swedish-Spanish neo-impressionist painter.

Manuel Sáez is a Spanish, self-taught artist. Since 1984, he has been living and working in Valencia.

Pepi Sánchez was a Sevillian painter. Born in 1929, she moved to Madrid in 1958 and lived there until she died in 2012.

Vicente Segrelles is a Spanish comic book artist and writer.

Juan García Segura is a Spanish painter. He was born in Palma in 1956.

Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tàpies was a Spanish painter, sculptor and art theorist, who became one of the most famous European artists of his generation.

Joan Tuset i Suau is an artist, painter, and sculptor.

Juan Varela is a biologist and Wildlife Artist. Born in Madrid where he studied Biology and obtained a master's degree with his studies on seabird behavior. Until 1980 he worked on seabird research in gull colonies off the African north coast. At the same time, he did scientific illustration for nature magazines and encyclopedias. He was the main illustrator of the Spanish well known nature film maker and writer Felix Rodriguez de la Fuente.

María Dolors Vázquez Aznar was a Spanish realist painter and lawyer.

Jorge Velasco Navarro is a Spanish painter born in Madrid. He is the son of Teresa Navarro Valero, designer and founder of the textile brand in 1955 with the same name and father Francisco Velasco Rodriguez, also a businessman, painter and writer.