ABOUT

Alex Pascual creating a contemporary figurative coloured pencil drawing in his Copenhagen studio.

Alex Pascual is a contemporary artist originally from Barcelona. His international trajectory has taken him through Dublin, London, Glasgow and Copenhagen, experiences that have contributed to shaping his artistic perspective.

Working between drawing and painting, his practice explores the relationships between the human figure, interior spaces, memory and the quiet strangeness embedded in everyday life.

Working from both observation and memory, he creates images shaped by perception, recollection and emotional residue. Distortion is not used as a stylistic device, but as a reflection of how memory itself operates: unstable, fragmented and ever-shifting.

Drawing on domestic interiors, everyday objects and the human figure, he constructs scenes that hover between recognition and disorientation. Perspectives compress, forms drift, and figures appear introspective, caught between presence and absence and occupying spaces to which they never seem to fully belong. Familiar interiors become transitional and psychologically uncertain—places of intimacy that can suggest distance and estrangement at once.

Line is central to his process: restless, searching, and at times unstable. Through coloured pencil and acrylic, Alex creates images in which warmth and unease coexist, approaching the domestic interior not simply as a place of comfort or belonging, but as an unstable psychological space where the familiar can become strangely distant.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Selected solo and group exhibitions.

Young Collectors' Group Exhibition
Anita Rogers Gallery, New York, USA
2025

Introspective II
The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle, UK
2025

The Affordable Art Adventure
Liza's Gallery, Møn, Denmark
2025

The Poetry of Everything
Liza's Gallery, Møn, Denmark
2025

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize
London, UK
2023

Introspective I
The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle, UK
2023

Fresh Legs
Galerie Heike Arndt, Berlin, Germany
2022

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize
London, UK
2021

Ibero-American Arts and Cultures
VIA Arts Prize, London, UK
2020

EDUCATION

Master of Artistic Production & Research (MFA)
University of Barcelona, Spain
2009–2011

Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
University of Barcelona, Spain
2002–2007

Illustration Diploma
Escola Massana, Barcelona, Spain
1999–2001