Bio and Statement
Lídia Vives is a visual artist and fine art photographer born in Lleida and based in Barcelona. Her work fuses pictorial tradition, symbolic storytelling and contemporary fashion aesthetics, creating images that go beyond visual beauty to reveal hidden layers of meaning.
She is known for hiding secrets in her photographs — enigmatic symbols, subtle narrative details, and recurring elements such as bees. These visual mysteries have become her signature, offering viewers the chance to decode personal and universal themes embedded in each composition.
With influences from Renaissance and Baroque painting, Vives constructs her photographs with meticulous art direction, often integrating custom-made props, mixed media, and self-portraiture. Her imagery balances the timeless and the surreal, evoking a sense of suspended reality.
Her work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and international art fairs, and featured in publications including Vogue Italia and Esquire. She has collaborated with institutions and brands such as RTVE and Penguin Random House, and her pieces are part of private collections around the world.
Exhibitions and Art Fairs
2025
Reverb - Ryo Utsunomiya Exhibition, Asago Art Village Gallery Shikisai, Hyogo, Japan (Guest Artist)
Exposició d’Art Contemporani, La Llotja, Lleida, Spain (Group)
Contemporáneas, Palacete Huerto Ruano, Lorca, Spain (Group)
2024
Visites Inesperades, MORERA Museu d’art Modern i Contemporani, Lleida, Spain (Group)
Intimate, LeDuc Gallery, Nova Scotia, Canada (Group)
Estimat diari, Galeria Espai Cavallers, Lleida, Spain (Solo)
Kvänum Kökets Hus, UponWalls, Kvänum, Sweden (Group)
Du. Und ich., Hartlauer Fotogalerie, Linz, Austria (Group)
2023
Trierenberg Super Circuit, Neues Rathaus der Stadt Linz, Linz, Austria (Group)
StART Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom (Art Fair)
Karlskrona Skärgardsfest, UponWalls, Karlskrona, Sweden (Group)
Human Rights? Exhibition, Fondazione Campana dei Caduti, Rovereto, Italy (Group)
Lídia Vives, New exhibition summer 2023, UpOnWalls, Hjo, Sweden (Solo)
Jornada d'emprenedoria femenina, Sala d’actes CEI, Les Borges Blanques, Spain (Group)
Young and old, Hartlauer Fotogalerie, Linz, Austria (Group)
2022
Exposició d’artistes solidaris a benefici de Mans Unides, Lleida, Spain (Group)
Ecce Homo - Figura v novi realnosti, Kranj, Slovenia (Art Festival)
Lumínic, Lleida, Spain (Art Fair)
Affordable Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium (Art Fair)
Sala de exposiciones permanente, Universidad Popular, Cáceres, Spain (Group)
2021
Imagenation Milan, Femme et Fatale, Fondazione Luciana Matalon, Milan, Italy (Group)
2021 MUSE Photography Awards: Virtual Exhibition, Muse Photography Awards, Virtual (Group)
International Portrait Photography Awards, Galería Man Ray, Ciudad de México, México (Group)
2020
Emmascarades, Diputació de Lleida, Lleida, Spain (Group)
Old Summer Memories, Fifty Dots Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (Group)
A&D, A d’Art i D de Dona, Galeria Espai Cavallers, Lleida, Spain (Group)
2019
Summer Time, Fifty Dots Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (Group)
Miami Photo Fair, Limited Edition Gallery, Miami, USA (Art Fair)
Elementum 4.0, FFIEL, León, México (Group)
Realitats imaginàries, Fifty Dots Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (Group)
Art Photo BCN, Sigma, Barcelona, Spain (Art Fair)
2018
Images of Women, Hartlauer Foto Galerie, Linz, Austria (Group)
Exposició d’Artistes Solidaris a Benefici de Mans Unides, Lleida, Spain (Group)
Safo, Galería de Arte Léucade, Múrcia, Spain (Group)
Caixa Negra. Fotografia 18, Galeria Espai Cavallers, Lleida, Spain (Group)
II Certamen Miro&Art, Reial Cercle Artístic, Barcelona, Spain (Group)
Utopia Markets Photo, Barcelona, Spain (Art Fair)
Voies Off, "Transeünts", Fifty Dots Gallery, Arles, France (Art Fair)
2017
50 de Diciembre, Fifty Dots Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (Group)
Exhibit, Casa Golferichs, Barcelona, Spain (Group)
2016
Sex Series, Fifty Dots Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (Solo)
Art Photo BCN, "Sex Series", Fifty Dots Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (Art Fair)
2015
Shared Experience, Inqubator Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (Group)
Evasiones, Galería Léucade, Múrcia, Spain (Group)
El + de la fotografia, Cercle de Belles Arts, Lleida, Spain (Group)
Fotofever Art Fair, "Sex Series", Fifty Dots Gallery, Paris, France (Art Fair)
2014
Wonderland, Espacio Luvitien, Teruel, Spain (Solo)
2013
Wonderland, Casa de la Cultura de Andorra, Teruel, Spain (Solo)
Wonderland, Institut d'Estudis Ilerdencs, Lleida, Spain (Solo)
Awards and accolades
2025
3rd Place, Team Spain, World Photographic Cup, Quito, Ecuador
2024
1st Place, Team Spain, World Photographic Cup, Dallas, USA
2023
Gold Medal, Self portrait, MOTIVA Photo.Art.Circuit, Austria
Honorable Mention, Nudes (Professional), Chromatic Awards, USA
Semi-Finalist, Head On Portrait Awards, Australia
Artist Of The Month April 2023, ArtJobs
Certificate of Achievement, Luxembourg Art Prize, Luxembourg
2022
1st Prize, Nude (Professional), Chromatic Awards, USA
Honorable Mention, Fine Art (Professional), BIFA, Budapest, Hungary
Honorable Mention, Fine Art - Nude (Professional), ND Awards Photo Contest
Nominee, Fine Art (Professional), One shot photo contest, Refocus Awards
Honorable Mention, Fine Art - Portrait (Professional), International Photo Awards, Los Angeles, USA
Official selection, Fine Art - Portrait (Professional), International Photo Awards, Los Angeles, USA
Platinum Winner, Fine Art Photography - Nudes (Professional), European Photography Awards, Europe
Bronze, Fine Art - Nude (Professional), PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Paris, France
Honorable Mention, Monochromatic 2022, Dodho Magazine, Barcelona, Spain
Honorable Mention, Portrait, Monovisions Photography Awards
Bronze, Self-portrait, Nude (Professional), One Eyeland, Chennai, India
Gold Medal, Self-portrait, Trierenberg Super Circuit, Wels, Austria
Winner, Passepartout Photo Prize, Annual Catalogue 2022, Italy
Finalist, Fotocasar, Cáceres, Spain
2021
Honorable Mention, Fine Art - Other, Professional, IPA int’l photography awards, Los Angeles, USA
Honorable Mention, PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Paris, France
Gold - Photographer of the Year 2021 (Professional), Muse Photography Awards, New York, USA
Honorable Mention, Fine Art - Portrait, Professional, Moscow International Foto Awards, Moscow, Rusia
Shortlist, Conceptual, Siena Creative Photo Awards, Siena, Italy
Honorable Mention, The Worldwide Photography Gala Awards 16th Julia Margaret Cameron Award, York, UK
Finalist, Conceptual, Fine Art Photography Awards
Shortlist, SHOOT (Photo/Video) Professional, London International Creative Competition, London, UK
Silver, Coronavirus, WPE Awards, Paris, France
Bronze, World’s Top 10 Fashion Photo Contest 2020, One Eyeland, Chennai, India
Gold - Fine Art Photographer of the Year 2020, Fine Art (Professional), Monochrome Awards
2020
Finalist, XII Certamen Internacional de Fotografía Fundación ASISA, Madrid, Spain
Honorable Mention, Portrait (Professional), Chromatic Awards, USA
Silver, International Portrait Photography Awards IMAGO 2020, Mexico City, Mexico
Bronze, One Eyeland, World’s Top 10 Fine Art Photo Contest 2020, Chennai, India
Top 1.500, Trierenberg Super Circuit, Wels, Austria
Top 100 Spain, Female Portrait, 35Awards, Moscow, Rusia
Shortlist, Portrait, Creative Photo Awards, Siena, Italy
Gold, Fine Art - Portrait (Professional), Moscow International Foto Awards, Moscow, Rusia
Finalist, Fine Art, Fine Art Photography Awards
FIAP Gold Medal, Monochrome, Trofeu Torretes de Fotografia, Calella, Spain
ISF Gold Medal, Color, Trofeu Torretes de Fotografia, Color, Calella, Spain
Finalist, Monochrome, Trofeu Torretes de Fotografia, Calella, Spain
2019
Honorable Mention, Fine Art - Portrait (Professional), Tokyo International Foto Awards, Tokyo, Japan
Finalist, Fine Art Category, Vision Excellence Awards, Miami, USA
2018
Gold, Self Portrait Category, Trierenberg Super Circuit, Wels, Austria
2016
Worbz, “Equus Ferus” series
Photography Masterclass Magazine, "Scarface" editor's choice
2015
Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Photogasm: Lost
2013
Vogue Italia, “Honey lips” Best of Vogue
Vogue Italia, “Medusa” Best of Vogue
2012
Worbz, Pic of the day
Speaking engagements
2025
Más que un clic - Centro de Tecnologías Avanzadas, Zaragoza, Spain
2024
Viure de l’art - Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain
2023
L’art de les noves generacions - TEDx Lleida, Lleida, Spain
2022
Every masterpiece has its secrets - IES Caparrella, Lleida, Spain
Every masterpiece has its secrets - Talent Woman, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
EUIPN Annual Cooperation Meeting & Authenticities Event 2022, Thessaloniki, Greece
Photoforum, Pentax & Sigma - Fira de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2021
Every masterpiece has its secrets - IES Caparrella, Lleida, Spain
3er Ciclo de Conferencias El Ojo del Cimarrón - Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Mexicali, Baja California, México
Talent Land Digital - Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
2020
Sigma Ambassador - Centre Cívic Pati Llimona, Barcelona, Spain
2019
FFIEL - Poliforum León, León, México
Sigma ProWeek - C.B. Foto, Córdoba, Spain
Fira de Formació i Treball de Lleida 2019, Lleida, Spain
Euskalphoto 2019, Hondarribia, Spain
2018
Centro Cultural Gómez Tortosa, Novelda, Spain
Fotogasteiz, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
Episcopal, Lleida, Spain
Profoto Experience - Sirera, Lleida, Spain
Sigma Ambassador Day - Espai d'art fotogràfic, Fotopro, Valencia, Spain
Fnac l'Illa Diagonal, Barcelona, Spain
Sigma ProDay - González Almacén, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Pentax & Ricoh ProWeek - Fotografiarte, Majadahonda, Spain
2017
Photofestival, Mijas, Spain
Sigma ProWeek - Fotografiarte, Majadahonda, Spain
IES Caparrella, Lleida, Spain
Ilerna, Lleida, Spain
Fotoweek - Casanova Foto, Madrid, Spain
2016
Episcopal, Lleida, Spain
Madrid Photocreative, Madrid, Spain
Bilbao Photoexperience, Bilbao, Spain
Profoto Week - Casanova Foto, Barcelona, Spain
Fotoweek - Casanova Foto, Barcelona, Spain
2015
Ilerna, Lleida, Spain
Jornades Fotogràfiques Platja d'Aro, Platja d'Aro, Spain
2014
Sirera Serveis Fotogràfics, Lleida, Spain
Fotographic, Lloret de Mar, Spain
2013
Arabell, Lleida, Spain
Publications
2024
Motiva Luxury Edition I, Motiva Photo Art Festival
2023
Get Inspired Magazine, 59
StART Art Fair Catalogue
2022
Ecce Homo - Figura v novi realnosti Catalogue
Special Themes Circuit 2022, Trierenberg Super Circuit
2021
Das MODEL und die Künstlerin, Prestige Switzerland
Monochrome Photography Awards, International Black & White Photography Contest 2020
2020
Trierenberg Super Circuit 2020, Quintessence 2000 - 2020
2019
Jordi y la fábrica de chocolate, Esquire Spain
2018
Ópera Prima (second edition), Letrame Grupo Editorial
Special Themes Circuit 2018, Trierenberg Super Circuit
Trierenberg Super Circuit 2018, Trierenberg Super Circuit
Trierenberg Super Circuit - Luxury Edition IX, Trierenberg Super Circuit
La piel escrita, Betania
Dark Beauty Magazine, X 5.18
Dark Beauty Magazine, X 2.18
Dark Beauty Magazine, X 10.17
2017
Ópera Prima, Luhu Editorial
Dark Beauty Magazine, X 1.17
2016
Masters of portraits, 25 pages
2015
"Equus Ferus", Veux Magazine Issue 24 - Lost & Found: Book 2 (Cover)
2013
Starlight, Stravagance Magazine Issue 1
