Miss van - Fer Alcalá 2024

Miss Van ( also known as Vanessa Alice ) started wall-painting at the age of 20, in 1993, initiating the feminine movement in Street Art. Originating from Toulouse, France and having spent most of her artistic life in Barcelona, Miss Van has travelled the world painting her instantly recognizable women on the streets, as well as on canvas. She has exhibited extensively for decades worldwide in Europe, USA and Asia.

Miss Van’s recent artistic pursuits have taken her to Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco, UK and Europe, which hallmarks a recent return to street art, after several years spent solely painting in the studio, charging her new works with increased depth, emotion and an elevated romantic darkness and delicacy. Her iconic sultry female characters reappear in sensual yet dark animal masks and evolving environments.

In a gauzy romantic compositions, they carry a surreal quality of burlesque, resonating with a beautiful synergy of rawness, softness and emotion. Miss Van adds, “I’m evolving and growing up with my paintings. It’s the only way, when you paint with emotions and feelings. I’m trying to be true with myself.” Miss Van is celebrating over 25 years of painting’.

“I’m evolving and growing up with my paintings. It’s the only way, when you paint with emotions and feelings. I’m trying to be true with myself.” 

Photo by Fer Alcalá, Barcelona 2024

BACKGROUND

2024 “CREATURAS”, Dorothy Circus Gallery, Rome
2023  “La Belle Époque” – KPPROJECTS, Los Angeles
2023 “Blooming Stories, Oldies, Fousion Gallery booth at Urban Art Fair, Paris 
2022 “Evanescent Splendor”, Harman Projects, New York
2021 “Pale Moonlight Muses “ Dorothy Circus Gallery, London
2020 “ Musas y Guerreras”,  Fousion Gallery booth at Urvanity Art, Madrid
2018  Retrospective – Openspace Gallery, Paris, France 
2018 “Convulsive Beauty “Then & Now” Duo show with Leonor Fini – Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco
2017  Flor De Piel” – Victor Lope Gallery, Barcelona
2016  El Viento En Mi Pelo” – CAC Málaga, Málaga
2014 “Glamorous Darkness” – StolenSpace Gallery, London
2013  Room For Cream” – Soze Gallery, Los Angeles
2012  Wild At Heart” – Dorothy Circus Gallery, Roma, Italy
2012 “Wild At Heart” – Copro Gallery, Los Angeles
2011 “ Muses “ Inoperable Gallery , Vienna
2011  Bailarinas” – Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York
2010 “Twinkles” – Galerie Magda Danysz Gallery, Paris
2010  Twinkles “– Magda Danysz Gallery, Shanghai
2010  Cachetes Colorados – Fifty24MX, Mexico DF
2010  She-Wolves” – Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles
2009  Lovestain” – StolenSpace Gallery, London
2008  “ Still a little Magic2 – Fifty24SF, San Fransisco
2008  Canto Negro y Brujerias” – Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Berlin
2007  Atame” – Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris
2006 “Lagrimas De Mariposas” – Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris
2005 “Don’t Be Shy” – Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York
2005  Toma Dame”– Iguapop Gallery, Barcelona
2005  Arte Fiera” with Galerie Magda Danysz, Bologna
2004  Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris
2003   Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris
2002   Mama Gallery, Rotterdam
2001  Notting Hill Art Club, London 
2000  Conceptstore de JC de Castelbajac, Paris
1999  Galerie Diloy, Toulouse

2024
“12e Biennale Valparaiso” with Isabel Croxatto
“Spring Spirits” Fousion Gallery Barcelona
“New Salon” Mortal Machine Gallery at Asheville Museum USA

2023
“A New Space is Born” Fousion Gallery Barcelona
“Popland” KochxBos Gallery Amsterdam
“Serendipity” Haven Gallery / BeautifulBizarre New York
Art Madrid with Fousion Gallery Barcelona

2022
“Urbain.es” La condition Publique / Magda Danysz Roubaix
“Terrae Novae” Fousion Gallery Barcelona
Urvanity ArtFair Madrid

2021
“Fousion Finest” Reial Circulo Artistic,Barcelona
“Urban Artfair” with Openspace Gallery, Paris

2020
“Arte Urbana”Sala Amos Salvador Logroño
Mural “Las Gitanas” Tudela
“Fousion Finest” Reial Circulo Artistic Barcelona
“Bal Masqué” Ruby Gallery Bruxelles
“Fair Play Groupshow Openspace gallery, Paris
“Drifting into Post Surrealism” Fousion Gallery Barcelona

2019
“Las Guerreras” Mural Festival Montreal
District 13 Artfair Paris
“Gaia Reborn” Beautiful Bizarre / Urban Nation Museum Berlin
Moniker Artfair New York
Mural at Crystal Ship Festival Ostend
“Urban Art! 5th Urban Art Biennale Völklinger Hütte Germany
Art Elysées artfair with Openspace Paris
“Cuadratura” Museo Redondo Santander
LA artshow fair Redtruck gallery Los Angeles
“Festin de Arte ” Isabel Croxatto Santiago de Chile

2018
Moniker Artfair London
“Saturnalia” Fousion Gallery
Feria Chaco with Isabel Croxatto Santiago de Chile
“Kaleidoscope” Institut Bernard Magrez Bordeaux
“Hecate” Redtruck gallery New Orleans
Scope Basel with Fousion gallery Basel
“Altered Reality” Openspace gallery Paris
Urban Artfair Openspace Paris

2017
Dorothy Circus Gallery 10th Anniversary – Roma, Italy Masked Intentions – Cast Contemporary, Miami, U.S.A Urban Nation Grand Opening – Berlin, Germany NCFW group show – Spoke Art, San Francisco, U.S.A Onset – First Amendment Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A Cross the Streets – M.A.C.R.O, Roma, Italy
Three Of A Kind Show – Golden Hands Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Welcome To New Jersey – Jonathan Levine Projects, N.Y, U.S.A
“White Nights and Day Dreams” Fousion Gallery Barcelona

2016
Artfair Cologne with Fousion Gallery Cologne
O group show – Montana Gallery, Barcelona
Artmossphere Biennale – Moscow
Rose Béton Festival – Toulouse, France
V Festival de Murales – La Escocesa, Barcelona
Matthew Namour Gallery, Montreal
Grand Opening – Allouche Gallery, New York
The Expulsion Of The Limbo – Fousion Gallery, Barcelona
Stroke Art Fair – Munich
Mural FemRimes, FemGraff Project – Barcelona
Moleskine V – Spoke Art Gallery, San Francisco
Winter Group Show – Vertical Gallery, Chicago
XX : A Moment In Time – Saatchi Gallery, London

2015
No Commission curated by Swizz Beatz – Art Basel, Miami, U.S.A.
The Reasons For The Seasons – StolenSpace Gallery, London Group show – Inner State Gallery, Detroit, U.S.A.
Murals In The Market Festival curated by 1xRun – Detroit, U.S.A. Cultivate – Soze Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Coney Art Walls – Coney Island, New York City, U.S.A. Freedom curated by Urban Nation – Berlin
Works On Paper, Duo Show with Nuria Mora – Artgang Gallery, Montreal
Main Street – Mohamed VI Museum, Rabah, Morroco
Scope Art Show with Soze Gallery – Miami
20 Years Under The Influence Of Juxtapoz Magazine – Los Angeles

2014
Egrégore – Yves Laroche Gallery, Montreal Canada
Le M.U.R – Paris, France
Mister Freeze, Le 50cinq, Toulouse Abnormal Activity, 3Punts Galeria, Barcelone Theriomorphism, IAM gallery, Madrid

2013
Women on the walls, Wynwood, Miami Autivistas, Oscar Cruz Gallery, Sao Paulo

2012
Love & Hate, Stolen Space, Londres

2011
Art in the Streets, MOCA, Los Angeles Swab
artfair, Barcelona

2010
Survey Select Exhibition, Wonderbread Factory, San Diego Friendships, Christopher Egelund galleri, Copenhague Summer groupshow, Stolenspace, Londres
Too Cool For School, Iguapop, Barcelone
5th anniversary show, Jonathan Levine Gallery, New York City 2009 StringBreak, GHP, Toulouse

2008
La main qui dessinait toute seule…, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris

2007
Hearthtob, Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Los Angeles
“Still on and on the Wiser” Von der Heydt Museum, Kunsthalle Wuppertal
Wakin Up Nights, De Pury & Luxembourg Gallery, Zurich
Bestial Show, curated by MissVan – Iguapop Gallery, Barcelona

2006
Skulls, Wheels and Ink, Outré Gallery, Syndey Spank the monkey, Baltic Art Center, New Castle

2005
La main qui dessinait toute seule (chap II), Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris
Galerie Merry Karnowsky, Los Angeles
Art Rotterdam with Galerie Magda Danysz, Rotterdam

2004
Cute & Scary, Flux Factory, New York City
Artissima with Galerie Magda Danysz, Turin
Art Brusels w/ Galerie Magda Danysz, Bruxelles
Arte Fiera w/ Galerie Magda Danysz, Bologne
Iguapop Gallery, Barcelone
La main qui dessinait toute seule, Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris
Miss Van, Les Poupées with Fornarina, Milan
Shops Decoration Fornarina Stockholm/Los Angeles/ Athenes/ Milan
90 sqm, Amsterdam

2003
Levi’s Girl Store (performance), Paris Doodle Big Day (festival),
Manchester Flash Festival Centre Pompidou, Paris

2001
Conceptstore de JC de Castelbajac, Paris