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Cecilia Granara (born 1991 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) lives and works in Paris. She is a painter and a writer, drawing on self-fiction, poetry, and religious and symbolic iconography. She is interested in cultural attitudes to sexuality, bodies and the use of color as a vehicle for emotions. She studied at Central St. Martin’s School of Art and Design in London and at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and Hunter College in New York City. Her solo shows include “Quatre Coeurs” at Exo Exo, Paris and “Lasciare Entrare, Lasciare Andare” at Studiolo Project, Milan. She participated in group shows at Galerie Jousse Entreprise, High Art, ps120 Berlin, Brigade Copenhagen. She was a finalist in the Antoine Marin Prize in 2019 and has been nominated for the Cairo Prize in 2021.

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No love without grief | FIAC 2021 | 0 ∞ 21 | This metamorphosis | Quatre Cœurs


Cecilia Granara, No love without grief, 2022
Exo Exo, Paris
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10 of Cups, 2022
Acrylic and oil on canvas
160 x 130 cm


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Cecilia Granara, FIAC, 2021
Exo Exo, Paris

Cecilia Granara, 0 ∞ 21, 2021
Exo Exo, Paris
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Coming apart/ into pieces / is beautiful/ and painful, 2020
Mixed media on canvas
200 x 170 cm / 78,7 x 66,9 in


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Cecilia Granara, Quatre cœurs, 2019
Exo Exo, Paris
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Liquids, 2019
Mixed techniques on canvas
146 x 114 cm / 57,4 x 44,8 in


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Map for Breathing (Self portrait), 2018
Mixed techniques on canvas
160 x 160 cm / 62,9 x 62,9 in


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