Andrea Costas Lago
Andrea Costas Lago (Vigo, 1978) is a visual artist and a photography lecturer at the Fine Arts Faculty of Pontevedra, Vigo University, and at the design school, Aula D. She carries out her creative work in a variety of languages such as installation, video and performance, though she is best known for her work as a photographer. Her personal narrative broaches subjects that are both quotidian and universal from an emotional and psychological perspective.
Currently, she balances her work as an artist and a teacher with researching and she is preparing her doctoral thesis about “Breastfeeding in the work of 21st century photographers”.
Her works have been shown in exhibitions such as Cruzamentos na arte galega da Colección CGAC (Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea. Santiago de Compostela, 2022); A paisaxe e a súa pegada (Casa do Cabildo, Santiago de Compostela, 2019); Alén dos Xéneros. Prácticas artísticas feministas en Galicia (MARCO Vigo y Auditorio de Galicia. Santiago de Compostela, 2017); Alivio (Alterarte, Ourense, 2011); Mapas creativos. Nuevos nombres en el arte gallego (Galería Orígenes, Havana, 2008); Márgenes y mapas. La creación de género en Galicia (Auditorio de Galicia, Compostela, 2008); La jeune création photographique en Galice (Espace Bonefoy Toulouse, 2007); La buena vida (CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, 2006); O Feito Fotográfico (MARCO, Vigo, 2004).
Additionally, works by Andrea Costas Lago have been purchased by public procurement by the CGAC (2020) and have won several prizes such as Artes Plásticas Ourense (Diputación de Ourense, 2007), Injuve (2002) o Novos Valores (Diputación de Pontevedra, 2001). As well as publishing photography books, Formas de Ser (CEF, 2002) and Persoal e transferíbel (CEF, 2006), she is co-author, with Yolanda Castaño, of the book Cociñando ao pé da letra (Galaxia, 2011), which was a finalist in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2012 as the best Spanish cookery photography book, and one of the four best in the world.
