Muriel Parra i Ferrer was born in Orlèans, France on the spring of 1978. A self-taught vocational artist, she studied artistic high school on Barcelona and holds four years of bachelor degree at The fine arts at Barcelona ́s University. She initially specialized in oil painting, and is passionate and a devotee of the techniques and research of this discipline. The conceptual basis of her work refers to the origins, roots, and strong expressions of our ties and relationship with the environment, and nature of the Mediterranean culture, through the study of the myth, metaphor and archetype, running alongside the discourse of Beauty.
She completed artistic residencies at: Numeroventi Art Gallery and Residence, Firenze. March 2017. Konvent Art Center, Berga, December 2016. Taller BDN, Badalona, august 2016. EArt, Barce lona 2014-2016. 21 + 11 = 2 (T + E) = ART at T-Art Centre, Llinars del Vallès, Barcelona. Residency fellowship of XarxaProd July 2015. Taller Entremans, Barcelona, December 2008 - January 2009.
Has participated in individual exhibitions: Feathers. Estudis sobre la Memòria. Private exhibition for Being the one at Torrelles del Llobregat. Barcelona. October 2016. Plomes i Flors, succedani d’amors, Can Milà-Escribà, Barcelona, July 2011. Peix fresc, Encara belluga!. La Parra, Maó, Menorca. July 2010.
As well as in collective exhibitions like TEN Spaces, Numeroventi Art Gallery and Residence, Firenze, 26 March 2017. Collective exhibition, I Encuentro Gastronómico Gastro Canario, Gabinete Literario de las Palmas de Gran Canarias. 26 September 2016. Correspondències. of Ester Vila and Marc Permanyer. Eart, Barce- lona. August 2015, Infinitas Miradas. New Art Gallery Barcelona. June 2015. Collective exhibition, 14D14 Eart, Barcelona, December 2014. Collective exhibition. Casa Albertí, Maó, Menorca, Balearic islands, May 1997. Collective exhibition. VIII Mostra de Programes Culturals dels Centres d’Ensenyament Secundari Públics Barcelona, Estació del Nord, April 1996.
She participated in diferents art festivals: Experiencias sirenísticas. Tramuntanart Festival at El Port de la Selva, Girona, June 2015. La Sirena de l’Escala. Tramuntanart Festival, El Port de la selva, Girona. August 2010. La Margarita i La Sirena de l’Escala, Art al Nord Festival, Fornells, Menorca, April 2009. L’evolució del rastre. Art al Nord 2010. Fornells, Menorca. Balearic Islands.
She has realized creative actions with the multidisciplinary project of Sirens experiences like; Cofraria, with the photographer Jordi Plana and Melissa Scioscia at Konvent Art Center, Berga, 2017, and other collaborations with other photographers like Guillaume Poussou 2010-2013. Terra Incògnita. Muriel Parra, poetry - Björt Rùnars, cello and synthes. Brindis7 at Taller BDN, Badalona. April 2016 and at Impossible Festival, Eart, Barcelona. December 2015.
She developed the project of creative action Seirazein. L’Evidència de la carn. Barcelona-Menorca March-April 2012. Different activities: Glosat sirenístic Esglèsia de Sant Diego. Alaior, Menorca, Glosat sirenístic Es Cau. Cala Corb. Es castell. Menorca Recording of La caça de la sirena Port of Maó, At Far de Favaritx Es Grau, Menorca, Balearic Islands. Sponsorships and collaborations.; Soca de Mots, Glosadors de Mallorca, Ayuntamiento de Alaior, Cofraría de pescadores del puerto de Maò, Autoridad portuaria, Casa Albertí Turisme d’Interior, Gin Xoriguer, Vins Binifadet, El Paladar, Hectòr Asensio, El Equalizador, Ifyoumake prod, Pollop.
At an early age participated in performances like Going Bye-byes of Stephen Taylor Woodrow. Anatomies de l’ànima. Espai 13. Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona. October 1996, in collective actions like Dilo!. Las Rambles. 1996 Barcelona. A Dios rogando y con el mazo dando. VIII Mostra de Programes Culturals dels Centres d’Ensenyament Secundari Públics Barcelona, Estació del Nord. April 1996. La pregunta a la resposta, Otto Zutz, Barcelona, December 1995.
She took part in the program of Encuentro del Comité de Socio- logía de la Cultura y de las Artes de la Federación Española de Sociología, June 2018 at the UAB and in the study of the artist in Barcelona and also formed part, during 2015-2017, in a case study in the sociological project of ethnography of artistic communities, knowledge and creativity in Europe. participating: Eart, Hangar and Les Salonnières of Barcelona, Basurama and Zuloark of Madrid; Kuhnya and Sever 7 of St Petersburg; Le Multiple/ La Serre of Toulouse; Southwark Mosaic of London; Gaengeviertel and FRISE in Hamburg.
In November 2020 she participated in ARTE Y ESTADO La protección de las artes en tiempos de crisis, symposium organized by Art i Dret of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona and Historia del Arte of the Complutense de Madrid. Round table: Frederic Amat, Ramón Córdoba de Dalmases, Jordi de Nadal, Muriel Parra i Ferrer, Perico Pastor, Mercedes Ros and Julio Vaquero. Moderator: Pablo Salvador Coderch, Jordi Roig and Fernando Checa.
She won the XXIII Premi Joan Vilanova of Manresa award in 2016, with a artwork from the project Estudis sobre la Memòria.
Finalist Paint Award of Fundació Vila Casas 2019. Collective Exhibition at Can Framis Museum, Barcelona. October 2 until January 19 2020.
