Nerea Azanza is a Spanish emerging contemporary visual artist based in Paris.

Due to her background as a scientist and restorer of Cultural Heritage, she is passionate about managing different materials in the space, looking for patterns, developing mutations, and visual cloning.

Nerea Azanza has a Ph.D. in Fine Arts, and an MFA in Conservation-Restoration of Cultural Heritage from the Fine Arts Faculty of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM, Spain) where she studied with the artist Antonio López García, and also worked as an art teacher. She has been a Preventive Conservator and Restorer of wax anatomical models at the Anatomical Museum of the Faculty of Medicine of the UCM, and at “The Museum of Human Evolution” (Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain) in collaboration with Professor J. L. Arsuaga.

Back to making art in 2018, she is a finalist in the Clavecin de France Art Contest 2022 organized in collaboration with the UNTERLINDEN Museum (Colmar, France); she is also a semi-finalist in the COCA PROJECT 2020 and has worked with artists such as Philippine Schaefer and Anna Uchiyama amongst others. Her work has been exhibited in collective exhibitions in Spain, Chicago, New York, Colmar, Monaco, and Paris, and published by galleries in Basel and Spain (ModPortrait). Her first solo show took place in 2021 in Paris with Galerie Estrella.