Madrid 1973

Graduate in Fine Arts from the Universidad Complutense of Madrid and in Interior Design from the IADE Interior Design at the IADE school in Madrid, both of which she has taught at.

Virginia Frieyro has attended workshops given by Dis Berlin (Palacio de Albaicín, Noja) and Navarro Baldeweg (Fundación Botín).

She has had solo exhibitions at the Galería María Llanos in Cáceres, Artificial Gallery, Espacio F, Sala de Arte Joven (together with Soledad Cordoba) and the Casa de Galicia in Madrid.

Her group exhibitions have taken her to venues such as the aforementioned Fundación Botín in Santander, MAPFRE Foundation, Casa Encendida, Galería Luis Adelantado, DA2 in Salamanca, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Casa de la Moneda, Fundación Caja de Extremadura, WeCollect gallery or the Galería A
del Arte in Zaragoza, and has participated in fairs such as ARTISSIMA (Turin), ARTE SANTANDER, FORO SUR, JUST MAD or the now defunct ARTE LISBOA, ART SALAMANCA and VALENCIA ART.

She also exhibited in 2014 in Dubai, after taking part in its International Emerging Artist Award, of which she was a finalist.

Virginia was among those shortlisted for the Gaceta Regional Awards in 2000, Premio Joven de Artes Plásticas UCM (2004), Generaciones (2005), Focus Abengoa (2006) and Gregorio Prieto (2006 y 2009).

She was also nominated for t

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Española de Pintores y Escultores (2010), Premio de pintura Jesús Bárcenas (2011), in the VIII Certamen Nacional de Pintura Parlamento de la Rioja (2013), in Obra Abierta de la Fundación Caja de Extremadura, Premio Bienal de Pintura Torres García-Ciutat de Mataró (2017) and Premio de dibujo Montblanc (2019).

In 2004 she won the prestigious Penagos Drawing Prize, awarded at the time by the MAPFRE Foundation and in 2007, one of El Brocense Fine Arts awards. She received an honourable mention in Figurativas 11, a competition organised by the Fundació de les Arts i els Artistes; in 2011 she won the First Prize at the Gregorio Prieto Drawing Competition and two years later, Beers Contemporary included her in the famous list of 100
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