Isabel María is an artist and holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. Her doctoral thesis, The Camera as Writing in the Audiovisual Creation of Bill Viola (The Passing), Alan Berliner (Nobody’s Business) and Agnès Varda (Les glaneurs et la glaneuse), led to the production of three documentary films with Bill Viola, Alan Berliner and Agnès Varda. She is a professor and coordinator of Artistic Production: Audiovisuals at the Faculty of Fine Arts of UCM.

In her audiovisual work she explores the idea of the lost subject within contemporary ways of inhabiting the world. She is interested in the narrative of everyday life, the impulse to tell stories from the immediate, and the possibility of understanding ourselves through the other. Her production revolves around questions of identity and the construction of narratives around reality, addressing the representation of different realities in order to reveal cultural and social diversity.

Her artistic trajectory, which began at the intersection of video and photography, has expanded in recent years toward drawing and painting, developing works in different languages and formats. Her work has been presented in museums and contemporary art centres such as the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Cineteca Matadero Madrid, La Casa Encendida, MEIAC Museum, MAC in A Coruña, CGAI, and the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, as well as in international contexts such as Les Rencontres Internationales at the Jeu de Paume in Paris or the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin. Her work has also been part of key programs and selections of contemporary Spanish audiovisual production, such as D-Generation. Underground Experiences of Spanish Non-Fiction, presented in international institutions in Milan, Stockholm and Warsaw, as well as at the Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico and at the Labyrinth of Museums in Beijing. Her work has also been shown at international festivals such as the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival, Spanish Is a Language (Museo Reina Sofía / ARCO) in New York, and PHotoEspaña.

Her career has been supported by prestigious grants, creation funds and awards, including the SRE Grant from the Government of Mexico, the Botín Foundation Grant, the Visual Arts Grant from the Madrid City Council, Iniciarte (Andalusia), and creation grants from the Regional Government of Extremadura. Other recognitions include the Acquisition Prize from the Government of Cantabria, the First National Erasmus Photography Prize from the Ministry of Education and Culture, an Honorable Mention at the Vic Biennial, and the First Honorable Mention in Photography from El Cultural magazine. She has also undertaken artistic residencies in Mexico and, thanks to the FPU Research Fellowship, has carried out research stays in New York and Chicago.