Daniel Solomons is a British-Spanish artist based in London.

 

He studied Graphic Arts and Sound Art and is a member of the Royal Society of Sculptors, having received several international awards. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries, museums, and major cultural institutions.

 

Solomons’ artistic practice is structured around two interrelated and principal axes: on one hand, memory, identity, and the complex relationship between body and mind; on the other, space, architecture, and their social dimension.

His work is nourished by processes of cognitive and physical reconstruction following a haemorrhagic stroke and two chronic conditions that have deeply shaped his lived experience. These events transformed his perception of the body and of time, and gave rise to an artistic inquiry centred on how identity fragments, reassembles, and finds new meaning through effort, repetition, and adaptation. 

In parallel, Solomons has developed a sustained investigation into the urban environment, understanding architecture not only as form and function but as a symbolic structure that conditions how we inhabit, move through, and relate to the world. His work engages with the sensory and cognitive frameworks through which space is experienced, and explores how public and private spheres shape our modes of being and interaction.

 

Throughout his creative process, he draws upon a rich array of mentalist poets to shape his ideas, emphasising the importance of immersing oneself in the nexus of images and words. This poetic influence amplifies the interplay between language and form, enhancing the conceptual depth of his practice.

 

Solomons' artistic repertoire encompasses drawings, photographs, sculptures, installations, and works that incorporate text, embracing a minimalist aesthetic that prioritises spatial interventions. His sculptures often integrate a range of materials and stimuli, creating pieces that foster dynamic connections between art, architecture, literature, theory, and practice.

Through cycles of deconstruction and reconstruction, he engages the viewer as an active participant, as most of his work is predicated on presence, cultivating a performative atmosphere that traverses both sensitivity and intellectual inquiry.

 

More recently, Solomons has expanded his research to consider the role of sound in shaping and activating space. This exploration offers new insights into the physical elements that surround us, fostering a deeper understanding of spatial perception and generating a new vocabulary for how we experience and conceptualise space.

 

His selected exhibitions include Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer (London), DAMM National Museum of Decorative Arts (Moscow), DSL Collection (France-Moscow), Thames Side Gallery (London), Unit1 Gallery (London), Cervantes Institute (London), UKJFF JW3 Centre (London), Art and Development Factory (Madrid), Centre Sefarad-Israel (Madrid), IVAM Modern Art Institute (Valencia), CAC Contemporary Art Centre (Málaga), MACM Museum (Madrid), GARBA (Rome), as well as Art Chicago Contemporary Art Fair (Chicago), Pulse Miami Art Fair (Miami), ARCO-Madrid (Madrid), and Urvanity Art Fair (Madrid).

 

His works are included in private and public collections such as the Museum Gerald Brenan, the Royal Society of Sculptors, Unit1 Foundation London, Heinrich Ehrhardt Collection, DSL Collection, the Centre Sefarad-Israel, Unicaja Foundation, and Indra Foundation, among many others.