Cristina Villalba Lázaro was born in Madrid in 1966 and brought up in Mallorca, in the Balearic Islands.

Taking after her father’s creativity, she lands in 1999 in Alceu Ribeiro’s art studio who, as a direct pupil of the Uruguayan artist, the pioneer Torres García, conveys to Cristina the knowledge, inspiration and self-confidence that today is reflected in her work.

Even though her pieces are modern and experimental, she starts fully devoted to Constructivism. From then on, her work expands to awe-inspiring portraits, paintings and pictures displaying exuberant sizes and colours, in constant search for balance, rhythm and new challenges.

In particular, the photos are the result of assembling different materials that thereafter are been painted and photographed in a way that aims to create a three-dimensional effect. This is Cristina’s challenge: to create a one-dimension piece of art but with the optical effect of showing three dimensions.

In the last years, Cristina has been working with recycled material under the belief that all imaginable material may be used in more than one way. For example, she uses aluminum capsules, paper, plastic taps. etc.

She has developed projects of art recycling in several schools, where she teaches her students the importance of reprocessing, thus surprising not only the students but also their parents by showing how things that in principle seem to be useless can be transformed in beautiful pieces of art.

Since 2005 Cristina works in The Netherlands.