Mikel PINTO, contemporary Spanish portrait painter
From the depth of the soul.
Contemporary Spanish portrait painter. His realist work spans ballet, large-format scenes, nudes and, of course, commissioned portraits.
“Art reveals to us the most painful contradiction of human experience: the will to attain eternal perfection through a nature condemned to wither.”
A contemporary Spanish realist painter and portraitist, heir to a literary outlook that crosses realism with narrative. His work —large-format scenes, portraits on commission and thematic series such as dance— has received institutional recognition in Spain and abroad: finalist and selected in successive editions of the Queen Sofía Prize for Painting and Sculpture, and present at international fairs and galleries.
In 2025 he held his first international solo exhibition at the Palácio Biester in Sintra (Portugal), with Luka Art Gallery, and presented work at the Biennale Internazionale della Riviera Romana. Today his painting moves between Madrid, Lisbon and Rome.
Recent work
Latest works: ballet and flamenco.
The most recent series: a pictorial exploration of the world of ballet, paintings that capture the beauty of this great art at its fullest expression.
Portraits on commission
The face, seen up close.
More than a likeness: the presence, character and inner life of the sitter. Portraits on commission for families, collectors and personalities: oil on canvas by a contemporary Spanish portrait painter.
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Commissions
Your portrait, painted in oil.
Limited places each season. Initial enquiry, booking, gathering references, process and delivery, with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
«A large canvas that shows the best of figurative expressionism applied to portraiture, with clear influences from the masters of the Prado».
Minutes of the jury of the 56th Queen Sofía Prize for Painting and Sculpture · Spanish Association of Painters and Sculptors
Large-format scenes
Compositions on a grand scale.
Large-format pieces, kaleidoscopic visions of the fragments of humanity in the contemporary world.
