Maria Roy Deulofeu (Barcelona, 1993)

Maria Roy Deulofeu is an artist and educator. She works with ceramics and material research to explore relationships with the surrounding environment. A graduate in Arts and Design from Escola Massana, she also holds a Master's degree in Material Futures from Central Saint Martins – University of the Arts London (UAL). Her practice focuses on the use of local soils and on ceramics as a medium for archaeological and narrative exploration.

Her work was selected for The London Open (2022) at Whitechapel Gallery and has been presented in various international group exhibitions in London, Paris, the Netherlands and Switzerland. She has also exhibited at venues such as Sala d'Art Jove (2024) and Museu del Disseny de Barcelona (2014 and 2017). More recently, she took part in Fundació Joan Miró's Lluerna programme (2026) and presented a solo exhibition at TAT ARA gallery in Barcelona (2026).

She combines her artistic practice with teaching on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at institutions including Escola Massana, ELISAVA and IAAC – Advanced Architecture Barcelona. She also regularly leads workshops in which she teaches, learns and collaborates with local communities to explore their relationship with the land, working with institutions such as Fundació Joan Miró, Jan Van Eyck Academie and Eina Obra, part of Eina Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art.

Her awards and recognitions include the UNZIP Visual Arts Award in El Prat (2023), the Sala d'Art Jove Art Jove Creació Award (2024 and 2025) and the Research and Innovation Grant in the Field of Visual Arts from the Department of Culture of the Government of Catalonia (2025). She has also been selected for the Entorns residency in the Catalan Pyrenees (2025) and the Salemi Ceramics residency in Sicily (2025).

Profile updated in September 2026.