Ana Pastor is a visual artist and researcher. Drawing on her personal experience of loss, her work explores interdependence, the perception of bodies, and the dissolution of the self through interdisciplinary research. She combines art, science and philosophy through various media, including ceramics, installations, experimental photography and cultivating microorganisms.
She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London (2016), a Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours and a Scholarship for Academic Excellence from Miguel Hernández University (2014), and has completed previous studies in Textile Design and Technology. Pastor has received grants from institutions such as the Chair of Art and Disease at the University of Valencia, the biopharmaceutical company AbbVie Inc., the UAL Scholarship in the United Kingdom, and the European Social Fund.
She has collaborated with academic institutions including the Department of Physiology, Genetics and Microbiology at UMH (Elche), the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Alicante, the Department of Microscopy at ACTI at the University of Murcia, and the Department of Archaeology at University College London. She has delivered lectures at the University of Murcia, the Aural Gallery in Alicante, Casa Planas in Mallorca, the First International Congress on Sustainable Art at Complutense University of Madrid and the 'Divulgarte' series at the University of Alicante, to name a few.
Her work has been exhibited in cities such as Alicante, Salamanca, Madrid, Valencia, Amsterdam, London, Florida and Rouen, as well as at the Susak Biennial in Croatia.