Opera Gallery announces global representation of Xevi Solà

29 October 2025

Opera Gallery is delighted to announce the global representation of the Spanish painter Xevi Solà. Solà joins our roster of contemporary artists, bringing with him a compelling voice in figurative painting—one that reimagines psychological portraiture with sensitivity, nuance, and a lightness of touch.

This news follows several exhibitions at Opera Gallery, 'Xevi Solà' in Geneva (08-22 March 2024), 'Social Landscape' in Miami (09-26 May 2025) and a showcase in London this October.

Born in 1969 in Santa Coloma de Farners, Spain, and a graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona, Solà lives and works in Girona. His work lies within the intersection of portraiture and introspection. Solà paints from found imagery—fashion shoots, mugshots, Hollywood films—merging and reworking them to create compositions that reveal more than just a likeness but a portrayal of the essence of his subjets.

Solà’s works quickly and intuitively, mindful to let instinct lead, allowing the painting to carry traces of his mistakes, successes, moods, and dreams, as much as any photographic source. His unique and vibrant colour palette and his compositions often isolate figures against minimal or void-like backgrounds, focusing the attention on the human subject, gesture, and silence.

Through this representation, Opera Gallery is honoured to support new exhibitions of Xevi Solà’s works and strives to share his explorations of likeness, memory, and identity with our collectors.

We look forward to sharing more of Solà’s distinct vision, where every brushstroke, every delicate gesture, speaks quieter truths.

Videography © Enrique Palacio