(Barcelona, 1946)
Solano studied Fine Art at the Universitat de Barcelona. She was awarded the Special Prize by the Utsukushi-Ga-Hara Open Air Museum, Tokyo (1985), the National Visual Arts Prize (1988), and the CEOE Prize for the Arts (1996). She was selected to participate in Documenta 8 (1987) and 9 (1992) in Kassel, the 19th São Paulo Biennial (1987), the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh (1988), and the 43rd and 45th Venice Biennales (1988 and 1993).
Selected exhibitions: Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona, 1980; Galerie des Arènes, and Chapelle des Jésuite, Nîmes, CAPC, Bordeaux, 1987; Skulptur Projekte, Westfalisches Landesmuseum, Münster, 1987; Bonnefantenmueum, Maastricht, 1988; Städisches Museum, Abteiberg, Mónchengladbach, and Hirshhorn Museum, Washington,1989; SFMOMA, San Francisco, 1991; Palacio de Velázquez, MNCARS, Madrid, 1992; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Malmö Konsthall (Sweden), 1993; Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, 1993; NBK, Berlin, 1996; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna,1996; Fundaçao Serralves, Oporto, 1997; MACBA, Barcelona 1999; Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna, 2001; Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, and Palacio de Dar-al Horra, Granada, 2001; Monasterio de Santo Domingo de Silos, MNCARS, 2003. Her work has also been shown in: ARC-Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris; CCCB, Barcelona; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Fundació "la Caixa", Madrid; Fundación Querini Stampalia, Venice; Gallery National, Athens; MoMA, New York; Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao; Museo Marugame Hirai (Japan); Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid; Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico D.F.; Sprengel Museum, Hannover; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo. She has worked with the following art galleries: Ciento, Joan Prats, Maeght, and Senda, Barcelona; Helga de Alvear, La Caja Negra, La Maquina Española, Montenegro, Oliva Aruana, and Vijande, Madrid; Juana de Aizpuru, Seville; Maior de Palma, Mallorca; S.C.Q., Santiago de Compostela; Anthony Reynolds, London; Cuadrado Azul, Oporto; Daniel Lelong, Paris; Donald Young, Chicago; Giorgio Persano, Milan; and McKee Gallery, New York.
Selected works in museums and collections: ARTIUM, Vitoria; Banco de España, Madrid; Caja Madrid, Madrid; CAPC, Bordeaux; Caja de Galicia, A Coruña; Carré d´Art Musée d'Art Contemporain de Nîmes; Fattoria di Celle, Sant Tomato di Pistoia; Fonds National d'Art Contemporai. Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris; Fundaçao Serralves, Oporto; Fundació "la Caixa", Barcelona; Guggenheim Bilbao; ICO, Madrid; IVAM, Valencia; MACBA, Barcelona; Malmö Konsthall (Sweden); MEIAC, Badajoz; MNCARS, Madrid; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; MoMA, New York; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Unión Fenosa, A Coruña; Museo Marugame Hirai (Japan); Museu de Arte Moderna, Sintra; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg; The Utsu-Kushi-Ga-Hara Open Air Museum, Tokyo.