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Maria Socias


Visual Artist & Medical Illustrator based in London.
mariasocias@hotmail.com



Education:
Medical Art Postgraduate - Medical Artists’ Education Trust, London 2018 - Present
Course in Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology for Complementary Therapies - St Mary’s University College, London 2014
MA by Project, Drawing (Distinction) - “The role of Drawing in Medical and Biochemical Illustration”. London Metropolitan University, London 2011-2012
BA in Fine Arts (Specialization in Drawing and Painting) - University of Barcelona(UB) Barcelona, Spain 2004-2009
High School of Art - IES Josep Maria Llompart, Palma de Mallorca, Spain 2002-2004

Internships as Medical Illustrator/Observant:
St Mary’s Hospital - Imperial College of Medicine. Department of Surgery and Cancer, London 2013-2014
St.Thomas Hospital - Cardiac Surgery Department, London 2013-2014
King’s College of Medicine - Department of Biochemistry, London 2013-2014
Hospital Universitary Son Espases - Palma de Mallorca, Spain 2012
Univeristat Autonoma de Barcelona(UAB) - Forensic and Anatomy Department (Final Project of Fine Arts Degree), Barcelona, Spain 2008-2009

Awards:
Whitaker Award of Excellence (InDesign portfolio presentation) - Medical Artists’s Education Trust, London 2022
Whitaker Award of Excellence (Surgical sequence - Total knee arthroplasty surgery) - 
Medical Artists’s Education Trust, London 2022
Whitaker Award of Excellence (Foundation course)
- Medical Artists’ Education Trust, London 2019 

Exhibitions:
“MAA Annual Conference” - Foundling Museum, London 2022
“The 70th MAA Anniversary Conference” - Madingley Hall, Cambridge 2019
“Arts Experiment 2.0” - Imperial Fringe Event. Imperial College London, South Kensighton Campus, London 2014
“The role of drawing in Scientific Illustration“ - Nursing Symposium: “Ten years of nursing consultory on ulcers and injuries”. Hospital Son Espases, Palma de Mallorca, Spain 2013
“From the Cradle to the Grave - A Human Life” - Anatomy Art Exhibition at the Gordon Museum of Pathology. King’s College of Medicine, London 2012
“Show The Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design” - Central House, London Metropolitan University, London 2012
“Collective Exhibition PRAXIS’ MMX”” - Ses Voltes - Palma de Mallorca, Barcelona, Granada, Menorca, Ibiza and Manacor, Spain 2009









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