Nieves Mingueza is a Spanish-British visual artist, researcher, and educator. Born in 1964 in Valencia, Spain, she currently lives and works in London, where she is a PhD candidate in Photography at the London College of Communication (LCC), University of the Arts London (UAL). Her identity spans multiple roles—artist, researcher, educator, curator—and her practice emerges at the intersection of these perspectives, often engaging with archival material and questions of memory, absence, and the politics of representation.

Mingueza’s visual language is distinctive for its experimental, lens-based, mixed-media approach. She works with photography, collage, and text, often combining documentary and found imagery with archival, film, and textual elements. Her methodology involves collecting vintage photographs and repurposing them, blending the historical with the personal. This approach sets her apart from conventional documentarians: rather than capturing the present as a neutral observer, she constructs layered narratives that interrogate how the past is remembered and how identities are shaped by incomplete or fragile evidence.

One major body of work is ‘The Malady of Suzanne’, a project in which she investigates a woman named Suzanne who lived in her own house or region—seeking to reconstruct a life through sparse traces. Through this work, Mingueza explores themes of genealogy, female history, and the erasures of time. Another notable exhibition is ‘winters while waiting’, a solo show at Fuga Gallery that featured an installation, underscoring her interest in the spatial and material presentation of memory. As a member of Women Photograph and the Feminist Library, she is also actively engaged in addressing gender imbalances in photography and supporting feminist archival practice.

Her academic and institutional affiliations are significant. As a visiting lecturer in photography and a Changemaker consultant at UAL, she contributes to pedagogical and institutional change. She has been listed as a researcher by UAL Research Online, which documents her practice-led research interweaving documentary, found photography, archival material, text, and film. Her exhibition at Les Rencontres d’Arles—one of the most prestigious photography festivals—places her practice within a wider international dialogue, and her inclusion in publications such as Blind Magazine reflects growing attention from the photographic press.

For photobook collectors, Mingueza’s work offers a compelling entry point into the realm of experimental and archival-driven photography. Her projects are developed across multiple media, but the photographic book form suits her narrative fragments and juxtapositions of found images and text. The sequencing and design of any potential photobook would be integral to her method, as her installation practice demonstrates careful attention to how materials are staged for the viewer. Collectors who value conceptual depth, feminism, and the reimagining of domestic archives will find her ‘The Malady of Suzanne’ a particularly resonant body of work, though editions and physical photobooks may be limited. Her career as an emerging artist-researcher suggests a trajectory of growing visibility within academic and art-world contexts.

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