Irene Grau earned her MFA and BFA at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, and at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo in Sicily, Italy. She was the 2010 recipient of a Scholarship for Academic Excellence, and the 2011 recipient of a Ministry of Education FPU Scholarship for PhD Studies, and received her PhD in 2016. Grau has shown her work internationally in solo exhibitions and group shows since 2008, most recently in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil; Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, and Valencia, Spain; and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Her work can be found in numerous private collections in Europe, Asia, and the Unites States.