Gala Mirissa (Spanish, b. 1975) is a digital artist based in Barcelona and Reus, Spain, who combines photography, motion graphics and sound into moving digital works.,Her work centers on women's emotional lives, beauty and suffering, and often addresses themes of mental health and the pressures society places on women.,
Mirissa studied philology in Madrid and multimedia at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.She began sharing GIF art on social media years before there was an established market for animated GIFs as art, drawing inspiration from the artists George Redhawk and Bill Domonkos, and in 2015 she began developing what she calls the Redhawk effect, a morphing technique.,,That early GIF art work drew the attention of established painters and photographers who approached her for collaborations.
Her 2021 video work I Love You More Than My Own Skin embeds a radio recording of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo reciting a 1949 text she wrote describing her husband, the painter Diego Rivera.The piece entered the permanent collection of the Artemizia Foundation Museum in the United States. In 2024 Mirissa was invited by the Government Subdelegation of Tarragona to sign its Book of Honor in recognition of her contributions to digital art.She is part of the collective Gladiatrix, which projects video art onto Roman walls around the world.,
In February 2026 she was selected through an open call with HUG.art for “Art at ETHDenver”, an exhibition curated by Elena Zavelev during ETHDenver in Denver, Colorado.She was a finalist for Best Technical Innovation at the Visual Artist Awards Miami in 2018, and in 2023 Forbes España included her in its list of the 100 most creative businesses of that year.,
