Alfredo Roldán was born in Madrid in 1965. Of self-taught formation, he starts painting at the age of 15. In his beginning he divides his time between the work as illustrator for different magazines and the painting. The good reception of his work leads him to devoting to make up full-time and to appear to the most prestigious contests of painting.
In 1994, he gains the Prize \"Ayuntamiento de Madrid\" in the LXI Autumn Lounge with the picture El baño azul. This work forms a part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Madrid.
In 1995, he is rewarded again in the following edition of the Autumn Lounge by the Prize \"El Corte Inglés\" by the work La pescadere. These recognized awards open him the doors of the national and international galleries of art, where it exhibits habitually with great success since then.
In 1996, he is appointed as Honoris Causa Member by the Academic Senate of l´Accademia Internazionale di Arte Moderna, Roma, Italia.
The painting Antes de la ducha (1997) belonging to the collection of the National Museums Northern Ireland in the Ulster Museum, forms a part of The Public Catalogue Foundation - BBC Your Paintings, prestigious web where there are gathered the works painted to the oil of the public collections of United Kingdom for over of 600 years.
In 1998, the rector of the Priority of Saint Bartholomew the Great, in London, founded in 1112, entrusts to Roldán, a monumentally work for the Chapel of the Virgin, \"The Lady Chapel \". From February, 1999, the picture “Virgen con Niño” blessed by the Bishop of London, is settled in the Major Altar of the mentioned church.
The Philatelic Service of Post Office of Spain has chosen nine Alfredo Roldán\'s works to reproduce them in stamps. In Christmas of 2001 this organism together with Post Office of Germany edits the last stamp in Spanish pesetas and German Marcs and the first one in Euros with the image of the picture Virgen con Niño.
They also reproduce eight of his works in a series of stamps with the topic \" The woman and the flowers \" in 2003.
In 2003, Ediciones Sammer, edits in an edition of luxury the book \"Alfredo Roldán\" written by the sculptor David Gamella, where there is reproduced great part of his work,
You can see the book by following the link: http://alfredoroldan.com/libro/
Alfredo Roldán feels inheritor of the principal movements of forefront of beginning of the 20th century, which have defined his comprehension of the color and of the form and his application to the composition. Painters like Matisse, Picasso or Cézanne are his big teachers; as every genuine and honest painter, Alfredo Roldán recognizes the importance and the meaning of his legacy and that of the historical revolutionary styles to create his own style, a very personal style.