Mer Hausmann (Madrid, 1987) is a visual artist, professional photographer, digital retoucher, and educator specializing in generative artificial intelligence and advanced image editing. She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, where she is currently pursuing her PhD.
With over a decade of experience in photography, she worked for two years as a digital retoucher for Eugenio Recuenco on his ambitious project 365º, as well as on numerous advertising campaigns. Since 2021, she has combined her teaching work—at schools such as LENS, LABASAD, EFTI, Too Many Flash, and Blackkamera—with the development of personal artistic projects and professional postproduction.
Her work has received recognition on several occasions: in 2022, she was awarded the top Promotion Prize in the Master’s Program in Author Photography at EFTI and the Portfolio Prize at the Fotomatón Festival in Orihuela for her series Artificialia I. In 2023, her AI-based project L’Homme Noyé was shortlisted for the Revela-T and Baffest festivals. In 2024, she was selected for the Descubrimientos PhotoEspaña portfolio reviews, again shortlisted for Baffest and for SCAN Tarragona’s Full Contact, and participated in the “Imagen Futura” program—organized by PhotoEspaña and Fundación Telefónica—with a generative AI performance.
In June 2025, she inaugurated Adelaida alongside Jorge Salgado, a solo exhibition within the Official Section of PHotoESPAÑA at the Museo del Romanticismo in Madrid. The show reconstructs the memory of her great-great-grandmother by hybridizing her 19th-century family photo archive with contemporary AI-assisted visual creation techniques. In November of the same year, she will present On comença la Llum, an exhibition project produced through the L’Arxiu Grant from the Scan Tarragona festival, on view until February 2026 at the Centre D’Imatges (Tabacalera). The conceptual core of the exhibition is a feminist intervention into the city’s photographic archive using generative AI.