Eduard Vallès i Pallarès (Horta de Sant Joan, Terra Alta, November 20, 1971) is an art historian and museum professional, specializing in the work of Pablo Picasso and Catalan art from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

He obtained his doctorate in Art History from the University of Barcelona, with the thesis La influència de l’art català sobre Picasso a través de dues generacions: Santiago Rusiñol i Isidre Nonell com a paradigmes (1897-1904), defended in January 2016. He also holds a master’s degree in advanced studies in art history (University of Barcelona), a postgraduate degree in the management of cultural institutions, platforms, and facilities (Pompeu Fabra University), and a master’s degree in local and regional development (University of Barcelona), with a final project dedicated to the Ecomuseum of Ports.

Throughout his career, he has combined research with curatorial work and museum management. He trained alongside Josep Palau i Fabre, who appointed him director of the Fundació Palau (Caldes d’Estrac) in 2002, where he served as its first director. Subsequently, he worked as a curator at the Picasso Museum in Barcelona. At the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC), he is the curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and, since December 18, 2023, has been appointed head of collections for the museum. Within this institutional framework, the MNAC highlights, among other responsibilities, his experience as curator of the new collection rooms related to art and the Civil War (2021). Concurrently, he is a member of the management team of the Picasso Centre in Horta de Sant Joan.

His research activity has focused particularly on the reception and contexts of Picasso in Catalonia, as well as the artistic and cultural networks surrounding the artist. He was responsible for the Catalan network of Picasso-related entities and is the author of several publications on Picasso, including Picasso and Rusiñol. The Crossroads of Modernity (2008), as well as works published in 2015 on Picasso’s Catalan work and his relations with the Catalan literary world. He has also been scientific director, with Malén Gual, of the Guide to the Picasso Museum of Barcelona (2015) and has curated or co-curated exhibitions and research projects related to Picasso and his environment, including exhibitions and catalogs dedicated to the artist’s youthful relationships and specific periods and contexts. Guide to the Picasso Museum in Barcelona (2015) and has curated or co-curated exhibitions and research projects related to Picasso and his environment, including displays and catalogues dedicated to the artist’s early relationships and to specific periods and contexts.

In relation to other lines of study, he has promoted research and exhibition projects on artists linked to Catalan modernity and the Picasso context, such as Carles Casagemas (exhibition at MNAC, 2014) and Torné Esquius (MNAC, 2017), among others, and has participated in works on art collecting and in the drafting of entries and texts for catalogs of cultural institutions.

In the academic field, he coordinates the conservation and restoration module of the Postgraduate Program in Museology (Pompeu Fabra University) and has been a professor in the Master’s in Advanced Studies in Art History (University of Barcelona). He is the author of Picasso. Obra catalana, published by Enciclopèdia Art.