Ana Galan was born in Madrid in 1969. After receiving her degree in Economics, she completed an International MBA, which entailed studying in three different cities: Oxford, Madrid and Paris. In the last two courses, she wrote a thesis addressing "Speculation in Plastic Art".
Since 1993 she has combined her passion for photography with her profession, attending various courses in Paris and Madrid. After doing an MFA in Photography in 2009/2010 at EFTI, and after attending workshops with Pierre Gonnord, Eduardo Momeñe, Peter Bialobrzeski, Lynne Cohen, Matt Siber, José Ramón Bas, Eugenio Ampudia, Alejandro Castellote, Chema Madoz... her photography becomes more personal. Since then she has been finalist in various competitions such as Descubrimientos PHotoEspaña 2010 and 2011, in Madrid, Spain, Emergentes Encontros da Imagem 2010 and 2011, in Braga, Portugal, in the Festival Emergent at Lleida 2010, Spain, in the Grunenthal Art Prize... and has participated in several collective exhibits in France (Paris Photo, Espace Dupon at Paris, Rencontres d'Arles...), Italy, India (Delhi Photo Festival), Spain (GetxoPhoto, FotoNoviembre, Festival Pa-ta-ta...) and USA (CENTER Santa Fe, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Grizzly Grizzly Gallery....).
She works as the marketing director for a magazine in Madrid, and lives between Madrid and Paris.