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Born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1966 In 1968 his familly moves back to Spain (Vigo) Lives and works in Madrid EDUCATION Painting at the New School of Visual Arts in New York (1993). Studied with Jannis Kounnellis and Tony Cragg at the Cursos Arte Actual of the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo (1997-98); and with Darío Villalba, J.Guinovart, Eduardo Arroyo, Guillermo Pérez Villalta and Frederic Amat at the Talleres de Arte Actual of the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid (1985-86).
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection) 2008 Cauces Invertidos, Antonia Puyó Gallery, Saragoça, Spain Algoritmi Dixit, Museo do Pobo Galego, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 2007 SCQ Gallery, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Luis Seone Foundation, A Coruña, Spain Arthobler.com Gallery, Porto, Portugal Installation of 23 peças with 430 x 260 cm (each), Hoyo de Manzanares, Spain 2006 Maior Gallery, Pollença, Spain Sala de exposiciones Palexco, Palácio de Congressos de A Coruña, Spain* Darío Basso, La Aurora Gallery, Murcia, Spain La Aurora Gallery, Murcia, Spain 2005 Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago do Chile, Chile Bach Quatre Gallery, Barcelona, Spain Dragão do Mar Museum, Fortaleza, Brazil Museo de la Ciudad, Quito, Ecuador Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela SCQ Gallery, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Triebold Gallery, Basel, Switzerland Metta Gallery, Madrid, Spain 2004 Substances palpitantes, La lune en parachute, Épinal, France Texto Fósil, Arthobler.com Gallery, Porto, Portugal Marimón Gallery, Ourense, Spain 2003 Leviatán, VGO Gallery, Vigo, Spain Os Coimbras Gallery, Braga, Portugal 2002 Equinoccial, La Escalera Gallery, Cuenca, Spain Equinoccial, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain Ordo Virtutum, Trieblod Gallery, Basel, Switzerland Equinoccial, Pilar Parra Gallery, Sanxenxo, Spain Reise in den Regenwald, Galerie der Stadt Waiblingen, Germany 2001 Equinoccial, SCQ Gallery, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Equinoccial, Maior Gallery, Maiorca, Spain Fisonomía vegetal, Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Miami, EUA 2000 Equinoccial, VGO Gallery, Vigo, Spain Equinoccial, Antonia Puyo Gallery, Saragoça, Spain 1999 Equinoccial, Metropolitana Gallery, Barcelona, Spain Aequinoctial, Trieblod Gallery, Basel, Switzerland Bharat Matta, Atlántica Centro de Arte, A Coruña, Spain Húmedo, Alternativa Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela, 1998 Maior Gallery, Maiorca, Spain Hipogeo, Anexo Gallery, Pontevedra, Spain Línea Estremecida, Seguros Pelayo, travelling exhibition in Spain 1997 Cenography for Danat Danza dance company, Barcelona, Spain Waste Land, Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cohl, Germany Argonauta, Lattuada Studio, Milan, Italy 1996 Punto Gallery, Valência, Spain Sala Robayera del Miengo, Cantabria, Spain Atlas 1986-1996, Culture House, Ayuntamiento de Vigo, Spain Triebold Gallery, Basel, Switzerland 1995 Antonio Machón Gallery, Madrid, Spain Abel Lepina Gallery, Vigo, Spain 1994 Antonia Puyo Gallery, Saragoça, Spain Triebold Gallery, Basel, Switzerland 1993 Heinz Holtmann Gallery, Colónia, Germany 1992 Lattuada Studio, Milan, Italy, Triebold Gallery, Basel, Switzerland Fluxus Gallery, Porto, Portugal Antonio Machón Gallery, Dibujos y obra Gráfica, Madrid, Spain 1991 Antonio Machón Gallery, Madrid, Spain ARCO 91, Antonio Machón Gallery, Madrid, Spain Museo de Teruel, Teruel, Spain Heinz Holtmann Gallery, Cohl, Germany 1990 Triebold Gallery, Basel, Switzerland ARCO 90, Estiarte Gallery, Grabados, Madrid, Spain 1988 Antonio Machón Gallery, Madrid, Spain
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection) 2007 Oasis, Colección Unicaza de arte contemporáneo, CAC de Málaga, Spain 2006 Noves adquisicions, noves diálogos, Colección Caixa Nova, Vigo, Spain Landscapes, Triebold Gallery, Riehen, Switzerland Arte español en la colección BBVA, Madrid, A Coruña, Sevilha, Spain Xen Xeración, Auditório Santiago de Compostela, Spain* 2005 Metta Gallery, Madrid, Spain 2004 Material + Malerei, Städtische Galerie Villingen- Schwenningen, Germany Breyerd Breda Museum, Netherlands 2003 Basso Ciria Lleó, Metta Gallery, Madrid, Spain Plastic Arts Biennial, Pamplona, Spain 2002 Copyright-Metta, Metta Gallery, Madrid, Spain 2001 L’Oreal Painting Award, Madrid, Spain VII Muestra Unión Fenosa, A Coruña, Spain Nostalgia y encuentro de Roma, Asamblea de Extremadura, Mérida, Spain Cairo International Biennial, Egypt Roma: Nuevos caminos de la pintura 1977-1990, travelling: Spain and Rome Arte español de los años 80 y 90 en las colecciones del Museo del Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Zacheta Gallery, Warsow, Poland 2000 Imágenes yuxtapuestas, Colección Argentaria, travelling in Spain Confrontaciones 2000, Espacios Cálidos, Ateneu de Caracas, Venezuela 1999 Salón Pirelli, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofía Imber, Caracas, Venezuela Jóvenes con F.I.A., Espacios Cálidos, Ateneu de Caracas, Venezuela Imágenes de la abstracción, Caja Madrid Foundation, Spain Grabados españoles, Casa Falconieri, Cagliari, Italy 1998 Viajar, perder países, Arteleku, San Sebastian, Spain Memoria e Vangarda, 8 pintores de Galicia, Xunta de Galicia /Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores (travelling exhibition: Central America) * VIII Art Biennial - Ciudad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain 1996 Líricos fin de Siglo, Sala de Exposiciones del Ministerio de Cultura,Madrid, Spain 1995 Toro de Osborne, (travelling exhibition) Spain 1994 Area de Silencio, Internacional Art Biennial of Pontevedra, Spain 1993 Trazos e Camiños, travelling exhibition: Galicia, Spain 1992 Expo ’92, Galicia Pavillion, Sevilha, Spain Internacional Biennial of Istambul, Istambul Contemporary Art Museum, Turkey 1991 De Europa, Erice, Italy 1990 Roma XC, Exhibition of the Spanish Academy in Rome, Italy Novantesimo, National Modern Art Gallery, San Marino 1989 Propuesta 89, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain IX Salón de los 16, Sala de exposiciones Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, Spain Euroarte, Guimarães, Portugal Galegos somos nos, Sala de exposiciones del I.C. e Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires, Argentina Ateliers Roma-Compostela, Museo do Pobo Galego, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 1988 Muestra de Arte Joven, Instituto de la Juventud, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain Punto 88, Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid, Spain 1987 IX Biennial of Contemporary Art of Pontevedra, Spain 1986 VIII Biennial of Contemporary Art of Pontevedra, Nuevos Valores, Spain I Biennial - Ciudad de Albacete, Spain VII Call for Plastic Arts of Alicante, Spain Selected Painters of the Talleres de Arte Actual, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain Madrid-Vigo, Arte actual madrileño y gallego, CAM and Ayuntamento de Vigo, Spain Supertangibles, French Institut, CAM and French Embassy, Madrid, Spain Obra sobre papel, Lepina Gallery, Vigo, Spain 1985 Young Painting, Vitoria Contemporary Art Museum, Spain Tres Pintores, Alençon Gallery (Gamarra y Garrigues), Madrid, Spain Arte Galego Xoven:cara al futuro, Centro Cultural Ciudad de Vigo, Spain II Salón de pintura joven, Madrid, Spain Selected Painters of the Talleres de Arte Actual, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS 2007 Premio Jesús Bárcenas de Pintura 2006 1 st. Prize - VI Salón de Outono de Paintingde la Real Academia Galega de Belas Artes 2004 Work acquisition award - Concurso Internacional de Pintura de Valdepeñas 2004 2003 2 nd Prize - IV Certamen Internacional de pintura, Royal Premier Hoteles, Torremolinos Work acquisition award - Concurso Internacional de Pintura de Valdepeñas 2003 2002 1 st. Prize - IV Premio ABC de Pintura, Madrid 1 st. Prize - III Certamen Internacional de Pintura», Royal Premier Hoteles, Torremolinos Work acquisition award - II Certamen de Pintura Contemporánea de la Fund. Wellington, Madrid 2001 Julián Trincado Award - VII Mostra Unión Fenosa, Corunha Work acquisition award - Generación 2001, Caja Madrid, Madrid 2000 3 rd. Prize - III Salón de Otoño de A Coruña, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Galicia 1994 Ojo Crítico Award- Radio Nacional de Espanha, Madrid 1992 Fullbright Scholarship- Comité Conjunto Hispano-Norteamericano, New York, USA 1991 Cité des Artistes Scholarship- Paris 1989 1 st. Prize - Concurso de Pintura Santa Lucia, Madrid Scholarship of the Spanish Academy in Rome, Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores 1988 Muestra de Arte Joven Award 1987 Pensionados Scholarship - IX Biennial de Pontevedra
MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS Banco de Espanha, Madrid, Spain Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, Spain Centro Galego de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain ABC Collection, Madrid, Spain Altana AG Collection, Bad Homburg, Germany Ayuntamiento de A Coruña Collection, A Coruña, Spain BBVA Collection, Madrid, Spain Biedermann – Motech Collection, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany Caixa de Galicia Collection, A Coruña, Spain Caixa Nova Collection, Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain Caixa-Forum Collection, Barcelona, Spain Caja del Mediterráneo Collection, Spain Caja Madrid Collection, Madrid, Spain Diputación de A Coruña Collection, A Coruña, Spain Diputación de Pontevedra Collection, Pontevedra, Spain, Faro de Vigo Collection, Pontevedra, Spain Ritz Carlton Collection, Miami, EUA Seguros Santa Lucia Collection, Madrid, Spain Stadt Waiblingen Collection, Germany Unicaja Collection, Málaga, Spain Unión de Bancos Suizos Collection, Madrid, Spain Rodriguez Iglésias Foundation, A Coruña, Spain Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal Ministerio de la Cultura Collection, Instituto de la Juventud, Madrid, Spain Artium Museum, Vitoria, Spain Contemporary Art Museum Unión Fenosa, A Coruña, Spain Contemporary Art Museum, Teruel, Spain Oviedo Fine Arts Museum , Spain Quiñones de León Fine Arts Museum, Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain Pontevedra Museum , Spain Museo Extremenho de Arte Contemporáneo, Spain Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain National Contemporary Art Museum Sofía Imber, Caracas, Venezuela |