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Biography

 

Barcelona, Spain, 1948.

Multimedia artist. Lived in Paris, France, from 1967 to 1969. Moved to the U.S. in 1972 (Chicago). In 1974 settled in New York City. Between 1986 and 1988 lived in Berlin in an academic exchange program. He is currently in Barcelona, Spain, for an extended period of time.

 

He has shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC); the Museum of Modern Art (NYC); the Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh); the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art  (Los Angeles); the Nationalgalerie (Berlin); the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam); the Rudolfinum Galerie (Prague); the Russian State Museum (Saint Petersburg); the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT (Cambridge, Mass.); the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, retrospective); the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; the Fundació Joan Miró; the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern IVAM (Valencia); the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica (Barcelona), the International Center of Photography (NYC), etc.

 

He has permanent work in the public space. He curates exhibitions and writes for several journals internationally and newspapers in Spain. He has been president of the Catalan Association of Visual Artists.

 

His work is represented in many international public and institutional collections. His work has been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bohen Foundation, both in New York, and the American Center Foundation in Paris. He has been the recipient, among other fellowship, of the National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist’s Fellowship in four occasions, the New York Council for the Arts Fellowship in two occasions, the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities Fellowship, the New York Foundation for the Arts in two occasions, the D.A.A.D. given by the German Government, the Emil Radok Prize by the University of Prague, the Picasso Foundation Prize, and the Fulbright Academic Exchange Fellowship . He also received the Visual Arts National Prize given by the Autonomous Government of Catalonia, Spain. He was recently Chair in Spanish Culture and Civilization at the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at New York University.