1972 Born in La Garriga, Barcelona, Spain
Since 1998 lives permanently in Brooklyn, New York
EDUCATION
1998 Visual Arts Diploma, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin 1996 MFA Sculpture, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 1990-1992 Eina, School of Art & Design, Barcelona
SOLO SHOWS
2010 Ester Partegàs, Foxy Production, New York / Ester Partegàs, Christopher Grimes, Santa Monica, CA 2009 Ooze Galeria NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona 2008 The Invisible, The Aldrich Museum for Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT / Colapso Cotidiano, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid 2007 Invaders, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid / what you are, the world is, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA / Saturated Fat, NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona 2006 Saturated Fat, Foxy Production, New York / We the People, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA / Less World, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne / Fixed and Hazardous Objects, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA / Les coses més importants, Cercle Cultural CajaMadrid, Barcelona / Las cosas más importantes, 16 Proyectos de Arte Español, ARCO, Madrid 2005 Barricades, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid 2004 Barricades, NoguerasBlanchard, Barcelona / Same, Icon South Beach, Miami Beach, FL / The most important things, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS Civilization is overrated,
Foxy Production, New York,
Project Spaces at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL 2003 Dreams are more powerful than nightmares and viceversa Centre d’ Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona / Everyday feels like Sunday, Casas Riegner Gallery, Miami, FL / Hollowmess, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY 2002 Samesation, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX / Yo Recuerdo, Montenmedio Arte Contemporáneo, Cádiz, Spain / Nosotros tenemos razón, La Casa Encendida, Madrid 2001 to from from at across to in from. The centerless feeling, De Chiara/Stewart Gallery, New York,
Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid 2000 from one fleeting wish to another, De Chiara/Stewart Gallery, New York 1998 So lost…, Kunstruimte Galerie, Berlin / Why do I feel sometimes so lost?, DFN Gallery Project Room, New York 1996 Fissures, La Capella, Barcelona
GROUP SHOWS
2010 Cityscapes
Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, NY
/ American Spirit
Galerie Crone, Berlin, Germany
/ Brand X
Galerie Stefan Röpke, Köln, Germany
/ Close encounters: Acts of Social Imagination
Denison Museum, Granville, OH
/ Veu Entre Línees
Center d’Art La Panera, Lleida, Spain
/ Revolviendo en la Basura
CDAN, Centro de Artee y Naturaleza, Huesca, Spain 2009 New York Minute
Macro Future/Depart Foundation, Rome
/ Next Wave Art
BAM 2009 Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn, New York
/ Problem Solving (Express Yourself)
Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
/ Costa Brava S.XXI
Centre Cultural Caixa de Girona, Girona
/ The Global Land: Identity and Oblivion
Espacio Enter, Canary Islands
/ Close Encounters II,
Nathen Cummings Foundation, New York
/ Zonas de Riesgo: Colección de Arte Contemporáneo Fundación ”la Caixa”.
CaixaForum, Barcelona
/ 2009 “Lecturas Transversales: Colección de la Fundación Marcelino Botín"
Villa Iris, Santander
2008 El Papel del artista/ Colección Fotocopia
Doméstico'08, Madrid
/ Order. Desire. Light. An Exhibition of Contemporary Drawings.
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
/ Close Encounters: Facing the Future
American University Museum, Washington D.C.
/ NY Motion 0.1
Instituto Cervantes, NY
/ Art & Entrepreneurship/Credit Suisse
Dubai, traveling to other international venues
/ Parangolé. Fragments from the 90’s: Brazil, Portugal, Spain
Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid
/ Levantamiento Libertad y Ciudadanía
Centro de Arte, Móstoles
2007 Experiencias 2
Museo de Bellas Artes de Santander / Thermal Comfort
Artnews Projects, Berlin
/ Cart [ajena]
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
/ 2nd Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art
Moscow Biennial Foundation
/ Cuestión Xeneracional
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea CGAC
Santiago de Compostela
/ Consumption Junction
Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio 2006 Papel
Galería Casas Riegner, Bogotá / Tale of Two Cities. Busan Bienale of Art
Museum of Modern Art, Busan
/ Six Degrees of Separation
Stux Gallery, New York
/ Art on Paper 2006
Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC
/ Please Love Me
Walkers Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
/ Iª Bienal de Arte, Arquitectura y Paisaje de las Islas Canarias
Gobierno de Canarias, Gran Canaria 2005 OverAwe
Foxy Production, New York / Make it now. Sculpture in New York
Sculpture center, Long Island City, New York
/ Mira cómo se mueven
Telefónica, Madrid 2004 Some Exhaust
Lehman Maupin Gallery, New York / Mediascapes
Centre Cultural de La Caixa, Lleida (travelling in 2005)
/ Long Term Installations
PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
/ Dibujos Hoy
CAC Málaga
/ A Level of Trust. After Kurt Cobain
Galleria More Fools in Town, Torino 2003 The Paper Sculpture Show
Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York / World Speak Less Dumb
Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
/ Harlem Postcards
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
/ Proyectos Especiales
Queens Museum of Art, New York
/ Tekhne: Ancestral Techniques and Contemporary Practices in the SURO workshop of Tlaquepaque.
The Buena Vista Bldg, Miami Design District, Miami, FL
/ TransEat
FoodCultureMuseum, Mmiami, FL
/ ReLAX
DCKT Contemporary, New York
/ Yours Truly
Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
/ Street Level
The Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
/ Not to scale
Dorsky Curatorial Program, Long Island City, New York
/ Stand By. Listos para actuar
Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico D.F. 2002 40 Jahre: Fluxus und die Folgen
Kunstsommer Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden
/ Americas Remixed
Fabrica del Vapore, Milan
/ Outer city, Inner Space
Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York
/ View Finder
Arnolfini, Bristol
/ The passions of good citizens
apexart curatorial program, New York
/ Art for living again
Galeria Estrany-de la Mota, Barcelona
/ Narrando espacios, Tiempos, Historias
XXVII Bienal de Arte de Pontevedra, Diputación de Pontevedra 2001 Brooklyn!
Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL
/ Surplus
Centro Cultural de España en Lima, Perú
/ Temporary Residents
Public Art Fund at MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, New York
/ Paper
The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
/ The good, the bad and the ugly: a Spaghetti Western
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, CO
/ Hospitality a Constructed World Project
Foxy Production, Brooklyn, New York
/ Twisted
Aaron America, Brooklyn, New York
/ Formas del Exilio
Galería Claramunt, Barcelona 2001
/ Counter II
AVCO, London
/ Ads, Logos and Videotapes
Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid
/ Ester Partegàs/Laura Torrado
Galería Trinta, Santiago de Compostela 2000 Search for Art 2000
Area Bovisa/Mandarina Duck, Milano
/ Anywhere But Here
Artists’ Space, New York
/ Puntos de Encuentro
Cruce, Madrid
/ Figured Out
Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
/ Escenarios
Instituto de la Juventud, Madrid, 2000
/ Inter/Zona. Arts Visuals i Creació a Barcelona
La Virreina, Barcelona
/ Generación 2000
Real Jardin Botánico, Cajamadrid (travelling), Spain
/ Itinerarios 99-00
Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander
1999 Keep Fit/Be Happy
De Chiara/Stewart Gallery, New York
/ Club, Arts & Lounge
Museu de Granollers, Barcelona
/ Happy Holidays
Star 67, Brooklyn, New York
/ Babel
Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, New York
/ And on a lighter note…
Venetia Kapernekas Fine Arts, New York 1998 Arte Joven 98
MEAC, Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid
/ Cartes a Milena. Visions de Futur
Can Palauet, Mataró, Barcelona
/ Siesta Over. Spanish Art in the late 90’s
Sideshow 195 Gallery, Brooklyn, New York 1996 La Capella at Transmission
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
/ Lento
Galería Gingko, Madrid
/ Biennial of European and Mediterranean Young Artists
Balmes 21, Galeria de la Universitat de Barcelona
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2006 Propuestas'06 Grant, Fundación Arte y Derecho, Madrid 2004 The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, New York 2003 Generación 2004 Award, Caja Madrid, Madrid
1999 Fundación Marcelino Botin, Santander
/ III Certamen Ártes Plásticas para Jóvenes, Saloni, Castelló 1998 Arte Joven 98 Award, Instituto de la Juventud, Madrid
TEACHING
2009 Resident Faculty, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
/ Visiting artist at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 2008-2009 Senior Critic at the Sculpture Department at Yale University, New Haven, CT
2006
Visiting artist at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VG
/ Visiting artist at Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne, Victoria
/ Visiting artist at the School of Architecture & Design of the New York Institute
of Technology, Old Westbury, NY 2004 Visiting faculty of the Sculpture Department at Yale University, New Haven, CT
/ Children’s Workshop at the Salina Art Center, Salina KS 2002 Guest artist at the ArtLab Program, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum,
Ridgefield, CT
/ Workshop at Centro Cultural Español, Iquitos, Amazonia, Perú 2001 Children’s workshop at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgfield, CT
TALKS
2010 ArtComments, Artists Talk On Art, at Soho20 Chelsea Gallery 2009 ‘5 x 20 x 20’ accompanying the exhibition Compass in hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, MoMA, New York
/ Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
/ Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
/ University of Georgia Studies Abroad Art Program in Cortona, Italy 2008 Sculpture Department at Yale University, New Haven, CT
/ Brown-Bag Lecture, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT 2007 Centro Cultural de España, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia 2006 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VG
/ Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne, Victoria
/ With Rob McKenzie/Slave Magazine at the Centre for Ideas, University of Melbourne, Melbourne 2005 Fundació Fornells-Pla, La Garriga, Barcelona 2004 Centre Cultural de La Caixa, Lleida
/ Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
/ Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York 2003 Center for New Design, New School University, New York
/ Casas Riegner Gallery, Miami, FL
/ Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York
/ Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX 2002 Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York
/ apexart curatorial program, New York
/ Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX 2001 Centro Cultural de España en Lima, Perú
SELECTED PRESS
2010 Mossman, Danae, "Ester Partegàs"
FlashArt International, January-February 2010, p 85. 2009 McAdams, Shane "Next Wave Art"
The Brooklyn Rail, November 2009, p 16. /
Molina, Ángela, "Ester Partegàs"
El País: Babelia, no. 908, 18 April 2009, p 5.
/ "Artist Dictionary: Focus New York"
Flash Art, Vol. XLII, No. 264, January - February 2009, p 79 2008 Elliott, Carrie, "Spotlight on an Artist from the Collection: An interview with Ester Partegàs" MOMA: Friends of Contemporary Drawing: Spring Bulletin 2008, p 5-8 2007 Rodiguez, Marta, "Cart(ajena)"
ArtNexus, No. 65 Volume 6, 2007, p 155-158 /
Stolz, George, "Ester Partegàs"
ARTnews, June 2007, p148 2005 Ammarati, Domenick, "Make It Now"
Artforum International, October 2005, p. 278
/ Baird, Daniel, "Make It Now"
Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn, New York, July/August, 2005, p.12
/ Smith, Roberta, "The many layers of Now, explored in 3 dimensions"
The New York Times, New York, May 27th, 2005, p.E37 2004 Alvarez-Reyes, José Antonio, "Ester Partegàs"
Flash Art International, January-February 2004, p.105 2002 Ballou, Chris, "Been Here Before ... Been Here Forever: Ester Partegàs's Samesation" Artlies, A Texas Art Journal, Fall 2002, p. 92
/ Holland, Cotter, "Rain or Shine, Residing Outdoors: Public Sculpture"
The New York Times, August 9, 2002, pp. B 27-29
/ Schmerler, Sarah, "Outer City, Inner Space"
Time Out NY, August 1-8, 2002
/ Hunt, David, "Ester Partegàs at De Chiara/Stewart Gallery"
Artext, January 2002, pp. 84-85
/ Lombardi, D.D., "Ester Partegàs at De Chiara Gallery"
Sculpture, April 2002, pp. 73-74
/ Smith, Roberta, "The Passions of the Good Citizen"
The New York Times, May 3, 2002, p. E 30