CV

1972 Born in La Garriga, Barcelona. Since 1997 lives permanently in Brooklyn, New York

• 1998 Visual Arts Diploma, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin
• 1996 MFA Sculpture, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona
• 1990-92 Eina, School of Art & Design, Barcelona

2009

 

• Ester Partegàs: Ooze (Rebava)
  Galería Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona

2008

• The Invisible
  The Aldrich Museum for Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
• Colapso Cotidiano
  Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid
  
  

2007

• Saturated Fat
  Galería Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona
• what you are, the world is
  Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
• Invaders
  Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid

2006

• Saturated Fat
  Foxy Production, New York
• We the People
  Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
• 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
  Galería Nogueras Blanchard, 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 Art Chicago, Chicago, IL

2003

• Els somnis són més poderosos que els malsons i 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

2009

• New York Minute
  Macro Future/Depart Foundation, Rome, Italy, 2009
• Zonas de Riesgo: Colección de Arte Contemporáneo Fundación "la Caixa"
  CaixaForum, Barcelona, Spain
• 2009 "Lecturas Transversales: Colección de la Fundación Marcelino Botín"
  Villa Iris, Santander
• Next Wave Art
  Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brookly, NY
• The Global Land: Identity and Oblivion
  Espacio Center, Canary Islands
  
• Revolviendo en la Basura
  Koldo Mitxelena Kulturenea, Donostia
• Problem Solving (Express Yourself)
  Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
• Costa Brava Segle XXI
  Centre Cultural Caixa de Girona, Girona

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, Colombia
  
• 2 Moscow Biennale
  Federation Tower, Moscow
• Cuestión Xeneracional
  Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea CGAC
  Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• Consumption Junction
  Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
  

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

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

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

2009

• Visiting artist at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
• Faculty / Artist in Residence at Skowhegan School of PAinting and Sculpture, Madison, ME
  

 

2008 - 2009

• Senior Critic at the Sculpture Department at Yale University School of Art, 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

2005

• Fundació Fornells-Pla, La Garriga, Barcelona
  

2004

• Visiting faculty of the Sculpture Department at Yale University, New Haven, CT
• 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

• Workshop at Centro Cultural Español, Iquitos, Amazonia, Perú
• Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York
• apexart curatorial program, New York

2001

• Workshops at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgfield, CT
• Centro Cultural de España en Lima, Perú

2005

• Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen University Art College, Xiamen City, Fujian Pr., China

2000

• International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York

1996

• Quinzena d’Art del Castell de Montesquiu, Barcelona

2003

• SoftCell
  Foxy Production, Brooklyn, New York