Bilbao (Spain), 1977
EDUCATION
One Year Certificate Program, I.C.P. New York (2005-06)
Social and Cultural Antropology studies, U.N.E.D. Spain.
Master in Arts Direction, Antonio de Nebrija University. Madrid (2001)
Bachelor degree in Faculty of Fine Arts, Basque Country University. Bilbao (1995-2000)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
Cristopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
Altamira Gallery, Gijón, Spain.
2007
Witzenhausen Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland.
2006
"Productions". MNCARS, National Museum Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.
El Museo Gallery, Bogota, Colombia.
2005
Witzenhausen Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland.
JM Gallery, Malaga, Spain.
2004
"Die of exit in Bilbao". Bilbaoarte Foundation, Bilbao, Spain.
"Clip art". Espacio Marzana, Bilbao, Spain.
Altamira Gallery, Gijon, Spain.
2003
"Mad". Sala Bastero, Andoain, Guipuzcoa, Spain.
"Citerón". Espacio Abisal, Bilbao, Spain.
"Citerón". Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Witzenhausen Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
"The art of caring". Contemporary Art Museum, New Orleans, U.S.A.
2007
"Chacun à son gout". Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain.
"Existences". MUSAC, Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y Leon, Spain.
"The expanded performance" Botí Foundation, Cordoba, Spain.
"Everything I loved was part of you", Cervantes Institute, Dublin, Ireland.
2006
"SHIFT". International Center of Photography, New York.
Christopher Cutts Gallery. Toronto, Canada.
"Darkness ascend". MOCCA, Museum Contemporary Art,Toronto, Canada.
"Catarsis". ARTIUM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vitoria, Spain.
"Tell me the truth". Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain.
"Everything I loved was part of you". Cervantes Institute, Damascus, Syria.
2005
"Trough women's eyes". Esteban Vicente Museum. Valladolid, Spain.
2004
"The Real Royal Trip". Patio Herreriano Museum. Curator: Harald
Szeeman. Valladolid, Spain.
"Antirealismos: Spanish Photomedia Now", Freemantle Art Centre, Perth, Inst.
of Modern Art, Brisbane, Experimental Art Foundation Adelaide, Australia.
"Fotología". El Museo Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia.
"VIII Mostra Unión Fenosa", MACUF, A Coruña, Spain.
"Ertibil Bizkaia" travelling exhibition, Spain.
2003
“Antirealismos: Spanish Photomedia Now”, Australian Centre for Photography, Sidney,
Australia.
“Purificación García” Award, Jardín Botánico, Madrid, Spain.
“L´Oreal” Award, Cultural Centre Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain.
“Pictures of a collection” PHOTOESPAÑA. Comunidad de Madrid, Spain.
“Residents ´03”. Bilbaoarte Foundation, Bilbao, Spain.
“Self-portraits”. Casa Decor, Madrid, Spain.
2002
Instalation for "Casas y calles", Madrid, Spain.
"Action and document". Espacio Abisal, Bilbao, Spain.
"About mistery”, Conferences of the Image. Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain.
PERFORMANCES
2004
"Doble unity" with Azegiñe Urigoitia, " The Real Royal Trip", Patio herreriano Museum,
Valladolid, Spain.
"I know you are talking to me" lecture-performance, with Javier Velasco, Botí Foundation,
Cordoba, Spain.
2002
" Here and there" from Gary Stevens. Serralves Foundation. Porto, Portugal.
" The glance" from Alberto Lomas. Botín Foundation, Santander, Spain.
"Absence" for the Bilbao Guggenheim and the Drama Laboratory. Bilboarte, Bilbao, Spain.
AWARDS
Selected XXXII Bancaixa, Valencia, Spain, 2004.
Selected " Premio Unión Fenosa", A Coruña, Spain, 2004.
Selected Ertibil Bizkaia award, Spain, 2004.
Selected in " Premio L´Oreal", Madrid, Spain. 2003
Finalist in " Premio Purificación García", Madrid, Spain. 2003
Design and Advertising:
Laus 2003: Gold pressbook "Peter Pan".
One Show 2003: Silver Pencil pressbook " Peter Pan".
N.Y. Festival 2002: Gold pressbook " Pearl Harbour", Silver pressbook "Atlantis".
Premios CdC 2002: Finalist pressbok "Pearl Harbour”"y finalist "Monsters Inc."
Epica 2001: Gold pressbook "Pearl Harbour".
COURSES AND SEMINARIES
Speaker at the seminary "Art and Violence", European University, Madrid, Spain, 2008.
Speaker at "Trough women's eyes", Esteban Vicente Museum, Valladolid, Spain, 2005.
Speaker at the lecture " Digital generation",Montehermoso Centre, Vitoria, Spain, 2004.
Speaker at the seminary "Arts in time" Botí Foundation, Cordoba, Spain, 2004.
Video Works "Arts y Polítics", Culture Fundation, Gijón, Spain, 2003.
Performance Works "Mugatxoan" (Jennyfer Lacy, Gary Stevens, Jerome Bel).
Arteleku, San Sebastian, Spain and Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal, 2002.
Artists Forum "About Violence", Casa de America, Madrid, Spain, 2002.
Performance course "Disident action" in Bilbaoarte, Guggenheim Bilbao, España, 2001.
Member of Mina Espazio asociation for the difussion of actual art. Bilbao, Spain, 1999. Performance
Seminary "Territories of contagion", Bilboarte, Bilbao, Spain, 1998.
Member of the asociation "Abisal", Bilbao, Spain, 1998-1999.
GRANTS
ICP Director's Fund Scholarship, New York, U.S.A, 2006.
Postgraduate studies, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Madrid, Spain, 2005-06, 2006-07.
Juan De Otaola, Basauri, Spain, 2005.
Fine Arts Grants, Basque Goverment, Vitoria, Spain, 2004.
Fine Arts Grants, Diputación Foral de Vizcaya, Bilbao, Spain, 2 003.
Bilbaoarte Grant: Bilbao, Spain, 2002.
Leonardo da Vinci Grant. Confebask , Bilbao, Spain, 2000
Erasmus Grant. Hasselt Faculty, Belgic, 2000
COLLECTIONS
Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, Spain.
National Museum Centro de Arte Reina Sofia – MNCARS, Spain.
ARTIUM Museum, Spain.
Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Castilla y Leon Contemporary Art Museum- MUSAC, Spain.
Diputación de Cantabria, Santander, Spain.
Bilbaoarte Foundation, Bilbao, Spain.
Private collections
PUBLICATIONS
"The expanded performance", Botí Fpoundation, Cordoba, Spain, 2008.
"Chacun à son Gôut", Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, 2007.
"¿Y eso por qué? Porque son más tristes", MNCARS, 2006.
"Tell me the truth", Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain, 2006.
"100 Spanish photographers", EXIT, Spain, 2005.
"Trough women's eyes", Esteban Vicente Museum, Valladolid, Spain, 2005.
"VIII Mostra Unión Fenosa", MACUF, A Coruña, Spain, 2004.
"Premio Ertibil Bizkaia" Diputación Foral de Vizcaya, Spain, 2004.
"Ixone Sádaba", Fernando Pradilla Gallery, Madrid, Spain, 2003.
"Ixone Sádaba", Sala Bastero, Andoain, Spain, 2003.
"Premio Purificación García", Madrid, Spain, 2003.
"Pictures of a collection", PHE03, Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, 2003.
Exit Magazine, "Self-portraits", Madrid, Spain, 2003.
"Magazine". Sala Amadis, Madrid, Spain, 2002
"Architecture" La ruta del sentido Magazine. Oviedo-Madrid, Spain, 2002
"About heroes and tombs" Espacio Abisal Annual Memory, Bilbao, Spain, 2000.
"Caja 19 kutxa" for Caja XXI Kutxa, Kursaal. San Sebastian, Spain, 1999.