- PhD in Fine Arts. Design Department. (thesis with a distinction “cum laude”)
Complutense University. Madrid. 2004
- Degree in Painting and Print. Fine Arts Faculty
Complutense University. Madrid .1989
Scholarships
2005/06
Cultural management. MAE-AECID. (Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation)
Spanish Cultural Center. Santo Domingo. Dominican Republic
1998/99
Artist in Residence. Mino. Japan
1994
Japan Culture and Language. (JNTO) Tokyo. Japan
1989/92
Egyptian Art Studies. Aesthetics of Arabian Calligraphy
Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Egypt
Solo exhibitions
2009
2008
Suite Sweet Love Project. k.b.zonas. Touring exhibition. AECID
Spanish Cultural Centers: Honduras, Costa Rica, Cartagena de Indias (catalogue)
Suite Sweet Love Project. k.b.zonas. Touring exhibition. AECID
Spanish Cultural Centers: Dominican Republic, Guatemala, El Salvador (catalogue)
2007
Secrets of a Folding Universe. Amparo Gamir Gallery
Madrid. Spain (catalogue)
Cosmokaku. La Asunción Cultural Center
Albacete. Spain (catalogue) Horizontal Look- Vertical Look. Art-space 201 Gallery
Sapporo. Japan (catalogue)
1995
Montalbán Gallery
Madrid. Spain
1992
Cervantes Institute
Cairo. Egypt
1990
Opera Gallery
Cairo. Egypt
Group Exhibitions
2011
On the Guernica. Ayala Museum
Manila. Philippines (catalogue)
2010
Imagine. Rolling Stone magazine. Telefónica Foundation
Madrid. Spain
2008
Spora. I Ephemeral Art Biennial
Granada. Spain
2006
Gifu G Gallery. Gifu. Japan
Mino Art Festival. Mino. Japan
2003
Lalín Biennial
Pontevedra. Spain
2002
ARCO - Egam Gallery
Madrid. Spain
2000
“Sebastian, Martir”. El Foro de Pozuelo. Madrid. Spain
Arteko Gallery. San Sebastián. Spain
1999
Art Metropolitan Museum. Tokyo. Japan Papers. Sen Sen-Chi Gallery. Shizuoka. Japan Refractor. Buades Gallery. Madrid. Spain 100 +1 postcards on García Lorca. Telegraph and Postal Museum
Madrid. Spain
1998
Paper Museum
Mino. Japan
1997
Montalbán Gallery
Madrid. Spain
1993
Euro-Arab University
Granada. Spain
1992
Fine Arts Museum
Alexandria. Egypt
1989
National Center of Fine Arts. Akhenaton. Cairo. Egypt
Fine Arts Faculty. Landscape painting scholarship. UCM. Madrid. Spain
Vellosillo Palace Museum. Ayllón. Segovia. Spain
Bibliography
2009.
Jesús Mazariegos. El adelantado de Indiana digital magazine
ISSN 1946-7516
2007
Óscar Alonso Molina. Arte y Parte magazine
Miguel Cereceda. Text for catalogue of Secrets of a Folding Universe
Javier Maderuelo. Babelia cultural magazine. El País
A.H. Pozuelo. Metrópolis cultural magazine. El Mundo
2002
J.M. Enjuto. Ubicarte. com
1997
Javier Maderuelo. “Orientalist sensibility”. Babelia cultural magazine. El País
1996
M.R. Barnatán. Metrópolis cultural magazine. El Mundo
Works in public collections:
Christmas 08. Juan March Foundation. Madrid. Spain
- Main Post Office. Palace of Communications. Madrid. Spain
- Cervantes Institute. Cairo. Egypt
- Caja Postal collection. Madrid. Spain
- Paper Museum collection. Mino. Japan
- Deustche Bank collection. Madrid. Spain
- Vellosillo Palace Museum collection. Ayllón. Segovia
- Fine Arts Faculty. UCM. Madrid
Publications
2007
Book. Japanese Calligraphy: Origins, evolution and relation with western abstract art movements. Published by Hiperión. 236 pp. 2007
2002
Book. Washi. The Japanese paper. Published by Clan. 142 pp. 2002
Conferences
2011
Japan Foundation
“Washi. Tradition and Modernity”. Madrid.Spain
2010
Zaragoza University. IX Japanese Cultural Week
“Japanese Sculpture and Installations on Paper”. Spain
2009
Valladolid University. Center of Asian Studies. International Seminar: Architecture and Landscapes in Japanese Imagery
”Sesshu and his interpretation of landscape”. Soria. Spain
Science Week. Faculty of Architecture. Pontifical University. Madrid. Spain
2008
Alicante University. Center of Oriental Studies. Japan
XXI century. Tribute to Mr Federico Lanzako. “Japanese paper. Tradition and Modernity”. Spain
Granada University. I Symposium on Art and Environment
“Secrets of a Folding Universe”. Granada. Spain
2007
National Library. Course on Supports and Graphic Techniques.
“Japanese paper”. Madrid. Spain
Zaragoza University. Faculty of Philosophy. VII Japanese Cultural Week
“Japanese Stroke, Simplicity and Movement. Routes from East to West”. Spain
2006
Cuenca Fine Arts Faculty. UCLM University.
“The Eastern Stroke. Philosophy and Relations with Western Art in the XX century”. Spain
2005
House of Asia. Barcelona. Seminar: The Silent Stroke
“Japanese calligraphy. Origins, evolution and relation with western abstract art movements”
Zaragoza University. Congress: The Myth of Women in Japanese Culture
Video-conference. “Shinoda Toko, painter and calligrapher in the Japanese avant-garde”. Spain
Alicante University. Department of Oriental Studies
“Washi. The Japanese paper”. Spain
Molí Papeller Capellades Museum. Guest artist. Course. Spain
2004
Cuenca Fine Arts Faculty. UCLM University
“Eastern Stroke. Origins, Evolution and Materials”. Spain
Molí Papeller Capellades Museum. Guest artist. Conference. Spain
Alicante University. Department of Oriental Studies.
“Japanese Calligraphy. Origins, evolution and relation with western abstract artmovements”. Spain
2002
Madrid Book Fair. Carmen Martín Gaite Pavilion. Presentation of the book Washi. The Japanese paper
1999
Art College. Nagoya University. “Supein no gendai bijutsu”. Japan
Curatorship and coordination
2009
Co-curator. Spanish Pavilion. XXV Biennial of Alexandria. Egypt
Curatorship of Top Balsa by Valeriano López
Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. AECID
Curatoship of the project Suite Sweet Love by k.b.zonas
Touring exhibition. Spanish Cultural Centers: Honduras, Costa Rica. AECID
2008
Curatoship of the project Suite Sweet Love by k.b.zonas
Touring exhibition. Spanish Cultural Centers: Dominican Republic. AECID
2005-06
Exhibitions coordinator. Spanish Cultural Center: Santo Domingo
Among others: Isabel Muñoz, Cuerpo a Cuerpo (catalogue). Dominican crafts (catalogue). Book: Santo Domingo 1939-1943. Photographies by Kurt Schnitzer (Conrado)
1998-99
CIR (Coordinator of International Relations). JET Program (artistic discipline). Japanese Ministry of Culture and Mino City Hall. Japan