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Education

 

 

- 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)

2002

Through. Egam Gallery
Madrid. Spain (catalogue)

1998

Cosmokaku. Montalban Gallery
Madrid. Spain (catalogue)

1997

Galería MW
Madrid. Spain

1996

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