BIOGRAPHIE

Photographer, audiovisual creator, writer, editor Spain He held his first exhibitions, in the early eighties, at the Moriarty and Buades galleries (Madrid) and Portafollio Gallery (London). Throughout his career, his photographic and audiovisual work has been shown in spaces such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Les Rencontres Internationales d'Arlès, the parisian Maison Européenne de la Photographie, the Museum House of Photography in Moscow, and the Museo Nacional del Prado, among many others. His works are in large art collections around the world such as the German Deutshe Börse or the National Funds for Contemporary Art in France. Among the many recognitions he has received are the spanish National Photography Award (1999), the Photography Award of the Community of Madrid (2004), the PHotoEspaña Award (2012), and he has been finalist for the Deutsche Börse Award (2014), in addition to being named as Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France (2012), and in 2019 the spanish Ministry of Culture awarded him with the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts. Director and founder of the cult magazine “El Canto de la Tripulación” (1989), he is currently the co-founder of Cabeza de Chorlito, a publishing house under which he has published several of his works. Fierce expressionism is his most recent exhibition project, a collection of photographs taken over the last ten years, which has already been shown in various Latin American countries (Uruguay, Argentina and the Dominican Republic), in the Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow (Russia), and in 2022 will be exhibited at the Centre Photographique, Clermond-Ferrand (France). Learn more about this exhibition PHOTO AND MULTIMEDIA EXHIBITIONS 1975-currently: Motorcycle 1975-currently: Self-portrait 1976-1986: Don’t Follow Me, I’m Lost 1977-2006: Sweet Monster of Youth 1981-currently: The Closest I’ve been to Paradise 1986-1993: Bikers 2003- 2006 : Three Sad Videos 2010: Beloved Homeland 2010: Paradise of Believers 2012-2015: A False Horizon 2015: Valparaiso 1975 to 2007: Flesh and Blood 2017: Fierce Expressionism 2018: Irreductibles ÉDITION 1993: Bikers (ed. Tripulacíon)