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EDUCATION

MFA University of California, Los Angeles(visiting scholar)1995-97
MA, California State University, Los Angeles.  1994
BFA, Complutense University, Madrid.  1993

 SOLO EXHIBITIONS

La Casa Encendida Foundacion CAJA MADRID, Madrid, Spain
                       
2003               Epifaniaaoooaaoaoaoa…Galería Espacio Mínimo, Madrid, Spain

2001               Jakintza y Otros Retratos, IMAGO, Palacio de Abrantes, Salamanca ,Spain

1999               Sobre Placer y Legislacion, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
Jakintza, Egia/Casa de Kultura. DAE, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain

1998               Cruising Architecture, Sin Duda Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

1997               Black and White Holes, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
                        Special K Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007               Generaciones 2006 ARCO, Madrid, Spain
                        Interactiva07, Bienal de Merida, Yucatán, Mexico
                        Destino Futuro, Real Jardin Botanico, Madrid, Spain

2006               Desperated Women, Artium, Salamanca, Spain
                        LA25,Skadden ARPS, Los Angeles, CA
                        The belly of the Whale, Unit 11, Los Angeles, CA
                        Spanish Photographers, Mahmoud Kalhil Museum, Cairo, Egypt

2005               ARCO2005,Galeria Estrany de la Mota, Madrid, Spain
                        DEFOTO, San Sebastián, Spain
                        Faculty Show, Citrus Collage, CA
Altadis Prize, Fine Arts Department, University Complutense, Madrid, Spain

2004               Nunca Supe si lo que me contabas era cierto o producto de la
                        fantasia (Gregory Crewdson, Aernout Mik, Miguel Angel Tornero)
Galería Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona, Spain
Yo, y Qué!Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Catastofe Minimae, Museo de Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy
                        EuropeanSpace, Riga’s Sculpture Quadrennial, Riga, Latvia

2003               KIDS, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain, (catalog)

2000               Insumisiones, Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander, Spain
(catalog)                    
                        fissure , STAFF USA/AC project room, New York
XVI Muestra de Arte Joven, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain

1999               FUTUROPRESENTE, Comunidad de Madrid-Plaza de España, Madrid, Spain (catalog)

1998               Grammercy Park, New York 98, Galería Marta Cervera, New York
                        Frankfurt Art Fair'98, Galerie Susanne Vielmeter, Frankfurt, Germany
                        ARCO'98, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
L.A. Cultural Net, Neighborhood Views, http://www.lacn.org//, Getty Sites Projects
                        Different Looks, Sweeney Art Gallery
            University of California Riverside, CA (catalog)
                        La Voladura del Maine, Sala PEMASA, Madrid, Spain (catalog)
                        The Comestible Compost, Gallery 207, Los Angeles, CA
                        Beyond Matter of Space, Beyond Baroque, Venice CA
1997               Malibu SexParty, Purple Fine Art, Venice, CA             
Los Angeles Juried Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA                                         
UCLA MFA Thesis ExhibitionWight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
                                               
1996               Moviment InercieReales Atarazanas, Valencia/ Brentangerie, Brussels, Belgium

1995               Tom Tiddler Show, Pasadena Plaza, Pasadena, CA 

PROJECTS                

1997               Curator:  Cruising LA.        
                        Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
                        Participants: Paul McCarthy, Lari Pittman, Martin Kerssels, Catherine Opie, Jason Rhoades/Jorge Pardo  (catalog)

1996               Curator:  Walking Behind the Glass
                        Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Resolution Gallery
Participants: Pedro Galván, Rafael Suarez, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Alicia Martín Villanueva, Mar Nuñez, José Luis Viñas, Kepa Landa and Ricardo Echevarría

                       PUBLICATIONS

 2003               Stephen Prina Portfolio-Interview, Sin Título, Nº 7, Centro de Creación Experimental,
Castilla-La Mancha University, Madrid, Spain 2004

1998               Mike Kelly Portfolio-Interview, Sin Título, Nº 5, Centro de Creación Experimental,       
Castilla-La Mancha University, Madrid, Spain 1998

1997               Paul McCarthy Portfolio-Interview, Sin Título, Nº 4, Centro de Creación Experimental, Castilla-La Mancha University, Madrid, Spain, 1997
                        Cruising LA, Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain (catalog)

 GRANTS and AWARDS

1993               ISEP Georgetown University International Student Award
1995               University of California Exchange Commission Scholarship
2004               Public Art Project University of Musashino, Japan
2005               Caja Madrid Foundation Generacion 2007
2006               Skadden Foundation for the Arts

  WORKS in PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

SKADDEN, Los Angeles
CASA, Salamanca, Spain
INJUVE, Madrid, Spain
Musashino University, Tokyo, Japan