Juan Francisco Casas
| Juan Francisco Casas | |
|---|---|
| Born |
21 September 1976 |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Field | painting, drawing, photography |
| Training | B.A., M.F.A., PhD, University of Granada |
| Awards |
Award of the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome Award of the Colegio de España en Paris |
Juan Francisco Casas (b. September 21, 1976, La Carolina, Jaén, Andalusia) is a Spanish artist.
[edit] Work and Biography
Casas paints large size oil canvases and blue ballpen drawings where he reproduces images he takes with his camera.
Juan Francisco Casas Ruiz got a B.A. and a M.F.A. from the University of Granada and during his studies he won the National Award of the Ministry of Education and Science for the best graduate qualifications in Spain, an award which was given by Culture Minister, Pilar del Castillo. From 2000 until 2004 he completed his PhD at the University of Granada while also teaching in that university.
In 2002 he was selected for the INJUVE Art Show, at the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid and later toured the capitals of Latin America. Since this year he is represented by Galería Fernando Pradilla (Madrid) and Galería El Museo (Bogotá, Colombia), but he has also done collaborations with Galeria Luis Adelantado (Valencia–Miami), White Square Gallery (Las Vegas) or Galeria Metta (Madrid), among others. He also won the prestigious ABC Prize of Painting, the president of the jury being the artist Luis Gordillo, and the award was given by Culture Minister Pilar del Castillo. He was the only Spanish representative in the 2nd Biennial of Prague 2005, curated by Giancarlo Politi, organized by Flash Art Magazine, among other relevant international artists such as Damien Hirst, Maurizio Cattelan and Neo Rauch. In 2006, after residing in Berlin, he participated in the exhibition Catharsis - Rituals of Purification in the Museum Artium, Vitoria, (along with Antoni Tàpies, Antonio Saura, Miquel Barceló, Jorge Oteiza and Antoni Muntadas) and The Sock Strategy in the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, curated by Okwui Enwezor.. While living in Brighton in 2007 he received the prestigious Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome where he lived one year. In Rome he collaborated with the artist Joseph Kosuth, as well as Kosuth's installation of his exhibition at La Casa Encendida in Madrid. In 2008 he had exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando (Madrid), at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome and in Las Vegas in the group show The Joy of Sex. In 2009, he had his works displayed at the Instituto Cervantes in New York, Warsaw and Moscow, in the exhibition 10 Years of Art in the ABC Awards. In 2010 he participated, along with artists such as Gustave Courbet, Edward Hopper, Gerhard Richter, Édouard Manet, Erwin Wurm, Robert Longo, Chuck Close, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Rineke Dijkstra, Otto Dix, Richard Estes, Franz Gertsch, Julian Opie, Sam Taylor-Wood and Andreas Gursky, in the impressive display Realismus. Das Abenteuer der Wirklichkeit (Realism The Adventure of Reality) in the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung Museum, Munich, at the Kunsthal Museum Rotterdam and at the Kunsthalle Museum in Emden (Germany), and in the group show After Post (beyond photography) with Vik Muniz, Gregory Crewdson, Helena Almeida, John Baldessari, Luis Gordillo and Sherrie Levine. Also in 2010, he was awarded the Fellowship of the Colegio de España in Paris where he lived one year. In 2011 he participated with Alex Katz, General Idea and Hans-Peter Feldmann in the group show Cover girl at the Galerie des Galeries, Paris.
He has had numerous solo exhibitions highlighting Saturdaynigthbathroom, Bare(ly)there and Foreignaffairs (Galería Fernando Pradilla, Madrid, 2005, 2008 and 2010), After(h)ours (Galería El Museo, Bogota, 2011), MyLovingNation (Galería Ferran Cano, Palma de Mallorca, 2007), Sacrebleu! (Sandunga Gallery, Granada, 2006), Mis(s)behave (Sala Rivadavia, Diputación Provincial de Cádiz, 2006) and participated in the most important art fairs in the world. Exhibitions in New York, Miami, Seoul, Singapore, London, Paris, Rome, Mexico and Basel, among many others, have benefited from his work and he has received numerous awards and national and international scholarships. As a parallel effort he has published numerous books including poetry books like Thesummerhaikus and A and Other Poems at Editions Alea Blanca. His work is represented in major collections including the Museum Artium or the ABC Museum and in private collections around the world. He is considered one of the more influential young painters in Spain.
He lives and works in Paris and Madrid.
[edit] Sources
- Villa, Manuela (2007). Emerging Art in Spain. Madrid: Vaivén. ISBN 978-84-96592-64-3
- Juan Francisco Casas' biography
- Juan Francisco Casas in Artfacts
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