background Alvaro Perdices

ÁLVARO PERDICES
Background
Álvaro Perdices was born in Madrid in 1971. He lives and works between Madrid and Los
Angeles. After graduating from Universidad Complutense de Madrid’s fine arts faculty, he
obtained a Master’s degree in Arts at the California State University, as well as a Master of Fine
Arts at the UCLA. He has received grants and prizes such as the Public Art Prize from the
University of Musashino (Japan), the Generaciones Prize from Obra Social Caja Madrid, the
Skadden Foundation for the Arts grant, Matadero Madrid grant, CAM grant or ART Matters
Foundation NY grant.
Solo exhibitions (selection): 2011, EACC (Castellón) and Casa sin fin (Cáceres); 2004, La Casa
Encendida (Madrid); 2003, Galería Espacio Mínimo (Madrid); 1999, Galería Marta Cervera
(Madrid) and Egia/Casa de Kultura.DAE (San Sebastián); 1998, Sin Duda Exhibitions (Los
Angeles); 1997, Galería Marta Cervera (Madrid) and Special K Exhibitions (Los Ángeles).
Collective exhibitions (selection): 2010, “ARCOMadrid”, Kathryn Brennan Gallery; 2009, Meridian
Gallery (San Francisco) and “The Longest Day of the Summer”, SF1 Gallery (San Francisco);
2008, “LA25”, Armand Hammer Museum (Los Ángeles); 2007, “Interactiva07”, Bienal de Mérida
(Yucatán); 2006, “LA25”, Skadden ARPS (Los Ángeles), y “The Belly of the Whale”, Unit 11 (Los
Ángeles); 2004, “Nunca supe si lo que me contabas era cierto o producto de la fantasía”, Galería
Estrany-De la Mota (Barcelona), “Yo y Que!”, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco),
“Catastrofe minimae”, Museo de Nuoro (Cerdeña), and “European Space”, Riga’s Sculpture
Quadrennial (Riga); 2003, “Kids”, CASA (Salamanca); 2000, “Insumisiones”, Fundación
Marcelino Botín (Santander).
Projects: 1997, curator for “Cruising LA”, Galería Soledad Lorenzo (Madrid), featuring: Paul
McCarthy, Lari Pittman, Martin Kerssels, Catherine Opie, Jason Rhoades and Jorge Pardo;
1996, curator for “Walking Behind the Glass”, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies (Los
Ángeles), featuring: Pedro Galván, Rafael Suárez, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Alicia Martín
Villanueva, Mar Nuñez, Jose Luis Viñas, Kepa Landa and Ricardo Echevarría.
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