Felix de la Concha - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Félix de la Concha is a painter

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

. Born in León

León, Spain

León is the capital of the province of León in the autonomous community of Castile and León, situated in the northwest of Spain. Its city population of 136,985 makes it the largest municipality in the province, accounting for more than one quarter of the province's population...

, Spain

Spain

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, he resides in Iowa City and Madrid

Madrid

Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

with his wife, poet Ana Merino

Ana Merino

Ana Merino is a Spanish poet.- Biography :Ana Merino was born in Madrid in 1971, daughter of José María Merino and married to artist Felix de la Concha. Ana Merino was between 2004 and 2009 an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Dartmouth College. Since Fall 2009 she is an Associate Professor of...

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In 1985 he was selected to participate in the Primera Muestra de Arte Joven (Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid) where his work was awarded. Since then he has had several shows, mainly in Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

and the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, including one person exhibitions in the Carnegie Museum of Art

Carnegie Museum of Art

The Carnegie Museum of Art, located in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is an art museum founded in 1895 by the Pittsburgh-based industrialist Andrew Carnegie...

in Pittsburgh (1999), the Frick Art & Historical Center

Frick Art & Historical Center

The Frick Art & Historical Center is a cluster of museums and historical buildings located at 7227 Reynolds Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States and collectively known as "Clayton"...

(2004), Columbus Museum of Art

Columbus Museum of Art

The Columbus Museum of Art is an art museum located in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Formed in 1878 as the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, it was the first art museum to register its charter with the state of Ohio.-Building:...

(1998), Museo de Bellas Artes in Santander

Santander, Cantabria

The port city of Santander is the capital of the autonomous community and historical region of Cantabria situated on the north coast of Spain. Located east of Gijón and west of Bilbao, the city has a population of 183,446 .-History:...

(1995), Museo del Chopo, México D.F.

Mexico City

Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...

(1994), Centro Cultural La Recoleta in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

(1993), and Centro Rómulo Gallegos in Caracas

Caracas

Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...

(1993). His work is included in the collections of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Hood Museum of Art

Hood Museum of Art

The Hood Museum of Art is a museum in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. Dating back to 1772, the museum is owned and operated by Dartmouth College and is connected to the Hopkins Center for the Arts. The current building, designed by Charles Willard Moore and Chad Flloyd, opened in the fall of 1985. It...

, Columbus Museum of Art, Amigos del Reina Sofía, Colecció Testimoni de la Caixa, Banco de España, Colección Argentaria and Teatro Real de Madrid.

His work One A Day: 365 Views of the Cathedral of Learning, a series that he painted every day during one year while staying in Pittsburgh, is a permanent exhibit at the University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of...

's Alumni Hall

Alumni Hall (University of Pittsburgh)

Alumni Hall at the University of Pittsburgh is a Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark that was formerly known as the Masonic Temple in Pittsburgh. Constructed in 1914-1915, it was designed by renowned architect Benno Janssen of Janssen & Abbot Architects...

. He has also done other series of paintings in different places such as Rome

Rome

Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

(the city where he went with a scholarship granted by the Spanish Academy and where he lived from 1989 until 1994), Santander

Santander, Cantabria

, Seville

Seville

Seville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...

, and Cairo

Cairo

Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...

. His image of the 1965 Galleries in the Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

is featured on the back cover of the book, Dartmouth's Dedicated Alumni (2004); and his image of the Dartmouth Skiway

Dartmouth Skiway

The Dartmouth Skiway is a ski area located about twenty minutes north of Dartmouth College in Lyme, New Hampshire. It has thirty trails from easiest to most difficult on over 100 acres of skiable area....

is featured on the back cover of a book on the history of modern skiing, Passion for Skiing (2010).

He is currently working on several series of portrait

Portrait

thumb|250px|right|Portrait of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[Rembrandt Peale]], 1805. [[New-York Historical Society]].A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness,...

s where, at the same time, he holds a conversation with the person portrayed. This conversation is all recorded. One of this series was exhibited at the Museo Contemporáneo in Madrid

Madrid

in 2008. 51 portraits were exhibited at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, with the theme of Conflict and Reconciliation in 2009. He is currently working portraying and recording Holocaust survivors.http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080610/NEWS/806100312/-1/rss04

One man shows

2011
- Portraits With Conversation: Fifty Writers With Anacoluthon. Museo Casa de Cervantes. Valladolid
  Valladolid
  Valladolid is a historic city and municipality in north-central Spain, situated at the confluence of the Pisuerga and Esgueva rivers, and located within three wine-making regions: Ribera del Duero, Rueda and Cigales...
  
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2010
- Perspective and Location. BigTown Gallery. Rochester, Vermont.
- La historia más larga de Bilbao jamás pintada. Galerías Epelde Mardaras & Catálogo General, Bilbao
  Bilbao
  Bilbao ) is a Spanish municipality, capital of the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country. With a population of 353,187 , it is the largest city of its autonomous community and the tenth largest in Spain...
  
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2009
- Public Portraits/Private Conversations. Hood Museum of Art
  Hood Museum of Art
  The Hood Museum of Art is a museum in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. Dating back to 1772, the museum is owned and operated by Dartmouth College and is connected to the Hopkins Center for the Arts. The current building, designed by Charles Willard Moore and Chad Flloyd, opened in the fall of 1985. It...
  
  and Baker Memorial Library
  Baker Memorial Library
  Fisher Ames Baker Memorial Library is the main library at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The fresco, The Epic of American Civilization, was painted by José Clemente Orozco in the lower level of Baker Library...
  
  , Dartmouth College
  Dartmouth College
  Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
  
  , Hanover, New Hampshire
  Hanover, New Hampshire
  Hanover is a town along the Connecticut River in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 11,260 at the 2010 census. CNN and Money magazine rated Hanover the sixth best place to live in America in 2011, and the second best in 2007....
  
  .
- Price Tower Arts Center, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
  Bartlesville, Oklahoma
  Bartlesville is a city in Osage and Washington counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The population was 43,070 at the 2010 census. Bartlesville is located forty-seven miles north of Tulsa and very close to Oklahoma's northern border with Kansas. It is the county seat of Washington County, in...
  
  .
- Well. Galería Trama. Barcelona
  Barcelona
  Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
  
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- Melvin Gallery. Florida Southern College
  Florida Southern College
  Florida Southern College is a private college located in Lakeland, Florida, United States. It was selected by U.S...
  
  . Lakeland, Florida
2008
- Nueva Inglaterra. Galería Leandro Navarro, Madrid
  Madrid
  Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
  
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- Retratos con conversación. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid. *
- Fallingwater En Perspectiva. The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg
  Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
  Harrisburg is the capital of Pennsylvania. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 49,528, making it the ninth largest city in Pennsylvania...
  
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2007
- Fallingwater En Perspectiva. The Barn at Fallingwater
  Fallingwater
  Fallingwater or Kaufmann Residence is a house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935 in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, 50 miles southeast of Pittsburgh...
  
  , Pennsylvania.
2006
- Penn at Braddock. Concept Art Gallery. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
2005
- Visiones de Nueva Inglaterra. Cooler Gallery. White River Junction, Vermont
  White River Junction, Vermont
  White River Junction is an unincorporated village and census-designated place in the town of Hartford in Windsor County, Vermont, United States...
  
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- Sala Luzán. Caja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada. Zaragoza
  Zaragoza
  Zaragoza , also called Saragossa in English, is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain...
2004
- Awarded artist in the 17 Bienal de Zamora. Museo Etnográfico de Castilla y León, y Fundación Rei Afonso Enriques, Zamora
- A Contrarreloj. A Race Against Time. The Frick Art & Historical Center
  Frick Art & Historical Center
  The Frick Art & Historical Center is a cluster of museums and historical buildings located at 7227 Reynolds Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States and collectively known as "Clayton"...
  
  , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- Museo Gustavo Maeztu, Estella.
- Galería Dieciseis. San Sebastián-Donosti.
- ARCO'04. Galería Dieciseis, Madrid.
2003
- Farewell to Pittsburgh. Concept Art Gallery. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

2002
- Galería Artnueve, Murcia
  Murcia
  -History:It is widely believed that Murcia's name is derived from the Latin words of Myrtea or Murtea, meaning land of Myrtle , although it may also be a derivation of the word Murtia, which would mean Murtius Village...
  
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- Lonja del Pescado. Ayuntamiento de Alicante, Alicante
  Alicante
  Alicante or Alacant is a city in Spain, the capital of the province of Alicante and of the comarca of Alacantí, in the south of the Valencian Community. It is also a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city of Alicante proper was 334,418, estimated , ranking as the second-largest...
  
  . Curator: Pedro A. Cruz.
- Galería Lourdes Carcedo, Burgos
  Burgos
  Burgos is a city of northern Spain, historic capital of Castile. It is situated at the edge of the central plateau, with about 178,966 inhabitants in the city proper and another 20,000 in its suburbs. It is the capital of the province of Burgos, in the autonomous community of Castile and León...
  
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- Pittsburgh, Galería Marlborough Madrid, Madrid
  Madrid
  Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
  
  .

2001
- Penn Avenue, from Pearl Street to Gross Street. Garfield Artworks. Presented by The Penn Arts Initiative (PAAI). Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- Diario de la Habana. Centro Cultural Español. Miami, Florida.

2000
- One A Day. 365 Views of the Cathedral of Learning. Alumni Hall
  Alumni Hall (University of Pittsburgh)
  Alumni Hall at the University of Pittsburgh is a Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark that was formerly known as the Masonic Temple in Pittsburgh. Constructed in 1914-1915, it was designed by renowned architect Benno Janssen of Janssen & Abbot Architects...
  
  (the old Masonic Temple). University of Pittsburgh
  University of Pittsburgh
  The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of...
  
  , Pennsylvania.

1999
- Columbus. Galería Antonio Machón, Madrid.http://pintura.aut.org/BU04?Autnum=16259&Empnum=0&Inicio=1
- One A Day. 365 Views of the Cathedral of Learning. Carnegie Museum of Art
  Carnegie Museum of Art
  The Carnegie Museum of Art, located in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is an art museum founded in 1895 by the Pittsburgh-based industrialist Andrew Carnegie...
  
  . Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Curator: Madeleine Grynsztejn. Text by Mark Francis.
- Doble-Double. Concept Art Gallery. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1998
- El espíritu del lugar. Galería Rafael Ortiz, Seville
  Seville
  Seville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...
  
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- Columbus Cornered. Columbus Museum of Art
  Columbus Museum of Art
  The Columbus Museum of Art is an art museum located in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Formed in 1878 as the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, it was the first art museum to register its charter with the state of Ohio.-Building:...
  
  , Columbus, Ohio
  Columbus, Ohio
  Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...
  
  . Curator: Annegreth Nill.

1997
- Fuera de campo. Galería Siboney, Santander.

1996
- Borderline. Galería Fúcares, Madrid.
- Escenarios para una larga temporada. Galería Antonio Machón, Madrid.

1995
- Veraneos en Santander. Museo de Bellas Artes. Santander. Curator: Juan Riancho
- El cuadro grande no cabe en el coche. Galería Fúcares, Almagro.
- Ciriego. Espacio Caja Burgos, Burgos.

1994
- Museo Universitario del Chopo, México D.F.
- Despliegues. Sala Cultural Caja España, Zamora. Sala San Torcuato de Caja España, Zamora. Casa de Cultura, Junta de Castilla y León. Galería Cirac, Zamora.
- Despliegues. Sala Cultural, Caja España, Valladolid.
- Despliegues. Casa de las Carnicerías de Caja España. Sala Cultural de Caja España, León.
- Galería Maese Nicolás, León.

1993
- Centro Cultural Español, Santiago de Chile.
- Sala Rómulo Gallegos del CELARG
  Rómulo Gallegos Center for Latin American Studies
  Rómulo Gallegos Center for Latin American Studies , is a foundation of the Venezuelan government for the study and promotion of Latin American culture, with emphasis on the life and work of Rómulo Gallegos.Created on July 30, 1974, by decree of the President of the National Institute of Culture and...
  
  , Caracas.
- Galería Antonia Jannone, Milán. Texto de Marina Corgnati
- Centro Cultural La Recoleta, Buenos Aires.
- Museo Juan B. Castagnino, Rosario-Argentina.
- Sala del Cabildo, Montevideo.
- Paesaggio di Passaggio. Temple Gallery, Rome.

1992
- Nueve Meses en Donna Olimpia. Galería Gamarra y Garrigues, Madrid.

1991
- One day exhibition of Nove Mesi a Donna Olimpia. Cortile di Donna Olimpia, Rome. Text by Ludovico Pratesi.
- Galería Clave, Murcia.

1989
- Galería Gamarra y Garrigues, Madrid. Text by Juan Hidalgo

1988
- ARCO'88. Galería Estampa, Madrid.

1986
- Galería Estampa, Madrid.

Works in museums and public collections

Hood Museum of Art
Hood Museum of Art
The Hood Museum of Art is a museum in Hanover, New Hampshire, USA. Dating back to 1772, the museum is owned and operated by Dartmouth College and is connected to the Hopkins Center for the Arts. The current building, designed by Charles Willard Moore and Chad Flloyd, opened in the fall of 1985. It...

. Hanover
Hanover, New Hampshire
Hanover is a town along the Connecticut River in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 11,260 at the 2010 census. CNN and Money magazine rated Hanover the sixth best place to live in America in 2011, and the second best in 2007....

, New Hampshire. USA.
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

Library, Hanover, New Hampshire. USA.
La Pedrera. Fundació Caixa Catalunya, Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...

. Spain
Caja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada, Zaragoza
Zaragoza
Zaragoza , also called Saragossa in English, is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain...

. Spain.
Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. USA.
Convention Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. USA.

Lonja de Alicante. Ayuntamiento de Alicante, Alicante. Spain.

The University of Pittsburgh’s
University of Pittsburgh
The University of Pittsburgh, commonly referred to as Pitt, is a state-related research university located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as Pittsburgh Academy in 1787 on what was then the American frontier, Pitt is one of the oldest continuously chartered institutions of...

Alumni Hall
Alumni Hall (University of Pittsburgh)
Alumni Hall at the University of Pittsburgh is a Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmark that was formerly known as the Masonic Temple in Pittsburgh. Constructed in 1914-1915, it was designed by renowned architect Benno Janssen of Janssen & Abbot Architects...

(previously the Masonic Temple), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. USA.
Carnegie Museum of Art
Carnegie Museum of Art
The Carnegie Museum of Art, located in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is an art museum founded in 1895 by the Pittsburgh-based industrialist Andrew Carnegie...

, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. USA.
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus
Columbus, Ohio
Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...

, Ohio
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...

. USA.
Colección La Caixa, Colecció Testimoni, Barcelona. Spain.
Teatro Real, Madrid. Spain.
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Madrid, Madrid. Spain.
Museo d'Arte Costantino Barbella. Italy.
Museo de Bellas Artes, Santander. Spain.
Colección Saldañuela, Caja Burgos, Burgos. Spain.
Ministerio de Cultura, Instituto de la Juventud, Madrid. Spain.
Ministerio de Defensa, Madrid. Spain.
Ayuntamiento de Albacete, Albacete. Spain.
Consejería de Cultura de Murcia, Murcia. Spain.
Colección Campsa. Madrid. Spain.
Colección Banco de España, Madrid. Spain.
Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid. Spain.

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