Juan Francisco Casas
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Juan Francisco Casas is a Spanish artist.
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), 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
.
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
University of Granada
The University of Granada is a public university located in Granada, Spain that enrolls approximately 80,000 students. The university also has campuses in Ceuta and Melilla. Every year, over 2,000 European students enroll in the UGR through the Erasmus Programme, making it the most popular...
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
University of Granada
The University of Granada is a public university located in Granada, Spain that enrolls approximately 80,000 students. The university also has campuses in Ceuta and Melilla. Every year, over 2,000 European students enroll in the UGR through the Erasmus Programme, making it the most popular...
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
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...
) and Galería El Museo (Bogotá
Bogotá
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, Colombia
Colombia
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), but he has also done collaborations with Galeria Luis Adelantado (Valencia–Miami), White Square Gallery (Las Vegas
Las Vegas metropolitan area
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) or Galeria Metta (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...
), 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
Giancarlo Politi
Giancarlo Politi is the founder of Flash Art Magazine.-Magazine:In 1967 he moved to Rome, where he started his own art magazine, called Flash, and then changed it to Flash Art...
, organized by Flash Art Magazine
Flash Art Magazine
Flash Art is a bimonthly magazine focusing on contemporary art. It was founded in Rome in 1967 by Italian publisher and art critic Giancarlo Politi. The magazine has been based in Milan, Italy since 1971...
, among other relevant international artists such as Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst
Damien Steven Hirst is an English artist, entrepreneur and art collector. He is the most prominent member of the group known as the Young British Artists , who dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s. He is internationally renowned, and is reportedly Britain's richest living artist,...
, Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan is an Italian artist based in New York. He is known for his satirical sculptures, particularly La Nona Ora , depicting the Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite....
and Neo Rauch
Neo Rauch
Neo Rauch is a German artist whose paintings mine the intersection of his personal history with the politics of industrial alienation. His work reflects the influence of socialist realism, and owes a debt to Surrealists Giorgio de Chirico and René Magritte, although Rauch hesitates to align...
.
In 2006, after residing in Berlin, he participated in the exhibition Catharsis - Rituals of Purification in the Museum Artium, Vitoria
Vitória
Vitória is the capital of the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil. It is located on a small island within a bay where a few rivers meet the sea. It was founded in 1551. The city proper has a population of 313,300 whilst the Greater Vitória metropolitan area has a population of more than 1,612,885 ,...
, (along with Antoni Tàpies
Antoni Tàpies
Antoni Tàpies i Puig, 1st Marquess of Tàpies is a Catalan painter. He is one of the most famous European artists of his generation. After studying law for 3 years, he devoted himself from 1943 onwards only to his painting...
, Antonio Saura
Antonio Saura
Antonio Saura was a Spanish artist and writer, one of the major post-war painters to emerge in Spain in the fifties whose work has marked several generations of artists and whose critical voice is often remembered.-Biography:He began painting and writing in 1947 in Madrid while suffering from...
, Miquel Barceló
Miquel Barcelo
Miquel Barceló is a Spanish painter from Felanitx, Majorca.-Career:After having studied at the Arts and Crafts School of Palma for two years, he enrolled at the Fine Arts School of Barcelona in 1974. A year later he returned to Mallorca to participate in the happenings and actions of protest of...
, Jorge Oteiza
Jorge Oteiza
Jorge Oteiza Enbil , was a Basque Spanish sculptor, painter, designer and writer, renowned for being one of the main theorists on Spanish modern art....
and Antoni Muntadas
Antoni Muntadas
Antoni Muntadas is a multidisciplinary, media artist, sometimes also referred to as Antonio Muntadas or, simply, Muntadas. Since 1971, he lives and works in New York. Muntadas was a Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT,1977–1984, and is currently Visiting Professor with...
) and The Sock Strategy in the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville, curated by Okwui Enwezor
Okwui Enwezor
Okwui Enwezor is an Igbo Nigerian-born American curator, art critic, writer, poet, educator, and specializing in art history. He lives in New York.- Biography :...
..
While living in Brighton
Brighton
Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...
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
Joseph Kosuth
Joseph Kosuth , is an American conceptual artist. Kosuth lives in New York and Rome.-Early life and career:Kosuth was born in Toledo, Ohio. He attended the Toledo Museum School of Design from 1955 to 1962 and studied privately under the Belgian painter Line Bloom Draper. In 1963, Kosuth enrolled at...
, as well as Kosuth's installation of his exhibition at La Casa Encendida in 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...
.
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
Instituto Cervantes
The Cervantes Institute is a worldwide non-profit organization created by the Spanish government in 1991. It is named after Miguel de Cervantes , the author of Don Quixote and perhaps the most important figure in the history of Spanish literature...
in New York
New York
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, Warsaw
Warsaw
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and Moscow, in the exhibition 10 Years of Art in the ABC Awards.
In 2010 he participated, along with artists such as Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement , with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists...
, Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching...
, Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Richter has simultaneously produced abstract and photorealistic painted works, as well as photographs and glass pieces, thus undermining the concept of the artist’s obligation to maintain a single cohesive style.- Biography :Gerhard Richter was born in...
, Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet was a French painter. One of the first 19th-century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism....
, Erwin Wurm
Erwin Wurm
Erwin Wurm is an Austrian artist born in Bruck an der Mur / Styria. He currently lives and works in Vienna and Limburg, Austria.Since the late 1980s he has developed an ongoing series of "One Minute Sculptures", in which he poses himself or his models in unexpected relationships with everyday...
, Robert Longo
Robert Longo
Robert Longo is an American painter and sculptor. Longo became famous in the 1980s for his "Men in the Cities" series, which depicted sharply dressed businessmen writhing in contorted emotion.-Early life and education:...
, Chuck Close
Chuck Close
Charles Thomas "Chuck" Close is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits...
, Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Philip-Lorca diCorcia is an American photographer. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Afterwards diCorcia attended Yale University where he received a Master of Fine Arts in Photography in 1979. He now lives and works in New York, and teaches at Yale University in New...
, Rineke Dijkstra
Rineke Dijkstra
Rineke Dijkstra is a female Dutch photographer.-Life and work:Dijkstra concentrates on single portraits, and usually works in series, looking at groups such as adolescents, clubbers, and soldiers. Her subjects are often shown standing, facing the camera, against a minimal background...
, Otto Dix
Otto Dix
Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix was a German painter and printmaker, noted for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of Weimar society and the brutality of war. Along with George Grosz, he is widely considered one of the most important artists of the Neue Sachlichkeit.-Early life and...
, Richard Estes
Richard Estes
Richard Estes is an American artist, best known for his photorealist paintings. The paintings generally consist of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometric landscapes. He is regarded as one of the founders of the international photo-realist movement of the late 1960s, with such painters...
, Franz Gertsch
Franz Gertsch
Franz Gertsch is a Swiss painter known for his large format hyperrealistic portraits.Gertsch was born 1930 in Mörigen, Switzerland. Between 1947 and 1952 he studied with Max von Mühlenen and Hans Schwarzenbach in Bern. In 1972, he took part in the documenta 5 in Kassel. Franz Gertsch's...
, Julian Opie
Julian Opie
Julian Opie is a visual artist, and one of the New British Sculpture movement.-Life and work:Julian Opie was raised in Oxford, England, where he attended the Dragon School and Magdalen College School. He attended Goldsmith's School of Art in London from 1979-82...
, Sam Taylor-Wood
Sam Taylor-Wood
Samantha "Sam" Taylor-Wood OBE , born Samantha Taylor, is an English filmmaker, photographer, and visual artist. Her directorial feature film debut came in 2009 with Nowhere Boy, a film based on the childhood experiences of The Beatles songwriter and singer John Lennon...
and Andreas Gursky
Andreas Gursky
Andreas Gursky is a German visual artist known for his enormous architecture and landscape color photographs, often employing a high point of view...
, in the impressive display Realismus. Das Abenteuer der Wirklichkeit (Realism The Adventure of Reality) in the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung Museum, Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
, at the Kunsthal Museum Rotterdam
Rotterdam
Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and one of the largest ports in the world. Starting as a dam on the Rotte river, Rotterdam has grown into a major international commercial centre...
and at the Kunsthalle Museum in Emden
Emden
Emden is a city and seaport in the northwest of Germany, on the river Ems. It is the main city of the region of East Frisia; in 2006, the city had a total population of 51,692.-History:...
(Germany), and in the group show After Post (beyond photography) with Vik Muniz
Vik Muniz
Vicente José de Oliveira Muniz, known as Vik Muniz , is a visual artist living in New York City.-Early career:Muniz began his career as a sculptor in the late 1980s after relocating from Brazil to Chicago and later to New York. His early work grew out of a post-Fluxus aesthetic and often involved...
, Gregory Crewdson
Gregory Crewdson
Gregory Crewdson is an American photographer who is best known for elaborately staged scenes of American homes and neighborhoods.-Life and career:Crewdson was born in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY...
, Helena Almeida, John Baldessari
John Baldessari
John Anthony Baldessari is an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lives and works in Santa Monica and Venice, California...
, Luis Gordillo and Sherrie Levine
Sherrie Levine
Sherrie Levine is an American photographer and appropriation artist.-Education:Levine received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1969. In 1973, she earned an M.F.A. from the same institution....
. 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
Alex Katz
Alex Katz is an American figurative artist associated with the Pop art movement. In particular, he is known for his paintings, sculptures, and prints and is represented by numerous galleries internationally.-Life and work:...
, General Idea
General Idea
General Idea was a collective of three Canadian artists, Felix Partz, Jorge Zontal and AA Bronson, who were active from 1967 to 1994.As pioneers of early conceptual and media-based art, their collaboration became a model for artist-initiated activities and continues to be a prominent influence on...
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
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...
, 2005, 2008 and 2010), MyLovingNation (Galería Ferran Cano, Palma de Mallorca
Palma de Mallorca
Palma is the major city and port on the island of Majorca and capital city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. The names Ciutat de Mallorca and Ciutat were used before the War of the Spanish Succession and are still used by people in Majorca. However, the official name...
, 2007), Sacrebleu! (Sandunga Gallery, Granada
Granada
Granada is a city and the capital of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the confluence of three rivers, the Beiro, the Darro and the Genil. It sits at an elevation of 738 metres above sea...
, 2006), Mis(s)behave (Sala Rivadavia, Diputación Provincial de Cádiz
Cádiz
Cadiz is a city and port in southwestern Spain. It is the capital of the homonymous province, one of eight which make up the autonomous community of Andalusia....
, 2006) and participated in the most important art fairs in the world. Exhibitions in New York
New York
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, Miami, Seoul
Seoul
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, Singapore
Singapore
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, London, Paris, Rome, Mexico
Mexico
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and Basel
Basel
Basel or Basle In the national languages of Switzerland the city is also known as Bâle , Basilea and Basilea is Switzerland's third most populous city with about 166,000 inhabitants. Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany...
, 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
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...
.
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