(Santiago de Chile, 1967). The artist has lived and worked in Barcelona since 1990. He studied painting at the Massana School in Barcelona in 1993, having taken his degree in Art from the University of Chile in 1996. MA in Painting from the University of Barcelona in 2000. In 2010, he won the City of Palma Antonio Gelabert Prize for the Visual Arts. Over the course of his career, he has received numerous awards and grants, such as a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (New York, 2006-2007) and the Fondart prize (2003). He was artist-in-residence at the Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Köln (Cologne, 2002-2003), and received the Grant of Honour of the President of the Republic of the Chilean Government (1997-2000), the Pilar Juncosa y Sotheby’s Special Prize (1994) and the Eighth Miquel Casablanca Prize for Painting (1992).

His most outstanding recent projects include Auschwitz/Birkenau. Riu Vistula and Sola (2012), presented at the Meditations Biennale in Poznan; El nacimiento del mundo (2011), exhibited at the Joan Miró Foundation; Gran Sur (2011), for the Chile Pavilion at the Venice Biennale; and Catch on the fly (2009), presented at the Sala La Gallera gallery in Valencia.

Biography written in 2012