Irene Grau

Resume

Solo Exhibitions

2018    
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI, United States
natural structure, Robert Henry Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY, US
The Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland DIDAC
2017    
Las afueras., Maus Contemporary, Birmingham, Alabama, US
2016    
Blind Wall on-site installation in the former sawmill of J. B. Negro in Agolada, Pontevedra, curated by Álvaro Negro -metría Centro de Arte Alcobendas, Alcobendas (Madrid), Spain
2015    
▲ , Maus Contemporary | beta pictoris gallery, Birmingham, Alabama, US
LO QUE IMPORTABA ESTABA EN LA LÍNEA, NO EN EL EXTREMO, Ponce+Robles, Madrid, Spain
2012    
IDA, VUELTA, IDA, Centro Cívico Sagunto, Sagunt, Spain
2011    
LA SOMBRA ÚLTIMA Alejandro Bataller, Valencia, Spain

Group Exhibitions

2018    
Bajo el brazo. Entre la palma de la mano y la axila, curated by Ángel Calva Ulloa, CaixaForum, Barcelona Generaciones, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Ateliê Fidalga, São Paulo, Brazil
2017     
eine Ausstellung in drei Teilen, Heike Strelow Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany (Fall of 2017)
Material Consciousness, curated by Ángel Calva Ulloa, Maus Contemporary, Birmingham, AL, US
13 Bienal de Lalín, curated by Angel Calvo Ulloa, Lalín Museum, Galicia, Spain
Prelude to a Landscape, curated by Martim Dias, Carlos Carvalho, Lisbon, Portugal
On Traslation, curated by Johanna Caplliure, Centre del Carme, Valencia, Spain
Colección XIV. Pública, CA2M Museum, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
2016   
terreno áspero | rugged terrain, five contemporary artists from Spain, Maus Contemporary, Birmingham, AL, US
El curso natural de las cosas, curated by Tania Pardo, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
MAP / Manifestation d'Art Public #5, curated by par ShanDynamiques. Cerbère, France
Cuestionamiento I Territorio, curated by Martim Dias, Guimarães, Portugal
La fotografía ha muerto, Colección Alcobendas. Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Huarte, Navarra, Spain Forjando el espacio, Colección DKV. MUPAM, Málaga
Cuestionamiento I Territorio, curated by Martim Dias, Sala de Arte Joven de la Comunidad de Madrid
2014     
LOS OJOS DE LAS VACAS, curated by David Barro, Ponce+Robles, Madrid, Spain
2013     
SUSTRATOS, The Institut Valencià d'Art Modern / IVAM, Valencia, Spain
IDOLATRIA VA, curated by Marcelo Campos. Galeria Laura Marsiaj, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
IN MEDIAS RES, Palau Ducal dels Borja, Gandia, Spain
PRESENCE AND FIGURE, Centro del Carmen, Valencia, Spain
2012    
MUTATIS MUTANDIS, curated by Marcelo Campos. Galeria Moura Marsiaj, Sao Paulo, Brazil
FOUNDATION MAINEL PAINTING AWARD (15TH EDITION) Mainel Foundation, Valencia, Spain
PRESENCE AND FIGURE Lonja del Pescado, Alicante, Spain
FERRAN GISBERT / IRENE GRAU / RAFA MORATA. THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE Galería I Leonarte, Valencia, Spain
ROOMART 2012. Alrededor del papel, Sala de exposiciones del Rectorado de la UPV, Valencia, Spain
2011    
SWAB INTERNACIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART SHOW, Barcelona.
CARTOGRAFÍAS DE LA CREATIVIDAD 100% VALENCIANOS, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales (CDAV), La Habana, Cuba
ESPACIO ATLÁNTICO INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART SHOW, Vigo, Spain
2010    
IKAS ART 2010. Bilbao Exhibition Centre (BEC), Bilbao, Spain
CARTOGRAFÍAS DE LA CREATIVIDAD 100% VALENCIANOS. Centro del Carmen, Valencia and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
I. GRAU / P. FISCHER / K. ZUZACOVA, Michele Balmelli Gallery. Belinzona, Spain
COLECTIVA A 3, J.M.SANTAELLA / I.GRAU / C.DOMINGO. Galería Alejandro Bataller, Valencia, Spain FIGURAMA 2010. Itinerancia: Prague / Valencia / Pilsen / Nitra / Banská Bystrica / Písek.
2009    
GRAU / ROBERTSON / WIDMER, Gallery Rätus Casty. Davos, Spain
2008    
ART<30_2008, Sala Parés. Barcelona / Galeria exterior Banc Sabadell. Barcelona, Spain\

Collections

CA2M Museum, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
M. C. MASAVEU PETERSON Foundation, Madrid, Spain
DKV Foundation, Valencia, Spain
Centro de Arte Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain
Iberdrola Collection, Madrid and Bilbao, Spain
RICE ATLANTIC Collection, Hong Kong
private collections in Europe, Asia, and the United States

Publications

2018    
Irene Grau - a survey, Maus Contemporary, 180 pages (forthcoming)
2016   
terreno áspero | rugged terrain, five contemporary artists from Spain, Maus Contemporary, 66 pages El curso natural de las cosas / The Natural Flow of Things, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, 164 pages Cuestionamiento, Comunidad de Madrid, 161 pages
2015    
Irene Grau. Going out in search of painting. Maus Contemporary, 16 pages
Sobre lo que resta en Lo que importaba estaba en la línea, no en el extremo. Una conversación entre Irene Grau
y Álvaro Negro, Ponce+Robles, 12 pages
2014    
Antes de irse. 40 ideas sobre la pintura, Dardo, 276 pages

Prizes and Fellowships and Residencies

2018   
Residency and exhibition at Ateliê Fidalga, São Paulo, Brazil
Residency and exhibition at The Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2017  
Residency (ongoing) and exhibition (2018) at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI, United States Recipient of the Generaciones 2018 Prize, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
Recipient of Premio Mardel Artes Visuales 2017
2016  
Résidence Artistique ShanDynamiques, Cerbère, France
Inclusion on the Forbes list 30 under 30 in the section Arts-Europe 2016
2015
Solo exhibition ‘Lo que importaba estaba en la línea, no en el extremo’ (‘What mattered was on the line, not at the end’), won the Award for best exhibition project of the Off Festival
PhotoEspaña’15 with the Ponce+Robles gallery in Madrid, Spain
2014
Résidence Artistique Centre d’art et de photographie of Lectoure (CAPL), France

Education

2016        
PhD in Fine Arts from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
2011-15     
FPU Scholarship for PhD studies at Universitat Politècnica de València. Ministry of Education of Spain
2009-10    
MFA in Artistic Production. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain.
2010        
Scholarship for Academic Excellence. Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain.
2007-08    
BFA studies at Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo, Italia.
2004-09    
Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts. Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain