FONTCUBERTA, Joan
Barcelona, 1955
www.fontcuberta.com
Fontcuberta has developed a plural and extensive career in the world of photography as creator, teacher, critic and curator. He has taught at different centres and universities in Europe and the United States, collaborating in art and image journals. His work includes reflections on the very functioning of photography, where each series challenges the public’s confidence in the truthfulness of it and in its function as a system of representation. He was the first Spanish photographer to win the prestigious Hasselblad Prize (2013), considered the Nobel Prize of Photography. He also won the National Photography Prize awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Spain (1998) and, among others, the David Octavius Hill Prize given by Fotografische Akademie GDL (Germany, 1988).
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2014
Stranger than Fiction, Science Museum, London
2013 Hasselblad Prize, Art Museum of Gothenburg
ParisPhoto, Paris
2008
Botánica oculta (Hidden botany), Photomuseim, Zarautz
Deconstructing Osama, Fundación La Caixa, Lleida/ Fundación Octubre, València
Des monstres et des prodiges, Musée-Château, Annecy
Espejismos, Monastery of San Benito, Valladolid/University of Santiago
Googlegrams, Galerie Braunbehrens, Munich/Instituto Cervantes (Naples, Peking)
Palacete del Embarcadero, Santander
Sputnik, Artothèque, Annecy/Musée Gassendi, Digne
Tierras de nadie (No man’s land), Centro Cultural Miguel Castillejo, Jaen/Exhibition Halls Cajasur, Còrdoba
2007
Datascapes, Espace Virtuel, Chicoutimi (Canada)/Galerie VU, Quebec
Deconstructing Osama, Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, Palma de Mallorca
Googlegrams, Fernando Silió, Santander/My Name’s Lolita, Madrid/Galería Visor, Valencia
2006
Landscapes without Memory, Aperture Foundation, New York
Googlegrams, Zabriskie Gallery, New York
New Equivalents, Artcore Gallery, Toronto
Contravisions, Pavilion des Arts, Aix-en-Provence
Orogenesis, Galeria Cadaqués Dos, Cadaqués
2006
Datascapes, Artcore Gallery, Toronto
Datascapes, Galeria Cadaqués Dos, Cadaqués
Googlegrams, Zabriskie Gallery, Nova York
Landscapes without Memory, Aperture Foundation, Nova York
L’ull, la càmara i la guitarra, Convent de Sant Salvador, Horta de Sant Joan
Perfida Imago (Perfid Imago), Pavilion Vendôme, Aix-en-Provence
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