Hugo Alonso

About

Lives and works in Salamanca, Spain

Trained at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Salamanca and Rome, Hugo Alonso develops exhibition projects of heterogeneous nature. Initially pictorial, his work has been expanding into other fields such as video and sound or audiovisual installation. In the last few years Alonso has been working on a project in which he explores the relationship between cinematic reality and our everyday life. Movies are Alonso’s source of visual and conceptual resources. He’s interested in our sense of permission with movies, how, due to their fictional nature, they approach unimaginable subjects within the social codes that make a reality such as ours remain regulated. Recurring motifs in the history of painting such as the landscape, the house, the salon, or the figure often play a major role in his work, as a cinematographic plane that goes from the general to the singular. Each painting, seemingly normal, encloses some enigma, some unstable element, that places the image close to the conventional but in a different terrain, supposedly familiar but really unknown.

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
PRELUDE of a Sci-Fi Film Noir, Galerie Youn, Montreal, Canada (2022)
CRASH, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2022)
AUDIO, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2022)
The white door, Llamazares Gallery, Gijón, Spain (2021)
Smells like teen spirit, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2021)
Undone, DA2, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain (2020)
November, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2017)
RAW, Galerie Youn, Montreal, Canada (2017)
Blonde, Pigment Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2016)
Pendulum, CEART, Madrid, Spain (2016)
Believers, La Salina, Salamanca, Spain (2015)
Drop, DA2, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain (2010)
Frederick Treves and the surgeon’s room, Salvador Díaz Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2010)
Paintingdrome, DA2, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain (2007)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
La Terre est bleue comme une orange, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2024)
Protection No Longer Assured, Colección SOLO, Madrid, Spain (2023)
Nuevos Paisajes, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid, Spain (2023)
Intimate Exchanges, Mon Dieu Projects, Los Angeles, USA (2023)
New Landscapes, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2023)
Youniverse, Galerie Youn, Montreal, Canada (2022)
Floralia, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2022)
Le jardin, miroir du monde, Château du Rivau, Lémeré, France (2022)
COME WHAT MAY, Aeroplastics Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (2021)
The clown Spirit, Ronny Van De Velde Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium (2020)
Bailar de Arquitectura, Fernán Gómez, Madrid, Spain (2019)
Las formas de la luz, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2019)
TOC, DA2, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain (2016)
Poétique quotidienne, Galerie Youn, Montreal, Canada (2016)
This is not a love song, Pera Museum, Instanbul, Turkey (2015)
Expanded light: new technologies in Spanish videoart, Telefónica Foundation, Madrid, Spain (2015)
Art and Videoclip, Loop Festival, Barcelona, Spain (2012)
Generación, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain (2008)
Della Pittura Digitalis, Caprice Horn Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2007)
Mixed Emotions, DA2, Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, Spain (2008)
Existence, MUSAC, León, Spain (2007)
Heterotopies, Oktogon HfBK, Dresden, Germany (2007).

AWARDS
Masaveu Fundation Acquisition Award UVNT Art Fair (2024)
Bassat Fundation Acquisition Award UVNT Art Fair (2024)
Colección SOLO Acquisition Award UVNT Art Fair (2023)
Gold Medal at the International Exhibition Valdepeñas (2022)
Colección Rucandio Award, Madrid, Spain (2019)
Art Madrid Noca Paper Best Solo Project (2016)
Gaceta Fundation Young Painters Prize (2013)
Young Art Castilla y León Institution (2011)
Painting Prize Caja España (2008)
Optica Videoart Prize (2008/2007)
Young Artists Prize Castilla y León Caja Burgos (2007)

ART FAIRS
ART ROTTERDAM, Alzueta Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2024)
ART ON PAPER, Alzueta Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (2023)
ARTE SANTANDER, Galería Llamazares, Santander, Spain (2023)
ART MIAMI, Alzueta Gallery, Miami, USA (2022)
ART TORONTO, Galerie Youn, Toronto, Canada (2022)
ESTAMPA, Galería Llamazares, Madrid, Spain (2022)
UVNT, Galería Llamazares, Madrid, Spain (2022)
MADRID ART WEEK, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid Spain (2022)
ESTAMPA, Galería Llamazares, Madrid, Spain (2021)
ART MADRID, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid Spain (2021)
JUST MAD, Galería Llamazares, Madrid, Spain (2020)
ART MIAMI, Alzueta Gallery, Miami, USA (2019)
ART TORONTO, Galerie Youn, Toronto, Canada (2019)
ART ÉLYSÉES, Alzueta Gallery, Paris, France (2019)
ART PARIS, Alzueta Gallery, Paris, France (2019)
ART MADRID, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid Spain (2019)
ZONAMACO, Alzueta Gallery, CDMX, Mexico (2018)
ART MIAMI, Alzueta Gallery, Miami, USA (2018)
ART ÉLYSÉES, Alzueta Gallery, Paris, France (2018)
TEXAS CONTEMPORARY, Pigment Gallery, Houston, USA (2018)
ART MARBELLA, Alzueta Gallery, Marbella, Spain (2018)
VOLTA, Galerie Youn, Basel, Switzerland (2018)
SEATTLE ART FAIR, Galerie Youn, Seattle, USA (2018)
ART PARIS, Alzueta Gallery, Paris, France (2018)
ART ON PAPER NY, Pigment Gallery, New York, USA (2018)
ART MADRID, Alzueta Gallery, Madrid Spain (2018)
ART MIAMI, Pigment Gallery, Miami, USA (2017)
SEATTLE ART FAIR, Galerie Youn, Seattle, USA (2017)

ARTWORKS IN COLLECTIONS
Colección SOLO (Madrid)
MUSAC (Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y León)
DA2 (Contemporary Art Museum Domus Artium 2002)
CAB (Contemporary Art Museum Burgos)
Pilar Citoler Collection
Bassat Collection
MASAVEU Fundation
BMW Fundation
CEART (Contemporary Art Museum Tomás y Valiente)
Diputación de Salamanca
Gaceta Foundation
Caja España

He was invited by The New York Times Magazine to create a specific artwork for the October 2017 cover.