Jorge Nava

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Gijón, Spain, 1980

PRIZES & RESIDENCES
Glogauair Residence, Berlin (2019)
Fiskarsair Residence. Fiskars. Finland (2018)
Second Price Painting Park Natural Peaks Of Europe (2018)
Artistic Productions Municipal Foundation Of Culture, Gijón (2016)
V Encontros Novos, Ciudad De La Cultura, Santiago De Compostela (2015)
Al Norte Grant (2015)
Artistic Productions Municipal Foundation Of Culture, Gijón (2010)
First Prize Award Painting Noreña (2007-2009)
First Prize Muestra De Artes Plasticas De Asturias (2007)
International Residence With Enrique Marty, Blanca, Murcia (2007)
Erasmus Grant Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee, Prof. Katharina Grosse (2006)
Talens Grant (2005)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Punto y línea sobre plano, Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2021)
Like Bees To The Honey, Space 1, Ccai, Gijon (2018)
Vagos y Maleantes, Arancha Osoro Gallery, Oviedo (2016)
La Otra Familia, Barjola Museum, Gijon (2015)
Payasos, Valey, Cultural Center Of Castrillon (2015)
Remakes, Nomada Gallery, Gijon (2014)
Seres Vivos, Guillermina Caicoya Gallery, Oviedo (2013)
El Sótano, Ccai, Antiguo Instituto, Gijón (2011)
La Habitación De La Carne, Borágine Gallery, Avilés (2011)
Sótano Tv, Artist’s Studio, Gijon (2010)
A Ninguna Parte, Atm Altamira Gallery, Gijón (2009)
Todavia Vivo, Borrón Gallery, Oviedo (2008)
Aditamentos, Atm Altamira Gallery, Gijon (2006)
Todo Lo Mío, Borron Gallery, Oviedo (2004)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Open Studios Glogauair Residence, Berlin (2019)
Fiskarsair Residency, Finland (2018)
Intense, Sabadell-Herrero Bank Space, Oviedo (2018)
Primitive Estructure, Jorge Nava & Job Sanchez, Espacio Liquido Gallery, Gijon (2016)
Cajas, Contemporary Ceramics In Asturias, Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias, Oviedo (2015)
Arancha Osoro Gallery, Oviedo (2015)
Bea Villlamarin Gallery, Gijon (2015)
Arancha Osoro Gallery, Oviedo (2014)
Lola Orato Gallery, Oviedo (2014)
Ecolab, Laboral Museum, Gijón (2011)

ART FAIRS
Art Madrid, Alzueta Gallery (2020)
Manchester Contemporary Art Fair, Espacio Liquido Gallery (2019)
Art Marbella Fair, Arancha Osoro Gallery (2018)
Justlx Lisbon Fair, Arancha Osoro Gallery (2018)
Oviedo Artfair, Arancha Osoro Gallery (2016)
Art Madrid. Arancha Osoro Gallery (2016)
Oviedo Art Fair (2014)
Arco, Atm Altamira Gallery (2011)
Arco, Atm Altamira Gallery (2010)
Festival Intercéltico De Loriant, Francia (2009)
Circa Fair, Atm Altamira Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico, (2009)
Scope Art Fair, Atm Altamira Gallery, New York (2008)
Las Cruces Del Arte, Asturias, Madrid, Bruselas (2008)
Circa Fair, Atm Altamira Fair, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2008)
Photo Miami Art Basel Fair, Atm Altamira Fair (2007)
Muestra De Artes Plásticas De Asturias (2007)
Government Delegation In Madrid, Asturias (2007)
Outsiders, Epelde & Mardaras Gallery, Bilbao (2007)
Circa Fair, Atm Altamira Gallery, Puerto Rico (2007)

ARTWORKS IN COLLECTIONS
Talens Foundation, Barcelona
Private Collection, Spain
Private Collection, EE.UU
Museo De Bellas Artes La Habana, Cuba
Maria Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation
Alicia Aza Collection
Gobierno Principado de Asturias

PUBLICATIONS
Intensa, Sabadell Space Bank, Catallog, Oviedo (2019)
Boxes Contemporary Ceramic In Asturias, Bellas Artes Museum, Catallog, Oviedo (2016)
Arte Y Parte Magazine, Nº102, Pag. 92. (2013)
Art, Es Magazine Nº 12, 13, 16

About

Jorge Nava’s unique art originates and evolves from abstraction and its cornerstones are to be found in the relationship between form, colour and gesture as well as in the overlapping between the pictorial and the poetic.

His language has evolved from a primary phase, where the artistic process was based on observation, intuition and improvisation as a way to materialize sensitive experiences, to the current stage of consolidation of a more formal language, in which the organic forms of the previous period have been replaced by geometric figures (circles and squares) and the basic elements of graphic expression (points and lines) which have been erected as the nuclear elements of his discourse along with a narrow range of colours, usually two (bicromía).

Greatly influenced by American abstract expressionism, Jorge Nava’s paintings are an elaborate work of artistic synthesis, where philosophy, poetry and contemplation are interweaved in an increasingly refined language that, regardless of superfluous elements, configures a unique space where gestures and forms enable a long-lasting and pleasant aesthetic experience.