PROFESIONAL INFORMATION AND TRAINING:
EDUCATION:
2011 PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Basque Country
2008 Diplomatura in Graphic Design
2002 Doctoral Certificate from the University of Basque Country
2001 M.A. from the University of Deusto, Bilbao. Specialised Diploma in Contemporary Basque Art
2000 B.F.A. from the University of Basque Country
1987-89 Arquitectural Studies at the Polytechnic in San Sebastian
FURTHER TRAINING:
2018 Conference on Artistic Practice-based Research. laSIA Investigation Group, UPV/EHU. Sala Rekalde, Bilbao 2015 Book edition course by Grafilur. BilbaoArte, Bilbao 2011 – Advances in vision. Discussion with experts. Directed by Celia Sánchez-Ramos. Menendez Pelayo International University, Santander (Grant) – Serigraph expanded: from paper to silkscreen intervention. BilbaoArte Foundation, Bilbao – The art of storytelling. Creative writing workshop (part 1). Directed by Luisa Etxenike. Artium Museum, Vitoria 2010 Seminar on painting by Mari Puri Herrero. BilbaoArte Foundation, Bilbao 2006 – Technarte. International Conference on Art & Technology. Association Innovalia. Bilbao – The visual artists facing the reform of Copyright Law. Meeting directed by Javier Moscoso del Prado. Menendez pelayo International University, Santander (Grant) 2005 – Unknown landscapes, hidden territories. Geographies of invisibility. Third International Workshop on Landscape. Menendez Pelayo International Universiy, Barcelona Partnership. Ernest Lluch Center. Olot (Grant) – Computer Vision. Summer Courses at the University of Cantabria. Department of Electronics and Enginering Technology and Automatic Systems, Santander (Grant)- The three forms of human life: inner, private, public. Master Class led by Carlos Castilla del Pino. Menendez Pelayo International University, Santander (Grant) – Italy between cinema, litetature and society. Summer Courses at the Foundation Keen Juan Carlos University, Aranjuez (Grant) 2004 Human Body in Contemporary Art. Master Class led by Juan Antonio Ramírez. UIMP, Santander 2002 – III Seminar on Graphics. BilbaoArte Foundation. Contemporary Art Centre, Bilbao – Workshop on painting by Inaki de la Fuente. BilbaoArte Foundation, Bilbao 2000 V International Course on Painting and Sculpture in Jerez de la Frontera. Autumn Courses at the University of Cadiz (Grant)CV Lourdes de la Villa Liso 2
LANGUAGES
Euskera C1 (HABE)
Inglés B2 (Cambridge First Certificate)
Italiano B2 (Aptitud. Escuela Oficial de Idiomas)
GRANTS
2016
Grant for participation in international exhibitions. Diffusion of Plastic and Visual Arts. Etxepare Basque Institute
2014
Grant to the Plastic and Visual Arts. Modality of Publications. Basque government
Grant to the Plastic and Visual Arts. Modality of Creation-Production. Basque government
2012
Visual Arts Grant. County Council of Bizkaia
2010
Fellowship exchange of artists from Kunthaus Bregenz (Austria) and BilbaoArte Foundation
Resident Scholarship. BilbaoArte Foundation and Bilbao Bizkaia Kutxa Foundation, Bilbao
2006-2007
Predoctoral Fellowship from the Department of Education, Universities and Research of the Basque Government. Contract internship at the University of the Basque Country
2006 – 2003
Predoctoral Fellowship from the Department of Education, Universities and Research of the Basque Government.
2003
Grant to attend the debates in the Forum at the Institute of Contemporary Art in ARCO 2003 Art Fair, Madrid
2002-2003
Grant to collaborate in the Library. Faculty of Fine Arts. University of the Basque Country
2002
Grant for work experience at the Fine Arts Museum Foundation in Bilbao. Lybrary
2001
Grant from the Ministry of Labour and Economy in the Community of Madrid. Workshop
Exposition on Iberoamerican painting. At the Tradefair Juan Carlos I
Talens Inc. Grant, Barcelona 2000 Erasmus Grant. Academy of Fine Arts in Venice Italy
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2016
Bregenz-Bilbao, Bildraum Bodensee, Bregenz, Austria *
Diálogos (Vol.1). Sueño del observador. Lourdes de la Villa / Implosión Impugnada 22: Estado de sitio. Rafael Tormo i Cuenca. Octubre Centre de
Cultura Contemporània, Valencia
2015
Diálogos (Vol.1). Sueño del observador. Lourdes de la Villa / Implosión Impugnada 22: Estado de sitio. Rafael Tormo i Cuenca. Sala Portalea. Eibar
Curator: Izaskun Etxebarria
2011
Edición múltiple (Multiple Editing). Curated by Erreakzioa-Reacción. Bizkaia Aretoa Paraninfo, Bilbao
2010
Artist exchange Bilbao-Voralberg. Galerie Stephanie Hollenstein, Lustenau
Egoileak 2010 residentes, BilbaoArte Foundation, Bilbao *
2007
Paisajismos. Land_scapes. Curated by Izaskun Etxebarria. Espacio Abisal. Bilbao
V Competition of Fine Arts, College of Engineering of roads, canals and ports of the Basque Country
2005
Le cloître 2005. Mémoire des lieux. Assotiation com’art. Cathedrale de Bayonne
IV Biennale art contemporain de Navarre. St. Jean Pied de Port – Donibane Garazi *
2004
II Competition of Fine Arts Conxemar 2004 . Caixanova Social Center. Vigo *
VIII Art Contest Campus of Aava, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria. (Award-acquisition of a work)
2003
Artists’ books. El Pasillo. Pamplona
Kabinart. 25 Arte Nagusia. Bilbao *
3e Biennale des Arts Plastiques de Navarre. St. Jean Pied de Port – Donibane Garazi *
I Edition of GetxoArte. Emerging Arts Room. Las Arenas * 2002 – Artistic Patrimony at the University of the Basque Country. X Assembly. * (Award-acquisition of a work)
Regalo – Objeto – Navidad (Gift-Object-Christmas) Galería Catálogo General. Bilbao.
100 artists. Catálogo General Gallery. Bilbao.
II Bianual on Figure and Realism. Clave Gallery. Murcia. *
4ª Showing of the Catalogo General Gallery. Bilbao
I Competition Nadar Photography. Algorta
Artistic Patrimony at the University of the Basque Country. IX Assembly. Leioa *
2001
Talens Fund for Young Art. Vixtoria Hidalgo Gallery, Madrid. Art Space Acea’s Launch of Conteporary Artist, Barcelona
Workshop-Exposition on Iberoamerican Painting – Within the Sample of New Tendancies and New Tech nology section. Madrid, Ifema, Building 1 *
I Edition of GetxoArte. Emerging Arts Room. Las Arenas *
Erasmus 1999-2000. Araba Room, Vitoria, Municipal Room, Baracaldo *
I Concurso de fotografía del Consejo de estudiantes de la Facultad de Ciencias. University of the Basque Country. Leioa. (Accesit)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2015
Tramoyas – Atmósferas. Etapa 1. Torre de Ariz, Basauri *
Sueño del observador (Dream of the observer) Patio de Cristal de Fundación BilbaoArte, Bilbao
2014
Sueño del observador (Dream of the observer). Gabinete Abstracto de Sala Rekalde, programa Barriek, Bilbao
2012
Lourdes de la Villa Liso. Virtual exhibition in “Art Aretoa”, Euskonews, 628 ISSN: 1139-3629 http://www.euskonews.com/artaretoa/0628zbk/curriculum_es.html
Secuencia imaginada (Imagined Sequence) BilbaoArte Foundation. Bilbao *
2007
Un lugar desde donde construir ‘lo visual’, pensar ‘lo humano’, habitar ‘lo real’ (A place from which to build ‘the visual’ think ‘the human’ live ‘the real’. Exhibition Room of the city of Sopelana
Secuencia imaginada. Nivel 2 y 3. (Imagined Sequence. Levels 2 & 3) Berango Hall of Culture
2002
Historia de un ojo (Story of an eye). Algorata Hall of Culture
2001
Maes Gallery. Madrid
* Catalog
Works in collections:
Bilbaoarte Foundation – Collection of Iberoamerican Painting in the Comunity of Madrid – Talens Inc. Collection of Young Art. Barcelona – Artistic Patrimony for the University of the Basque Country, Campus of Biscay, Campus of Alava – Galería Cecilia Colman. Londres – Jazz Group Communication Agency. Logroño – Private Collections in Spain, Holland & England
PUBLICATIONS
– DE LA VILLA LISO, Lourdes, “Aproximación a la figura del observador como forma específica de memoria” («Approach to the figure of the observer as a specific form of memory»), en Libro de Actas. II Congreso Internacional en Artes Visuales: Real /Virtual, ANIAV Asociación Nacional de Investigación en Artes Visuales, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, 2015, (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
http://ocs.editorial.upv.es/index.php/ANIAV/ANIAV2015/paper/viewFile/1172/599
– DE LA VILLA LISO, Lourdes, “Lo visual como construcción” (“Visual as construction”) “Gaiak”, Euskonews, 634 zenbakia, 2012 ISSN: 1139-3629 http://www.euskonews.com/0634zbk/gaia63401es.html
– DE LA VILLA LISO, Lourdes, “Caminar con la imagen” (“Walking the image”) in Viaje e isla. Iker Serrano (Travel & island. Iker Serrano), Bilbao, Fundación BilbaoArte Fundazioa, 2011 (cat. exp.), pp. 20-23 ISBN: 978-84-694-8371-8
– DE LA VILLA LISO, Lourdes, Lo visual como construcción. Desarrollo de un modelo pictórico de representación de la imagen (Visual as construcion. Development of a pictorial model of image representation), Bilbao, UPV/EHU – Servicio editorial-Tesis doctorales, 2011, http://www.argitalpenak.ehu.es/p291-content/es/contenidos/informacion/se_indice_tescyt/es_tescyt/tescyt.html. ISBN: 978-84-694-3546-5 http://hdl.handle.net/10810/6662
– DE LA VILLA LISO, Lourdes, “Mi imagen del mundo” (My view of the world), in Secuencia imaginada. Lourdes de la Villa liso, Bilbao, Fundación BilbaoArte Fundazioa, 2011 (cat. exp.), pp. 19-27 ISBN: 978-84-694-1847-5
– Secuencia imaginada. Lourdes de la Villa liso (Imagined sequence. Lourdes de la Villa Liso), Bilbao, Fundación BilbaoArte Fundazioa, 2011 (cat. exp.). ISBN: 978-84-694-1847-5
– DE LA VILLA LISO, Lourdes, “Lo visual como construcción. Desarrollo de un modelo pictórico de representación de la imagen”, en Práctica y teoría de la pintura. Praktica eta teoria pinturan, Dep. de Pintura (Practice & theory of painting), Bilbao, UPV/EHU – Servicio Editorial, 2007, pp. 171-180 ISBN: 978-84-8373-967-9
LECTURES & CONFERENCES
2015
Approach to the figure of the observer as a specific form of memory. Lecture at the II Conference on Visual Arts Research. Real/Virtual. ANIAV, Valencia
2014
The relationship between research and production in art. Lecture. Center for Research – Production and Image Studies. Faculty of Arts and Design, UNAM, Mexico D. F, March 25
2011
Imagined Sequence. Lecture. BilbaoArte, Bilbao, March 29