IÑAKI GRACENEA ZAPIRAIN

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Painting

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Painting

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inaki.gracenea@ehu.eus

Iñaki Gracenea (Hondarribia, 1972), graduated in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country in the specialty of painting. His work focuses on questioning the images produced by structures of control, where the core of his latest projects are the architecture of control and the history of prison architecture. Some of these projects have taken place at the Lloyd Sealy Library John Jay College/CUNY, New York, the Spanish Academy in Rome, Modelos (Sistema y traducción) [“Models (System and Translation”)] Leonardo Grants, and the publication of the book on prison architecture Cahier de Fleurs.

He has exhibitied in Institutions such as Sala Rekalde of Bilbao, CGAC (Transfer), Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea of San Sebastián (Abismos).Bienal Martínez Guerricabeitia,Valencia, El fin de la historia, Domus Artium, Salamanca. La Regenta, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem - MMKA, Arnhem (Try Again), La Casa Encendida, Madrid (Painting as Paradox), Artist Space, Nueva York (Existencias), Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon (Surrounding), Espai Quatre, Palma de Mallorca. He has participated in important international fairs such as ARCO (Madrid), ARTbogota (Bogotá), ARTISSIMA (Torino), Zona Maco (Mexico D.F), Art Brussels (Brussels), Vienna Fair (Vienna), Art Dubai (Dubai), FIAC (Paris). He has won among other prices The Premio Generación 2006 of Caja Madrid, The Beca Botín in 2002 and Beca CAM de Arte Plásticas 2009. His