Regina Gimenez

Regina Gimenez - S/T

Artist Biography: Regina Giménez lives and works in Barcelona. Since the 1990s, she has established herself as one of the most active Catalan artists on the art scene both locally and internationally. Through the appropriation of elements extracted from their original context, such as old silent maps or books on geography and cosmology, and their reorganization into new compositions, Regina Gimenez develops through her works an investigation into the aesthetic and formal aspect of graphic representations. An exploration that results in a world of colors and geometric shapes of great beauty and simplicity, through which universal dialogues such as abstraction and figuration, color and black and white or the whole with the fragment materialize. It is a versatile body of work made up of objects of different natures, from paintings on canvas and collages on paper to textile works, including other materials and techniques such as methacrylate or photography. That is why, in addition to her pictorial production, it is also worth highlighting the artist's interest in the edition of artist's books and the edition of graphic works, as well as her teaching work in the university environment. His most recent solo exhibitions include Brillantes y pálidas. Giants and Dwarfs (Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia, 2021), We Will Go to the Sun (Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, 2020), El Sol i la taula [The Sun and the Table] (Can Palauet, Mataró, 2018) and Adopt Another Nature (Ana Mas Projects, Barcelona, 2017). His work has also been included in group exhibitions in public and private cultural spaces in Barcelona, Valencia, La Coruña, London, and other cities in Switzerland, Argentina, France and Korea. He has recently published "Geo-gráficos", his first illustrated book published by Zahori Books. Over the last few years she has been the recipient of different awards in recognition of her artistic career, including the first prize at the Tarragona Art Biennial (2010), the Ricard Camí First Prize awarded by the Caixa de Terrassa (2001), the First Prize at the 30th and 37th awards competition of the Sala Parés (1998 and 1995). He also received the Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana Award in 1999. His works are part of important collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA), the "la Caixa" Foundation, the Banc Sabadell Foundation, the Vila Casas Foundation, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León or the collection of the Fondation Comcompres in Paris; as well as private collections such as those of Lawrence B. Benenson in New York, Adriana Cisneros in New York and Miami, the Jameston Group in New York and Atlanta or Isabel Marant in Paris.