PEDRO MUIÑO

PEDRO MUIÑO - From the Dictionary of Disquiet II

Technique: Acrylic

Pedro Muiño (Irixoa-A Coruña, 1954) was interested from a very young age in studying the classical masters, maintaining that interest over time, especially with the painters of the Renaissance. He exhibited for the first time at the age of 17 and in 1984 he founded, with the artists Xavier Correa Corredoira and Pepe Galán, the collective Gruporzán, with a gallery of the same name where most of the Galician plastic artists of that time exhibited. In this space, in addition to organizing exhibitions, graphic works were also published and cultural projects were designed for various institutions. For more than twenty years he has lived and worked in Alicante, after a stay of a year and a half in Catalonia.
His work is present in collections such as Colection International Bank of Miami, Museo Del Barrio (New York), Museo Eugenio Granell (Santiago de Compostela), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo UNION FENOSA (MACUF) A Coruña, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo CARLOS MASIDE (O Castro, A Coruña), Xunta de Galicia Collection, Banco Sabadell Collection, BBVA Collection, Caja de ahorros de Murcia Collection, Abanca Collection, Diputación de Córdoba Collection, Diputación de A Coruña Collection, Ayuntamiento de A Coruña Collection, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo CARLOS MASIDE (O Castro, A Coruña), Colección Xunta de Galicia, Colección Banco Sabadell, Colección BBVA, Colección Caja de ahorros de Murcia, Colección Abanca, Colección Diputación de Córdoba, Colección Diputación de A Coruña, Colección Ayuntamiento de A Coruña, Colección Fundación Fundación Ortiz-Gurdián. Ortiz-Gurdián Foundation Collection (León, Nicaragua), Barrié De la Maza Foundation Collection (A Coruña), Biblioteca Nacional, graphic work (Madrid), Ars Citerior Collection (Elche), Abanca Collection. Mª José Jove Foundation Collection (A Coruña), Rodríguez Iglesias Foundation (A Coruña), Art and Heritage Foundation (Madrid), Feima Foundation (Madrid), Museum of Fine Arts of A Coruña, Bello Piñeiro Museum (Ferrol) or Rectorate of the University of A Coruña.
He has made more than forty individual exhibitions in Madrid, A Coruña, Miami, Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao, Vigo, Santiago de Compostela, Elche, Ferrol, Murcia, Alicante, Lugo, Xàbia (Alicante), Sanxenxo (Pontevedra). He has participated in many group exhibitions in Spain, USA, Belgium, France and Portugal. His work has been present in different fairs such as Arco, Madrid (1887, 1999, 2001), Estampa, Madrid (1994, 2003), Art New York Fair, (2003), Art Miami (2004, 2005), Art Madrid (2009). JustLX, Lisbon (2019). JustMad, Madrid (2020). He has participated in eight editions of the Biennial Mostra Unión Fenosa, A Coruña, Biennials of Pontevedra (1981, 1983, 1987), Biennial Rafael Boti, Cordoba (1999). Euroamericana de Print, A Coruña (1996). His career has been recognized with the Julián Trincado Award at the V Mostra de Unión Fenosa.