JR Amondarain
JR Amondarain (Donostia – San Sebastián, 1964) has exhibited individually in ARTIUM Basque Centre-Museum of Contemporary Art, Vitoria-Gasteiz; DA2-Domus Artium, Salamanca; La Naval, Cartagena; Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca; Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, Donostia-San Sebastián; Photomuseum, Zarautz; among others. He has also particpated in group shows such as the recent ON PAINTING, at CAAM, Atlantic Centre of Modern Art, las Palmas de Gran Canaria; or last year, Trayectorias.
Diez años de vídeo y fotografía en la colección Coca-Cola, at MEIAC, Extremadura and Latin American Contemporary Art Museum, Badajoz; Genealogías Silenciosas. Colección Caja Mediterráneo, at MACA, Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante; and Ensayos Autónomos, at OTR Space of Art, Madrid. Previously, it is worth mentioning also his presence at the Center of Art in Alcobendas; MUPAM, in Málaga; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; MURAM, Cartagena; Es Baluard, Palma de Mallorca; Guggenheim, Bilbao; Kursaal, Donostia-San Sebastián; the 8th Martínez Guerricabeitia Biennial; Sala Verónicas, Murcia; and Sala Rekalde, Bilbao.
Awards as the Endesa Scholarship for Plastic Arts, the Marcelino Botín Foundation Scholarship, Gure Artea Prize of the Basque Government, or the grant for residence at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, support his career.
His works are part of collections such as: MNCARS, Endesa Group, Arthur Andersen, Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Bank of Spain, Unicaja, Caja Madrid, La Caixa, Caja Burgos, Marcelino Botín Foundation, ARTIUM, Coca-Cola, Unión Fenosa, ING Bank or DKV.
