Ignacio Iturria

Uruguay, 1949

BiographyHe grew up in the Uruguyan capital and studied commercial art and graphic design there before turning full-time to painting and fine art. Iturria traces his family roots to the Basque region of Spain. During the 1980s, he and his family spent several years living in a town on the Meditarrenean cost near Barcelona, but inevitably he returned to his homeland. Over the years, Iturria's art has dramatically evolved from the playful drawings of the earliest years to his spare, bleached-out images from the period in Spain. Since that time, the artist has developed a mature style, with its strong, personal vocabulary of earthy colors and dreamy-whimisical, memory-provoking, history-laden characters that have become the hallmarks of his deeply poetic and humanistic art. Iturria has exhibited his work throughout South and Central America, in the United States and Canada, in Europe and Japan. In 1995, he won a major prize at the Venice Biennale. In recent years, in addition to regular solo and group shows at Praxis International Art Galleries (in New York and Buenos Aires), and at major international fairs, Iturria's work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Sixth Havana Biennal; the Museum of Modern Art in Bogota, Colombia; the Museum of Americas in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Plug-in, an art center in Winnipeg, Canada; the North Dakota Museum of Art. In 1998 a major exhibition of his work, including paintings, sculptures and mixed-media constructions took place at the Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires. This show then travelled to the Rufino Tamayo Museum in Mexico City, and, in 1999 was exhibited at the Museum of Monterrey, Mexico.

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