2018 Juror: Nico Munuera, Valencia, Spain
Nico Munuera (*1974, lives and works in Valencia, Spain) moved from Lorca to Valencia in 1993 to study Fine Arts at the Faculty of San Carlos, during which he was was the recipient of several awards. He has been included in exhibitions at various art galleries since 1998, as well as in national and international art fairs. In 2003 he moved to Paris thanks a scholarship from the College of Spain to continue research on his project, primarily based on color field painting, perception ability, and process.
In 2004 he was chosen to collaborate and show with Spanish painter Joan Hernández Pijuan in the Relevos program – a series of three institutional exhibitions in Madrid, Murcia and Barcelona. In 2007 he moved to New York thanks a grant from the Casa Pintada Foundation to work on a project on Japanese paper, based on color, automatic movement, and gesture.
From 2008 to 2012 he lived and worked in Berlin, exploring the ideas of time, limits, and uncertainty. During the same period, he participated in the exhibitions To paint or not to paint at the
Museum of Fine Arts in Murcia (2009); and the exhibition Rational Abstraction. Aldrich / Loureiro / Munuera / Uslé at the Galician Center of Contemporary Art, CGAC, in Santiago de Compostela (2011).
His work has been exhibited in several international institutions in Geneva, Switzerland (at the Villa Bernasconi, in 2011); at the now defunct Gabarron Foundation-Carriage House Center for the Arts in New York, NY (2007); and at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, MMOMA, in Moscow, Russia (2011). Noteworthy exhibitions are Stimmung (2014) at Proyecto Paralelo Gallery, Mexico City; and Frame Time (2014) at Veronicas in Murcia, Spain. Of particular importance for his career are the solo exhibitions No Flags (2008) and Boneless Island (2015), both at Max Estrella Gallery in Madrid, Spain, and terreno áspero | rugged terrain, five contemporary artists from Spain, at Maus Contemporary (2017). His work was recently the subject of a solo Museum exhibition, titled Praecisio, at the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, IVAM, in Valencia Spain, and his first solo exhibition with Maus Contemporary opens Saturday, April 28 (1.30 – 6.00 pm). Munuera’s work is in numerous private and institutional collections in Europe, including the AENA Foundation, the Barrié Foundation, the Belondrade Foundation, the Banco de España Collection, the La Caixa Foundation Testimoni, the Cajamadrid Collection, the Cajamurcia Foundation, the Cajasol Collection, the CAM Collection, the Centenero Fundation, the Chirivella Soriano Foundation, the Coca Cola Foundation, the Copelouzos Family Art Museum, the DKV Foundation, the Entrecanales Collection, the FEVAL Collection, the Foster-Ochoa Collection, the Helga de Alvear Collection, the MACUF Collection, the Madrid Community Collection, the Ministry of Culture ES Collection, the Murcia Community Collection, the Olorvisual Collection, the Patio Herreriano Collection, the Pilar Citoler Collection, the Purificación García Collection, the Sabadell Bank Collection, etc.
PAST JURORS
2017 Juror, Wassan Al-Khudhairi
2016 Juror, Paul Kremer
2015 Juror, Ramiro Gomez
2014 Caroline Taylor, Montgomery, AL
2013 Bayete Ross Smith, Harlem, NY
2012 Jiha Moon, Atlanta, GA
2011 Matt Chambers, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Dan Tague, New Orleans, LA
2009 Skylar Fein, New Orleans, LA
2008 Shana Berger & Nathan Purath , Coleman Center, York, AL
2007 Ron Platt, Hugh Kaul Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art, BMA
2006 Rick Lowe
2005 Louise Shaw
2004 Dr. Jerry Cullom
2003 Scott Stephens
2002 Brett Levine
2001 Lorenzo Pace
2000 Paula & Russell Panczenko
1999 Lisa Sette & Joseph M. Segura
1998 Max Protetch
1997 Gronk & John Wetenhall
1996 Peter Boswell
1995 Kim Abeles
1994 John Scott & David Gilhooly
1993 Gianfranco Mantegna
1992 Mel Edwards & Helen C. Frederick
1991 Jerry Beck & Jo Tartt
1990 Jo Hanson & Stephen Young
1989 Cam Newell
1988 Fay Gold & Michael Lucero
1987 Tom Butter & Vicki Kopf
1986 Jane Kessler & Hollis Sigler
1985 Elaine Horwitch & Harvey K. Littleton
1984 Paul Brach & Ivan Carp
