Fernando Prats Curriculum Vitae

FERNANDO PRATS CURRICULUM VITAE

Education 1993 Painting Department, Escola Massana, Barcelona, Spain 1996 Bachelor of Art, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile 2000 Master in Painting, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

Individual exhibitions 2017 2011 Confluences, Galería Joan Prats, The Birth of the World 1925-2011, Barcelona, Spain Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain 2016 Gran Sur, XI Cuenca Biennial, Cuenca, Ecuador Inhabit Emptiness, Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain Gran Sur, 54th Venice Biennial, Pavilion of Chile, Venice, Italy 2015 Gran Sur, GAM Centro Gabriela Mistral, Carrion Bait of Poetry, Galería Patricia Santiago, Chile Ready, Chile Conception Action (Upper River), Picture Naturalism, Matthew Liu Fine Arts, gallery of the Universidad de Concepción, Shanghai, China Concepción, Biobío Region, Chile 2014 2010 You Will See, action by Raúl Zurita and Gran Sur, Valparaíso In(ter)ventions, Fernando Prats, Galería Joan Prats- Valparaíso, Chile, Fly. Galería Moro, Artgráfic, Barcelona, Spain Santiago, Chile 2013 The Logic of Place, Espai Quatre, Casal Death Fugue, Galería Joan Prats, Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain Barcelona, Spain 2009 2012 Painting- Timanfaya- The Geysers, Second Gran Sur, Valparaíso Cultural Park, Chile Biennial of the Canary Islands, Architecture, Art and Landscape, Canary We were dead, and we could breathe Islands, Spain (Paul Celan), Meditations Biennale 2012, Poznan, Poland Subduction, Galería Tomas March, Valencia, Spain Gran Sur, Le Printems de Septembre- à Toulouse, L’Histoire est à moi! Festival de Catch on the Fly, Sala la Gallera, Valencia, création contemporaine, France Spain

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Seismography of Chile, Contemporary Art 2001 Triennial, Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Pathografía, Galería Animal, Santiago, Santagio, Chile Chile 2008 2000 Ecliptic, Galería Joan Prats- Artgráfic, New Art Barcelona, Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona Barcelona, Spain Gran Sur, Madrid Abierto, Casa de Ambulatory, Vic Cathedral América, Madrid, Spain Barcelona, Spain 2007 1999 Natura Naturans, Galería Álvaro Alcázar, Synaisthesis Substantiae, Galería Joan Madrid, Spain Prats, Barcelona, Spain Pilgrimage, Triptych in dynamism, Sagunto, 1998 Valencia, Spain Painted Bodies by Prats, Fundación 2006 América, Santiago, Chile Basho: The Wild Region, Alois M Haas 1997 Conferences, Contemporary mysticism and thinking, Univeristat Pompeu Fabra, Resurrection, Espacio Eclesial Iglesia de la Barcelona, Spain Providencia, Santiago, Chile 2005 1996 Affatus, Galería Joan Prats-Artgráfic, Recent work, Galería Antonio de Barnola, Barcelona, Spain Barcelona, Spain 2004 1995 From the Cardener River to Antarctica Crypt, Cicle Pandemónium, Espai 13, 2001-2004, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Fundació Joan Miró, Centre d’Estudis d’Art Santiago, Chile Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain 2003 1994 Light Well, Centre Cultural El Casino Exordium and Crucifiction Series, Galeria Manresa, Barcelona. Antonio de Barnola, Barcelona, Spain To the South Pole, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter 1993 Köln, Cologne, Germany Exordium and Crucifiction Series, Centre 2002 Cívic Sant Andreu, Barcelona, Spain Relief, Galería Joan Prats-Artgráfic, 1992 Barcelona, Spain VII Miquel Casablanca Painting Prize, Sant Andreu City Hall, Barcelona, Spain

Group exhibitions 2014 2002 Pure Chile, landscape and territory, Centro Transfiguration, Galería Joan Prats- Cultural La Moneda, Santiago, Chile Artgráfic, Barcelona, Spain Geographies, Collection CCU, CCU Art Time Flies, Galería Llucià Homs, Barcelona, Gallery, Santiago, Chile Spain Neither Created Nor Destroyed, exhibited 2001 at home, La Capella, Barcelona, Spain Look en route, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica Presence of Galería Joan Prats, Galería (CASM), Barcelona, Spain Joan Prats, Poble Nou, Barcelona, Spain 2000 2013 Chile 100 Years of Visual Arts, Third Period Feria ARCO 13, Art Lima 2013, Lima, Peru (1973-2000) Transference and Density, National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, 2012 Chile Neither Pain Nor Fear, Contemporary 1998 Chilean Art, MEIAC, Extremaduran and Latin American Museum of Contemporary One way ticket, Galería Antonio de Art, Badajoz, Spain Barnola, Barcelona, Spain Arco, Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain 1996 Voyage / Voyage, A contemporary art Airlift III, Museuo de Arte Moderno de déboussolé, Maison de l’America latine, Buenos Aires (MAMba), Buenos Aires, Paris, France Argentina You Will See, action by Raúl Zurita and Evidence Collection, Fundació La Caixa, Fernando Prats, Ch.ACO 2012, Santiago, Barcelona, Spain Chile Expanded Collage, Galería Antonio de 2011 Barnola, Barcelona, Spain Smell, color, chemistry, art and pedagogy, Expanded Collage, Galería Antonio de Arts Santa Mónica, Barcelona, Spain Barnola, Barcelona, Spain Elsewhere, Louis Vuitton Cultural Space, 1995 Paris, France Impermanent Displacements, Fundació 2010 Espais dArt Contemporani, Girona, Spain Neither Pain Nor Fear, Contemporary Biennal d’Art Ciutat d’Amposta,Tarragona, Chilean Art, Galería Blanca Soto, Madrid, Spain Spain 1994 2008 XI International Biennial of Ibero-American Water and its contemporary dreams, Art of Valparaíso, Galería Municipal de International Water and Sustainable Artes, Valparaíso, Chile Development Exhibition, Zaragoza, Spain

Build, live, think, Perspectives of contemporary art and architecture, Institut Valenciá d’Art Modern (IVAM), Valencia, Spain

1993 1992 Excursus any Miró, Galería Salvador Riera Petit Museo Provicional, Universitat and Barcelona Art Association, Barcelona, Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Spain És quan tanquem que mostrem el nostre homenatge, any Miró, Galeria Berini and

Association Art Barcelona, Barcelona

Awards and Recognitions 2010 Artist resident in the Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Köln, Cologne, Germany First Prize Ciutat de Palma Antonio Gelabert d'Arts Visuals 1997-2000 2006 - 2007 Honour Scholarship President of the Republic of the Government of Chile, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Chile Fundation Scholarship, New York, USA 1994 2003 Special Prize Pilar Juncosa and Sotheby's FONDART Award 1992 2002-2003 VII Painting Prize Miquel Casablanca

Action and Expeditions 2013 Rajsko, Auschwitz I, Auschwitz Birkenau II, Lake Villa Harmense Nazca Line Action, Nazca, Perú 2011 Twelve Angles Action, Cuzco, Perú Gran Sur, Elephant Island and Prat Base, Natura Naturans Action, Cerro la Greenwich Island, Antarctica Campana, Universidad Finis Terrae Seminar, Santiago, Chile The Birth of the World 1925-2011, Prat Base, Greenwich Island, Antarctica 2012 Concepción Action (Upper River), Picture You Will See, Raúl Zurita y Fernando Prats’ gallery of the Universidad de Concepción, Action, Universidad Diego Portales, Concepción, Biobío Region, Chile Santiago, Chile 2010 The Giant of Tarapacá, Cerro Unita, Huara, Northern Chile 03:34:17, Llolleo, Talca, Curepto, La Pesca, Rancura, Iloca, Duao, Constitución, Quillagua Action, Tocopilla, Northern Chile Cobquecura, Pelluhue, Dichato, We were dead, and we could breathe Talcahuano and Lota, Chile (Paul Celan), Sola River, Vistula River, Lake

2009 2003 Pacific Ocean Action, The Nazca Plate, Light well, Action and geological drilling, Antofagasta, Chile La Balconada, Manresa, Barcelona, Spain Painting-Timanfaya-The Geysers, Las Pressurized water opening a hole in the Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain flesh to later disappear, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Köln, Cologne, Germany 2008 2002 Replicas in Smoke Action, Galería Joan Prats-Artgráfic, collaboration with Ignasi Freeze, action performed over the Collins Aballí, Vícenç Altaió, Juan Eduardo Cirlot, Glacier in Chilean Antarctic Territory, from Antoni Llena, Perjaume and Carlos Santos, the work From the Cardener River to action on smoked paper, Barcelona, Spain Antarctica. 2007 2001 Steam Action-Pictures, New York, USA Altitude, action performed inside The Cave of Saint Ignatius, from the work From the 2006 Cardener River to Antarctica. Manresa, Lota Action, Black Beach, facing tilled soil, Spain The Devil’s Blast Mine, Concepción, Chile To go, action performed inside The Cave El Tatío Geyser Action, Machuca, of Saint Ignatuis. From the work From the Antofagasta Region, Chile Cardener River to Antarctica. Salar Action, Atacama, Chile Cardener, action performed on the Cardener River, from the work From the Open Pit Mining Action, Chuquicamata, Cardener River to Antarctica. Chile 1999 2005 K2-Kenosis, documental action performed Affatus Action, Artist’s studio, Barcelona, in the artist’s studio, Barcelona, Spain Spain

Bibliography 2011 2009 Gran Sur, Paul Ardenne, Fernando Castro 2009 Chile Triennial (cat. Exp.), Ticio Flórez, Justo Pastor Mellado (cat. exp.) Escobar y Nelly Richard (eds.), Santiago de Chilean Pavillion, 54th Venice Biennale. Chile: Chile Triennial Foundation. 2010 Fernando Casrto Flórez, Fernando Prats, Catch on the fly (cat. exp.), Sala La Paul Ardenne, Elsewhere (cat. exp.), Paris: Gallera, Valencia: Valencia Regional Louis Vuitton Cultural Space. Government. Technical Revision, 100 painters, painting in 2008 Chile 1980-2010, Santagio, Chile: Eight books. Victoria Cirlot, Eclipsis (cat. exp.), Barcelona. Valparaíso Interventions, Fernando Prats Gran Sur, Valparaíso: State Society for the Fernando Castro Flórez, Water and its Exterior Cultural Action of Spain (SEACEX). Contemporary Dreams (cat. exp.),

Zaragoza: Aragon Pavillion International 2002 Exhibition. Teresa Blanch, Relief (cat. Exp.), Build, live, think, Perspectives on Barcelona: Galeria Joan Prats-Artgráfic c. Contemporary Art and Architecture (cat. Juan Noemi, Theology of the Body exp.), Valencia: Institut Valencià d’Art Santiago, Chile: Painted Bodies Modern (IVAM). Experimental Workshop. Friedhelm Mennekes, From the North Pole 2000 to the South Pole, The Artistic Journey of Fernando Prats, Kunst-Station (cat. Exp.), Pilar Parcerisas, Joan Torras y Friedhelm Colonia: Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Köln. Mennekes, Ambulatory- Fernando Prats. Barcelona: Polygraphic Editions. Justo Pastor Mellado, Fernando Prats Gran Sur, Open Madrid (cat. exp.), Madrid: 1999 Open Madrid. Friedhelm Mennekes, Substances (cat. 2007 exp.), Barcelona: Galería Joan Prats- Artgráfic c. Fernando Castro Flórez, Peregrinatio, The Inner Glance. Art in the hermitage of 1997 Sagunto (cat. Exp.), Valencia: Generalitat Juan Noemi, Justo Pastor Mellado, Valenciana. Resurrection, Fernando Prats (cat. exp.), Gerardo Mosquera, Copiar el edén: Santiago, Chile: Church of Divine Recent art in Chile, Santagio, Chile: Pure Providence. Chile. 1995 Amador Vega, Affatus (cat. Exp.), Mònica Regàs, Crypt (cat. exp.), Espai 13, Barcelona: Galeria Joan Prats-Artgráfic c. Barcelona: Fundació Joan Miró 2003 Marta Pol, Impermanent Displacements Friedhelm Mennekes, Amador Vega, (cat. exp.), Barcelona: Espais Centre d’art Javier Melloni, From the Cardener to contemporani Antarctica, Manresa: Manresa City Luis Francisco Pérez, Fernando Prats (cat. Council. exp.), Barcelona: Galeria Antonio de Barnola