José Manuel Bouzas Novoa

Born Place: Baños de Molgas, Ourense Birthdate: 1958 Creative environment: Ourense Artist Web Formation:

Professor at the Escuela Profesional de Adultos [Adult Vocational College]. Ourense. Researcher, lecturer, essayist and curator

Awards and Honours:

Curator, catalogue and text coordination of the Cándido Fernández Mazas Exhibition "Vanguardia, Militancia y Olvido" [Vanguard, Militancy and Oblivion]. Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid (2002). Illustrations and cover page for the Boletín Galego de Literatura [Galician Literature Gazette]issue no. 30. University of Santiago de Compostela (2004). Member of the advisory committee and text in the exhibition La Galicia Moderna1916- 1936. Galician Contemporary Art Centre, Santiago de Compostela (2004/2005). Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid (2005). Illustrations and cover page for the Editorial Collective magazine Ren de Ren (2008).

ABOUT THE ARTIST

My natural language is the subject. It was my first visual language. A way of manually manufacturing what is desired: an object or a body.

The subject imposes its condition. I resist, perhaps not always. But I never stop surrendering to what emerges from nothing: what is unveiled, what is made into something real, what materialises

José Manuel Bouzas

EXHIBITIONS

2012. Cuerpos [Bodies]. Capa Esculturas. Madrid

2011. En blanco y negro [In black and white]. Capa Esculturas. Madrid

2009. Estampa 09 [Print 09]. Feria Internacional de Arte Múltiple Contemporáneo [International Contemporary Art Fair]. Capa Esculturas. Madrid.

Invierno 09 [Winter '08]. Capa Esculturas. Madrid.

2008. Invierno 08 [Winter '08]. Capa Esculturas. Madrid.

Estampa 08 [Print 09]. Feria Internacional de Arte Múltiple Contemporáneo [International Contemporary Art Fair]. Capa Esculturas. Madrid.

2007. Bridge Art Fair Jorge Alcolea-Capa Esculturas. London. United Kingdom.

AAF Affordable Art Fair London Spring Edition. Capa Esculturas. London. United Kingdom

2006. Paralelo [Parallel] Collective exhibition. Capa Esculturas. Madrid.

Estampa [Print] Salón Internacional del Grabado y la Edición de Arte Contemporáneo [International Printmaking and Contemporary Art Fair]. Capa Esculturas. Madrid

Edición 7. Capa Esculturas. Madrid.

2005. Estampa [Print] Salón Internacional del Grabado y la Edición de Arte Contemporáneo [International Printmaking and Contemporary Art Fair]. Capa Esculturas. Madrid.

2004. Estampa [Print] Salón Internacional del Grabado y la Edición de Arte Contemporáneo [International Printmaking and Contemporary Art Fair]. Capa Esculturas. Madrid.

2003. Estampa [Print] Salón Internacional del Grabado y la Edición de Arte Contemporáneo [International Printmaking and Contemporary Art Fair]. Capa Esculturas. Madrid.

2001. Capa Esculturas inauguration. Brussels, Belgium

2001. Gráfica Dispersa [Dispersed Graphic Artwork]. Galería espacio 48. Santiago de Compostela.

2000. Inclusion in Capa Esculturas. Madrid.

1996. Estampa [Print] Salón Internacional del Grabado y la Edición de Arte Contemporáneo [International Printmaking and Contemporary Art Fair]. Madrid. Raiña Lupa Gallery. Paris.

1995. Espello do Interior [Mirror of the Inside]. Travelling Exhibition: Santiago de Compostela, Lugo, Vigo, Ourense.

1993. Collective in Galería Isorna. Madrid.

1992. Nos por Cá [Us around here]. Travelling Exhibition Chaves-Oporto.

1989. Paralelo 42. Casa de Parra. Santiago de Compostela.

WORK IN OFFICIAL AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Provincial Archaeological Museum. Ourense.

Granell Foundation. Surrealism Collection. Santiago de Compostela.

Ortega Gasset Foundation. Madrid.

Signum Deseño. Santiago de Compostela.

Hotel Hesperia Castellana. Madrid.

Residence of the Spanish Embassy in Washington.

DKV Seguros. Zaragoza.