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Carlos Aires was born in Ronda, Spain in 1974.
He obtained a bachelor in Fine Arts at the University of Granada in Spain. Upon graduating in 1997, he moved to the Netherlands and completed his postgraduate studies at Fontys Academy (Tilburg, Netherlands), HISK (Antwerp, Belgium) and Ohio State University (Ohio, USA).
He was honored with prestigious grants and awards, including the OMI Residency (USA), Edith Fergus Gilmore Award (USA), Generation2008 Caja Madrid (Spain), Young Belgian Art Prize (Belgium), 1st Award Young Andalusian Artists (Spain), Fulbright (USA) and De Pont Atelier (the Netherlands).
He has participated in numerous exhibitions in national and international institutions, such as: CAC (Malaga, Spain), MACBA (Barcelona, Spain), Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (USA), Imperial Belvedere Palace (Vienna, Austria), MUSAC (Leon, Spain), BB6 Bucharest International Biennale (Bucharest, Romania), B.P.S. 22 (Charleroi, Belgium), 5th Thessaloniki Biennale (Thessaloniki, Greece), Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (Mexico City, Mexico), Canada Contemporary Art Museum (Montreal, Canada).
His work can be found within significant public collections: ARTIUM (Spain), MACBA (Spain), Fondation Francès (France), ARTER (Turkey), CAC (Spain), Maison Particulière (Belgium), Ministry of Culture of Spain, Progress Art (Saudi Arabia), National Belgium Bank (Belgium), 21c Museum (USA), MAK (Austria) among others.
Selected publications
Gallo, Rubén: Carlos Aires: lieux de mémoire drage, Catálogo Jeune Peinture Belge, Belgium, 2005
Villa, Manuela: Emerging Art in Spain, Ed. Vaivén, Madrid, 2007
Generacion 2008, Madrid, 2008
Bilis Negra, Ed. Mantecón, Marta, Santader, 2013
Luto, Ed. Doctor Rancero, Rafel, Madrid, 2013
Dictionary of Spanish Photographers from the XIX to the XXI centuries, La Fábrica, Madrid, 2013
Van Bellingen, Stef & Jonckheere, Lieven & Heirman, Johan: Coup de Ville: Atracted by another level, Gent, 2013
Doctor Roncero, Rafael: Contemporary Spanish Art 1992-2013, Madrid, 2014
David G. Torres, David: Punk. Its traces in contemporary art, Madrid, 2015
5th Thessaloniki Biennale Catalogue, Ed. Koskina, Katerina, Thessaloniki, 2015
WePorn. Le X et la génération Y, Ed. de Connick, François & Desaive, Pierre-Yves & Van der Kar, Julien, Brussels, 2016
Cartografías líquidas Catalogue, Ed. de la Torre, Blanca & Palacios,Carlos & Duarte, Paula, Mexico City/Madrid, 2017
B3 Bienial of the moving Image: On Desire Catalogue, Frankfurt, 2017
Fabre, Jan & de Vos, Joana: The Raft: Art is (not) lonely, Oostende, 2017
Válogatott publikációk
Grzinic, Maria: Double check. Re-framing Space in Photography, In. Camara Austria, Graz, 2005.
Frigerio, Rosella: The art of provocation: Carlos Aires, Chic Magazine, London, 2008.
Achiaga, Paula: Carlos Aires interview, ABC. El cultural, Madrid, 2015
Les InRockuptibles: Best of 2014, 2014, France
Sebastian C. Strenger, Sebastian: Das Goldene Zeitalter ist jetzt, Spektrum, Nr.15., Kunst und Auktionen, Germany, 2016
Nunes, Andrew: Anarchic video art group show exposes the pure chaos of 2017, Vice magazine, 2017
Erkara, Bursa: Carlos Aires: Money issues, Art +Design magazine, USA, 2018
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