Born in 1942 in Cuenca, Spain, José Ma Yturralde currently lives and works in Valencia. Yturralde has been included in many important exhibitions around the world such as the Sao Paulo Biennial (1963) and the Venice Biennial (1978). Other recent exhibitions include a retrospective at IVAM of Valencia in 1999 and group exhibitions at the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid; Museum of Modern Art, México; The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid, Spain; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina. His work is found in several important international collections including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; Hastings Foundation, New York; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitória, Brazil; National Museum in Wroclaw, Poland; The Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan; and the State Museum of Novgorod, Russia. Other works from the recent Postludios series are concurrently on view at Galería Javier López in Madrid through January 31, 2007.
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Born in Cuenca, Spain, 1942
Lives and works in Valencia, Spain
www.yturralde.org
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2010
José Mª Yturralde: Horizons, Gering & López Gallery, New York, NY
José Mª Yturralde, Politetnic University, Valencia, Spain
2009
La escultura en la colección del IVAM, IVAM Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain
El espacio ausente, Galería Rafael Ortiz, Sevilla, Spain
Galería Altxerri, San Sebastián
Derivas de la geometría, Museo Jorge Oteiza, Alzuza, Spain
2008
Bit international- [Nove] tendencije Computer und visuelle Forschung, Zagreb 1961 -1973, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
, Germany
Abstracción Geométrica, Galería Arteselección, Madrid, Spain
Pintura abstracta, Galería Javier López, Madrid, Spain
José Mª Yturralde: New Paintings, Gering & López Gallery, New York, NY
2007-8
José Mª Yturralde: Obra Reciente, Galería Javier López, Madrid, Spain
2007
Kingdom and City, Valencia in its History, Museum of Fine Arts, Spain
2006-7
Installations and New Media in the Collection of the IVAM: Space Time Spectator, curated by Isabel Tejeda, IVAM, Valencia, Spain
2006
José Mª Yturralde and Barbara Höller, Institute of Cervantes, Vienna, Austria
2005
Galería Javier López, Madrid, Spain
El Arte Sucede: Conceptual practices in Spain, 1965-1979, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, traveling to Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastián, Spain
Models, Structures and Forms (Spain 1957-1979), Andalusian Center of Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain
Yturralde, Postludios, CAB de Burgos, Burgos, Spain
2004
Postludios, Hopscotch Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2003
El Centro de Cálculo 30 años después, Museum of Contemporary Art, Alicante, University of Alicante MUA, Museum of the University of Alicante, Spain
Colectiva Verano, Hopscotch Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Constructivismo Español, Wall Art Gallery, Valencia, Spain
MicroUTOPIAS, Art & Architecture, 2ª Bienal de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Del Vacío Sublime, Miguel Marcos Gallery, Barcelona and Zaragoza, Spain
2002
Gallery Altxerri, San Sebastián, Spain
2001
Postludios, The Nave Gallery, Valencia, Spain
2000
The Collection of the IVAM, Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain
1999
Preludios-Interludios, traveling to National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina; National Museum of Visual Arts, Montevideo, Uruguay; Pinacoteca do Estado, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Preludios-Interludios-Postludios, Miguel Marcos Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Exposición Retrospectiva, IVAM, Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain
Imágenes de la Abstracción: Pintura y Escultura Española 1969-89, Foundation Box Madrid, MEAC and Room of the Alhajas, Madrid, Spain
ARTEBA'99, Buenos Aires, Argentina
II Biennial of MERCOSUR, Porto Alegre, Brazil
1998
Preludios-Interludios, Gallery Altxerri, San Sebastián, Spain
Preludios-Interludios, Museo José Luis Cuevas, Mexico
Preludios-Interludios, Centro Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico
L'air, les Geometries et la Mer, School of Spain, Paris, France
The First European Art Nature Triennial, Odsherred, Denmark
1997
Interludios, La Nave Gallery, Valencia, Spain
1996
Antes del Arte, Spanish Institute, New York, NY
Preludios-Interludios, Sala Parpalló, Valencia, Spain
1995
Art Volant, Fundació Pilar y Joan Miró, Palm of Majorca, Spain
1994
A Hundred Years of Valencian Painting 1880-1980, IVAM, Valencia, Spain
1993
Preludios, Theo Gallery, Valencia, Spain
Visionarios Españoles, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
1992
The Collection of the IVAM, Institute Valenciá d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
1991
Nueva Galería Tetriakov, Moscow, Russia
Monocromos, Theo Gallery, Madrid, Spain
1990
Triennial Toyama Now, The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
1989
Geometric Art in Spain 1957-1989, The Village Arts Center, Madrid, Spain
1986
Spatium Temporis, Sala d'Exposicions de la Caixa de Pensions, Valencia, Spain
Procesos, Reina Sofía National Museum of Art Center, Madrid, Spain
1984
Leonardo, el Diseño y el Ordenador, La Lonja, Valencia, Spain
1983
Ars Electrónica, Linz, Austria
Jardín de Hielo, Festivals of Navarre, Castle of Olite, Navarre, Spain
1982
Sky Art, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA
1981
Estructuras Volantes, Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
1979
Galerie de L'Université, Paris, France
Spanish Painting of the 20th Century, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico
The Expanding Visual World, Museum of Fun, Tokyo, Japan
Holografías, Salas del Ateneo, Valencia, Spain
1978
From Nature to Art, from Art to Nature, Venezia Biennale, Venice, Italy
1977
Nueva Generación 1967-77, Palace de Velázquez, Madrid, Spain
1975
Ambiguous Structures, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, M.I.T. Cambridge, MA
Hypergraphics, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Apogee Gallery, Princeton, NJ; New York, NY; Dallas, TX and Washington, D.C.
1973
Estructuras 1968-72, Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid, Spain
Computer Art, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Lunds Kunsthall, Lund, Sweden
1972
Bienal de Arte Coltejer, Medellín, Colombia
1970
Figuras Imposibles, René Metrás Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
1968
Formas Computables, Computer Center of the University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
1967
IX Biennial of Sao Paolo, Brazil
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Provincial Museum of Fine Arts, Valencia, Spain
Museum of Contemporary Art, Ibiza, Spain
Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid, Spain
Museum of Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain
Museum of Contemporary Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
P. R. Norman Collection, New Orleans, LA
Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
National Museum of Wroklaw, Wroklaw, Polska
Centre de Recherches Visuelles, Empain, Brussels
Hastings Foundation, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Museum of Modern Art, Lanzarote, Spain
Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain
IVAM. Valencia Institute of Modern Art, Valencia, Spain
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Fundación Pilar y Joan Miró, Palm of Majorca, Spain
Fundación Juan March, Palm of Majorca, Spain
Fundación Caja Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Colecció Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona
Museum of Spanish Contemporary Art, Valladolid, Spain