Exhibitions & Participations
2025
• Currently participating in the group exhibition “Colorful Now” at Domio Gallery, London, from April 14th to May 16th, 2025.
You can view my work on display at: domiogallery.com
2024
• As part of Murales Losada, we worked with different local businesses, schools, and institutions, conducting graffiti workshops and creating commissioned murals throughout Bilbao and Bizkaia region.
Our work received public recognition in the summer of 2024, when we were invited to take part in the Iturribide Painting Festival, and featured in a televised report highlighting our collective and our work:
Watch the report on EITB
2023
• Spent most of the year painting in the studio, establishing contact with private collectors through Instagram, and completing various commissioned murals across Bizkaia.
• Together with other artists, we formed a muralism collective in Bilbao called Murales Losada – muraleslosada.com– and actively participated until the end of 2024.
• Delivered the final project for the Master’s in Painting at the University of the Basque Country (UPV) in Leioa, Bizkaia, Basque Country.
• Landscape Painting Exhibition Naut Aran - My work was selected for the official exhibition - More info here
2022
• Represented by Espaço Tinta Gallery, in São Paulo, Brazil (Barra Funda), with my paintings also exhibited in some group exhibitions, including Abstracto y por aí vai. This marked a moment of dual representation by galleries in both Brazil and Spain at the same time.
Espaço Tinta Gallery
• Base Bilbao Gallery – Represented by the gallery throughout the year, where I participated in some group exhibitions organized by them.
Base Bilbao Gallery
• Completed a Master's Degree in Creation and Research in Contemporary Art at the University of the Basque Country (UPV) in Leioa.
• Founded Mural Mantxa, my own mural painting business, where I worked independently, creating murals on commission throughout Bilbao.
Instagram: MuralMantxa
2021
• Public Mural for the Zeberio City Council – Zeberio
Article – Geuria
• Iturfest VII – Antespacio – Guest artist with “Open Studio” program
Festival Website
• Un Imaginário Colectivo – Group Exhibition at Bapore Ateliér, Horcasitas Palace, Balmaseda
June 18 – August 29
News Article – DEIA
• Sopas y Sorber – Aroztegi Aretoa, Bergara
February 12–28
PDF – Bergara
• Rojo – Group Exhibition at Zwap, Zorrozaure
February 5–21
Info – Euskadi.eus
• Hasta Ahora – Centro de Exposiciones Fundación Vital, Vitoria-Gasteiz
February 9 – March 5
Fundación Vital
2020
• TXT-Lab Writing Workshop – V Art Writing Conference: Academic Essays, Art Criticism & Artistic Texts
Facultad de Bellas Artes, Sala de Grados
2019
• Muralism in Pontevedra – Public Intervention
Article – Faro de Vigo
2017
• Muralism in Pontevedra – Public Intervention
Article – Diario de Pontevedra
• Selected for an international undergraduate scholarship from the University of Fine Arts of Pontevedra (Spain), to study for one year at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil, at the School of Communications and Arts (ECA). During this time, I completed one year of the Visual Arts program at the CAP – Centro de Artes Plásticas.
2016
• Group Exhibition – CAP USP – University of São Paulo, Brazil
2015
• Ondaloxía – Sala X Exhibition Space, Pontevedra
Blog – Xoan Arco da Vella
2014
• Group Exhibition – Casa das Campás, Pontevedra
DUVI – Universidade de Vigo
• Nuevos Valores – Selected Painting, Museo de Pontevedra
Photo Album – Flickr