BIO

The artist Gonzalo Borondo (1989, Spain), connecting figurative painting and installations with their physical and psychological contexts, creates works guided by the desire to face the human being in his symbolic complexities. The question of ancestral heritage formed the basis of his artistic practice, together with the influences derived from having spent a lot of time observing on the street while studying in Madrid, creating a critical and unconventional mind.

The reality of the collectives of graffiti artists, activists and alternative artists, in which he began to develop in 2003, played the role of an art school complementary to his training at the Academy of Fine Arts, and created a link between his artistic practice and daily life. His projection of contemporary art into public spaces seeks to break down the barriers between art and life.

Borondo plays with codes, trying to stay outside the conventions. It breaks the bounds of what is traditionally imposed by the heritage of a place, while paying homage to it in an extremely respectful way. His work is the result of a powerful dialogue between his art and the spaces in which it is located.

Among his most recent projects: Intervention at the Church of San Mattia (Bologna 2023); personal exhibition at the Esteban Vicente Museum of Contemporary Art (Segovia, 2021); the intervention in the Temple des Chartrons, acquired by the CEAPC (Bordeaux, 2019); his speeches at MACRO (Rome, 2018-2019); the creation of a work for the Festival de Musiques Interdites (Marseille, 2018); the exhibition at the Urban Nation Contemporary Art Museum (Berlin, 2017). He has also set up solo exhibitions in Madrid, Paris and London and has made numerous murals in cities such as Kiev, New Delhi, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Honolulu, Milan or Boulogne sur mer (best mural in France 2020).

In 2022 he was appointed academician of the Royal Academy of Satoria and Art of San Quirce (Segovia- Spain).