— Curriculum Vitae —

b. Barcelona 1974
Based in Sydney, Australia
ortega_t@hotmail.com

EDUCATION

2017 – 2019       Master of Fine Arts (Painting) at the National Art School, Sydney, Australia
                                    MFA thesis: “Furtive gestures: suspense and potentiality in film-inspired imagery”

2013 – 2016       Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) at the National Art School, Sydney, Australia

2011 – 2013       Masters in Applied Linguistics at the University of León – Funiber, Spain

1993 – 1997       Bachelor in English Literature at the University of Sydney, Australia

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019                NextGen Postgraduate Show, National Art School, Sydney

2017                Graduations, ARO Gallery, Sydney

2016                Graduate Show, National Art School, Sydney

 

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

Upcoming       These days, COMA gallery, Sydney (6th March – 7^th April 2020)

2018                Interplay, Stairwell Gallery, National Art School, Sydney

2017                Graduations, ARO Gallery, Sydney

2016                Graduate Show, National Art School, Sydney

2016                Breakthrough Art Festival 2016, Ambush Art Gallery, Sydney

2016                The Grid, Xavier’s Art Space (St Vincent’s Hospital), Sydney

2015                Either Way, Projects 107 Redfern, Sydney

2014                Crossing Borders, National Art School, Sydney

2014                Annual Student Exhibition, Pine Street Creative Arts, Sydney

2014                Speak Up, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney

2013                Broken, Oddfellows Hall, Sydney

 

COLLECTIONS: private collections held in Sydney and Spain

 

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2017                   Clyde & Co Art Award, Sydney

2016                 Mark Henry Cain Memorial Travel Scholarship

2015                 Raffel Snelling Art History & Theory Award (3rd year student), National Art School, Sydney

2014                Art History & Theory Prize (2nd year student), National Art School, Sydney

 

ART WRITING/TALKS

  2019                ‘Women artists in Early Modern Italy’, lecture delivered 15^th November at Hazelhurst gallery (Sydney)

 2019                ‘Santiago Rusiñol: key figure of Catalan Modernism’, lecture delivered 15^th July at Hazelhurst gallery (Sydney)

 2018                Masters of Light: Sorolla and his contemporaries’, lecture delivered   18^th July at Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney.

 2017                ‘Amala Groom: The Cider Series’. Essay for ‘System of Objects’        exhibition catalogue (ed. Dr Jaime Tsai). National Art School, Sydney.

2016                ‘Contemporary Art and Society: focus on Spain and Latin America’, a week intensive course delivered at WEA (Sydney).

 

VOLUNTEERING

2016                Translation and subtitling of Shireen of Al-Walaja (2016) by artist and filmmaker Daz Chandler

2014                Collaborative artwork ‘Glory Be. No Human Being is Illegal’ by Deborah Kelly, Biennale of Sydney

2013                Translation and subtitling of Washing Bin Laden (2013), by artist and filmmaker Zanny Begg

2012                Building Bridges (organising art exhibition/fundraiser-auction with Refugee Art Project), UTS Foyer Gallery, Sydney