Fernando Bellver Biography

Established Spanish artist Fernando Bellver creates prints, sculptures and multimedia works in the figurative style. He utilizes objects and images that occur throughout art history and transforms them into objects of consumption.

Bellver studied Drawing, Modelling, Design, Printmaking and lithography, at the Madrid School of Arts.

In 1981 he founded the studio, "Taller Mayor Veintiocho", together with Fructuoso Moreno and Arturo García Armada. They give courses in Printmaking in Valdepeñas, at The Academy of Spain, Rome and at the University of Austin, Texas, USA.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Arco, Madrid.

Arteder, Bilbao.

Impact Art Festival, Kioto.

Art Jonction, Nice.

Male Formy Grafiki, Warsore. International Print Exhibit, Taiwan.

Saga, París.

Basilea 92. Artexpo 93, New York.

SELECTED MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS

- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid

- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Jaén

- Museo de Bellas Artes, Granada

- Fondo de Estampas, Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid

SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS

1980: Grant from the Norwegian Ministry of Culture.

1982: Premio de Grabado Carmen Arocena, Madrid.

1984: Guest of Honor at the Impact Art Festival, Kioto.

1985: Fine Arts grant from the Comité Hispano Americano.

- Invited by the Norwegian Government to make prints in Oslo.

1991: Invited by the Egyptian Government to make prints for the Egyptian Stand at Expo '92.

1994: Gold Medal, Bienal of Alejandría, Egipto.