Raul Urbina

I studied History at the Autónoma University of Madrid, but soon chose the path of becoming a self-taught photographer.
I focus my work to explore ideas about concepts of place, identity, memory, history ... start from daily live and explore the road between reality and fiction.

“His works are conceived on the basis of certain initial rational approaches, in which the camera or the formal photographic result is not the only ultimate objective, but a means to engaging in an open narrative in which multiple interpretations are possible. Behind his photographs is an endeavour to reclaim what is real, to explore the network of relationships existing around us and to position the city as the primary object of investigation and artistic practice.
Urbina is a photographer who seeks to collect his own dreams and everything that we never see because we are, or think we are, too used to seeing it.
Such photographic endeavour is a challenging task, and by no means purposeless. It encourages us to learn how to see, to force ourselves to look with simplicity. He used the portrait to narrate little stories.”

2017
· Morphine Fragrance, Luis Burgos Gallery, PhotoEspaña 2017, Solo Exhibition, Madrid
· I´ll stop the wind from blowing, Amós Salvador Room, Solo Exhibition, Logroño
· Inmensa Luz, Palermo Cervantes Institute, Group Exhibition, Italy
· Inmensa Luz, Naples Cervantes Institute, Group Exhibition, Italy

2016
· The sound of silence, Patio Herreriano Art Museum, Group Exhibition, Valladolid
· ENAIRE Photo Award´16, Spanish Art Foundation
· Photo Award Exhibition ENAIRE, Las Arquerías Room, Group Exhibition, Madrid
· National Portrait Gallery Taylor Wessing Photography Prize, Final jury selection
· Arte Otro, Johnny Cool Gallery, Group Exhibition, Madrid
· ARCO’16, with Gallery Carles Taché, Contemporany Art Fair in Madrid


2015
· Vaiven, in FMoPA , The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa Florida, USA
· Photographic Elegy, Carles Taché Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Barcelona
· La Oficina de San Jerónimo, Matadero, Group Exhibition, Eduardo Arroyo Selection
· I´ll stop the wind from blowing, Igualada FineArt, Solo Exhibition, Igualada, Spain
· True Black and White, SegoviaPhoto in Colegiata Mayor, Group Exhibition, Segovia
· (DES)NUDOS, Johnny Cool Gallery, Solo exhibition, Madrid
· NIKON PHOTO AWARD ’15 ,...