David Gorriz

Self-taught collage and mixed media artist born in 1975 in Zaragoza (Spain), with a degree in Architectural Technology. After living a few years in Barcelona, now living and working in London. I have exhibited my artwork in Zaragoza, Barcelona and London.


I have always shown a great sensibility and curiosity about art but it was not until the discovery of Dadaism and Punk that I decided to start making art myself. What made a mark on me was the death of bourgeois art understood as individual art and made for the upper class, as well as the idea that art is part of anyone and everyone should develop it and not only 'the chosen ones'.


My study of art spread over other avant-garde like Constructivism, Surrealism, Lettrism and Situationism, these are some of the artistic movements that created background to rethink and to strengthen my idea about art. My artwork is a resource that supports the popular art, accessible to everyone, able to question the individual on the set values in a consumer society.

In a society based on images and in which a social relationship among people is mediated by images, my artwork claims these back to take out their original meaning, to create another perspective of the use that we make of images and create a new dialogue with the viewer of my artwork, to encourage criticism of the atrocious world that the civilisation of merchandise is leaving behind.

I usually work with figures, images with an implicit meaning in the social ideals established by the capitalist society. My artwork questions these concepts of pre-established ideas which are deployed along my compositions in scenarios estranged of their habitat and context. It is these scenarios where my artwork leads the viewer, a comfortable environment for question and reflection.

The pictures of my artwork create their own stories, forming narratives that are completed in the viewer’s imagination and they can be interpreted in different ways. I like the idea that my work should speak for itself.

I use magazines and books that I have been collecting from flea markets and secondhand bookshops to create different series of collages. Some of them by using a basic rule of sourcing two or three images and others are more complex and surreal.
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2019 June - July / Solo Exhibition “Distopía. Rasguños en el agua” at Espacio Kaótica, La Magdalena, Zaragoza (Spain)

2019 May 28h - June 2nd / Solo Exhibition “ Collage and Abstract Paintings by David Gorriz” at Ply Gallery, Crouch End, London (UK)

2019 May 20th - June 30th / Collective Exhibition "Iuxta : approaches to collage (group exhibition)" at The Wine Stores, Kings Cross, London (UK) / Curated by Geert Oliver

2019 March - April / Solo Exhibition “Distopía. Rasguños en el agua” at Simbiosis Shop, Zaragoza (Spain)

2018 December - 2019 January / Solo Exhibition "A Surrealist Vision of Religious Art” at The Wine Stores, Kings Cross, London (UK) / Curated by Geert Oliver

2018 August 3rd - August 23rd / Collective Exhibition "50/50" at Crows Nest Gallery, North Kensington, London (UK) / Curated by Artistic2018

June 25th - July 9th / Solo Exhibition "Dystopian. Indentations in the Water" at Brixton Library, Brixton, London (UK) / Curated by Collagistes Collective

2018 May 31st - June 3rd / Collective Exhibition "Life, Death, Spirit, Flesh" Contemporary Collage International Group Show at Hundred Years Gallery, Hoxton, London, (UK) / Curated by Collagistes Collective

2017 May 18th - 26th / Collective Exhi...