Leticia Gaspar

My relationship with painting has much to do with emotion; to paint something I need a motivation that originates from the object I want to represent. I focus mainly on projecting my interest in other disciplines such as drawing or photography. I am not concerned with copying the model, I interpret what I see and reinforce plastic values to achieve what I consider important, the ability to excite. My work explores contemporary urban environment, using a figuration that places special emphasis on the use of pictorial resources, light, composition and colour. I'm currently thinking about a surprisement of space through the introduction of foreign elements, sometimes through words or phrases that replace modules or advertising posters, sometimes playing with strange or paradoxical elements. It is something subtle that requires a closer gaze and introduces a point of ambiguity - it makes you wonder whether it was there originally. These are words or things that perhaps are out of context generating uncertainty.

I finished my degree in 2005 and since then I have combined painting practice with research, obtaining the title of doctor with Cum Laude mention in 2020. I have received awards in more than 100 competitions and my work is in more than 50 city councils, as well as in several private collections in Spain, France, Luxembourg, Germany, the United States and Portugal.
Currently I am a professor of painting at the EHU/UPV University of the Basque Country, 2020-22


Training

PhD in Fine Arts, UPV/EHU, 2020
Accreditation as Associate Professor in the field of knowledge of Humanities UPV/EHU, Unibasq
Collaborating in a research group subsidised by the UPV/EHU, 2017-20
Certificate of Pedagogical Aptitude, C.A.P, 2007
Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Painting, UPV/EHU, 2006-08
Degree in Fine Arts, UPV/EHU, 2000-05

Grants

Call for Visual Arts Exhibitions, RKE Getxo, 2022
BAGI! Programme for training, reflection, action and criticism of contemporary art, 2021.
Azokartean exhibition project, Maraka, 2020
Grant of Bilbaoarte foundation to make a project, visual arts modality (2018)
Grant of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia, visual arts modality (2015)
Call for art projects, C.C. Montehermoso - Fine Arts Faculty (EHU/...

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Sala Fundación Caja Rioja, Logroño, 2022
Víctor de los Ríos Hall, Santoña, 2020
Reocín Contemporary Art Centre, 2018
Cultural Centre of Berriz, 2018
Merindades Historical Museum, 2017
Eduardo Úrculo Museum, 2016
Goart Gallery in Bilbao, 2016

GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND ART FAIRS

I have shown my work in more than 100 group exhibitions, mainly in Spain, but also in Portugal, Italy, Germany, Serbia and the USA.
Wagner Museum: Haus Wahnfried, Bayreuth, 2022
Teatre de l’Òpera de Leipizg, 2022
XIV Premio de Artes Plásticas La Rural. Fundación Caja Rural de Jaén, 2021
Sala “Franciso Pradilla”, Centro Cultural de Villanueva de Gállego, 2021
Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona MEAM (Barcelona), 2021
Fundación Pedro Cano de Blanca, Murcia, 2020
Begira, Fundación BilbaoArte, 2019
Centro de Arte Palacio Almudí de Murcia, 2019
XIX Premio de Pintura “Timoteo Pérez Rubio”, 2019
IV Certamen Internacional de Pintura Manuel Ángeles Ortiz, 2019
XXVIII Premio López-Villaseñor de Artes Plásticas, 2019
LXXVII Concurs de Pintura Premi Centelles, 2019
11ª Certamen Nacional de Pintura Parlamento de La Rioja, 2019
XXIII Bienal Internacional Arte no Morrazo, 2019
VIII Bienal de Pintura Torres García Ciutat de Mataró ...