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Concha Jerez (
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, 1941) is a Spanish multidisciplinary artist known as a pioneer in conceptual art. One of the central axes of her work is the critical analysis of the
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Artistic career

Concha Jerez studied piano at the
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, and in 1958–1959 she obtained a scholarship to
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in Arlington, Virginia, where she became interested in political and social affairs. This led her to study for her licentiate in political science at the
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. In 1970 she decided to dedicate herself to visual arts, and held her first exhibition in 1973. As she began her career under the threat of censorship by the Franco regime, the role of the media, censorship, and
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have often been present in her artistic work. In 1976 she presented her first large installation, ''Autocensura'', still restricted to printed paper. In 1983 she exhibited the installation ''Retorno al comienzo'' at the Museo Vostell Malpartida. Later she opened the doors to the use of all kinds of new technological possibilities, such as
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, interactive installations, photographs, and pure audio installations. Since then Jerez has focused her work on the field of
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and on the development of the concept of installation as a work ''in situ'', in large spaces, many of them combining the expressive resources of different media. She has been recognized as a member of Spain's first generation of conceptual artists. She began ' in the early 1980s. Her first video installation was centered around a staircase. It was presented at the First International Video Festival of Madrid held at the
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in 1984. Later in the decade she was invited to perform an installation at the First Media Art Festival in
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, Germany. Jerez has produced
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pieces for several European stations. Since 1976 she has collaborated on numerous projects with the composer and multidisciplinary artist , with whom she presented ''Media Mutaciones'' at La Tabacalera in Madrid in 2015. This was a tour of their joint projects, covering work connected with the legacy of the 1970s and their current visual and sound practices. From July 2014 to January 2015, the
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exhibited her ''Interferencias en los medios''. In 2015, Jerez won the National Award for Plastic Arts "for her pioneering dimension in the use of technologies, for being representative of a generation of artists that has marked the transition from the analog era to digital culture, with her research, creations, and innovations" and her work in conceptual creation. Jerez was also a teacher at the
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's from 1991 to 2011.
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and a generically
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stance are prominent within her work, as well as outside it. Jerez has been an organizer, co-organizer, and grassroots militant of various associations of women and artists, including the
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, which granted her an award in 2012 as a recognition of her career. In 2018 she participated in the collective exhibition organized by the CentroCentro, ''La NO comunidad'', with the work ''Soliloquios cotidianos''. This was presented as an essay on loneliness in the modern world. Also in 2018, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the
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, her installation ''Textos autocensurados.Versión 1,1976'' was among works selected from the
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for the exhibition ''El poder del arte'', which was located for the first time in the houses of the
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and the
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Awards and recognitions

* 2011:
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* 2012: Asociación de Mujeres en las Artes Visuales Award * 2015: National Award for Plastic Arts * 2017: * 2018:


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jerez, Concha 1941 births Living people 20th-century Spanish women artists 21st-century Spanish women artists Artists from the Canary Islands Complutense University of Madrid alumni Conceptual artists Feminist artists People from Las Palmas Spanish contemporary artists Spanish feminists Spanish installation artists Women installation artists Spanish performance artists Academic staff of the University of Salamanca Spanish video artists Women conceptual artists Women video artists Washington-Liberty High School alumni