Ester Partegàs (born 1972) is a Spanish contemporary artist and educator. She lives and works in

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Biography

Ester Partegàs was born in 1972 in

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, Spain. She has a B.F.A. degree (in sculpture) from the

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and has completed postgraduate studies at

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in Berlin. In 1999 she was awarded the Botin Foundation Grant from Spain that sponsored her nine-month residency at the

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, New York (ISCP). She has also received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship, among others. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including the

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(Connecticut),

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(Madrid), 2nd Moscow Bienniale,

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(Greensboro, North Carolina), Walker's Point Center for the Arts (Milwaukee, Wisconsin),

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(Richmond, Virginia), Cercle Cultural Caja Madrid (Barcelona),

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(New York),

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Art Gallery (Houston, Texas),

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(New York) and

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(Altria, New York).

Collections

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(MoMA), New York City, New York * The Dikeou Collection, Denver, Colorado * Coca-Cola Espana Foundation, Madrid *

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, Madrid * CajaMadrid, Madrid

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