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June Crespo Oyaga (born 1982) is a Spanish artist.


Biography

June Crespo was born in
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in 1982, and earned a licentiate in fine arts from the
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in 2005. For her artistic training she attended the Lupa e Imán Artistic Practice Workshop in San Sebastián in 2005, and the following year,
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in Austria. In 2014 she trained at the International Artists Studio Program in Stockholm, and from 2015 to 2017, at
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in Amsterdam. She works in lithography and drawing, as well as sculpting with materials such as fabric, concrete, fiberglass, plaster, and wax. Her works are part of the collections of the
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and the
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, among others. Her solo exhibitions include ''Chance Album n.º1'' at etHALL in Barcelona in 2016, and ''Ser dos'' at the Galería CarrerasMugica in Bilbao in 2017. She has also participated in group exhibitions such as ''Hitting it off, P-exclamation'' in New York in 2014; ''en ...Ahí pero vacío'' in Mexico City in 2017; ''Querer Parecer Noche'' at CA2M in Madrid and ''internal view'' at Galeria Stereo in Warsaw, both in 2018; and ''Una dimensión ulterior'' at the in Valladolid in 2019. In 2013, Crespo was one of three winners (along with artist
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and researcher Adelina Moyano) of the Basque Country government's Gure Artea Awards, receiving an endowment of €25,000. In 2018, she was presented with the Critical Eye Award for Plastic Arts by
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. This was followed by the Fundación María José Jove's International Art Award in 2019.


Individual exhibitions

* 2013: ''Amatista'', Sala Rekalde, Bilbao * 2013: ''Reverse'', ''Have A Window'' program, Turín * 2015: ''Cosa y tú'', Galería CarrerasMugica, Bilbao * 2016: ''Chance Album nº1'', etHALL, Barcelona * 2016: ''Kanala'', ''Intertextual'' program, MARCO, Vigo * 2017: ''Ser dos'', Galería CarrerasMugica, Bilbao * 2019: ''No Osso'', Certain Lack of Coherence, Porto * 2020: ''HELMETS'',
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, Vitoria-Gasteiz * 2020 ''Voy, sí'', Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid


Awards

* 2013: Gure Artea Award * 2018: for Plastic Arts * 2019: Fundación María José Jove International Art Award


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Crespo, June 1982 births 21st-century Spanish sculptors Living people People from Pamplona Spanish women sculptors University of the Basque Country alumni 21st-century women sculptors