Santiago Ydáñez

Jaén (1967).

A graduate in Fine Arts from the University of Granada, he has taken workshops with Juán Genovés and Mitsuo Miura, among others. He has received important distinctions and is one of the most internationally renowned Spanish painters. He was awarded the Ministry of Culture’s Spanish College in Paris Scholarship (2001), the Marcelino Botín Foundation Scholarship (1998), the Spanish Academy in Rome Scholarship (2016) and the 33rd BMW Painting Prize (2018).

He has exhibited at CAC Malaga, Villa di Livia (Rome), Whitebox Art Center (Beijing), Museo Lázaro Galdiano (Madrid), Dillon Gallery (New York), CAAM (Gran Canaria), Invaliden1 (Berlin), Fundación Chirivella Soriano (Valencia), Künstlerhaus Bethanien (BerlinOld Chuch of the Society of Jesus (Caravaca de la Cruz, Murcia), Galería S. E. Gallery (Bergen, Norway), Goethe Institut, Instituto Cervantes (Stockholm), Fundación Canaria para el Desarrollo de la Pintura (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria), Ge Galería (Monterrey, Mexico), among others.

Present in collections such as Fundación Botín (Santander), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), DKV collection, CAC (Málaga), Museo Sofía Ímber (Venezuela), Diputación de Jaén, Colección ABC (Madrid), Colección CGAC (Galicia).