Born in 1986 (Ourense, Spain), currently living and working between Austria and Spain, Enar is a visual artist who advocates for a free and open circulation of culture. In her artistic practice the selective process of existing visual and textual material serves as a starting point for an exploration of the poetic and its political applicability. Her last research-based projects reflect upon the production of space and its socio-political and environmental consequences. She is the founder of the Bay Area Online Exhibitions Archive, founding collaborator of the science-art project SEEC Photography and member of The Golden Pixel Cooperative.
Education
2014-2016 Master of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute (San Francisco, USA)
2011-2014 Studies of Bachelor of Arts: Photography and Fine Arts, University of Applied Arts Vienna (Austria)
2010-2011 Master of Arts: Multimedia Translation, University of Vigo (Spain)
2004-2009 Bachelor of Arts: Translation and Interpretation, University of Vigo (Spain)
2007-2008 Studies of Bachelor of Arts: English and French Philology, University Jagiellonski, Cracow (Poland)
Selected solo/duo exhibitions
2021 “Liquid ground” Kunsthall 3,14 (Bergen) [NO]
2021 “Liquid ground” LABoral Centro de Arte (Gijón) [ES]
2020 “Die Dauer des Blicks” IG Bildende Kunst (Vienna) [AT]
2019 “Vestiges” Project Space (Melbourne) [AU]
2016 “Exercises in Style” StoreFrontLab (San Francisco) [US]
2016 “299792458” Aggregate Space Gallery (Oakland) [US]
2014 “The absence of art” Paul Sack Gallery (San Francisco) [US]
Selected group exhibitions/screenings
2022
“Proyector Videoart Festival” Ésta es una Plaza! (Madrid) [ES] – Upcoming
“20th Biennial of Art Pančevo” Cinema Cultural Center (Pančevo) [RS] – Upcoming
“Overground Resistance” NeMe Arts Centre (Limassol) [CY] – Upcoming
“The tending of the otherwise” Procida Cinema (Procida) [IT] – Upcoming
“Play-Doc International Documentary Film Festival” (Tui) [ES]
“Devolver el fuego” Centro Cultural Conde Duque (Madrid) [ES]
“Night Air: Shifting Sands” Sonic Acts (Amsterdam) [NL]
“Diagonale Film Festival” Schubert Cinema (Graz) [AT]
“Indizien” Kunsthaus Graz (Graz) [AT]
“Floating Landscapes” Galerie 5020 (Salzburg) [AT]
“Talking, reading, and watching collectively” Beursschouwburg (Brussels) [BE]
“Codes of silence” Slash (San Francisco) [US]
2021
“Curtocircuito Film Festival” Numax Cinema (Santiago de Compostela) [ES]
“The New Normal” Volkstheater (Vienna) [AT]
“Wake Words” Kunstraum Niederösterreich (Vienna) [AT]
“Proyector Videoart Festival” Institut Français of Madrid (Madrid) [ES]
“School of Waters” Museo MAGA (Gallarate) [IT]
“FrameOut Film Festival” MuseumsQuartier (Vienna) [AT]
“Fußabdrücke im Datenmeer” Kunsthalle Karlsplatz (Vienna) [AT]
“Mediterranea 19” Young Artists Biennale (San Marino) [SM]
“Memoirs of the Abyss” SixtyEight Art Institute (Copenhague) [DK]
“Our Seas Are What We Make of Them” Laurel Project Space (Amsterdam) [NL]
“Transitions Festival” (Melbourne) [AU]
2020
“this human world Film Festival” (Vienna) [AT]
“Games.Fights.Encounters” OnCurating Space (Zürich) [CH]
“Curtocircuito Film Festival” Teatro Principal (Santiago de Compostela) [ES]
“DokuFest, International Documentary and Short Film Festival” (Prizren) [XK]
“Zwischenräume” Salzburger Kunstverein (Salzburg) [AT]
“MUSMIG” Galerie Die Schöne (Vienna) [AT]
2019
“VISIO – European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images“ Palazzo Strozzi (Florence) [IT]
“Instancias“ 45 Salón Nacional de Artistas (Bogotá) [CO]
“Aquí y Ahora 7 – The wrong way“ Galería Blanca Soto (Madrid) [ES]
2018
“299792458” Peuerbach-Tor (Vienna) [AT]
“Traslación” Ctrl+Shft (Oakland) [US]
“Creadores 2018” La Térmica (Málaga) [ES]
“Other Places art fair” Pretend Gallery booth, Opaf 2018 (Los Angeles)
2017
“Muestreo: Cañonazos de la Piratería” Centro Colombo Americano (Bogota)[CO]
“Beyond one’s own territory” RAUMSCHIFF (Linz) [AT]
“SEEC Photography” Berkeley Museum & Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley)[US]
“Radical Networks 2017” Creative Capital (Brooklyn) [US]
“Now Open” Pretend Gallery (Los Angeles) [US]
“DISSOLVE #4” FraenkelLAB (San Francisco) [US]
“BYOB” R/SF Projects (San Francisco) [US]
2016
“The Yud Video Project” Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco) [US]
“The Infraordinary” Adobe Books (San Francisco) [US]
“Ars Electronica Festival” Ars Electronica (Linz) [AT]
“L’Œil d’Oodaaq” St Malo and Nantes [FR]
“Writ Large festival” University of California Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz) [US]
“VIDEO/BAR” Le Café sur Cour (Nantes) [FR]
“2016 SFAI MFA Exhibition” Herbst Pavilion at Fort Mason (San Francisco) [US]
2015
“Writ Large” Great Wall of Oakland (Oakland) [US]
“in/tension” Diego Rivera Gallery (San Francisco) [US]
“latent” Swell Gallery (San Francisco) [US]
“Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards” SOMArts (San Francisco) [US]
“Little Obsessions” Diego Rivera Gallery (San Francisco) [US]
“Art=2o” Nando Argüelles Art Projects (Cádiz) [ES]
2014
“BeLong” Diego Rivera Gallery (San Francisco) [US]
“Pretty raw” Vordere Zollamtsstraße (Vienna) [AT]
“Performativität des Widerstands” Lisabird Contemporary (Vienna) [AT]
“San Antón nas Panateneas” Museo Municipal (Ourense) [ES]
“busy lines” Galerie Z (Hard) [AT]
“Cabin #99” The Redwoods in Yosemite (Wawona) [US]
“Unter Strom” Semperdepot (Vienna) [AT]
“FLECHA 2014” Art Madrid (Madrid) [ES]
2013
“Das Exponential” AUSARTEN[ ] e.V. (Vienna) [AT]
“Etwas mit Geste” Galerie Z (Hard) [AT]
“Exposure” huffak Offspace (Vienna) [AT]
“Festival IN OUT” Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art (Gdansk) [PL]
2012
“REALM” Heiligenkreuzerhof (Vienna) [AT]
“The essence 2012” Künstlerhaus (Vienna) [AT]
Selected grants & awards
2021 VIII Production Grant DKV Seguros – Álvarez Margaride (LABoral Centro de Arte)
2021 PICE Traveling Grant (AC/E – Acción Cultural Española)
2021 Artist-in-Residence Grant at Nida Art Colony (Lower Austrian Government)
2021 Pixel, Bytes + Film Production Grant (Federal Chancellery of Austria)
2020 Planeta GZ Award and Award for Best Film Direction (Curtocircuíto Film Festival)
2020 Special Mention (this human world Film Festival)
2020 Artists in Residence Scholarship from the Chancellery of Austria
2019 AIR – Artist in Residence Lower Austria Scholarship
2017 Travel grant (Austrian Cultural Forum New York)
2016 StoreFrontLab Grant (StoreFrontLab)
2016 Outstanding Graduate Student Award (San Francisco Art Institute)
2015 Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Award (Murphy and Cadogan Foundation)
2015 SFAI Fellowship Award (San Francisco Art Institute)
2014 BMWF Scholarship (Austrian Ministry of Science and Research)
2014 SFAI Fellowship Award (San Francisco Art Institute)
2012 Merit scholarship (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
2006 Erasmus scholarship (University Jagiellonski, Cracow)
Residencies
2022 BMKÖS Residency in Istanbul [TU]
2021 Nida Art Colony, Nida [LI]
2019 LABoral Centro de Arte, Gijón [ES]
2019 RMIT University, Melbourne (Australia)
2018 La Térmica Creadores, Málaga (Spain), La Térmica
Selected artist talks, lectures and workshops
2022 Bewährungsprobe at Depot (Vienna) [AT]
2021-2022 Universidad de Málaga (Malaga) [ES]
2019 Kunstuniversität Linz [AT]
2019 VISIO – Palazzo Strozzi (Florence) [IT]
2019 Asialink Arts (Melbourne) [AU]
2018 II Encuentro de Creación Fotográfica (Almería) [ES]
2018 University of Vienna [AT]
2018 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna [AT]
2018 Plataforma (Bogota) [CO]
2018 La Térmica (Málaga) [ES]
2018 Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore) [US]
2017 Radical Networks (New York) [US]
2017 San Francisco Art Institute (San Francisco) [US]
2017 University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley) [US]
2017 University of San Francisco (San Francisco) [US]
2016 Stanford University (Palo Alto) [US]
2016 Aggregate Space Gallery (Oakland) [US]
2016 Ars Electronica Festival (Linz) [AT]
2016 San Francisco Art Institute (San Francisco) [US]
Curatorial projects
2021 “Wake Words” Kunstraum Niederoesterreich (Vienna) [AT]
2020 “Election Day” das weisse haus (Vienna) [AT]
2019 “Camera Lucida” das weisse haus (Vienna) [AT]
2018 “Current signs” das weisse haus (Vienna) [AT]
2017 “The Artist Talk Fest 2” at Espacio Odeón (Bogota) [CO]
2017 “Unsolicited exhibition” Online from Berkeley and Vienna [US/AT]
2017 “Unauthorized SFMOMA Show” Online at SFMOMA (San Francisco) [US]
2016 “Language to be Looked at @ Things to be Read” Online from Berkeley [US]
2016 “The Artist Talk Fest” at Residence/SF (San Francisco) [US]
2015 “Desktop show II” Online at Mills College (Oakland) [US]
2015 “The Reader” Online for KADIST Art Foundation (San Francisco) [US]
2015 “UNSHOWN” at Noroof Gallery (San Francisco) [US]
2014 “Desktop show” Online from Berkeley [US]
Selected publications
2019 Discurso de apertura – Book in flyers format, commissioned by the 45 Salón Nacional de Artistas, self-published and distributed in the streets of Bogotá
2018 The poetics of landscape – Poetry in PowerPoint format, published by Gauss PDF
2017 Unauthorized SFMOMA Show – Exhibition catalogue edited and published in collaboration with Lasse Scherffig and Ana María Montenegro Jaramillo
2017 Exercises in Style – Book as documentation of the project, in collaboration with Ana María Montenegro Jaramillo and the support of StoreFrontLab
2010 Caderno dun retorno ao país natal – Boletín Galego de Literatura Nº43 [ISSN 0214 9117] – Translation from French to Galician of the poetry book Cahier d’un retour au pays natal by Aimé Césaire