Ester Partegàs

Ester Partegàs is a Spanish artist born in Barcelona in 1972 and based in New York. She graduated from the University of Barcelona in 1995 and later from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2000. Ester Partegàs's work focuses on the exploration of everyday life and popular culture through different media such as sculpture, installation, painting, and drawing. Her work is characterized by the use of ephemeral materials and found objects, often drawn from popular culture. In her works, Ester Partegàs focuses on the interaction between popular culture and personal experience, often using everyday objects to explore themes such as identity, memory, and nostalgia. Ester Partegàs's work has been exhibited in major museums and galleries around the world, including the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, the Centro Cultural Matucana 100 in Santiago, Chile, and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico. She has also received numerous awards and recognition for her work, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship in 2008 and a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2015.