Conchita Bardají
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Biography

Spanish artist Conchita Bardají was born in the Aragonese Pyrenees, where she developed an intimate connection with nature that she translates through realist pencil drawings.
"The intimate dialogue with Nature is a way to approach the divine, and I want to paint and draw it, in an effort to make it mine through my pencils and my brushes," Bardají says. "My love for her makes me represent her as she is, wanting to reproduce all her splendor. The shape of the trees seems to me the maximum expression of beauty. I think that my way of drawing and painting can convey that beauty, looking at it in a romantic way, and drawing it in an almost baroque way. But without a doubt my intention is that it be in a contemporary way."
"My way of seeing Nature is closer to the abstract than to the concrete: there are no references to concrete places, I am interested in Nature itself. Even the frames I choose are abstract, there is no perspective, there is no "place", there is no scene. I think it is an attempt to decontextualize the "where", I am not interested in where I have taken that image, I just want the beauty and essence of that piece of Nature. When I walk among the trees, I find myself contemplating a chaotic infinity, but my gaze selects, and an order emerges. My mind wants to order the chaos and offer it as a cure for the human soul."
ACADEMIC STUDIES AND TRAINING
1978/1989 Classes in drawing and painting in the studio of Olga Rubio ( Zaragoza)
1990/1995 Bachelor of Fine Arts, specializing in Sculpture from the University of Basque Country. Bilbao.
1993 Erasmus Scholarship. Ecole D' Art de Marseille (France )
1995 Workshop Juan Hidalgo. QUAM , Art Fortnight Montesquieu (Barcelona )
1996 Declared for Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts ( CalArts ) Valencia ( California) , USA
1997 Workshop Ignasi Aballí . QUAM . Barcelona.
2007 Course Landscape and Art . CDAN Art and Nature Center , Beulas Foundation. Huesca.
2009 Painting Course with Amaya Gúrpide .Civivox Juslarrocha . Pamplona.
2018 Painting Course with Isidoro Moreno López. Art School La maleta del caracol. Pamplona.
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Aragones Youth Arts Competition . Government of Aragon
- 1989 Accesit Painting
- 1992 Third Prize Drawing
- 1996 Award for best photographic whole.
Second Prize Drawing
1995 and 1996 Support for Artistic Creation. Government of Aragon
1997 Aid for training and development . Government of Aragón.
Second prize . Young Painting Competition . Caja Rural de Huesca.
2001 Support for Artistic Creation. Government of Aragón.
2009 Painting Competition Outdoor Gardens Taconera , Pamplona . Selected.
2014 Painting Competition Portrait Portrait Mod . Selected among the finalists.
2017 Painting Competition Outdoor Villava River Gardens , Pamplona . Selected.
2019 Accésit. Painting Competition Outdoor Villava River Gardens , Pamplona.
EXHIBITIONS
1992 and 1993 . Café Icaro. Jaca (Huesca )
1994 School of Arts . Saragossa
1998 Hall Lanuza . Zaragoza. catalogue
The Forest. Moldurarte Gallery . Saragossa
Artefacto Gallery . Vigo
2003 Culture Room Burlada ( Navarra)
2006 Lacava Gallery . Pamplona
City of Biescas (Huesca )
Art & Art Gallery. Madrid
Hotel The Privilege . Tramacastilla Tena (Huesca )
2007 Arrechea Gallery . Jaca (Huesca )
Safety Circle. Ram Hall. Burgos
2011 The Privilege Hotel . Tramacastilla Tena (Huesca )
2012 Artea2 Gallery . Cuzur Mayor ( Navarra)
2013 Ormolu Gallery . The Invisible . Pamplona
San Cayetano 3 Gallery . It Invisible . Saragossa
Marula Café. Black Music. Madrid
2015 Ormolú Gallery. Black Music. Pamplona
Gallery San Cayetano. Black Music. Zaragoza
Café Zentral. Black Music. Pamplona
2017 Ormolú Gallery. Flowers. Pamplona
Hotel El Privilegio. Tramacastilla de Tena (Huesca)
2018/2019 Conchita Bardají´s Studio. Biescas, Valle de Tena (Huesca).
2019. Ormolú Gallery. Landscapes. Pamplona.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1988/89/90/92/95/96/2000 . Aragonés Youth Arts Competition Government Aragon. Travelers. catalogs
1992 Basque Art Biennale . Amorebieta ( Vizcaya). catalogue
1993 Erasmus 93 . Sala Araba . Vitoria. catalogue
1994 Women . Araba room . Vitoria. catalogue
10 years of drawing . Aragonés Youth Arts Competition . Lanuza room . Saragossa
1995 Fine Arts. Enea Living Sanz . Zarautz ( Guipúzcoa). catalog
Gaztearte 95 . Zornotza Aretoa . Amorebieta ( Vizcaya). catalog
" Go to England without me, I 'm tired." La Fundición Gallery . Bilbao. catalogue
Concert Stock. QUAM 95 . Fundación La Caixa . Vic ( Barcelona)
Amasté Gallery. Bilbao
1996 Actions . Tecla Sala . L' Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona )
Aragonés Youth Photography Contest . Government of Aragón. Lanuza room .Zaragoza. catalogue
Contact distance . Arriola Aretoa Kultur . Elorrio ( Vizcaya). catalogue
"I do not care about anything." Ad Hoc Gallery . Vigo
1997 COOP. Private apartment .Curated by Peio Aguirre. San Sebastian
Young Painting Competition . Caja Rural . Huesca. catalogue
1998 Prize of Plastic Expression. UNED. Barbastro ( Huesca). catalogue
1999 Paper with Water . Museum Pablo Serrano. Zaragoza. catalogue
VI Sample Union Fenosa. Maritime Station . La Coruña. catalogue
Collective students. Exhibition Hall at the University of the Basque Country . Leioa (Vizcaya)
2000 Youth Art Show . Government of Aragón. Itinerant ,catalogue
2004 Students Paint Shop Conchita Bardají . Culture House Burlada (Navarra )
2006 Ormolú Gallery . Pamplona
2007 Ormolú Gallery . Pamplona
2008 Appolo Auctions . Pamplona
On the Threshold . 25 years Young Art . Government of Aragón. Itinerant . catalogue
2009 Painting Competition Outdoor Gardens Taconera . Living Weapons Citadel. Pamplona
2010 Ormolú Gallery. Collective summer . Pamplona
2011 Ormolú Gallery. I inspiration. The Februarys of Ormolu . Pamplona
San Cayetano 3 Gallery . Artists Gallery . Saragossa
2012 Ormolú Gallery. Ellipsis . The Februarys of Ormolu . Pamplona
San Cayetano 3 Gallery . There is no beach. Saragossa
San Cayetano 3 Gallery. In Autumn. Saragossa
2013 Ormolú Gallery . Dot and Line . The Februarys of Ormolú . Pamplona
San Cayetano Gallery 3 . The Spring . Saragossa
San Cayetano Gallery 3 . Pilar Parties . Saragossa
San Cayetano Gallery 3 . Collective Christmas . Saragossa
2014 Ormolú Gallery. Three at seven eyes of woman. Pamplona. Exposure within programming the Women's National Festival looks.
Modportrait. Bantierra Gallery. Saragossa. Catalogue.
Modportrait. MEAM European Museum of Modern Art. Barcelona. Catalogue.
San Cayetano 3 Gallery. Summer collective. Saragossa.
2015 San Cayetano Gallery Artists Group .Cámara House. Tauste (Saragossa).
San Cayetano Gallery Artists Group. Condes de Ribagorza Palace. Benasque (Huesca).
2016 Summer colletive, Gallery Artists. Ormolú Gallery- Pamplona.
2017 “Refugio” The Februarys of Ormolú. Ormolú Gallery. Pamplona.
Summer collective, Ormolú Gallery. Pamplona.
Painting Competition Outdoor Villava River Gardens. Molino de Villava. Navarra.
2018 "Flores". Organized by Ateneo Navarro and curated by Pedro Salaberri. Planetario de Pamplona.
2109 "Acompañarte" 20th anniversary Ormolú Gallery, Pamplona. Catalogue.
"The language of today" La Fábrica de Gomas Gallery. Pamplona.
Painting Competition Outdoor Villava River Gardens. Molino de Villava. Navarra.
Regalarte. La Fábrica de Gomas Gallery. Pamplona.
2020 "Art and Nature". Organized by Ateneo Navarro and curated by Pedro Salaberri. Ciudadela de Pamplona. Catalogue.
Summer collective, Ormolú Gallery. Pamplona.
Artists of the Gallery. CK Contemporary. San Francisco . USA.
2021 Artists of the Gallery. MeyerVogl Gallery. Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
"Bagnare la rose, Cambiare le cose". Galleria Cavó, Trieste. Italy. Curated by José Ramón Ais.
"Mixtape". Meyer Vogl Gallery. Charleston, South Carolina. USA.
2022 "Out of the Shadows: Light in the Work of Twenty Contemporary Artists". CK Contemporary. San Francisco, California, USA.
Art Market San Francisco. CK Contemporary. San Francisco, California, USA.
TEACHING
1996 - 1998 Professor Paint Shop City Council Biescas (Huesca )
1997 - 1998 Professor of Plastic and Visual Education. Escolapios College. Jaca (Huesca )
Since 1998 directs the Drawing and Painting Workshop Conchita Bardají, located in Pamplona (Navarra), where she teaches painting to children and amateur students.