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.