Born in San Sebastian, in Spain’s Basque
Country in 1963, Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa studied at the Basque
Country University of Fine Arts, then moved to Paris, where he attended
Paris's École des beaux-arts (ENSBA) and read philosophy at
the University of Paris-VIII and the Collège international
de philosophie.
Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa, lives in Paris and works in Arcueil,
a nearby suburb. But it’s everywhere else that his work is shown
and exhibited.
He is represented by the Carreras Mugica
Gallery, Bilbao, and the Clages Gallery,
Köln. He took part in collective shows : Populism (Frankfurt,
Amsterdam, Oslo, Vilnius, 2005), Urban realities (Martin Gropius Bau,
Berlin, 2005). He took part in the City
of Lyon 9th Biennale (2007) at the Sucrière
and in the Bilbao Guggenheim museum show “Chacun
à son goût” and just
recently had a soberly called “Lonely
at the top #4” a one-man show
at the MuHKA in Antwerp (2009). Last but not least, he was one of
the honorary guests of the 31st Panorama of Brazilian Art.
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