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IGNACIO ITURRIA is born in Montevideo in 1949 and starts his relationship with artistic painting in his childhood. In his early youth, he dedicates his whole time and efforts to painting, and soon enough he started getting local recognition through Art & Painting national awards. In 1977 he gets married and travels to Spain. He settles in Cadaqués, the small village on the Mediterranean Sea near Barcelona, where he works with painter Ramón Aguilar Moré. In 1982 he settles in Barcelona, which gives him the chance to keep close ties with great catalonian artists such as Tharrats, Cuixart and Pitxot. In 1988 he is selected along with 14 other artists by New York´s Fund for Artist Colonies, to participate as a resident artist at an Artists´ Colony, which enables him to spend three months in the U.S., living among artists from all over the world

In 1994 he is awarded the Grand Prize of the IV Cuenca’s International Painting Biennale, Ecuador.

In 1995, he obtains the ”Casa di Risparmio” Special Award, at the Biennale di Venezia. Iturria is the only Latin American artist to ever receive an award at the world’s most prestigious International Art Show in history.

In 1997 he receives the Grand Prize at the XII San Juan´s Latin America and the Caribbean Etching Biennale, Puerto Rico.

Back to Spain, in 1999 he hosts the major solo show “La Libertad del Juego”, in Madrid and Valencia, sponsored by Fundación Telefónica and curated by Prof. José Jiménez.

In the year 2000, Marlborough Gallery shows his “New Works” in New York and Boca Raton, U.S.A.  The same year he partakes as Special Guest in the FIA Caracas, Venezuela.

In 2001 he gets the Figari Award in Uruguay.

In 2002, with the experiences at the Artists’ Colonies in mind, he decides to launch “CASABLANCA arte en acción”, later to become the well known art Academy in Montevideo, Uruguay.

To commemorate Montevideo´s Goethe Institute 40th anniversary, Iturria presents “La Soledad del Juego” in 2003. This show then goes on tour all around the country, with the collabortaion of curator Alfredo Torres, and Iturria´s brothers Javier, Pablo and Rafael.

In 2004, Iturria is invited as a juror to the XIV Bienal de Arte Paiz, in Guatemala. After the event, he stays a season working in the middle of the Salvadoran jungle, where he starts a small artists´ community, the “Coatepeque” Group.

In april 2006 he settles back in Cadaqués, Spain. He stays there for over three years, painting in a huge industrial warehouse where he received permanent visits from painters, pupils and friends who stayed the season working with him.

While in Europe, he presents a solo show curated by prof. José Jiménez at the Instituto Cervantes in Paris, 2007. The following year, his art is exhibited at the Contemporary Art Museum Yongeun of Seoul, South Korea.

In 2011, at Galería Enlace and Miraflores City Hall, Lima, Perú. Aiming to develop the artistic vocation in young artists through the creation of an Artists´Colony with home in Rosario, Colonia (Uruguay), the Ignacio Iturria Foundation is created in 2012.

ITURRIA´S WORKS ARE PRESENT IN PRIVATE COLLECTIONS AND MUSEUMS SUCH AS: Museo José Luis Cuevas, México. Museo Rufino Tamayo, México. Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Venezuela. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofía Imber, Caracas, Venezuela. OAS Museum Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Uruguay. Youngeun Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea

AWARDS Salón Municipal, Montevideo,1975. Salón Nacional de Artes Plásticas, Montevideo 1976. "Fund for Artists Colonies", U.S.A., 1989. Uruguayan Art Critics Association, 1989. Forign Artist Award at the LXX-XII Salón de Artes Plásticas, Argentina, 1993. Plaque of Appreciation for Artistic Labour at the Conference Room of the National Government Palace, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Grand Prize Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador, 1994. Special Award "Casa di Risparmio" Biennale di Venezia, Italy, 1995. Grand Prize, XII Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano y del Caribe, Puerto Rico. "Premio Figari" Montevideo, Uruguay, 2001. ESTAMPA XIth Edition - international Etching / Contemporary Art Edition, Madrid, November 2003