albert bayona/aboutEN

After establishing himself as a painter in the late 1980s, Albert Bayona moved towards digital art and new technologies. In his broad interdisciplinary practice, he explores his interest in landscape, territory and their transformation. From this perspective, he develops contradictions and opposing concepts, sometimes with a transgressive intention to generate discomfort in the viewer, who is accustomed to accepting everyday life uncritically. His work is closely linked to music and cinema, reflecting on mechanisms of deception and perception within the cinematic language itself.

His projects encompass multiple disciplines —painting, drawing, photography, video, digital technologies and music— and have been presented, both individually and collectively, at institutions including MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome; Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM); Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio); EX-NEW Centre for Contemporary Art, Sulbiate; Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow; MOTOCO, Mulhouse (France); Torrance Art Museum (TAM), California; Morera Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lleida; CentroCentro, Palacio de Cibeles, Madrid; Arts Santa Mònica; and Centre d’Art La Panera.

He has participated in international art fairs and festivals including ARCO, International Contemporary Art Fair (Madrid); VIDEOFORMES, International Digital Arts Festival (Clermont-Ferrand); SPLIT, Kraków International New Cinema Festival; NYC Independent Film Festival; Barcelona LOOP Festival; ADAF, Athens Digital Arts Festival; MADATAC, Contemporary Audiovisual and New Media Festival; MUCES, European Film Showcase; ECRÃ, International Audiovisual Culture Festival (Rio de Janeiro); IN-SONORA, International Sound and Interactive Art Exhibition (Madrid); and FILE, Electronic Language International Festival (Brazil).

His works are part of the National Collection of Contemporary Art of the Government of Catalonia and are featured on audiovisual platforms such as HAMACA, LABOCINE and SUYAI, a sound art platform.

In 1985 he received Second Prize at the 24th Joan Miró International Drawing Prize. In 2008 he won the Vasudha Prize for Best Environmental Short Film. In 2014 he was awarded runner-up at the 7th Video Art Prize, El Almacén de las Artes. In 2021 he received the Jury’s Special Mention at the Samskara International Film Festival, as well as the Award of Excellence at the World Film Carnival (Singapore) and at the Tagore International Film Festival (TIFF). In 2022 he received the award for Best Experimental Film at the Calcutta International Cult Film Festival. In 2023 he was awarded the Critics’ Prize from the Russian Institute of Cinema and Performing Arts, the Swedish Film Academy Award, and Best Experimental Film at both the Berlin Motion Picture Awards and the Toronto International Filmmakers’ Festival.

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