bornin 1968in Bilbao, Spain. Lives and works between Spain and the United States. Basque artist, painter, and photographer Ignacio Goitia ended his Fine Arts career in 1993. His studies alternated between the Basque Country, England, Italy, and Cuba. While conducting his first exhibitions, he expanded his knowledge with a Ph.D. in Art History at the Basque Country University and long periods of study in Florence and Rome. After that, he received a grant from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to reside for nearly a year at La Cité des Arts in Paris, where he did his initiation in the audiovisual world in a series of videos.
As a painter, he has opened a long list of exhibitions in countries like Spain, France, Belgium, Mexico, the United States, the Netherlands, Belgium, among others. Although his natural language is large-format paintings, he has never stopped indulging in his passion for photography, often applying his vision as a painter to his photographic work. Moreover, photography, which in his case began as a mix between a working tool and documentation for his travels, has become over the years a work with its own identity that gives a distinctive view from his pictorial work.
