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Biography
Ester Partegàs (born 1972 in La Garrigia, Barcelona) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She has an M.F.A. (Sculpture) from the Universitat de Barcelona, and has completed Postgraduate studies at Hochschule der Künste, Berlin. She participated in the International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York in 1999.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including The Aldrich Museum, CT; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; 2nd Moscow Bienniale; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro NC; Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee WI; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA; Cercle Cultural Caja Madrid, Barcelona; Sculpture Center, New York; Rice University Art Gallery, Houston TX; Queens Museum of Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York.
Partegàs’ work features in a number of public collections, including MOMA, New York; The Dikeou Collection, Denver; Coca-Cola Espana Foundation, Madrid; Instituto de la Juventud, Madrid; CajaMadrid, Madrid. Her work also features in numerous private collections in the US and Europe. She is represented by Foxy Production, New York.
Selected bibliography
Alvarez-Reyes, José Antonio. “Ester Partegàs.” Flash Art International, January–February 2004: 105.
Ammarati, Domenick. “Make It Now.” Artforum International, October 2005: 278. Baird, Daniel. “Make It Now.” Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2005: 12.
Momin, Shamim M. "Moving About Matters." Calories, Slave Magazine, 2006.
Navarro, Mariano. "Ester Partegas, a través de la grieta." El Mundo, January 2008.
Peran, Marti and Ester Partegàs. "Sky-Lines." Calories, Slave Magazine, October/November 2005.
Rodriguez, Marta. "Cart(ajena)." ArtNexus, No. 65, Vol. 6: 155-158.
Smith, Roberta. “The Many Shades of Now, Explored in 3 Dimensions.” The New York Times, 27 May 2005: E37.[1]
Stolz, George. "Ester Partegas." ARTnews, June 2007: 148.
Volk, Gregory. "Fixed and Hazardous Objects." Virginia Commonwealth University, 2006.