about
Ester Partegàs (La Garriga, Barcelona, 1972) is an artist who creates conditions of possibility for building forms of relation against the backdrop of global flows of capital and their attendant power structures. She replicates, dismembers and recombines familiar materials and objects in her hand-built sculptures that focus attention on the systems of value with which we live. Partegàs also draws closely on her personal history addressing experiences, and effects, of disjunction and dislocation.
Partegàs has shown extensively, nationally and internationally. Most recent shows include Ballroom Marfa, TX (two-person 2024); TEA Tenerife (2023), Palazzo Delle Exposizione, Rome (2023) NoguerasBlanchard, Madrid (2022 solo); Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2021); Essex Flowers (two-person 2021); Pure Joy, Marfa TX (2020, solo); Conde Duque, Madrid (2020); The Drawing Center, NY (2019); the Museum of the City of NY (2019); Transborder Biennial / Bienal Transfronteriza, El Paso Museum of Art + Museo de Arte Ciudad Juárez (2018). Past shows include MACBA Barcelona; Sculpture Center, NY; Artist’s Space, NY; Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; Public Art Fund, NY; Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria; Whitechapel Gallery, London; MACRO Museum/Depart Foundation, Rome; and the Moscow, Busan and Athens Biennials among others.
She was the recipient of the 2022-2023 Rome Prize for Visual Arts at the American Academy in Rome, a 2014 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship, a 2004 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (2004), and a Fundación Botín Grant (1999) among others. She has been an artist in residence at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa TX; MacDowell, and Skowhegan, among others. And faculty at the Sculpture Department of the Yale School of Art, Virginia Commonwealth University VCU, SUNY Purchase and currently, since 2016, at Parsons School of Design. Moves between New York City, Marfa TX and Barcelona.