Biography

Born 1963 in Barcelona, Spain
Lives and works in Barcelona, Spain

JAIME PITARCH received a BA from the Chelsea College of Art, London in 1993, and an MA from the Royal College of Art, London in 1995. Pitarch creates sculptures, drawings, videos and installations often using humble everyday objects such as a guitar, chair, or household and consumer products. He employs inventive strategies of displacement, re-contextualization and visual punning to peel away at their routine uses and meanings to alter our relationship with such utilitarian items. The objects are imbued with alternate meanings, primarily having to do with the human condition; time, grief, balance, and world events being at the forefront of his interests. Pitarch describes his work as mainly having “... to do with the human being’s inability to identify with the structures he himself has created.”

He has exhibited extensively in Europe and in Spain. He has had solo shows in places such in: Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York (2025, 2013, 2009, 2006); Tecla Sala,L’Hospitalet (2017), àngels barcelona (2013, 2009, 2004,1997); Fúcares Gallery, Madrid (2013, 2008); Galerija Vartai, Lithuania, 2011. His work has been selected for group shows in places such as Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Portugal; Artium; MASS MoCA, Massachusets; Manifesta; Centre d’Art Santa Mónica, Barcelona; Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul, France; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon; Carré d’Art Contemporain, Nimes or MACBA, Barcelona, amongst others. His work can be found in public and private collections such as the MACBA collection, La Caixa collection, Artium, the Bergé collection, the Museum Patio Herreriano or the Royal College of Art, London, amongst others.

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