José Quintanar
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Dutch Landscape 21, 22, 23, Galerie Florence Loewy, Paris (FR)
2023 LUCA Fine Art School, Ghent (BE)
2022 019 Gallery, Ghent (BE)
2021 Dutch Landscape 8, Terranova. Comte Borrell 99, Barcelona (ES)
2021 Un Paysage Hollandais, My Monkey Gallery, Nancy (FR)
A Dutch Landscape #11, Is A Galery, Shanghai (CH)
2020 Un Paisaje Holandés, Galería Araña, Madrid (ES)
A Dutch Landscape of 26 days, Shower Project Space, Rotterdam (NL)
2017 JOSE JA JA JA, Rotopol Gallery, Kassel (DE)
2016 GRUNDFUNKEN, Het Wilde Wetten Gallery, Rotterdam (NL)
2015 Bomba Gitana, MATADERO, Madrid (ES)
2014 La Ciudad en Viñetas, CENTRO CENTRO, Madrid (ES)
SILENT MANIFEST, Urban Installation with Zarajos Deluxe, Cuenca (ES)
Culto Charles, DAMA AFLITA Gallery, Porto (PT)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Smoothing (Lines into circles), A tale of a Tub, Rotterdam (NL)
2020 Cotoplacism, Curated by Grip Face, Cerquone Gallery, Madrid (ES)
Draw the Line, Kunstpodium T. Tilburg (NL)
2019 Playing with tradition, Gur at Gallery 3F, Tokyo (JP)
Plaatjes & Praatjes, Kunstruimte Willem Twee, Den Bosch (NL)
2018 The Reading Room, Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York (US)
Realm II, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, Saskatoon (CA)
La Pachanga, Aires de Jeux, Jungle festival, Centre Culturel Les Chiroux, Liege (BE)
2017 MAD Libro SHOW1, MAD IS MAD Gallery, Madrid (ES)
CLUBHOUSE 6, ACUD Gallery Berlin (DE)
INK 2#, Fotokino Gallery, Marseille (FR)
MAZIPOS, curated by Kush!, Komiks, Riga (LV)
2016 JUST MAD ART FAIR MADRID, Mincho Mag, COAM, Madrid (ES)
CHEAP IS CHEAP, Kevit Galleri, Copenhaguen (DK)
2015 FUN FUN FUN, Fanzines Festival 2015, Médiathèque Marguerite Duras, Paris (FR)
JUST MAD ART FAIR MADRID, Studio 119, Roberto Vidal. COAM, Madrid (ES)
2014 Ningún día sin una línea, Galería MAD IS MAD, Madrid (ES)
EDUCATION
2002-2010 B.A. + M.A. Architecture. School of Architecture of Madrid. ETSAM. UPM.
Currently P.h.D Student. School of Architecture of Madrid. ETSAM. UPM.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Torrent. Lagoon. May 2021
Kush Komiks! #38. Imperfect Shapes. April 2020
Realms II. Jon Vaughn. Jan 2018
NOW #6. Fantagraphics. 2019
NOW #5. Fantagraphics. 2018
NOW #3. Fantagraphics. 2018
Smoke Signal #28. Desert Island Brooklyn. 2018
RAFI. Lyriads. VICE USA. 2017
Clubhouse 6. Colorama & Aisha Franz. Aug 2017
Kush Komiks! #26. Dadá. Oct 2016
Kush Komiks! #19. Mathematics. Dec 2014
Books:
Dutch Landscape. Rollo Press. 2024
Dutch Landscape 17. Florence Loewy Gallery. 2023
From 1 to 16. Anoche Press. 2023
One hundred and some boats. Terry Bleu. 2022
It's a ship. Nieves. 2021
Good Morning. Terry Bleu. 2021
Un Paysage Hollandais. My Monkey editions. 2021
A Dutch Landscape of 26 pages. Ruja Press. 2021
Palmeras Salvajes. Ruja Press. 2020
A Dutch landscape III. Ruja Press. 2020
A Dutch Landscape of 24 pages. Ruja Press. 2020
The Smoke Signal Library. Ruja Press. 2019
“Una Silla Plegada”. Ruja Press. 2019
“Un paisaje Holandés”. Ruja Press. 2019
“A book with sixteen drawings of sixteen lines”. Nieves. 2019
“A book of twenty pages with twenty drawings of twenty lines”. Ruja Press. 2019
“Grundfunken”. Fosfatina. 2018
“Gran Premio”. Ruja Press. 2018
“33. Ten shoots, five assists, and one number.” Ruja Press. 2018
“Conociendo a Jari”. Fulgencio Pimentel. 2017
“The shortest distance between two ideas” Ruja press. 2017
“Grundfunken I”. Ruja Press. 2017
“Grundfunken II ”. Ruja Press. 2017
“The Drawing could never have happened”. Ruja Press. 2017
“1997. Hot Summer”. Fosfatina. 2017
“Fartlek”. Fulgencio Pimentel. 2016
“Diamond Gym”. Ruja Press. 2016
“Landscapes”. Ruja Press. 2015
“Magic Box”. Ruja Press. 2016
“Pum!”. Ruja Press. 2016
“Culto Charles”. Fulgencio Pimentel. 2015
“God Box”. Ruja Press. 2015
“Small Stories”. Ruja Press. 2015
Selected Lectures/Screenings
«Dutch LAndscape». FANFARE. Amsterdam. March 2024
“Dutch Landscape”. LUCA Fine Art School Ghent, Belgium. November 2023.
“Devenir Paisaje”. Museo TEA de Tenerife. November 2023
“Making Books”. ISIA Urbino. Italy. May 2023
“Dutch Landscapes”. Rietveld Academy. Amsterdam. September 2022.
“Making Zines”. Zine Camp. Rotterdam. November 2021.
“A Dutch Landscape”. École nationale supérieure d'art et design de Nancy. March 2021.
Making Books. Is a Gallery. Shanghai. March 2021
“A book is a book is a book. Recreo. Valencia Art Book Fair. October 2020
“Making Things”. IED Madrid. May 2020
“Sampling ideas around books as public space”. Faculty of Architecture KU LEUVEN. Ghent. Belgium. Oct 2019
“Making books just for fun”. MICA. Baltimore. The United States. Sep 2019
“Telling stories from pieces of memory”. Art Academy of Latvia. Riga. Latvia. Apr 2019
“Telling stories from pieces of memory”. Fine Art School LUCA. Gent. Belgium Mar 2019
“Sampling Ideas”. Architecture School of Madrid. ETSAM. Spain. Feb 2019.
“RUJA PRESS”. Bananafish books. Shanghai. China. Feb 2018.
“Making Things”. Ilustres 2016. La Casa Encendida, Madrid. Spain. Sep 2016.
“Jose Ja Ja Ja”. Festival NAM!. Palencia. Spain. Nov 2014
SELECTED WORKSHOP
«Dutch LAndscape». FANFARE. Amsterdam. March 2024
“Devenir Paisaje”. Museo TEA de Tenerife, Spain. Nov 2023.
“Construire il Paesaggio”. ISIA Urbino. Italy. May 2023
Making Zines. Grafixx 2022. Antwerp. Belgium. November 2022.
“Making Things”. IED Barcelona. June 2020
“Amiga Infinita”. FLIC Festival. CA2M. Madrid. Nov 2019
“Making Things”. Art Academy of Latvia. Riga. April 2019
“And Johnny got his gun”. Fine Art School LUCA, Gent. Mar 2019
“No hay ideas, sino en los objetos”. IED Madrid. Feb. 2019
“Grundfunken”. No Tengo Mamá. Vigo. Sep 2018
GRAF Madrid 2017. Matadero de Madrid. Nov 2017
“Safari City”. Achitecture School of Universidad Europea, Madrid. May 2016
“Your building is a Fucking Killer”. Architectural Association, London. Oct 2012
“Wacky Trycicle Race”. Architectural Association, London. Nov 2011
“How to be a Super Hero”.
Collaborations projects:
SCARFS & TOWELS for HERMÉS
BOOK COVERS for Fulgencio Pimentel.
ALBUM COVERS for the Music Producers Balmat
ILUSTRES 2016. Curator. La Casa Encendida & IED Madrid. Madrid. 2016
AMID.CERO9. Cristina Díaz Moreno-Efrén García Grinda. Architecture office. From 2006-2016
ART BOOK FAIR SHOWS
MISS READ | Berlin | 2016 | 2017 | 2023
OFFPRINT PARIS | 2019 | 2021 | 2023
NEW YORK ART BOOK FAIR | 2021
GHENT ART BOOK FAIR | 2022
LA ART BOOK FAIR | Los Angeles | 2016
LIBROS MUTANTES | Madrid | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2022
TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR | Tokyo | 2016
TAIPEI ART BOOK FAIR | 2020
RECREO. VALENCIA ART BOOK FAIR | 2020
VANCOUVER ART BOOK FAIR | 2020
OFFPRINT PARIS | 2019 | 2021 | 2023
DUBLIN ART BOOK FAIR | 2017 | 2018 | 2019
ELCAF | London | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018
FANZINES! | Paris | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018
GRAFIXX | Antwerp | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2022
CENTRAL VAPOEUR I Strasbourg | 2019
BOLOGNA ART BOOK FAIR I BOLOGNA | 2018
MAGICAL ART BOOK FAIR I MAASTRICHT | 2018
CULTURE MAISON I BRUSSELS | 2018
ZINE CAMP | Rotterdam | 2016 | 2021
PRESS
THE STEIDZ Magazine. Issue N8. 2022-2023
IT´S NICE THAT April 2020
IT'S NICE THAT February 2019
RTVE interview
IT'S NICE THAT November 2016
IT'S NICE THAT 2014
IT'S NICE THAT July 2016
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METAL MAGAZINE interview
REVISTA CACTUS interview
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