Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas

Birthday:

01/01/1992

Place of birth:

León, Spain:

Biography:

Jorge Suárez-Quiñones Rivas (León, Spain, 1992) Madrid-based film artist. Currently artist resident in WIELS Contemporary Art Center, Brussels. His artistic production has been subject of solo screenings at Expanded Visual Arts Festival RAYO, Tokyo Image Forum, CA2M Contemporary Art Museum and Arts Center Madrid and Zumzeig Barcelona. International film festivals have programmed his films (IFFR Rotterdam, Punto de Vista, FICUNAM, Filmadrid, Fracto Experimental Film Encounter Berlin, Curtocircuíto, Documenta Madrid, Now&After Moscow, Alcine, Márgenes, Ecrã), as well as contemporary art museums and cultural institutions (MUSAC Contemporary Art Museum, CA2M, CGAC Center of Contemporary Art, CGAI Center of Image Arts, Artplay Design Center Moscow, Tokyo Image Forum), being part of archives and online catalogues (IFFR Unleashed, Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin, MUBI’s Notebook, Filmscalpel). His works have been part of collective exhibitions at Takechi Gallery Kumamoto, Salón Madrid, SixtyEight Art Institute Copenhagen, Enfants Space Hamburg and the Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2018. Film professor and audiovisual projects tutor at TAI University Arts Center Madrid (2021), LAV Audiovisual School (2017-now) and MAca Master of Architectural Communication (ETSAM+UPM, 2018-2019). Selected as one of the resident artists in the international program “Artists in Aso” (Kumamoto, Japan, 2019). In 2020 he has been beneficiary of a production grant from the Fine Arts Department of the Spanish Ministry of Culture (“Ayudas para la investigación, creación y producción artísticas en el campo de las artes visuales. Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte, Dirección General de Bellas Artes”). Graduated in Architecture (ETSAM, Superior Architecture School of Madrid, Polytechnic University Madrid - exchange grants at The University of Tokyo - Tokyo Daigaku and Shanghai Tongji University - Tongji Daxue) and Contemporary Audiovisual Creation (MasterLAV, Madrid).