Alberto Reguera was born in the Spanish city of Segovia in 1961. He graduated in Modern History in 1985 from the University of Valladolid and from then on, he began participating in Contemporary Art Workshops at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. In 1991, he moved to Paris where he currently lives and works, although he maintains his studio in Madrid. In 1995, he was awarded the Painting Prize from the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris, and in 2003, he was the only Spanish artist selected to participate in the EXHIBIT E International Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Washington. In 2008, he was honored with the “Cultura Viva” Prize in Toledo, Spain. His work is part of important collections and museums including the Brigitte et Jacques Gairard Collection in France, the Art Collection of the City of Madrid, the Dewhurst Collection in Greenwich, USA, the Testimoni Collection at La Caixa in Barcelona, the Global Art Source Foundation in Zurich, the National Collections at the Louvre Museum in Paris, and the National Museum of Bangladesh.
Alberto Reguera’s paintings, although they may appear abstract, are not. For almost twenty years, he has been tirelessly working on the theme of landscape, renewing an artistic genre born in the 16th century. His works, with their thick or transparent surfaces, usually highly textured, refer to elements of nature, both material and immaterial, such as the sea, mountains, light, or wind, resulting from the numerous travels and research that he usually undertakes.
