Fernando Renes Spain, b. 1970

Fernando Renes (b. 1970, Covarrubias, Burgos; lives between Bilbao and Covarrubias) is a Spanish artist known for blending drawing, ceramics, animation, and text into installations that are both poetic and playful.

After training at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and later at the University of the Basque Country, he spent nearly two decades between New York and Rome before returning to Spain in 2014, when ceramics became central to his practice. Renes embraces imperfection and chance in his visual language, often exploring the tension between everyday vernacular forms and lyrical abstraction. His large-scale project Medir Tierra at MUSAC (2022) brought together mosaics made of more than 11,000 handmade tiles, an animation, sculpture, and drawings—an emblematic work that shows how his art transforms personal memory and collective identity into visual narratives.

Selected Exhibitions

2024 – Kintsugi de Campos, Espacio Nexo990, Monzón de Campos, Palencia

2022 – Medir Tierra, MUSAC – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León

2021 – Solo show, UPNA – Universidad Pública de Navarra, Pamplona

2019 – BilbaoArte Fundación, Bilbao

2019 – Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos (CAB), Burgos

2017 – Genalguacil Town Museum, Málaga

2015 – DA2 – Domus Artium, Salamanca

2006 – La Casa Encendida, Madrid

2005 – TRANS>area, New York

Collections

– Fundación Botín, Santander

– MUSAC – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León

– Centre d’Art La Panera, Lleida

– Fundación Federico García Lorca, Granada

– Artium – Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz

– Queens Museum of Art, New York