MARTA AZPARREN
VIDEO ARTIST
Prize-winning multimedia artist, Marta Azparren, is a Graduate in Fine Arts from Madrid Complutense University. She divides her artistic activity between video and graphic arts. Her videos have been programmed and displayed by prominent curators such as Susana Blas, Javier Duero, Mateo Bittanti, Virág Bottlik, Kisito Assangni, Wilfred Agricola de Cologne, Sema D’Acosta or Juan Francisco Rueda, amongst others. She has been awarded prizes at the Shut Up And Listen! (Vienna, 2014), MADATAC 04 (Madrid), Machinima Expo (EEUU), Net.art, and VISUAL 09 (Madrid) festivals.
Her work has been shown in exhibitions and festivals such as New Media Film Festival (Los Ángeles), DFA’s Dance on Camera Festival (New York), Art Beijing (Pekin), Videoformes Festival (Clermont-Ferrand), Shut Up And Listen! Festival (Vienna) Facing the Artwork Exhibition (Werkleitz-Centre for Media Art, Halle), XXI Triennale International Exhibition (Milan), Kassel Dokfest (Kassel), Les Instants Vidéo (Marsella), MADATAC 04 y 07 (Madrid), LOOP Fair (Barcelona), Zebra Poetry Film Festival (Berlín), Escena Contemporánea Festival (Madrid), Images du Futur (Montreal), Playground AV Festival (Vienna), MOVES Festival (Manchester), Festival de Videoarte de Camaguey (Cuba), la Nuit Blanche (París), Festival Papay Giro Nights (Scotland and Hong Kong), Cologne Off Festival (Mexico), EXiS Experimental Film and Video Festival Seoul (South Korea), NEMAF Festival (Seoul, S. Korea), Digital Marrakech Festival (Morocco), La Neomudéjar Museum (Madrid), Opera Theater Boris Kristov (Plovdiv, Bulgaria), Casa Buñuel (México), Under Film Festival (Argentina), Busan Video Art Festival (South Korea), Dream Center Harlem (New York), MUSLAB Festival, National Sound Library (México), Shoa Film Collection, Unlock House (Chicago), Art & Science Days (Bourges), and Spanish Cultural Centers in Santiago de Chile, Rosario, Buenos Aires, Bogotá, México City, Miami, La Paz, Managua, San Salvador, Antigüa, Asunción, Panamá, Montevideo, Santo Domingo, and La Habana, amongst others..