BIOGRAPHY
contemporary art painting
DAVID PELLICER (Valencia, 1977)
Bachelor of Fine Arts and Advanced Studies Diploma (DEA) from the Faculty of Fine Arts of San Carlos of València.
He has been holding individual and collective exhibitions on a regular basis since 1998 in various countries such as Spain, Cuba or the Dominican Republic. He has participated in international art fairs such as ARCO Madrid, Amsterdam Art Fair or Art Madrid and has obtained various awards such as the National Prize of the Royal Academy of San Carlos, the Autumn Salon of the Ateneo Mercantil or the First Prize of the Mainel Foundation. , among others.
His work can be found in various public collections such as the San Carlos Royal Academy of Fine Arts, the UPV Art Fund or the Mainel Foundation, as well as in numerous private collections in countries such as England, Belgium, Spain or China.
David Pellicer's work stands on the threshold between abstraction and figuration, it is based on geometric and orthogonal forms that range from abstraction to the creation of scenic spaces. Light, color and space are essential ingredients in his work, which oscillates between Hard Edge Painting and geometric abstraction.
Academic training
Polytechnic university of Valencia
2004
Advanced Studies diploma. Painting Department.
Polytechnic university of Valencia
2003
Doctorate courses. Painting Projects. Painting Department.
2000
Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts of San Carlos.
Polytechnic university of Valencia
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Isolated Lights. Cuatro Gallery. Valencia
2010
Mirror Rooms. Punto Gallery. Valencia
2009
Cyclorama. Giart Gallery. Girona
Twilight Cyclorama. Punto Gallery. Valencia
2007
to scene. Virginia Nieto Gallery. Valencia
2002
Awards
2021
First Prize X Carcaixent Painting Biennial 2021. Valencia.
2019
Finalist. XII Prize for Painting and Plastic Arts La Rural 2019. Jaén.
Finalist. VIII Biennial Painting Prize "Torres García-Ciutat de Mataró" 2019
2016
First Prize at the XIII Meliana Painting Biennial. Valencia.
2015
First Prize in the XXXIX National Painting Contest "Vila de Pego".
2014
First Prize at the XXIX Vila de Puçol Painting Prize. Valencia.
2011
Honorable mention Senyera Award 2011. Valencia City Council.
Finalist in the XXXV Vila de Pego National Painting Contest.
2010
First Prize at the XLI Autumn Salon of painting Ateneo Mercantil de Valencia.
First Prize XVI Ciutat d'Algemesí Painting Prize. Valencia.
Acquisition at the IX Biennial of Plastic Arts "City of Albacete".
First Prize in the XXIX Painting Prize of the Official College of Commercial Agents of Valencia.
2009
First Prize in the IX Painting Prize of the Royal Academy of San Carlos in Valencia.
2008
2007
Special mention of the Jury in the VIII Painting Prize of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos. Valencia.
Accesit in the VIII Prize of Painting Aula de Artes Plásticas Unicersidad de Murcia.
2006
First Prize for Painting "IX Mainel Foundation Contest". Valencia.
Prize-acquisition "XI Painting Biennial, Vila de Mislata". Valencia.
Prize-acquisition "IV Contest of Painting for the Fund" UPV. Valencia.
Honorable mention in the "LXIII José Camarón National Art Contest. Segorbe. Castellón.
Honorable mention in the XXXIII Manolo Valdés Painting Contest. Height. Castellon.
2004
First Prize at the III Benetússer Painting Biennial. Valencia.
Collective Exhibitions / Fairs / Contests (selection)
2021
Synergies. Four Gallery, Valencia.
Estampa Contemporary Art Fair. Infinity Art. Stand A-16 Rodrigo Juarranz Art Gallery. Ifema. Madrid.
Summer Colors. Four Gallery, Valencia.
XVI Madrid Art Fair 21. Infinity Art. Stand A-12 Rodrigo Juarranz Art Gallery. Cibeles Palace. Madrid.
Affordable Art Fair NL. Infinity Art. Stand A-22 Al Contar del Arte Gallery. Amsterdam.
2020
The twists and turns of life. Four Gallery, Valencia.
XXXVIII Painting Contest "Salvador Soria" of Benissa.
II Biennial of painting Mª Isabel Comenge. Shipyards of the Grao. Valencia.
MARTE International Contemporary Art Fair. Infinity Art Gallery Kaleidoscope. Castellon.
2019
National Awards of the Royal Academy of San Carlos. Museum of the City. Valencia.
XII Prize for Painting and Plastic Arts La Rural 2019. Jaén.
VIII Biennial Prize for Painting "Torres García-Ciutat de Mataró" 2019.
2018
mixed. Gallery 9, Valencia.
Panorama. Cañada Blanch Foundation Award. La Nau Cultural Center. Valencia.
2015
Art Madrid 15. Punto Gallery Stand, Madrid.
2014
dialogues. 15 years of the Mainel Foundation Painting Prize. Palau de la Música. Valencia.
2013
dialogues. 15 years of the Mainel Foundation Painting Award. Exhibition Center. Elche. (Itinerant)
73rd Valdepeñas International Plastic Arts Exhibition.
X Biennial of Plastic Arts City of Albacete.
Point Projects. Point Gallery. Valencia.
XXX S.Soria Vila de Benissa Painting Contest 2012.
XXXVI Vila de Pego National Painting Contest 2012.
2012
Cartographies of Creativity. One Hundred Per Hundred Valencians. Visual Arts Development Center. Havana. Cuba.
Art Madrid 2011. Punto B-12 Gallery Stand. 16 – 20 February. Madrid
2011
2010
Cartographies of Creativity. 100% Valencians. Centre del Carmen. Valencia. (Itinerant).
Museum of Art of the Dominican Republic. Santo Domingo. Dominican Republic. (Itinerant).
2009
abstractions. Polytechnic university of Valencia.
XXIX Painting Contest of the Association of Commercial Agents of Valencia.
XL Edition of the Salón de Otoño, Ateneo Mercantil de Valencia.
2008
Art Madrid 08. Punto Gallery Stand, Madrid.
Stands Off 08. Punto Gallery, Valencia.
Fiart from Valencia. Punto Gallery Stand, Valencia.
FÜTURA (Peripheries 08), Provincial Council of Huesca.
IX Painting Prize Plastic Arts Classroom University of Murcia
XXVIII Painting Contest of the College of Commercial Agents of Valencia
XXXV Bancaja Prize for Painting, Sculpture and Digital Art 2008. Room of the wall (IVAM
2007
Art al'Hotel Fair 2007. Punto Gallery. Hotel Astoria, Valencia.
35th Anniversary of the Punto Gallery, Valencia.
ARCO´07, Punto Gallery Stand, Madrid.
VIII Painting Prize of the Official College of Administrative Managers of Valencia. La Nave Gallery, Valencia.
VIII Painting Prize Plastic Arts Classroom University of Murcia.
XXVII Painting Contest of the Association of Commercial Agents of Valencia
2006
Senyera Art Award Modality Painting.
VIII edition of the Ángel de Pintura Awards, Córdoba.
IX Mainel Foundation Painting Contest.
V Painting Prize of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos, (Valencia)
XXXVII Edition of the Salón de Otoño, Ateneo Mercantil de Valencia.
IV Contest of Works for the Fund of the UPV (Valencia)
XXXIII Manolo Valdés Painting Contest, Altura, (Castellón)
XI Painting Biennial, Villa de Mislata, (Valencia)
LXIII José Camarón National Art Contest, Segorbe (Castellón)
V Ignacio Pinazo Camarleng Painting Biennial, Godella, (Valencia)
Exhibition "1808-2008, the revision". The Knight of the White Moon - CBL Gallery, Valencia.
Exhibition “Cervantes; art dreams”. The Knight of the White Moon. House of culture
Alboraia Town Hall, (Valencia)
2004
III Benetússer Painting Biennial, (Valencia).
Works in...
Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valencia / Art Fund of the Polytechnic University of Valencia / Mainel Foundation / Permanent exhibition at the Punto Gallery (Valencia) / Art Fund Museum-Palace of Valley. Murcia / Official College of Commercial Agents of Valencia / Tecon Computer Solutions. / Municipalities of Benetússer, Mislata, L´Eliana, Ribarroja del Túria, Segorbe, Puçol, Meliana, Pego, Algemesí, Meliana and Carcaixent. / Private collections in China, England, Belgium and Spain.