Master Class with Antonio López García, University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain.
Florence Academy of Art, Italy.
Fundación Arauco, Chinchón and Madrid, Spain.
Charles Cecil Painting Studio, Florence, Italy.
‘Slow Ethnography’, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, USA. Three day demonstration of my approach to portrait painting, with anthropologist Kathleen Stewart (University of Texas at Austin) as model. Organized by Craig Campbell, Anthropology Department (UT-Austin).
‘Exhibition as Residency: Art, Anthropology, Collaboration’, Chicago Arts Incubator, Chicago, IL, USA. Five day demonstration of my approach to portrait painting, with anthropologist Tom Blakely (Penn State University) as model. Organized by Ethnographic Terminalia.
‘Seeing Ethnography’, American Natural History Museum, New York City, with the Mead Film Festival. Three day portrait painting, with anthropologists Audra Simpson (Columbia University) and Fred Myers (NYU) as models. Organized by Ethnographic Terminalia.
Junior Faculty Research and Artistry Grant, College of Liberal Arts, UNR, USA; for research project on the role of art and artists in Basque society.
Junior Faculty Research and Artistry Grant, College of Liberal Arts, UNR, USA; for research project of art and artists in society.
Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant, College of Liberal Arts, UNR, USA; for research project on the role of art and artists in society.
Dusty Roads Artists’ Residency, Saint Mary’s Art Center, Virginia City, Nevada, USA.
Arteleku, Center for Contemporary Art, San Sebastian, Spain. Live portrait painting of 11 Basque improvised singers. Founding of the artists’ collective Artitadetò. Collaboration with other artists on local art installation projects.
Tintori Painting Scholarship, Florence Academy of Art, Italy.
Prize for Best Young Painter, Town Hall of Saint Jean de Luz, France.
‘Slow Ethnography’, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, USA.
‘Identities’, Metro Gallery, Reno City Hall, USA. Exhibition of recent landscape and portrait paintings.
‘Seeing Ethnography’, American Natural History Museum, New York, USA. Live portrait painting of the anthropologists Fred Myers (New York University) and Audra Simpson (Columbia University) in the Grand Gallery of AMNH before the public.
‘Intimacy’, Sheppard Contemporary Gallery, Reno, USA. Exhibition of 15 life-size portraits.
‘People Today’, Town Hall, Saint Jean Pied de Port, France. Exhibition of 10 life-size charcoal portraits.
‘Of People and Places’, History Museum, Biarritz, France. Exhibition of over 20 landscape and portrait paintings.
‘Work in Progress’, Studio in Sudkreuz, Berlin, Germany. Exhibition of recent life- size portraits painted in Berlin.
‘Portraits of French Basque Improvised Singers’, Larraldea, Saint Pée sur Nivelle, France. Exhibition of 18 charcoal portraits of Basque improvised singers.
‘Realities’, Sala Juan de Lizarazu, Urretxu, Spain. Exhibition of recent painted life- size portraits and landscapes.
‘Painting Reality’, La Rotonde Gallery, Saint Jean de Luz, France. Exhibition of recent portraits and landscapes.
‘Recent Works’, Gallery Dacosta, Saint Jean Pied de Port, France. Exhibition of small paintings and drawings.
‘Exhibition as Residency: Art, Anthropology, Collaboration’, Chicago Arts Incubator, Chicago, IL, USA.
‘Open Spaces and Special Places: The Art of Conservation’, for the Nevada Land Trust, Wilbur May Museum, Reno, Nevada, USA. Exhibition of 6 landscape paintings.
‘Itzal Aktiboaren Lagunak’, Gallery Dacosta, Saint Jean Pied de Port, France. Exhibition of one self-portrait and two life-size portraits of celebrated Basque artists Nestor Basterretxea and Piarres Erdozaintzi.
‘No Strings Attached’, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, Reno, USA. Exhibition of small still-life painting.
‘Bryanston Now’, The Gallery on Cork Street, London, UK. Exhibition of three small figure paintings, together with work by Lucian Freud and Howard Hodgkin.
‘Regards’, Museum of Guéthary, France. Exhibition of charcoal life-size portrait, together with work by celebrated Basque artist Jose Antonio Sistiaga.
‘Les Magiciens de l’Art’, Villa Ducontenia, Saint Jean de Luz, France. Exhibition of one life-size oil portrait, together with work of local French Basque artists.
‘Impulse’, Gallery Dacosta, Saint Jean Pied de Port, France. Exhibition of life-size self-portrait, together with the work of Jose Antonio Sistiaga, Nestor Basterretxea, Juan Luis Goenaga, Jorge Oteiza and Remigio Mendiburu.
‘One World, Two Visions’, Escuela de Música, Valle de Egués, Spain. Exhibition of life-size portraits together with the work of celebrated French Basque artist Josette Dacosta.
‘Diverse Horizons’, Gallery Dacosta, Saint Jean Pied de Port, France. Exhibition of oil sketches, together with work of local artists.
Salon des Indépendants, Villa Ducontenia, Saint Jean de Luz, France. Exhibition of life-size charcoal portrait, together with work of local artists.
‘The Art of Women III’, Centro Cultural, Burguete, Spain and Gallery Dacosta, Saint Jean Pied de Port, France. Exhibition of three life-size portrait paintings, together with work of local Basque artists.