Okariz, Itziar

Born on April 21.

Begins studying fine arts at the Universidad del País Vasco, specializing in sculpture and painting; graduates in 1990.

Receives a subsidy from the provincial government of Guipúzcoa.

Receives a grant from the government of Guipúzcoa. Wins third prize at the XXXIV Certamen de Artistas Noveles de Guipúzcoa in San Sebastián.

Okariz’s work is included in the exhibitions Travessies liminars at La Capella in Barcelona and Anys 90: Distància zero at the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, also in Barcelona.

Wins first prize for engraving in the Gure Artea competition, sponsored by the Basque government. Exhibits at Area 2-Sala Rekalde in Bilbao. Takes part in the exhibitions Territorios indefinidos at the Museu d’Art Contemporani d’Elx in Elche, Spain, and Otros mundos posibles at Galería Cruce in Madrid.

Galería Espai Lucas in Valencia, Spain, and Galería Antonio de Barnola in Barcelona mount exhibitions of Okariz’s work. Takes part in Érase una vez del minimal al cabaret,70’s-90’s: Programa de vídeos realizados por mujeres , shown at the Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and later at the Museo Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville.

Together with Jesús Segura, takes part in the exhibition Cicle: El jo divers at the Sala Montcada, Fundació “la Caixa” in Barcelona. Okariz’s work is featured in two group exhibitions: Open Salvo at the White Box Gallery and Siesta Over at the Sideshow Gallery, both in New York.

The solo exhibition Sweetest is shown at the Casa de Cultura Jareño in San Sebastián. Okariz’s work is included in the exhibitions El punto ciego: Arte español de los años 90 at the Kunstraum Innsbruck in Innsbruck, Austria, and Trans Sexual Express at Fundación Bilbao Arte Fundazioa in Bilbao; the latter exhibition later travels to Gijon and Corunna, Spain, and Budapest. Takes part in the Skin Dive arts festival in Kyoto and the Verbindingen/Jonctions media festival in Brussels.

Receives a grant from the Fundación Marcelino Botín in Santander, Spain. Enrolls in the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Okariz’s work is featured in the exhibition Gaur, hemen, orain at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao. Participates in the XLIX Biennale di Venezia.

Participates in Llocs de pas: 8è cicle d’intervencions al vestíbul at the Centre Social i Cultural, Fundació “la Caixa” in Lleida, Spain. Takes part in the exhibition Monocanal at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid; the exhibition later travels to Corunna, Murcia, Valladolid, San Sebastián, Gijón, and Barcelona.

Presents the exhibition Made with U.S.A. Standard at Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz in Pamplona. Takes part in Encuentro internacional de espacios de arte independientes in Valparaíso, Chile.

Okariz’s work is featured in the exhibitions Para todos los públicos at the Sala Rekalde in Bilbao, Dancing at La Casa Encendida in Madrid, and Attitude at c/o – Atle Gerhardsen in Berlin.

The solo exhibitions Trepar edificios and Curating the Campus 2007: To Pee in Public and Private Spaces are presented at Adhoc Galería in Vigo, Spain, and deSingel in Antwerp, respectively. Okariz’s work is included in the exhibitions Existencias at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in León, Spain, Chacun à son goût at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang at the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao.

Presents the exhibition Ghost Box at the Sala Rekalde in Bilbao. Performs Irrintzi in New York. Okariz’s work is shown in Exclusiones/Censorship at the Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz in Pamplona, Be Marginal, Be a Hero at Thrust Projects in New York, and a group exhibition, The Furious Gaze, at the Centro Cultural Montehermoso in Vitoria, Spain.

Exhibits at Galería Carreras Múgica in Bilbao. Teaches the performance workshop “Pattern Recognition/ Reconocimiento de patrones” at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in León, Spain.

Creates a performance for the Ellas Crean Festival stand at the ARCO contemporary art fair. Presents the performance Contrariwise, 2010 as part of the activities in conjunction with the exhibition Picasso ante Degas at the Picasso Museum in Barcelona. Her work is featured in two group exhibitions: Like a river that stops being a river or like a tree that is burning on the horizon without knowing it is burning at the Temporary Gallery Cologne, Germany, and Antes de Todo at the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles, Madrid.

Creates the performance Si yo soy yo, y tú eres tú, ¿quién es más tonto de los dos? for the group exhibition I WAS A MALE YVONNE DE CARLO. El arte crítico puede ser sofisticado, incluso entretenido at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), León.

Uno, uno, dos, uno is on show at Galería CarrerasMugica in Bilbao.

Offers the performance Variation sur le même t’aime, in the context of the exhibition Le Maison, organized by Fundación BilbaoArte Fundazioa in Bilbao.
The work ∏ is included in the Irregular Section of Mercat de les flors: Casa de la Dansa in Barcelona (Spain).
Participates in the performance cycle Un número finito de acciones determinadas, organized by MUSAC – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in León, Spain.

Takes part in the performance and dance program Black Box White Cube: Acts of Language, at CA2M – Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Madrid, and later, in Outside of Black Box and White Cube, organized by the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein.
Makes Una habitación propia. VW. Berrirakurtzen at Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea in Donostia/San Sebastián. Participates in group exhibitions Suturak // Cerca a lo próximo, at San Telmo Museoa in Donostia/San Sebastián, and El contrato, held in Alhóndiga Bilbao.

Resonance. Concerts for Another Listening opens at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) in Madrid.
Exhibition 51 sueños, entre el dos de octubre y el veintiuno de noviembre de 2014 at Galería Moisés Pérez de Albéniz in Madrid.

Holds the solo exhibitions Diario de sueños. Septiembre in etHALL in Barcelona (Spain) and Dream Diary at the Kunsthaus Baselland in Muttenz (Switzerland).

Several solo exhibitions are organized, such as Itziar Okariz: … una construcción, es decir, una jerarquía de momentos, expresiva de cierto concepto grande o pequeño, abstracto esotérico, at CA2M – Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Madrid, and Itziar Okariz. I Never Said Umbrella, at the Tabakalera – International Center for Contemporary Culture in Donostia/San Sebastián. The installation Oscuros, como de noche is on display in Galería CarrerasMugica in Bilbao.
Makes her first performance, Irrintzi Repetition, in BOZAR – Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, and participates in Idiorritmias, at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Spain.

Itziar Okariz. Respiración y otros sonidos is on view at Centre d’Art la Panera in Lleida, Spain.
Exhibits work with Sergio Prego in the Spanish Pavilion of the Venice Biennale.