Fernando LOZANO

"... For an artist, it is always late to be anything but an artist ...." Fernando Lozano, 2013 BIOGRAPHY: Olvega (Spain), 1958. Fernando Lozano studied at the School of Applied Arts in Ciudad Real and in the Tarragona School of Applied Arts, both in Spain. When he was 18 years old he was the youngest artist who exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Tarragona. Throughout the time he has exhibited in many areas of Europe and America such as Bremen, Florence, Cuba, the Caribbean or the Havana and also in galleries and catalan cities such as Reus, Valls, Cambrils and Barcelona. He has received numerous awards such as finalist Mariano Fortuny Medal Reus (1977), 1st National City Prize of Amposta (1979), Signe Prize from Rigger’s School in Tarragona (1983), 1st prize Ceferí Olive in Reus (1998), and listed in the XXI Joan Miró Prize in Barcelona (1982), among other awards in Ciudad Real, Madrid or Castellón. He is a sculptor, painter and writer. This versatile artist has been a great traveler in recent years and closely linked to the Caribbean, where he established his main source of creativity and inspiration since 2001. It was in this places where he wrote "Cherries", a gay and romantic novel. Since 1973 he is producing works of art, and because of this he has gone through diferent pictorical phases. Their intimate and imaginative works turn around homosexuality. His works have a remarkable use of color, that can remind us the Fauvism, but updated to the world of today. INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS 1977 • La Tronada Gallery in Reus (Tarragona): Acrylics with the generic title of "The Night" • Lila Gallery in Valls (Tarragona): Acrylics 1978 • Centre de Lectura in Reus: Oils • Showroom of "La Caixa" in Reus: Oils 1979 • Lila Gallery in Valls: Oils • Café-gallery "Poetes" in Tarragona: Drawings of the series "Torero in the W.C." • Caesar Augustus Gallery in Tarragona: Anthological show of pictures and paintings done between 1977 & 1979 1983 • Centre de Lectura in Reus: Acrylics • Institut d’Estudis Vallencs in Valls: Oils • School-Atelier of Fine Arts in Reus: Acrylics • Torre Vella in Salou (Tarragona): Oils • Taller de Picasso Gallery in Barcelona: Oils & drawings 1984 • Museum of Modern Art in Tarragona: Oils • Art Lleonard Gallery in Barcelona: Oils & drawings • Taller de Picasso Gallery in Barcelona: Oils & acrylics • 1985-1986 • Taller de Picasso Gallery in Barcelona: Paintings in tempera with egg 1987 • Werkstatt-Galerie El Patio in Bremen (Germany): Paintings in tempera with egg & drawings 1988 • ABC Gallery in Barcelona: Paintings in tempera with egg & drawings 1989 • Werkstatt-Galerie El Patio in Bremen (Germany): Oils & paintings in tempera with egg 1992 • Velázquez Gallery in Valladolid: Oils • Peris Showroom in Reus: Pastels 1993 • Taller de Picasso Gallery in Barcelona: Oils 1996 • Taller de Picasso Gallery in Barcelona: Oils 1997-98 • Yacht Club Showroom in Salou (Tarragona): Watercolour portraits • Ódena’s Art Gallery in Tarragona: Watercolours 1999 • La Capona Bookshop-Gallery in Tarragona: Acuarelas • Julià Gallery in Valls: Oils 2001 • Palacio de Gobierno de La Habana Vieja "Setmana de la Cultura Catalana a L´Havana): Oils 2002 • Galerie Carmen Montilla Tinoco (La Havane) "Luces y Fuguras de Cuba" : des huiles • Gallery of Llahí ( Principat d´Andorra ), in Cuba oils . 2005 • Gallery Contrast,Consell de cent, Barcelona,oils of sculptures COLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS 1977 • II National Fair of Drawing in Barcelona 1978 • XXIII International Exhibition of Engraving & Stamping Methods in Madrid • 1978-79 • Annual Exhibitions at the "Syndical Federation of Plastic Artists of Catalonia" • "Set peintres catalans" in Angoulême (France), promoted by the French Ministry of Culture 1982 • XXI International Joan Miró Award in Barcelona 1989 • Galerie Im Hof-Akkerboom de Kiel (Allemagne).