INTI Raymi Nro003

Tomás Espina was born in Buenos Aires in 1975; as a child and adolescent, he and his family lived in Mexico, Mozambique, Santiago (Chile), and Córdoba (Argentina). In 1997, he moved to Buenos Aires to study painting at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón (now the Universidad Nacional de Arte, UNA), from which he graduated in 2005. He has been awarded grants from the Secretaría de Cultura de la Nación (ACA) and the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the United States (2004). Major prizes received include first prize at the sixth edition of Petrobras/arteBA, Buenos Aires (2009); third prize at Premio Cultural Chandon, San Miguel de Tucumán (2005); and second prize at Premio Fundación Banco Ciudad, Buenos Aires (2002). He was named Artist of the Year in 2002 by the Asociación Argentina de Críticos de Arte, and New Artist of the Year in 2002. In 2011, he participated in the MAC VAL residency in France and in Art Omi in the United States. He is an agent of the Centro de Investigaciones Artisticas (CIA).