Eugenia Tusquets was born in Barcelona and she is an artist. Even if painting has been her main activity in the past thirty years, she has also taken the opportunity of dedicating herself, during all this time, to different aspects of writing.

Often, she has combined both tasks, like in the 70s when she collaborated in the program Tiempo Libre of TVE (the main Spanish public broadcasting channel) writing scripts for the art section. Or, later, once settled in the US where she resided for over ten years, working as an art critic for various cultural magazines in the Latino community of San Francisco and the Bay Area.Before living in the States, she resided for over a year in Mexico where, besides exhibiting her art work in Guadalajara and Mexico City,she established intense links with the artistic and cultural milieus of both cities which impregnated her art with the invigorating local colorfulness.

This triggered important changes in her art work which became enriched with the Californian crossbreeding to yield to her unique pictorial style, already mature when she returned to Barcelona in the 90’s.

Since then, Eugenia Tusquets has exhibited her paintings on numerous occasions in Europe, the U.S. and Latin America. Her art work has received several awards, among them a first prize in the national painting contest, Bay Arts 82 (with George Neubert, director at the time of the San Francisco MOMA, as president of the jury) and honorable mentions at the state paint competition Hayward Forum for the Arts and at the Marin County national contest, also in California.

About Tusquets

By Lourdes Cirlot and Lluís Racionero

By Josep María Català

     

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

1980

• Galería de Arte Anubis, Guadalajara, México
• Sala Juárez, Guadalajara, México

1981
• Foster City Museum, Foster City, California

1984
• CNA Gallery, San Francisco, California
• Machu-Pichu Gallery, Los Gatos, California

1985
• Tatoo Gallery, Lakspur, California

1986
• CNA Gallery, San Francisco, California

1987
• Fairmont Hotel, San Francisco, California

1988
• Dwinell Hall, Universidad de Berkeley, California

1989
• Rental Gallery Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
• Ivey Gallery, Los Ángeles, California

1991
• Galería Jordi Boronat, Barcelona

1993
• Galería Els Quatre Cantons, Olot
• Galería María Salvat, Barcelona

1995
• Granero Galería D’art, Manresa

1997
• D’Ara Galería d’Art, Igualada
• Galería María Salvat, Barcelona

1999
• Galería d’Art Anquin’s, Reus

2002
• Galería Fernando Alcolea, Barcelona

2003
• American Prints, Madrid
• Valoart Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brasil

2004
• Galería Fernando Alcolea, Barcelona

2005
• Paz Feliz Galería de Arte, Madrid

2006
• Galería Fernando Alcolea, Barcelona

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1980

• Salón Octubre, Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, México
•  Salón de la Vida y la Muerte, Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, México

1983
• Hayward Forum for the Arts, Hayward, California

1984
• Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, California
•  Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, California

1986
• Moss Gallery, San Francisco, California

1993
• Galería Els Quatre Cantons, Olot

1994
• Galería de Arte Trino Tortosa, Almería

1995
• Galería D’Art 16, Olot

1996
• Granero Sala d’Art, Bruxelles
•  XIV Saló de Maig, Galería d’Art Anquin’s, Reus

1997
• Galería Arturo Ramón, Barcelona
•  XV Saló de Maig, Galería d’Art Anquin’s, Reus

1998
• Rental Gallery Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
•  XVI Saló de Maig, Galería d’Art Anquin’s, Reus

1999
• XVII Saló de Maig, Galeria d’Art Anquin’s, Reus

2000
• Valoart Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brasil
• XVIII Saló de Maig, Galería d’Art Anquin’s, Reus
• Gallery Van Eijck, Rotterdam, Holanda

2001
• Galería de Arte Trino Tortosa, Almería

 

AWARDS
1980
•  Mención de Honor, “Salón de la Vida y la Muerte”, Guadalajara, México

1981
• Segundo Premio, National Competition Marin Civic Center, Marin County, California

1982
•Primer Premio, “Bay Arts 82”, juez: George Neubert, director del San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Fracisco, California.
•Mención de honor, “Marin County Exhibition”, California