Paco Contreras. Cartagena, Spain 1974.

   Art studies with Dora Catarineu. BA (Hons) in Fine Arts in the Polytechnic University of Valencia, in 2003. Holder of a Socrates-Erasmus programme grant, 9 months at the University of Madeira’s Department of Arts. Grant holder for the Taller Internacional de Paisaje (International Workshop on Landscape), collaborating at Francesc Torres Art Studio in Blanca, Murcia, 2008. Grant holder for the Taller Internacional de Paisaje (International Workshop on Landscape), collaborating at Concha Jerez Art Studio in Blanca, Murcia, 2009. Workshop hosted by the artist Perejaume at the LAB (Young Art Laboratory), Murcia, 2009. International Seminar on artistic creation Creatividad Social, acción colectiva y prácticas artísticas, Idensitat #5 project, Barcelona 2009. Art and Propaganda. Do It Yourself strategies and practices. Workshop by Democracia in collaboration with Eva Soto, Avinyó (Barcelona) 2010. Aula Remake workshop hosted by Makea Tu Vida collective, inside of Manifesta 8 Festival, Cartagena 2010. EXTRA~RÀDIO First meeting / workshops on cultural action and city, a project by Saladestar as part of ProjectePÚBLIC!, Barcelona 2010.

Exhibitions and other projects

   Urban Art & Media Organisation Festival (UAMO), Munich 2010 – MuchoMásMayo Festival, group exhibition, Cartagena 2010 – Imagina Festival, San Javier 2010 – Interventions in the landscape. Display of works done at the Taller Internacional de Paisaje (International Workshop on Landscape) in Blanca, Blanca 2009 – Selected for a project entitled: 2008 Culturas. Exposición y Convocatoria de Premios para el Diálogo Intercultural, to mark the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue and arranged by the Spanish National Society for Cultural Commemorations (SECC). Web site: www.2008culturas.com – MuchoMásMayo Festival, group exhibition, Cartagena 2008 – Arrangement of a series of conferences entitled Transformaciones. Arte, Reflexión y Activismo, as part of the aforementioned MuchoMásMayo Festival – Intervention at Imagina Festival, San Javier 2008 - Urban Art & Media Organisation Festival (UAMO), Screening section, Munich 2008 – AlterArte 07 Festival, group exhibition, Murcia 2007 – MuchoMásMayo Festival, group exhibition, Cartagena 2007 – Arrangement of a series of conferences entitled La construcción de la realidad: Imaginarios culturales y escena urbana, as part of MuchoMásMayo Festival – Intervention at Imagina Festival, San Javier 2007 – Urban Art & Media Organisation Festival (UAMO), Beamer Projection section, Munich 2007 – Illustration for Proyecto736  in a website dedicated to mark the centenary of Carmen Conde’s birth, 2007 – Video art for Mandarache literary awards 2006/07 - MuchoMásMayo Festival, group exhibition, Cartagena 2006 – Arrangement of a series of conferences entitled Arte en la ciudad: Visiones múltiples sobre el espacio público as part of MuchoMásMayo Festival – Retroiluminados, group exhibition, Cartagena 2005 – Arte Urbana Para Intervençao (AUPI), group exhibition, Lisbon 2005 – Installation for the exhibition Individuo–Poder at Sala Naranja, Valencia 2003 – Intervention at Plaza de la Virgen in Valencia to mark the World AIDS Day, Valencia 2002.