Miguel Conesa Osuna

Miguel Conesa Osuna was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico on the 29 of September 1952, and son of an architect: Antulio Conesa Maldonado and Mrs. Irma Osuna Yordán, a secretary by profession. He was raised in a nice environment, exposed to the visual arts, such as the theater, movies, literature, reading and music of different genders, including classical, opera, jazz and popular music. Conesa is a painter, engraver, sculptor, digital artist, video artist, does installations and performances in his art video recordings. He has professionally been working in the Visual Arts since 1970. His biography appears for the first time in 1973 at the Great Encyclopedia of Puerto Rico and is including in Who's Who in American Art from 1983 to the 1990. He has to his credit 58 individual exhibitions and 160 collectives in and outside Puerto Rico until 2009. He traveled to Russia and northern Europe in 1976. He first exhibited in New York: in 1973 at the Lynn Kottler Galleries and at the Ligoa Duncan in 1975. He also showed at the former Gaymán Gallery in 1983. (now the Museo del Barrio) and at the Gallery II-RSVR in Charlesville, Virginia, Javo gallery, Atlanta, 1978; Ligoa Duncan Galleries, NY, 1978; Seibels Bruce & Co. He also participated in a number of collective shows at The Classic Gallery, Big Tree Shopping Center, Augusta, Ga., 1977; Gertrude Memorial Herbert Art Institute, Augusta, Ga. 1977; Peachtree Place Center Gallery, Atlanta, Ga. - Second exhibition of local artists, Atlanta, Ga. 1977, Peachtree Center, Atlanta, Ga. 1976; “The Gallery Barnel Light”, New Jersey, 1976; Hilton Head Gallery of Contemporary Art, South Carolina, 1976-77 and at the Javo Gallery in Atlanta, 1978 and many others. He has participated at the National Annual Art Exhibition jury show organized in 1979-80 and the recent exhibition in 2003 held at the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He has individually exhibited at Tibes Ceremonial Indigenous Park , Ponce, in the 1989 and the 2008; at  El Centro Cultural Carmen Solá de Pereira, Ponce, PR 2007; at the Department of State, San Juan, PR, 2006-07;Casa Museo de Los Santos Reyes, Juana Diaz, P R. 2005; at the former Canvas Gallery, Old San Juan, 2004; Gallery of Art Department of Education, Hato Rey, PR. 1990; Hilton Hotel, Ponce, PR 1989; School of Lawyers of Puerto Rico, the Santurce, PR., 1988; Puerto Rican institute of Culture, San Juan, 1985; Museum of Art of Ponce, Ponce, PR 1980; Cultural Bureau of and the International Affairs, Atlanta, Ga. 1977; Memorial Atlanta High Museum, collective annual of regional artists, Atlanta, Ga. 1976; Library Jose M. Lazaro, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Piedras River, PR, 1974, and others. His digital work has been exhibited in Havana, Cuba at the Center Pablo de la Torrente Brau, first in 2002 and in 2005 at the Annual Digital Art. Salon. In the 2002 Conesa exhibited collectively in the Prague, Czechoslovakia organized by SOKI of Korea He also participates in collective in Paris, France: at the First American Artists in Paris 1975-76, at the High Museum in Atlanta, Ga. in 1976 and in center of Conventions of Tokyo, Japan in 1986. In 1986 he was the first graphic artist in Ponce in giving computerized design services under the name of MC Graphics, which was operated until 1989. In 1994 he was the first visual artist in Puerto Rico to poster sample of his visual work over the Internet. He has worked as an art instructor in private schools and business colleges teaching English as second language as well as graphic softwares. He has been awarded with important regional and national awards, among them : “Best the Award Show”, prize of acquisition for the Mc Duffy Art Collection, Thompson, Georgia; and was also awarded with the “Puerto Rican Fund for the financing of the Cultural endowment, granted by the “Institute of Puerto Rican Culture” in 1997 and others. In recent years he has been busy creating video arts and documentaries. By three years consecutive he participated at the annual Video and Digital Art Festival known as FATICART in Italy ( 2005, 06- 07 ) where had the opportunity to show two short videos inspired by the landscape in movement and self-portraits. His work had mostly been on mixed media, showing texture, glaze, overlapping material and the use of color does have a very important role in his creative process. Conesa is a colorist as well as a draughtsman. Although Conesa’s career begun back in 1970, he struggled for many years to stay productive, it wasn’t until 1983 that he was able to become a full time artist. His work can be found in public, corporative and private collections in the US, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, Latin America and Europe. Although he had explored a great number of subject matter throughout his 40 years art career, the well-being of the planet has been his most consequent concerns. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Art and Education from the Interamerican University, in San Germán, Puerto Rico and also a Master Degree in Painting and Drawing from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ponce, Puerto Rico. His first digital works came up between 1986 to the 1994 and were drawings done using a computer mouse as a drawing tool. In 2000 he begins to incorporate images of his works done by traditional means in to digital media, which allows him to create image variations in Photoshop and other graphic softwares. He adds texture and woks over his printed images creating a brand new work.