Albert Bayona i Fernández
1954
Spanish artist and painter (born 1954)
Albert Bayona i Fernández is a Spanish visual artist, cultural promoter, and professor, originally trained as a draftsman-designer. Recognised as one of the most solid contemporary figures of his city, he began his artistic career in the mid-1980s, integrating a wide range of disciplines into his work, including painting, drawing, photography, video, digital technologies, and music. In 1985, he was awarded second prize in the 24th Joan Miró International Drawing Prize, and in 2008 he received the Vasudha Award. One of his works, Variacions sobre una estètica racional (1986), has been selected to feature on Google Arts & Culture.