Who is JManuel Méndez /Mendo ?

                  The beginnings are in childhood, in early childhood, in the company of a box of English watercolors, a long, prostrating illness and some watercolor postcards of the city of Paris, frenetic self-study, adventures of illustrator, occasional poster artist and drawing as recurrent therapy in favor of delicate health. Faculty of History, Study of the Painter Richard Perez, Faculty of Fine Arts, collaborator of the Painter Alejandro Quincoces, lecturer, masterclassist and founder of the AA project on the internet with more than 11,000 members. Meanwhile exhibitions in prestigious state galleries, National Prize for Drawing, Painting and Watercolor .. Exhibitions in Moscow, Chile, Mexico, Finland, Indonesia. Work distributed by foundations, county councils, municipalities and private collections from the US to Moscow.

                Eclectic, curious painter, lover of pictorial alchemy and expressionism, at the cost of any price, without falling into easy effect. Fundamentally landscaped, up to the landscape marrow: Ria, that of Bilbao as epicenter and from this seizure the purest nature, that of its origins. Trees and forest occupy him in the last decade with two recent thematic exhibitions, and a next one dedicated to the Sierra de Urbasa.

JOSE MANUEL MÉNDEZ

Mudaka (Bizkaia) 1964

Studies of Fine Arts (University of the Basque Country. Campus of Leioa)

History Studies (University of the Basque Country. Alava Campuses)

MOST IMPORTANT EXHIBITIONS

2019 Chousas e Bosquexos. Torre de Pambre. Lugo

2018 Habitable Landscapes ArteA2 Gallery.Navarra

2016 Artpoint Gallery (Lleida).

          Athenaeum of León

2015 BBVA Room. Oviedo

         Indonesia.IWS Indonesia

         Synesthesia. Sala AldaconLimón. Madrid

          Synesthesia, Sala Aguirre, Cuenca

2014 ArteA2.Zizur Mayor (Navarra)

2012 Akros Gallery.Bilbao

2011 International Watercolor Biennial, Mexico

         International Watercolor Symposium. Turku (Finland)

2010 Akros Gallery.Bilbao

2007 Galeria Tavira.Bilbao

2005 Tavira.Bilbao Gallery

2004 Diputación de Guadalajara

         "A quattro" Galeria Anquins Tarragona (Quincoces, Esteve Adam,

          Oyagüez and Méndez).

         "Watercolorists from the Northeast" Jaca.Huesca

2002 Galeria Tavira.Bilbao

2001 Cubita Gallery. Getxo

2000 Culture classroom. Gernika

         Athenaeum of Balmaseda (Bizkaia)

1999 Exhibition hall of the Banco Central Hispano (San Sebastián)

         Barrainkua Exhibition Hall (Bilbao)

BCH exhibition hall (Bilbao) BCH exhibition hall (San Sebastián)

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

1st Prize I AAV International Watercolor Contest.

1st Prize National Painting Contest "Ciudad de Frías"

Acquisition Award Virgen de las Viñas

2nd Prize IX National Painting Competition Prize "City of Calahorra"

1st Prize National Drawing Contest Diputación de Guadalajara

1st. National Painting Competition Award Ministry of Justice (Madrid)

2nd Prize XXI National Watercolor Contest Caja Madrid (Madrid)

1. Prize XIV National Contest of Thorny Painting of Los Monteros

1st. Accesit II National Painting Contest Ciudad de Melilla

2nd Prize II National Painting Contest Mº de Justicia (Madrid)

3rd. Prize in IV, VII and XXII Medina de Pomar National Competition (Burgos)

Accesit XIII National Competition "Ciudad de Frías" (Burgos)

Special Mention II Winterthur National Competition (Burgos)

Special Mention I MUGEJU National Competition (Madrid)

Finalist in the IV National Painting Contest of Calahorra (La Rioja)

Finalist of the II Villa de Agreda National Competition (Soria)

Selected in National Painting and Watercolor Competitions: Vitoria, Córdoba, Girona, Albacete, Cádiz, Madrid ...

More than 70 Prizes in Rapid Painting Contests

COLLECTIONS

Virgen de las Viñas Foundation (Tomelloso)

BBK Foundation

Deputation of Guadalajara

Museum of the Autonomous City of Melilla

Caja Madrid (Madrid)

Ministry of Justice (Madrid)

Cubita Gallery

Calahorra Town Hall

Private Collections in the USA, England, France, Italy, Colombia, Moscow