Artist Biography

Alejandro Cabeza. Graduated in 1993 from the Faculty of Fine Arts of San Carlos at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He was included in the *Diccionario de Artistas Valencianos del Siglo XX* (1999), *Artistas Valencianos del Siglo XX* (2000), *Artistas Valencianos Contemporáneos* (1997), and *Artistas que dejan huella* (2000). In 2001, the Diputación de Valencia published his book of landscapes, *Luz Valenciana*.

His portraits are part of the permanent collections of the following institutions: Museo Nacional del Teatro, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Museo Nacional de Arte Romano de Mérida, Museo Nacional y Centro de Investigación de Altamira, Museo Geominero de Madrid, Museo Provincial de Cáceres, Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes de Badajoz, Museo Nacional de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid, Museo de Historia de Madrid, Museo Arqueológico y de Historia de Elche, Museo del Ejército (Alcázar de Toledo), Museo Marítimo de Asturias, Museo Blasco Ibáñez de Valencia, Museo de la Universidad de Helsinki (Finland), Museo Luis González Robles (University of Alcalá de Henares), Unión Nacional de Escritores de La Habana in Cuba, Royal Spanish Academy in Madrid, Museo Casa Natal de Cervantes in Alcalá de Henares, Museo-Casa de Cervantes in Esquivias, Casa-Molino Ángel Ganivet de Granada (Provincial Documentation Center), Casa Museo Miguel de Unamuno (University of Salamanca), Casa Museo Gabriel y Galán in Guijo de Granadilla, Casa Museo Antonio Machado (Royal Academy of San Quirce in Segovia), Casa-Museo Miguel Hernández (Orihuela), University of Burgos, International University of Andalusia, Complutense University of Madrid, University of Seville, University of Extremadura, University of Santiago de Compostela, University of Oviedo, University of Zaragoza, Academy of Fine Letters of Granada, Royal Academy of Exact, Physical, and Natural Sciences, Royal Academy of Medicine, Royal Botanic Garden of Madrid, and others.

Some of his works have been acquired abroad and are now part of private collections in Spain, various European countries, South America, and North America. Other works have been chosen as covers for various publications. Notably, he contributed to the anthology of stories by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez published by Akal in 2009 and *La pugna ortográfica: ¿Lengua valenciana, lengua catalana o lengua occitana?* (Valencia, 1999). His paintings have also illustrated some publications from the University of San Buenaventura in Cali (Colombia).

Recently, after creating a portrait of renowned entomologist Ignacio Bolívar y Urrutia—which now belongs to the CSIC and is part of the permanent collection of the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales on the occasion of the institution’s 75th anniversary—he has begun another line of research focused on figures from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, ethnology, paleontology, and other sciences. Several of these portraits are already part of the permanent collections of national institutions and museums, such as the Museo Nacional y Centro de Investigación de Altamira, Museo Geominero de Madrid, Museo Arqueológico y de Historia de Elche, and the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical, and Natural Sciences.