Alberto García-Alix

Born in 1956 in León, Spain. Lives and works in Madrid, Spain.

 

A National Photography Award winner, Alberto García-Alix is one of the best portraitists, photographers and artists in Spain and internationally. With a raw and elegant style, García-Alix has built his career around his life experiences. His portraits marked a generation, that of the Movida madrileña. Feeding his creativity with excesses and fears, his photographs are a journey through an era, a history and a life.

 

Alberto García-Alix’s work has been exhibited in institutions such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, where he had a retrospective in 2009; as well as the Ullens Center, Beijing; Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow; Museo del Prado, Madrid; Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris, the Photographers’ Gallery, London, among many others.

 

His work is part of important international collections, such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris; Deutsche Börse, Berlin; among many others.

 

García-Alix has combined his photographic activity with that of editor. He founded of the cultural magazine El Canto de la Tripulación (published from 1989 to 1997) and more recently co-founded the publishing house Cabeza de Chorlito, which has published some of his most recent works: El paraíso de los creyentes (2011); Diaporamas (2012); MOTO (2015), Motorcycle Family Circus nº 1, nº 2 and nº 3 (2016, 2018, 2021) and Archivo Nómada (2023).

 

In addition to being recognised with the Spanish National Photography Prize in 1999, García-Alix received the Spanish Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts in 2019 and was distinguished with the Enaire Foundation Photography Lifetime Achievement Award and the PhotoESPAÑA prize in 2022.