From 1980 with his first exhibition in Barcelona until today, he has lived and worked in Berlin, Brussels,
England, France, USA, and he currently shares his residence between Paris and Barcelona.
He has been a teacher at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris and has also been a lecturer at
many universities and art institutions. He collaborates as professor invited at the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago.
Since 1992 he has obtained various distinctions and awards, both national and international, notably his
investiture as a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture (1993), the National
Award for Plastic Arts – National Culture Awards of the Government of Catalonia 1997 (Barcelona, 1997),
Honorary Doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, USA, 2005), and most
recently the 2009 Mash Award for Public Sculpture (London, 2009).
His sculptural work has gone through several stages developed largely with recuperation materials, iron,
bronze, cooper, … In 1986, he started a series of cast iron sculptures, then he incorporated light and relief
written text. Recently his melting materials have been synthetic resin, glass, alabaster, plastic, light, video
and sound. He also has a large production of works on paper and etchings.
Beside his sculptural oeuvre he is collaborating often working on stage design and costumes for opera and
theatre productions.
A significant part of Plensa’s production is set in the context of public sculpture, a sphere in which he has
works installed in Spain, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, Korea, Germany, Canada, the USA, etc. The
Crown Fountain, in Chicago’s Millennium Park, is one of his latest project, and undoubtedly one of his
most brilliant. In 2005 he finished Breathing, which is installed in the new BBC building in London, in 2007
Conversation à Nice for the place Masséna in Nice, (France), El Alma del Ebro for the Expo Zaragoza
2008, in Zaragoza, (Spain) and in 2009 Dream for St Helens, Liverpool, (UK) and World Voices in Dubai
(UAE), Ogijima’s Soul in Ogijima, Japan, Awilda in Salzburg, Austria,Tolerance, for the city of Houston
(USA), and Echo for Madison Square Park, New York.
He is currently working on several new projects as Wishing Well for The Bow-Calgary, Canada, Mirror, for
Rice University, Houston (USA), and Seoul Close up for Seul, Korea.
His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums in Europe, the United States and Japan:
http://jaumeplensa.com/
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