Iñigo Royo took a degree in Psychology at the University of the Basque Country, but his interest soon shifted towards visual art. He has taught photography, film and video at several visual art schools and at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Bilbao. In 1990 he was selected as a photographer to take part in 'Four Directions: Contemporary Spanish Photography (1970- 1990)'. This itinerant, thesis-based exhibition organised by Lunwerg and by the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid (1991) travelled far and wide and enjoyed a high domestic and international profile. He has also produced and managed cultural events in the Basque Country via the Okupgraf association, working together with Marian Larzabal.
His creative work has focused mainly on photography, video and film. His photographic work is complex, with series of images that build up a story. He presents those stories as conundrums, as his images seek to consciously tell what cannot be told. 'My work is concerned with the impossibility of taking photos that are more than just crude approximations'. Along the lines of Duchamp, Royo thrives on paradox and contradiction, and presents objects as art while denying that this is what they are.
Solo exhibitions of Iñigo Royo's work have been staged at the Art and History Museum in Durango (Bizkaia, 1990), the Sala Rekalde Gallery (Bilbao, 1993), the Botín Foundation in Santander (2006), the General Archives of Gizpuzkoa (Tolosa, Gipuzkoa, 2006), the Tabakalera venue (San Sebastian, 2008), the Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea (San Sebastian, 2015) and the Basque Museum of Contemporary Art in Vitoria-Gasteiz (2016). He won the Young Photographer Award from the Ministry of Culture in 1988. He also obtained the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa Art Promotion Grant in 1999 and the Botín Foundation Grant for the 2000-2001 academic year. He took part in the Barcelona Biennial in 1989.
Iñigo Royo took a degree in Psychology at the University of the Basque Country, but his interest soon shifted towards visual art. He has taught photography, film and video at several visual art schools and at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Bilbao. In 1990 he was selected as a photographer to take part in 'Four Directions: Contemporary Spanish Photography (1970- 1990)'. This itinerant, thesis-based exhibition organised by Lunwerg and by the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid (1991) travelled far and wide and enjoyed a high domestic and international profile. He has also produced and managed cultural events in the Basque Country via the Okupgraf association, working together with Marian Larzabal.
His creative work has focused mainly on photography, video and film. His photographic work is complex, with series of images that build up a story. He presents those stories as conundrums, as his images seek to consciously tell what cannot be told. 'My work is concerned with the impossibility of taking photos that are more than just crude approximations'. Along the lines of Duchamp, Royo thrives on paradox and contradiction, and presents objects as art while denying that this is what they are.
Solo exhibitions of Iñigo Royo's work have been staged at the Art and History Museum in Durango (Bizkaia, 1990), the Sala Rekalde Gallery (Bilbao, 1993), the Botín Foundation in Santander (2006), the General Archives of Gizpuzkoa (Tolosa, Gipuzkoa, 2006), the Tabakalera venue (San Sebastian, 2008), the Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea (San Sebastian, 2015) and the Basque Museum of Contemporary Art in Vitoria-Gasteiz (2016). He won the Young Photographer Award from the Ministry of Culture in 1988. He also obtained the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa Art Promotion Grant in 1999 and the Botín Foundation Grant for the 2000-2001 academic year. He took part in the Barcelona Biennial in 1989.