Perico Pastor
La Seu d’Urgell (Lleida) 1953

Perico Pastor studied in Barcelona and then in 1976 moved to New York, where lived for twelve years working as an illustrator for publications including Harper’s Magazine, Vogue and, primarily, The New York Times. In 1989 he returned to Barcelona, where he has since lived and worked as an illustrator and writer for newspapers such as El País, La Vanguardia, International Herald Tribune and El Periódico de Catalunya. His work as an illustrator of the Catalan Encyclopaedia of the Bible should also be mentioned.

In addition to his two-dimensional work, Pastor has presented performance pieces at Trinity College (Hartford, United States, 1979), the Regina Theater (Upsala, Sweden, 1984), the Tàrrega Street Theatre Festival and Barcelona Conservatory (1986). In 1993, he was awarded the Morera Medal by Lleida City Council in recognition of his oeuvre.  In 1997, the Spanish Olympic Committee awarded him a special accolade as part of the Sport in Fine Arts Biennial.

His first solo show in Spain was at Les Voltes de Cadaquès Gallery (1976), and his work has since been exhibited at leading domestic and international exhibition centres and institutions, including  the René Metras Gallery (Barcelona, 1983-1985 & 1987, 1997); the Pratt Manhattan Gallery (New York, 1985); the Círculo de Bellas Artes (Madrid, 1986); Marimura Art Museum (Tokyo, 1991); the Jaume Morera Art Museum (Lleida, 1993 and 2012); the Commenoz Gallery (Miami, United States, 1993, 1995 and 1998); the Pilar Riberaygua Gallery (Andorra, 1997, 2000 and 2002); and the Tobacco Museum in Andorra (2014).

Frederic Montornés