Adrià Julià studied Fine Arts at Barcelona University (1997) and completed post-graduate studies at the Hochschule der Künste (Berlin, Germany, 2000), where he was a student of Rebecca Horn, and at the California Institute of the Arts. He lives in Los Angeles.

His work, which usually draws on films, installations, performances, photography and printed materials, questions the concept of truth linked to history, arguing that there are many stories in a story, that there is no single interpretation. He is particularly interested in the way of generating tales, of building images and film. He studies the limits between the documentary and the theatrical by conducting a fragmented re-reading of the real. He recovers its traces and its footprints for his account of what happened. Documents with no nostalgic values are questioned by providing different readings of the same event, so that he re-reads the past as he seeks to connect it with the present in the form of a choral discourse.

Adrià Julià has had solo shows at the Palau de la Virreina (Barcelona, 2004); the Sala Rekalde (Bilbao, 2005); the Artists Space (New York, 2005); the Orange County Museum of Art (Newport Beach, USA, 2006); the Tamayo Museum (Mexico City, 2010); the Soledad Lorenzo Gallery (Madrid, 2005 and 2010); and the Joan Miró Foundation (Barcelona, 2015). He took part in the Lyon Biennial (France, 2007), the Mercosur Biennial (Porto Alegre, Brasil, 2009) and the São Paulo Biennial (2010). He has received the Arte y Derecho Foundation Grant (2000); the Altadis Prize (2002); a Prize from the California Community Foundation (2010); and the Visual Arts Grant from the Botín Foundation (2015).

Isabel Tejeda