Roberto González Fernández

Category: Painter
Birth Date: In 1948
Birth Place: Monforte de Lemos (Lugo)
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He studied at St Fernando Fine Art School in Madrid (1969-1974) and moved to Edinburgh in 1977. He has been living and working in Madrid and Edinburgh since 1982. In 1984, he was awarded a scholarship from The New York Foundation for the Arts.
His style can be defined as a mixture between a conceptual and realist approach. Since the very beginning, he was interested for human figure and the way of reflecting the inner life of characters.

 Work & Activities

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:
1967. Artes Gallery (A Coruña).
1975. “La Casa del Siglo XV” (Segovia).
1978. Egam Gallery (Madrid) and Simancas Gallery (Santander).
1980. "Elephant Walk", Henderson Gallery (Edinburgh).
1981. "Elephant Walk", Gallery 20 (Brighton), "Parade", Henderson Gallery (Edinburgh) and Rob Gallery (Amsterdam).
1982. "Edinburgh 1977-82", Henderson Gallery (Edinburgh).
1983. Galerie Etienne de Causans (Paris).
1984. "Si todo fuera dicho", ARCO84, Esti-Arte Gallery (Madrid), Novecento Gallery (Vigo and Santiago), 500 Gallery, Monmouth College (New Jersey) and Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater College (Massachusetts).
1985. "Si todo fuera dicho", Quintero Gallery, Barranquilla (Colombia), Caledonia Gallery (Bilbao) and EPW Edinburgh, Tórculo Gallery (Madrid).
1986. "Si todo fuera dicho", GPS Gallery (Glasgow).
1987. Oliva Mara Gallery (Madrid), "R.G.F. 1974-86", Capella do Oidor, Colegio del Rey Foundation (Alcalá de Henares), “Galería Dieciséis” (San Sebastián) and "Si todo fuera dicho", Clave Gallery (Murcia).
1988. “ARCO88”, Leandro Navarro Gallery (Madrid) and Nicholas Treadwell Gallery at the National Theatre (London).
1989. "R.G.F. 1968-88", Kiosko Alfonso (A Coruña), Ruth Siegel G. N.Y. and Arteara Gallery (Madrid).
1990. "Partes de un todo", Town Hall Gallery, Leganés (Madrid), Italia Gallery (Alicante), “Seducidos y seductores”, Verónicas Gallery (Murcia) and "Cuando la mirada domina", Cultural Centres (Zamora and Toro).
1991. "In Memoriam", Pardo Bazán Gallery (A Coruña) and Italia Gallery (Alicante).
1992. "8 Amenazas", Leganés (Madrid), Tórculo Gallery (Madrid), "Victimarios...", Leandro Navarro Gallery, “12 Years", Nicholas Treadwell, Bradford Gallery and Splinter Gallery (London).
1993. Kribia Gallery (Pamplona), "I Love You-I Hate You", Antonio de Barnola Gallery (Barcelona), Clave Gallery (Murcia) and "Holyrood", Florida Pavillion (Madrid).
1994: "Holyrood", Leandro Navarro Gallery (Madrid), "Holyrood", Palacio Provincial (Cádiz), "On the Move", Pardo Bazán Gallery (A Coruña), "Deaym", Félix Gómez Gallery (Seville), "Hope", Antonio de Barnola Gallery (Barcelona) and "Autobiopintura", Caja Burgos.
1995. "I Love You - I Hate You", Prudencio Gallery (Vitoria), "Destino", Tórculo Gallery (Madrid), "Orestes-Orestes", Pardo Bazán Gallery, ‘Foro Atlántico de Arte Contemporánea’ (Santiago de Compostela), "Formas de la Vida Privada”, Caixa Ourense, Provincial Museum (Lugo), Las Casitas (Monforte de Lemos) and Cultural Centre (O Barco de Valdeorras).
1996. Amasté Gallery (Bilbao), Smelik & Stokking Gallery (La Haya) and "Caída del Imperio Romano", Clérigos Gallery (Lugo).
1997. "In Memoriam", Cruz Herrera Museum (La Línea de la Concepción), Pescadería Vieja Gallery (Jerez de la Frontera) and “Caída del Imperio Romano...”, Pardo Bazán Gallery (A Coruña).
1998. "Caída del Imperio Romano...", Felix Gómez (Seville), "Tres Alfabetos", C.C. Conde Duque (Madrid), “Orestes”, Benot Gallery (Cádiz), “CDIR”, PhotoEspaña 98, Leandro Navarro Gallery (Madrid), “Orestes”, PhotoEspaña 98, Heller Gallery (Madrid), “Three Alphabets”, GPS Gallery (Glasgow), “Três Alfabetos”, Quattro Gallery (Lisbon) and “EEE”, Abel Lepina Gallery (Vigo).
1999. “EEE”, Tolmo Gallery (Toledo), “3 Alfabetos”, Caja San Fernando, Jerez (Cádiz), Imagen Gallery (Seville), “EEE”, Italia Gallery (Alicante), “Tiempo, Espacios y Señales”, Val de Lemos, Salnés and Buño Regional Centres, “4º Foro Atlántico” Pontevedra, Pardo Bazán Gallery.
2000: “Vánitas", Clérigos Gallery (Lugo), “5x5”, Torrente Ballester Centre (Ferrol), “RGFEsculturas”, Pardo Bazán Gallery (A Coruña) and “Significant Uncertainties”, EP Gallery Festival Exhibition (Edinburgh).
2001. “Beyond Desire”, Adonis Art Gallery (London), “RGF Obra Gráfica / Prints”, Pardo Bazán Gallery (A Coruña), “RGF Obra Gráfica / Prints”, Trisquel y Medulio Gallery (Tui) and “Copia de seguridad’, Caja Madrid (Pontevedra).
2002. “Encuentros”, Clérigos Gallery (Lugo), “Encuentros” and “Wallpapers”, Pardo Bazán Gallery (A Coruña), “Orden, Desorden y costumbre”, Ceuta Museum, Italcable Gallery (Málaga), “Obra Gráfica / Prints 83-02”, Sargadelos Gallery (Monforte de Lemos - Lugo), “Encuentros” and Félix Gómez Gallery (Seville).
2003. “Obra Gráfica / Prints 83-02”, Clérigos Gallery (Lugo), “Orden, Desorden y costumbre”, ‘Museo del Istmo’ (La Línea de La Concepción) and “Obra gráfica”, Bámbara Gallery (Cartagena).
2004. “RGF: Espacios y Tiempos”, El Paso GAllery, Alcorcón (Madrid), “El principio y final”, Sargadelos Gallery (Monforte de Lemos), “Foto digital = Gráfica digital I -II”, Pardo Bazán Gallery (A Coruña), “Foto digital = Gráfica digital”, Félix Gómez Gallery (Seville) and “S-P (Self-Portraits)” Estampa 04, Obra Gráfica Original Gallery (Madrid).
2005. “RGF Obra Gráfica”, Benot Gallery (Cádiz), “Foto digital = Gráfica digital”, Clérigos Gallery (Lugo), “La Isla de Arriaza”, Sargadelos Gallery (Monforte de Lemos), “Hombres y Víctimas” and Espacio 48 Gallery (Santiago de Compostela).
2006. “Autorretratos/S-P (Self-Portraits)”, La Aurora Gallery (Murcia), “Confusión, A Coruña”, Pardo Bazán Gallery (A Coruña), “LaNDSCaPeS”, Leandro Navarro Gallery (Madrid), “Silence in the house”, Open Eye Gallery (Edinburgh), “Dos Mundos”, Seoane Foundation (A Coruña) and “Obra del mes”, Provincial Museum (Lugo).

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS:
-2000: "Paisajes humanos y urbanos", ATKearney (Madrid), “El estigma del Océano”, Clave Gallery (Murcia), “Relaciones púbicas”, Félix Gómez Gallery (Seville), “Diálogos co silencio”, Santo Domingo de Bonaval (Santiago de Compostela, European City of Culture) and “Artistas plásticos contemporáneos en el estrecho de Gibraltar”, Spanish Institute (New York).
-2001: “Realmente?”, Torrente Ballester Centre (Ferrol), “Agua”, Ansorena Gallery (Madrid), “Cópula sextina”, Félix Gómez Gallery (Seville), “La otra realidad”, Real Colegiata de Santa María La Mayor, Antequera y Cabezón de la Sal (Cantabria), “In-Print”, Evolution in contemporary printmaking. Ferens Art Gallery, Hull (Great Britain), “En torno a lo erótico”, Cruz Herrera Museum, La Línea (Cádiz) and "Nocturnos", Leandro Navarro Gallery.
2002: “Trazos de Galicia”, itinerant exhibition all around A Coruña, “Nuovo realismo spagnolo”, Galleria Marieschi, Bolonia Art Fair (Milan), “San Sebastián, one more time”, Cruz Herrera Museum, Ribadavia Gallery, La Línea (Cádiz), “Capital y mortal”, Félix Gómez Gallery (Seville) and “El caballo en el arte”, Pescadería Vieja Gallery (Jerez).
2003: “Aqua”, Galleria Marieschi, Bologna Art Fair (Milan), “Erótica del frío”, Félix Gómez Gallery (Seville), “Las tentaciones de San Antonio”, CAAM (Las Palmas), “S.Sebastián, one more time”, Caja San Fernando Gallery, Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz), “Hitch”, GPS Gallery (Glasgow), “Grupo 15”, Museo Provincial (Lugo) and “A Manolo”, Cruz Herrera Museum, La Línea (Cádiz).
2004: “Fuoco”, Galleria Marieschi, Bologna Art Fair (Milán), “Poetas y pintores”, Estampa Gallery (Madrid), “Realismos”, Castellana Art Gallery (Madrid and Barcelona), “Presing forward”, Crawford Arts Centre, St. Andrews (Scotland), “Manolo Ales. La pasión por el Arte”, Palacio Provincial (Cádiz), “Ars Moenia”, Paseo del Arte Gallery, Puerta de Toledo Centre (Madrid), “Laberinti e Memoria”, Oristano (Sardinia), “El paso del tren”, ‘Museo de la Pasión’ (Valladolid), “A Printer's Miscellany”, E.P.W. Gallery (Edinburgh), “Bodegones y naturalezas muertas”, Clérigos Gallery (Lugo) and “S,M & L”, Open Eye Gallery (Edinburgh).
2005: “LCAF 2005”, London Contemporary Art Fair, Cel Scotland, “Medias y extremas razones”, Félix Gómez Gallery (Seville), “Unha aperta a Monforte”, Sargadelos Gallery (Monforte de Lemos), “Radicais libres”, Auditorium (Santiago de Compostela), “Cupido o la ceguera del amor”, Festival Visible, Galería Espacio Guides (Madrid), “Artenavas 2005”, C.P. Vicente Aleixandre, Las Navas del Marqués (Ávila), “La biblioteca del pintor”, Centro de Arte Museo (Almería), “Realism. Spanish Art”, Prefectura Art Museum, Nagasaki (Japan), “Visiones de la Realidad. II Generación”, Caja Vital (Vitoria) and “De imágenes, libros y lecturas”, Spanish Cultural Centre (Santiago de Chile).
2006: “A tale of two cities’, Open Eye Gallery (Edinburgh), "Medias y extremas razones", Caja San Fernando (Jerez), "Ars Moenia”, Museo Provincial (Lugo), “Raimbow City”, City Art Center (Edinburgh), “Arte de estío”, Pardo Bazán Gallery (A Coruña), “HMSXLDDS” Visible Festival, El Foro de Pozuelo, Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid), “La biblioteca del pintor”, Adra Museum (Almería), “Mirones y mirados”, Visible Festival, Fine Arts Circle (Madrid), “Anacrónicos”, Ansorena Gallery (Madrid), “Accións estratéxicas”, Colegio de Fonseca (Santiago de Compostela), “33 artistas: el grabado español”, Zhu Qi Zhan Museum, Shanghai (China), “Realidad”, Palazzo Loffredo, Potenza. (Italy), “El arte del desnudo”, Caja Canarias (Tenerife) and “Art London”, Open Eye Gallery, Royal Hospital Chelsea (London).

 Other Interesting Aspects

His work can be found in collections of St Fernando Fine Art Academy (Madrid), AT & T Art Collection (New York), A Coruña City Council, Leganés City Council (Madrid), BBC Scotland Art Collection, National Chalcography (Madrid), Cultural Centre (Zamora), Cincinnati Art Gallery, APM Collection (Las Palmas), Municipal Art Centre Collection, Alcorcón (Madrid), Saldañuela Collection, Caja de Ahorros Municipal de Burgos (Burgos), Testimoni Collection, La Caixa Foundation (Barcelona), Cádiz County Council, A Coruña County Council, Dundee City Art Gallery, Edinburgh City Art Center, Ely Art Gallery, Westfield State College (Massachusets), Fife Regional Art Collection, Forbes Collection (New York), Argentaria Foundation (Madrid), Caixa Vigo Foundation, Colegio del Rey Foundation (Alcalá de Henares), Lorenzana Foundation (Madrid), National Library (Madrid), Modern Art Gallery (Ljubljana), Modern Art Gallery (Skopje), Hunterian Art Gallery (Glasgow), Kelvingrove Art Gallery (Glasgow), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Culture, Seville Contemporary Art Museum, A Coruña Fine Art Museum, Municipal Museum (Madrid), Provincial Museum (Lugo), New York Public Library Print Collection (New York), Pallant House Museum, Chichester (England), Scottish Arts Council Collection and Victoria & Albert Museum (London).