Santiago Mayer Viña

Birth Date: 7th April 1947
Birth Place: Santiago de Compostela (A Coruña)
 Curriculum

He studied Secondary Education in Santiago at the same time he studied Painting at the School of Arts and Crafts.
He studied painting and engraving at San Carlos Fine Art School in Valencia, where he graduated in 1972.

 Work & Activities

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:
-1972: Palacio de Bendaña Art Gallery (Santiago).
-1979: Torques Gallery (Santiago).
-1980: Catro Gallery (A Coruña).
-1981: Páxina Bookshop (Viveiro).
-1983: Abracadabra Gallery (Vigo).
-2001: Citania Gallery (painting).
-2002: Citania Gallery (engraving).
 
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS (selection): 
-1971: 'Promoción del paisaje', Estil Gallery (Valencia).
-1972: ‘Bienal del Deporte’ (Bilbao).
-1974: ‘25 artistas composteláns’, Grido Gallery (Santiago).
-1981: ‘Octavo cielo. Plástica Gallega’ (Vigo).
-1971-1972-1984: Art Biennial Exhibition (Pontevedra).
-1985: ‘Artistas Galegos’, Citania Gallery (Santiago).
-1994: National Engraving Exhibition (Madrid).
-1995: ‘14 gravadores galegos’ (itinerante exhibition).
-1997: ‘Galicia Terra Única’ (Ferrol).
-1999: Máximo Ramos Contest (Ferrol).
-2000: ‘Artistas Compostelanos’, Citania Gallery (Santiago).
-2000-2002: Autumn Painting Saloons (A Coruña).

PRIZES: -1st prize. Youth Art Contest (Madrid).
-3rd prize, Regional Art Contest, Galician Academy of Fine Arts (1968).
-1st prize of the State Fine Art Office, Valencia (1971).
-4th Engraving Prize, 2nd Triennial Art Exhibiton, Santiago de Compostela (1971).
-"Senyera" Prize, Valencia (1973).
-1st prize gold medal, 3rd Triennial Art Exhibiton, Santiago de Compostela (1974).
-1st prize silver medal, San Carlos Biennial Exhibition, Valencia (1974).

 Other Interesting Aspects

He combines his activity as an artist with his job as a teacher of drawing and plastic arts, first at the School of Arts and Crafts and then as a teacher of Secondary Education. At the moment he is working as a Professor at Eduardo Pondal Secondary School in Santiago.
He also collaborated as artistic director in ‘Maruxía’, a short by X. Castro and ‘Macana de Dote, Che!’, a medium-length film by M. Castelo.