Collection: Gonzalo Orquín

Gonzalo Orquín (Aracena, Andalusia, 1982) is a figurative painter who lives and works between Rome (his main residence since 2005), Spain and Berlin and has an international track record of success.

His work focuses on portraiture and the exploration of intimacy, identity, political commentary, and daily life. Orquín's work has received numerous awards, including being a finalist for the BP Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London, winning the 51st Sulmona Prize (2024), and receiving the "Oltre i libri" award from the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities in 2006. He has presented solo exhibitions and artist residencies at institutions such as MACRO (Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome), the Fondazione Sant'Elia (Palermo), the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (New York), as well as at embassies and cultural organizations in Brussels and Washington, D.C.

He has participated in group exhibitions at the Royal Spanish Academy in Rome and the Museum of 20th and 21st Century Art (St. Petersburg). His work has been featured in the international press, including Le Monde, Rai Cultura, The Art Newspaper, New York Daily News, Repubblica, El País, and Corriere della Sera.

Orquín accompanies portraits and images from intimate everyday life, canvases on which desire and eroticism – sometimes reserved, sometimes openly displayed – are expressed not only as a source of pleasure, but also as an affirmation of freedom and identity: faces and bodies of masterful beauty, rendered with the timeless figurative charm that has always been characteristic of the Andalusian artist.