{"id":1251,"date":"2023-09-08T10:35:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T13:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/artistas\/espina-tomas\/"},"modified":"2024-05-25T20:23:30","modified_gmt":"2024-05-25T23:23:30","slug":"espina-tomas","status":"publish","type":"artistas","link":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/artistas\/espina-tomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Espina Tom\u00e1s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tom\u00e1s Espina was born in Buenos Aires in 1975; as a child and adolescent, he and his family lived in Mexico, Mozambique, Santiago (Chile), and C\u00f3rdoba (Argentina). In 1997, he moved to Buenos Aires to study painting at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrred\u00f3n (now the Universidad Nacional de Arte, UNA), from which he graduated in 2005. He has been awarded grants from the Secretar\u00eda de Cultura de la Naci\u00f3n and the Atlantic Center for the Arts (ACA), United States (2004). Major prizes received include first prize at the sixth edition of Petrobras\/arteBA, Buenos Aires (2009); third prize at Premio Cultural Chandon, San Miguel de Tucum\u00e1n (2005); and second prize at Premio Fundaci\u00f3n Banco Ciudad, Buenos Aires (2002). He was named Artist of the Year in 2009 by the Asociaci\u00f3n Argentina de Cr\u00edticos de Arte, and New Artist of the Year in 2002. In 2011, he participated in the MAC VAL residency in France and in Art Omi in the United States. He is an agent of the Centro de Investigaciones Art\u00edsticas (CIA). In 2010, Pira, a book featuring a selection of works produced from 2001 to 2010, was published. In 2018, he\u2014along with Florencia Rodr\u00edguez Giles\u2014was named a professor at Artistas x Artistas, an artists\u2019 education program run by Fundaci\u00f3n El Mirador, and at Programa de Artistas PAC.<br>At the invitation of Plataforma Fluorescente, curated by Mat\u00edas Umpi\u00e9rrez, and in keeping with a handbook commissioned to Paul B. Preciado, he and Natalia Di Cienzo presented El Retino es una Cula (Dramaturgia para una conferencia) in 2019 at the Festival Internacional de Dramaturgia, a co-production with the twelfth edition of the Festival Internacional de Buenos Aires. His work forms part of the collections of the following museums in Argentina: the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires; the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires; the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires; and the Museo Nacio- nal de Bellas Artes Neuqu\u00e9n. It figures in the collections of the following museums in other countries: MAMCO &#8211; Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland; MAC VAL &#8211; Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France; the CIFO Collection, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, the United States; the Deutsche Bank; the Banco Supervielle. It is also found in numerous private collections in Argentina and abroad. He lives and works in Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":541,"template":"","tags":[248,272,275,237,314],"class_list":["post-1251","artistas","type-artistas","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dibujo-en","tag-esoterismos-en","tag-expresionismos-en","tag-arte-popular-en","tag-pintura-en","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artistas\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artistas"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artistas"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}