Joan Bennassar has studied Fine Arts in the University of Barcelona, independent study program in SOMA México and residences in Taipei artist village (Taiwan) and Hangar (Barcelona). He currently lives and works between Mexico City and Barcelona. He received recently the Sala d’Art Jove grant in the modality of creation and research in collaboration with MACBA 2015, the Can Felipa Arts Visuals grant 2015, Guasch Coranty production scholarship 2015, Injuve scholarship 2016 and DKV/ Es baluard Museum scholarship for videographic production 2016.
His work has been presented in museums, fairs and galleries as Es baluard Museu d’art contemporani, Palma (The sun is gone but we still have the view, 2016); Arts Santa Mónica, Barcelona (Segueixi els rastres com si fos miop, 2016); Can Felipa, Barcelona (The Grand Tour, 2016); Tecla Sala, Hospitalet (Lliçó de Diógenes, 2016); LOOP festival (Barcelona, 2015); Contemporary Istanbul (Turkey, 2015); Johannesburg art fair (South Africa, 2015); Fabra i Coats Contemporary Art Center, Barcelona (After landscape cities copied, 2015) and (Futures abandoned, tomorrow was already the question, 2014); MAC Mataró (Zona intrusa 8, 2015); MACBA auditorium, Barcelona (Futuro memories, 2014); MUU Gallery Helsinki (Tabula rasa, 2014); Hilvaria studios, Tildburg, The Netherlands (Tabula rasa 2014); Galerie RDV Nantes, France (Artificial Paradise, 2014) or Halfhouse, Barcelona (Collapsed House, 2013).