Juan Antonio Cerezuela

Juan Antonio Cerezuela (Cartagena, 1982) is a visual artist with a PhD in Visual and Intermedia Arts (2014) and a BA in Fine Arts (2005). His work finds in ruin, fire and light some of its main lines of exploration through various metaphorical associations of forms of oppression or dissidence.
His work has been exhibited in centres such as Castell de Montjuic, Born CCM, Santa Mònica Art Centre, Fabra i Coats and MAC Gas Natural Fenosa. Some of his solo exhibitions have taken place at Párraga Centre (Murcia), Center 424 (Belgrade), Espronceda (Barcelona), 13ESPACIOarte (Seville), Fundación Gabarrón (Murcia) and CEART (Madrid). He received the production grant from the ICA of the Region of Murcia (2021), the Research and Experimentation Grant of La Escocesa (2020) and the Exchange Grant of Homesession (2022).

He has recently received the Alfonso X Prize of the Region of Murcia in the modality of New Media Art (2025). He won the 1st prize of the IAC Juan Gil-Albert (2024), the 1st prize of Art Emergent de Sabadell (2017) and the 1st prize in the XXXI Muestra de Arte Joven La Rioja (2015). He was also a finalist in the Mislata Miquel Navarro Biennial (2023) and the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize (London, 2019).

He has written for research journals such as Comparative Cinema, Arte y Políticas de Identidad and Sonda: Investigación en Artes y Letras, among others. He has taught at Master LAV in the programme Filmo, luego existo (Madrid) and is currently associate professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts (UB) and educator within the project Interseccions (Prat de Llobregat).

He has been artist in residence at La Escocesa and Fabra i Coats.